Update Speculation thread

I hope it's Hirochi as they need more lore

 

One issue about making it a Hirochi is it becomes a minivan with a boxer engine...

...actually nevermind that sounds awesome

 

I think that is highly unlikely but it would definetly be very cool!

 

It could also be another Cherrier - but whatever brand it is, I'm glad to see one of the most highly-requested vehicle types finally come into the game.

 

6.2L HEMI swapped Chrysler Pacifica

 

guess its your lucky day today.. theres a minivan teaser? (is that right?)

 

Looking at this, I can't really say if it's something from 2015 or 1995

 

imagine if the devs say that it was produced from 1996 to 2014 (with updates down the line ofcourse)

 

chinese vw type shit

 

Im basing it off of the A pillar profile in relation to the front door, more specifically the little window you get between the A pillar and front door, this is a design element that began to spring up around the mid 2010s. Pictured below is a 2010 Odyssey

And here is a 2016 Odyssey

There are other notable examples of this little window being added into vehicles, I mostly know it cause I drive a Kia Forte and it has one of these while the previous gen did not. Really my only evidence for this window existing on the minivan in Beam is the placement of the front door in relation to the A pillar.

Plus the way it appears there seems to be much more rigid and cubic-esque than a minivan you would expect to see from the 90s, where blob culture was beginning to take form and you would see a much rounder profile along the rear of the minivan as well as less rigid lines for the body.

 

@minivanlover11 is gonna be over the moon with this teaser also lol

 

bro forgot the pictures at home

 

nah it there

 

called it

 

Alternatively, front quarterlight:


Just inferring the size of the headlight, it seems kind of small compared to a typical 2010s design, and the whole beltline is lower than you'd expect of a modern van (not including the hyundai staria ) So i'd narrow my guess down to 1997-2010.

It should also be mentioned, we can tell from this that it doesn't have a wacky underfloor mid-engine setup like the Mk1 estima/previa/tarago, so it's likely it will share parts with another car. Existing or also new, we will have to find out...

 

hey @minivanlover11 you're finally getting that minivan you asked for a bunch

 

I mean a good chunk of my logic thinking this is also that there are 3 mods for minivans already from the 90s-00s so it seems kind of odd to me that the Devs would implement a vehicle that is retroactively already accessible to most anyone, whereas there are no modern minivan mods and therefor this would be a new vehicle to all users (I'm not sure if they actually think like this)

Also they have been on a pretty big string of adding very modern cars to BeamNG to compensate for the 'modern' cars that where released in the early versions of the game now being considered old. Like the Bastion, Scintilla, Vivace/Tograc, 800 and K Series. The logic being that if they release a modern car now, then in 5 years that modern car could begin to show its age as within the past 5ish years the designs of common vehicles have shifted drastically from what they where, with more aggressive designs and angular lines trying to display futurism instead of just kind of existing as cars like 2010s models did

 

Well, BeamNG also likes to add unique and quirky vehicles, which 90s/00s minivans certainly are.

 

Ok so seeing the teaser, I more see a van from the 80s-90s then a modern one. It’s the proportion. In fact it makes me think of the Toyota MasterAce from the late 80s.

Maybe it’s a bit too early compare to what’s shown. But it’s not a huge minivan either and the proportion makes me think of more an evolution from the 80s then a modern one.