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"Practically economical, practically powerful"

Gavril was late to the compact car craze, but that didn't mean that they didn't succeed in taking a chunk of sales from their competitors. In 1964, they released the Mantis: A compact car available as a sedan, coupe, convertible, or wagon.
The option list was miles long, and you could have anything from a basic, reliable grocery getter to a monstrous muscle car.

All 34 configurations come with animated props, light-up interiors, and work in Career Mode (except for the beater config, intentionally). Custom thumbnails (which I made during 0.38 unfortunately) and improved automatic transmissions also come in the mod. I even made the engines sound and feel as close to the vanilla BeamNG Gavril Bluebuck engines as I could.

I am still 11 months in to a 12 moth BeamNG repository ban, so I'll still have to post my mods in Google Drive files. Enjoy! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dE720krKwHyWQfazCQJfG5c5X1rdrkb2/view?usp=sharing

This is yet another post of a car that I made during my BeamNG Repository ban. All models have fully animated gauges, animated shifters, animated pedals, and animated steering wheels. All models (except the beater model which I intentionally left out of this rule) work in Career mode markets as well.

Lore dump:

The original Requin design was released in late 1956 and first marketed for the 1957 Cherrier model year. The early 100s were equipped with a 1.0 liter inline 3 engine, a 4-speed manual with a dash-mounted shifter, and had no carpet over the floor. Only 3 months after the 100 was released, the pressure on Cherrier to improve the design became so great that they released three new models with bigger engine sizes for the 1958 model year. With its quad headlights, the car looked exceptionally futuristic for its time.

Cherrier gave a 'facelift' to the Requin for the 1965 model year. 'Facelift' in quotations because they did little to nothing to change the appearance of the front, and they did even less to the rear. They also changed absolutely nothing about the interior and the drivetrain remained 100% identical to before. Special sedan-bodied Requin Bs were produced for the Colombian market. The 110B was the base model Maletero, because the 100s would likely disappoint Colombian buyers.

For the 1973 model year, Cherrier was forced to make the Requin far uglier due to growing safety requirements. Turn signal lights were added to each pair of headlights, and turn signal lights were also installed on the fenders and quarters. The taillights were changed for the first time in the car's history to incorporate reverse lights and turn signal lights. 100C sales were far lower than 100B sales, and even if you combined 100 and 100B sales together they would still more than tripple that of the 100C. The 100C had no air conditioning, no radio, no power steering, no floor carpets, less than 30 horsepower from Cherrier's tiny 1.0 liter inline 3 engine, and on top of all that, it was situated upon a 16 year-old chassis. The drivetrain remained completely the same as it was for Requins from the 1950s. The only tolerably good change was the steering wheel being modernized to be padded and safer. The Requin's reputation was tarnished when the C models came out, and the 100C was hit the hardest.

To wash away the reputation of the Requin as being 'outdated' and 'underpowered', Cherrier redesigned large parts of the Requin for the 1979 model year. Sales quintupled from a lowly 120,000 in 1978 to 450,000 in 1979. The new (non-sport) Requin Ds came with a fuel-injected 1.3 liter DOHC inline 4 engine that was designed from the ground up. New asymetrical styling was implanted, and plastic molding was added around the entire car. A 5-speed manual transmission was standard, and for disabled or lazy drivers, a notoriously unreliable (but highly innovative) CVT transmission was added to the list of options for the 1987 model year. The interior was given a new, full redesign, and many features that used to be optional on Requins (like air conditioning, a carpeted floor, etcetera) became standard.
A special Édition Collector model was made in 1987, for the 30th anniversary of the Requin. Critics called it 'not a true Requin', and owners called it 'the best Requin ever'. With hot hatches eating at Requin sales, Cherrier was forced into making a hot hatch of their own for 1986. Thus, Cherrier created the DMS (D Max Sport). Equipped with less than 100 horsepower and a fake, off-center hood scoop, it definitely failed to break even with the cost of Cherrier designing it.

By the mid 1980s, the Requin was beginning to reach the point where no matter how many times Cherrier redesigned the body, it would objectively look and feel outdated. So, Cherrier let the Requin live out its last production years in India, sold in EF and EF Taxi versions between 1990 and 2015.

Unfortunately, I made this mod during 0.38, and the mod is now so large that I cannot successfully unpack it with my potato PC. Thus, users will have to deal with the eyesore of 0.38 thumbnails in BeamNG 0.39. Sorry!

A Google Drive link to the car mod file:

I will continue to add cars that I have made during my time both off of Reddit and off of the BeamNG Repository to this sub until I either run out of cars or get banned.

This is the ETK Mikroauto, a German microcar produced between 1955 and 1959. It has a single-cylinder, OHV, 4-stroke petrol engine, and varying sizes were used that produced between 12 and 40 horsepower.
The car came with a 4-speed manual gearbox with a reverse gear, which was much better than other microcars of the time. Unfortunately, it hardly came with any sound insulation, and there was little to no safety implications that went into these cars.
I did not have the skill of making animated engines when I made this car, but an animated steering wheel, pedals, shifter, and speedometer should be enough for most.

So enjoy your time flooring the accelerator, trying to get above 55mph in your comically small grain of rice on 4 wheels.

Google Drive link to download this car
A YouTube video I made driving this car in 0.38

Though I am 11 months through a 12-month BeamNG Repository ban, I can still make Automation cars, and hopefully I can still upload them here. I have always thought that BeamNG was missing a vintage Civetta, so here is my attempt at making one: The Civetta Lucera

This is the third remaster that I've put into this car, but I hope I don't have to make another one. It has animated gauges, an animated engine with camshafts, a throttle, 3 DCOE carburetors, and 12 animated pistons.

Unfortunately, with all that detail comes with a large downside: Lag. The car will be laggy to load in and occasionally it may be annoying to drive in terms of FPS.

Even though I am still banned from the BeamNG repository (They thought I was under 16), I can still post the file here, hopefully. I also recorded a video of me driving the thing around Italy.

https://youtu.be/Mleb5QxRGyM

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZFe5BjUhjW_PGYcp3Cmy63surcBtHxLy/view?usp=sharing

My previous posts on vintage Civetta mods I've made:
https://www.reddit.com/r/automationgame/comments/1e57jse/1951_1954_civetta_lucera_remastered/
https://www.reddit.com/r/automationgame/comments/1eliar7/1959_1963_civetta_gtd/
https://www.reddit.com/r/automationgame/comments/1e0srk5/1951_civetta_lucera_a_1950s_supercar_with/

I couldn't afford to pay my rent in time, so they kicked me out of my room. Belasco rent is insane right now. Plus, I was an hour late to work because of the eviction, so I'm out of Turbo Burger for being late the third time this week.
At least I saw this 1971 12-cylinder Stirling on BeamBay for 500 bucks.
The seller said that he bought it sight unseen and the rust was so bad that he wanted to get rid of it. He said that the car runs and drives, barely, and that the guy he bought it from said it was reupholstered only a few years ago. The interior smells perfectly new, even though the outside is absolutely horrible. At least he was pretty honest about this car.
I thought, 500 bucks for 70 cubic feet of space, plus two leather seats and a leather couch to sleep on? Don't mind if I do! I think I got pretty lucky, even if my life savings were nearly demolished by it.
The car squeaks and rattles everywhere. The odometer shows 82,000 miles, but I'm pretty sure it's rolled at least 3 times by now. I don't even want to take pictures of the underside, because then I'll become paranoid every time I start it up. Speaking of starting up, Stirling's famous V12 unreliability continues to this example. The carburetor badly needs a rebuild, but I won't have the money to do it until I can get a job. At least I don't hear any lifter knock or anything.
I've found the car to be pretty comfy for sleeping, fortunately, so the first night sleeping in my new (old) car isn't going to be too bad, I hope.

For anyone who doesn't know me, I'm 21 year-old Melvin Hyberion. If anyone has any advice to give me about these V12 Stirlings, please let me know. Hopefully I get a job soon, so I can improve both this car and my life situation.