I make a company that creates lightweight, simple vehicles with over engineered engines with larger displacement that are built with easy repairs in mind. I pay to license ford engines and bodies.
Remake first gen and 78-79 Broncos, 50s pickups, 69-70 mustangs, and 90s escorts/focuses. I redesign the ford 9.5” Windsor and 8.2” windsor to be more thermally efficient and come standard with canted valves. I also redesign the 2.3 Lima block to accept displacements of 3L without modifications. Sell them as is and not worry about the money, label them as “kits” to skirt emissions and safety regulations.
You are given $20 billion to found an auto company with a lineup of up to 10 vehicles
Justin Reyes
Matthew Morgan
I'd give all 20 billion to politicians and nhtsa/ncap so we can have pedestrian unsafe cars again.
Angel Hernandez
I'd make a company focused exclusively on manufacturing 505s. Since they stopped making african 504s I'd already have a main market. South America, Eastern Europe and South Asia could be secondary markets. We could also sell them as sturfy drift bases on the side.
Nathan Price
$20 billion probably isn't enough.
Three things are more important than the lineup:
>Buying a factory that has only recently closed (so that talent is still available) or another manufacturer.
>Having either very skilled marketers or very marketable top talent that can hold the attention of not just the automotive press, but also regular news media
>Starting out with profitable cars that do not have direct competitors or that compete in a market that is exclusive enough that everyone intentionally sells fewer cars than demand.
So my first car is going to be a diesel electric luxury offroader that has no driveshafts or axles, but has 55,000 ft lbs torque in 6 hub motors.
The second car will be full electric with available gas turbine range extender, have 2000 horsepower, the best autonomy I can buy, and seat 4 in a futuristic bubble best described as a Scandinavian reimagining of a Japanese hypermodern reimagining of 1950s cartoonists concept of a car from the year 3000.
The third car will be a G-Wagen like plebiscite version of the first, the forth car will be an incredibly phallic two seat retractable hardtop electric sportscar with a 0-60 under 2 seconds that makes tie fighter noises above half throttle and a 8hz infrasound below, the fifth car will be a 8 seat (3 rows plus jumpseats in the cargo bay) hub motor minivan that can lift itself until it has 18 inches of clearance and then shit all over a wrangler in the adverts, the sixth car will be a mass appeal crossover with 300 miles of range and a price under 50k, the sixth car will be an electric pickup with enough beans to tow a 30,000 lb trailer up the Eisenhower Pass and an optional diesel range extender, the 7th car will be a $25,000 subcompact that is as autonomous as I can sell for that price and styled like something out of Ghost in the Shell or Akira, seats 4, 200 miles range, unusual doors...
Isaac Price
The 8th car will be the first conventional sedan, an interior farmed out to a coach builder, 19 feet long, B pillarless suicide rear doors, 1200 miles range, similar interior dimension to a 1975 Sedan DeVille, the ninth car will be an electric half ton pickup for under $50k to start, the tenth car will be a jeep sized offroader for Jeep prices.
Sebastian Cook
>I8
Xavier Bailey
you know it big boy
Sebastian Morgan
I'm not autistic enough to figure out everything but I'll say one thing
the cars would have 80s/90s styling and would appeal to the retro crowd
Oliver Martinez
Kuroba Motors
Quattropace
Mason Roberts
Those were comfy threads.
Whatever happened to that project?