Starting a Car Company

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Huh, I mean they already have options though, but I'm fairly sure they are all open top :\

I mean given an air sealed interior and a very strong chassis it wouldnt hurt to experiment. hehe

Actually hosting competitions for the youngins to innovate would be a great way to improve popular liking and respect.

Thats good, improving peoples opinions means they are more willing to send money forth.

This reminds me of this story I wrote years ago inspired by some crazy shit I seen rally mechanics doing to get the cars back on the road.

The story was about a pit crew of inventive yet rowdy australians who manage to get their piece of shit car into a top 5 position in a really hectic WRC event but the're quickly disqualified due to their modifications to the car being outside the paramaters of the wrc ruling. After being disqualified and being dropped by their sponsors they are approached a wealth Sikh prince who wants to create a car to represent saudi arabia in the WRC. something better than abu dhabi rally. So with this princes money they develop this balls to the wall, no bullshit rally car to compete in the next wrc event. Buy before they enter it they test it out on the pike peak hill climb, dakar rally and do a tv spot on an overland excursion from london to shanghai.

After all of this testing they finally develop their car for amalgamation by building each car themselves in some shitty factory in australia. They loose connection with the prince who seems to be dealing with some personal issues and has been put on a no fly list as it has been revealed that he has supported a militant group in arghanistan. He sends a final check to support a wrc season and finish the the 200 models to get accepted. They do all sorts of crazy shit to build the 200 cars on a shoestring budget and sell them for dirt cheap in the outback as overland vehicles with decent clearance, reliability and amazing gas mileage due to the small engines.

This is really dragging on so i'll close in saying that they did well in the first couple events in the WRC but the budget couldn't be sustained with the amount of rebuilding and reworking they had to do on the car. But with their success in the previous rallies and their do good style they managed to make a reputation for themselves and the original WRC team who fired them for the illegal modifications puts up the money to finish the WRC season and progress with another prototype.

The idea i had for the car was a 2 door, 2 seater with awd from a behind the front axel engine, similiar to the style of a miata if it had AWD. Everything in the suspension would be adjustable to turn it from a track car to an offroading warrior capeable of rockcrawling by simply adjusting the suspension setup. Everything would be setup with ease of access in mind. It would take all but a screwdriver and a wrench to take apart all of the suspension components. The interior would be no frills and be focused on the driver as much as possible, similar to a mazda rx-7 interior where everything is pointed towards the driver.

Hard testing and weeding out the weaknesses of the vehicle wouldn't be expensive either for the most part.

Already own land in Alaska, and am already buying more with a packed dirt runway, the plan is to pave it for a test track of sorts, and test the cars sort of how rally schools test their students, constant driving in the forest and on the pavement. Paying someone to drive hard for hours on end wont be a big deal, its a single employee to pay. And come hard endurance driving comes problems, problems in areas we can continue to improve upon.

Starting out chances are we are going to be getting engines from another manufacturer of course. But eventually to start production of our own power plants wont end up being too difficult considering me and my friend are already willing to design them on our own time. Materials and material shaping takes one of each machine, not mass producing is how we keep the costs of the engines down (for ourselves) as well. (I know that seems like an oxymoron)

I'd like to hear more about this. Already quite interesting from what you've wrote. I mean the plan behind this isnt going all out and buying factories from the start, we're planning on working up in our own garages with already made shells, testing and trying new shit.

Hold competitions for growing engineers, invitational parties and "experiences" like what Michelin did recently, I'm sure Keanu Reeves would be excited to drive fast and test a new drivers car)

Maybe plan things like hybrid tech'd street models, on the low end like the i8, probably not going to get to new NSX tier unless its just a limited production model that would be interesting for popular appeal. Maybe experimenting with offroad hybrid tech? Offroad EV testing?

If we end up with a full testing circuit we plan to open it to the public on occasion for an extra bit of profit, fun, and reputation. Sort of like hosting a Hondaday or some shit.

Planning on having variants though the base would be a sedan we plan on adding variants of which are wagon, hatch, coupe (maybe), and possibly a fastback version.

And hell, if possible attempt to make friends with other small car companies.

engineering the car is the easiest shit ever, finding investors, marketing and selling it is the difficult part

>mfw a STEMlord thinks his career choice is difficult

Post concept art at the very least

>sort of like a Koenigsegg of the sporty everyday car market.
Oh cool, I didnt know you were a genius with some of the best engineers in Europe, this changes everything

Where are you guys from I'm starting an automotive engineering degree in September let me make money with you