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Yes.. Why? We are here and we are reading. But we are just a handful of people left. 
You already told us your plans for this year before and I still can't say that I am unhappy with you choices!  Especially the Isdera Imperator and the Ferrari 512BB are the cars I am looking for but I love every single one. I like that you keep updating your old classics, too.. like the Maserati, the Austin Healey and the 250GTO and I like that you always have a heart for the strange underdogs like the Mega Track aswell. I can't wait to try them all.

PS: If you think about unique cars like the Panther Solo I... You should consider one of my childhoods dreams aswell... the Panther 6 as six wheels are possible in NFS4 via :OLB and :ORB-parts

That looks amazing! 
Tiny details can make such a big difference.. I am impressed.

Japanese cars can be pretty amazing... especially some 70's concept cars like these:



...But I don't want to bring some bad ideas here as I am totally fine with the Ferrari 512BB, Lotus Esprit Turbo, BMW M1 and Detomaso Pantera coming next

And yes... I am an "old car guy" aswell! I just can't find anything amusing in nowadays cars. They all look somehow the same... totally bland. I don't care anymore. My personal rides are 36 and 28 years old now:

Ohh... Nice update on the Oxia. I really like how it's improved. There is just one little thing that bothers me a tiny bit: it's missing visible window frames. The original car has very prominent blackening of the window's edges and therefore your model looks a little bit like it's made of paper:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/1dcufoz/peugeot_oxia/?tl=de


PS: The Proxima looks fantastic! Thank you again! 
PPS: The first two rows of your picture collection bring tears in my eyes... soooo many wonderful cars to be made for NFS4 

That's a very nice dashview! I love it. And I am very curious about that "grey car", too... looks like a 1970 Buick GS /GSX. Interesting choice for a NFS4 car. 

@LRF: Did you already receive the file? Just asking because I got no feedback. As the link expired (limewire seems to be the wrong place for hosting)... here it is again:

https://uploadnow.io/f/FwxW89t

Well played Butch! 
I should shut up now. 

@Pete: Yes... somehow that's right. I am a very nostalgic person when it's about a very nostalgic game. But since I don't like these modern day supercars very much anyway it's pretty easy to stick to the beautiful cars of the past.

Hey now, don't be mean of the Peugeot 907. It was a unique and radical Peugeot, but unfortunately it didn't go into production. Shame, because it would have been amazing. And who says that's too modern for NFS?

Again, my vote goes for the Proxima. The 907 may come along with a certain Marcos perhaps like the GT or Mantis XP? 

Fortunately it did not go into production... Peugeot design wasn't great in the early 2000's but this is the pinnacle of ugly... like a SLR ordered on "Wish"    ...Google the "blobfish" and you know why  !

The Proxima for me!!! 
The 907 looks like the ugly cousin of the Mercedes SLR and since it was made in 2004 it is too modern for my NFS game and your portfolio.

(...) Looking back, I think the Miura SVR was one too many in my collection. The Jota was a concept car, a unique model like the Boomerang, the Bravo, and a broken dream with a vision like the M6B GT, or the AC A98 coupé, Marcos XP mantis. (...)

I feel guilty for that and I am sorry... but in my defense: I just asked for a SVR spoiler as an :OT part for the Jota... The rest is history 
The Bora looks absolutely fantastic. I am very happy that you are building this car. We can't have enough 70's "supercars" and this one has never been made for a racing game. Although I have to admit that for me it looks a lot better without the late-model air-intake on the front hood. Maybe you should consider it an :OT-part again

in ZMod every polygon is a triangle and therefore a face = tris. That is how the NFS4-engine works aswell..
in Blender the counted polygons (faces) are normally a square and the program automatically breaks every square into 2 triangles that's why the the tris-count is pretty much double the count of the faces. Unfortunately for NFS4 everything counts in tris.

Putting on these 2d rims to save some polies will not work this way I am afraid... if you work with alpha channels to simulate empty spaces between the spokes it will look very (!) rugged as you have to fit ALL (!!!) textures used for the whole car - including interior, undercarriage, rims, etc.. - ever texture you use... on 1 (ONE!!!) 256x256 texmap. You can use a 512x512 texmap aswell but since the VEG-patch will probably never get finished the game will automatically shrink the texture down to 256x256 and that does always look worse than using 256 from the start. The car relies much to much on beautiful textures to ever look good in NFS4 and it is never a good idea to save polies where you see it all the time like on the rims. delete some almost invisible interior details instead.

unfortunately it already had almost 14.000 polys on this picture:

https://imgur.com/efWRhWS

...and it was still missing the seats and some more detail. I am afraid that giving it some ugly 2d rims is not enough to bring it to older nfs games. :/

It already looks soooo beautiful! 

It does indeed look very good! 

...I am just not sure for what game it is meant for.
With more that 13.000 polygons and textures that hardly fit on one 256x256-pixel texmap it simply does not work with NFS 1-5... but it is a little too lowpoly for being an addon for NFS Most Wanted and everything after that... So what do you want to do with this car?!? NFS6 maybe?

@LRF: These cars are all as old as NFS4 itself and still suuuuper-lowpoly... 
... So it was pretty hard to find them. I had to look through all my old HDDs (I could never get rid of for reasons unknown). Back in the day I used to delete a car when someone made a better one of the same...

But here they are:

https://limewire.com/d/Ea1rC#aXozjIx8QU


The only car I could not find is the Williams FW21 by Thomas Egelkraut. I know that he wanted to make every car from the 1999 season and almost every car was available on his own site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001024232328/http://tomsgarage.btwracing.com/index.shtml

But I have never been into F1 racing too much and therefore did not download them back in the day... sorry for that.