Sorry guys, I'm out - I entered three times in the past and never got anything finished for any of them. I just don't have the time or inspiration any more, have way too much stuff here to finish already. Good luck to everyone though.
I was going to suggest another competition in a couple of weeks, only I wanted to do supercars...I have a few nice ideas.
Cam, that reminds me - the other day I came accross the old model I was making for your sports hatchback comp back in 2008 - don't want to hijack this thread with screenshots but you can see the ingame shots on my Photobucket
here. Just chucked a shader on to see how it would look ingame. It's really alpha stage stuff but you could kinda see where it would have gone. I did get a bit further in Blender and did start the interior, but didn't get that version into Racer.
But a V4 engined RWD car with full contrast piped leather interior and wood veneer wouldn't exactly fit into the budget of a low end family car, so I can't use it for this one..
Maybe another idea for a future competition would be to make a
really budget car, something like a utility car for under $2,500. Or just a competition for a car which had to have some novel design features, material for construction etc. Would throw out some interesting possibilities, I'd be thinking 1000cc radial 2 stroke 5 cyl engine with single gear clutchless transmission, bodyshell made from bamboo and doped canvas, (would love to see what NCAP made of that in crash tests, hehe :tongue
. Basically just turning 100 years of automotive convention on its head just for the fun of it