BeamNG Realistic Community Lore Project.

My idea for the rest of the brand's history:

- 1965 - Phil Wayland, a racing driver and mechanic from Belasco and Legion's founder, builds his first kit car, the Legion, based on the real-life Fiberfab Avenger (but much larger), using a mix of different off-the-shelf parts, including an Autobello Piccolina chassis.

- 1970 - The kit car is replaced by another one, Legion X, that utilizes a custom spaceframe instead of the Autobello chassis, but still only comes with parts from different manufacturers (up to an all-alloy 3.0/3.3 V8 by the faux-British-Leyland).

- 1974 - After arranging a line of funding, the company makes their first full-blown attempt to challenge the likes of Civetta, powered by the aforementioned British V8. The Legion M ends up being produced for over 20 years, with the company not having the resources to engineer a replacement, nor having access to the British DOHC competition version to avoid competition with the Lancia Stratos/shelved-Rover-supercar Chorley supercar.

- 1991 - Following a funding deal with Ibishu, Legion finally rolls out its own sports luxury sedan, designed to be a more exclusive alternative to the likes of ETK. Unfortunately, the car ends up being too expensive and not built well enough, and goes through a market failure. The idea of a coupe version is abandoned, and Legion goes bankrupt in 1996.

 

Dude that's perfect! Thanks for that.

 

On the topic of a Dodge/Plymouth stand in, here's some names I generated.
-Haular
-Cotor
-Rickenbacker
-Titan
-Romulous

 

None of these (maybe except Titan, but there are actual cars bearing this name) seems to work.

Maybe Rickenbacker could, but that's a real company's name.

 

Whats up with etk car names, the irl brands etk is inspired by audi, bmw, merc all have some sort of sequential numbering a1, a2... 1er 2er 3er, a klasse b klasse c klasse... Etk has 800... (600 and 1300 when you count mods) and i serie, k serie... Is there any reason why this is?

 

The numeric cars are cheaper passenger cars and likely all crossovers, the letter stuff is more prestigious passenger car offerings.

 

I chose Rickenbacker because they barely did anything during their short life in the teens and twenties, felt like it could be a nice Plymouth stand-in. Titan's such a generic name I don't think we'd get flack for using it as a brand.

 

Bruckell-Autobello Motors


''No one wants them''

Who are they?
A Italian-American automaker based on Rockfiled,Michigan founded in 2012 after Bruckell Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 2008

Plans?
In 2012 Bruckell showed the 10 Year plan which hopes to rise sales by 4.1 Millon by 2022

(USA)
Bruckell
In 2013 Bruckell showed the 7th gen Bruckell LeGran which is now a compact sedan rivaling the Gavril Bussrad
Then Bruckell launched the Bruckell LW1 in 2016.
By 2022 there lineup would like this.
Bruckell XW1-Subcompact crossover
Bruckell XW2-Compact Crossover
Bruckell XW3-Mid-Sized Crossover
Bruckell Trail-Full-Sized SUV

Soliad
In 2017 Soliad showed the Soilad Hell GT
Much like Bruckell there will made of crossovers and SUV's
Soilad Hell-Viper like super car
Soilad Pama-Subcompact Crossover
Soilad L2-Minivan
Soilad L3-Mid-sized crossover

Regaila
2022 Lineup
SC1-Compact Car
SC2-Mid-sized Car
SC3-Full-sized car
XC1-Subcompact SUV
XC2-Crossover (Compact)
XC3-Mid sized crossover

Still work in progress

 

Bruckell seems to be more Ford than Chrysler. For Chrysler we came up with Colburn. What's more, Autobello isn't simply Fiat Group; it has a lot of VW in it.

Also, the naming is not necessarily the best, and so are the lineups.

 

Well, we only have one Autobello vehicle in game. Assuming Autobello as a manufacturer is a mix of FIAT and VW might be a bit far fetched - or, it would be like assuming Ibishu is a mix of japanese generics and Jeep only because of the Hopper.

The Autobianchi influence is also well-estabilished, probably more than the FIAT-inspired styling might suggest: it's in the brand backstory, in the firm and vehicle names, in the market placement of the product.

I don't think mixing two diametrically opposed realities like the FGA and VAG groups is a good idea past the instrumental mashup the Piccolina had to represent at the time of its introduction, in order to incorporate new tech bits they wanted to showcase (torsion beams, air cooled engine) in a vehicle that would also suit the then new Italy map.

 

It could be that Italy, not Germany, became the European automotive powerhouse, and the Beamverse Volkswagen just faltered away like it could have IRL.

If Fiat was the European #1 until the 80s, why can't this alternate history have it be the champion for many more years?

 

I don't know, why can't Beamverse Pontiac survive instead of becoming a broken egg in a government omelet?

 

Because midrange US brands are a hard sell in the 21st century, when the US passenger car is in agony.

 

Kind of like unreliable Italian fashion cars?

 

500s sell pretty damn well, and VW-style passenger cars sell even better.

Did you know there are civilisations east of the Atlantic?

 

Great. But I'm not disputing the existence of Europe, I'm disputing the ability of a company to remain a world champion after proving itself repeatedly unable to produce somewhat-functional products. There was a reason Fiat fell from its lofty perch. Now you could say that Beam!Fiat was not subject to this reason, but that would be tantamount to saying that Beam!Fiat was not actually Italian.

 

What would make it so un-Italian?

 

FIAT was never a world champion. More or less non-existent in Asia, plus arlier attempts at making it in the US market with the Brava, Superbrava and Strada were just as disastrous as attempts from american manufacturers to export their products anywhere.

That doesn't mean either part is unable to produce somewhat-functional products. It's just further proof that NA and EU markets are as different as night and day.

 

And VW also isn't a world champion. It's huge because it is a superpower in Europe, largish in Latin America and just another player in the rest of the world.

 

Well, it's not just "largish" in Latin America, and it has a well-rooted presence in China. VAG is the second biggest automotive group in the World after TOYOTA...