Last rides with high stakes

[LRF]

Pretty radical design. What are the solar cells on the back for?

"The heat produced by the sun on the large glazed dome of the cockpit is cooled when stationary by a temperature control system powered by a solar panel on the rear of the car."

[MADMAN_nfs]

Pretty radical design. What are the solar cells on the back for?

Seems the polycarbonate canopy basically is a mobile hothouse. Wiki says the panels supply the AC and the electronic locking system (keycard).
Indeed a radical concept and quite impressive stats, especially for the time. Also I think i recognise some design features that were "borrowed" by other concept cars later on 

[Spectre]

The Proxima is fantastic! Excellent job Butch!

[Butch]

Thank you for comments. It's always motivating.

Madman_NFS's comment about handling makes me revisit the Carp.txt file for the Proxima. I'll take this opportunity to also adjust the Oxia, which will also get an update, with additional mirrors and more visible door contours in 3D.

[Spectre]

I have a question Butch since I'm asking out of curiosity.

Do you like pickup trucks/minivans (MPV's)? If not, no worries.

[Butch]

I don't dislike them.
However, if you would like to see me to modelise a Bertone Genesis, an Espace F1, a Delachapelle Parcours or an Ital Design Asgard, it is unlikely to happen.
And about the cybertruck, there's no point in thinking about it, even though I could do it with my left foot.         

[Butch]

to talk about cars, absent or improvable in NFS.













Why have coupes and convertibles practically disappeared from current car production? At dealerships, there are only SUVs with bug-like front ends and supercars that all look alike and are out of reach. For games, SUVs are love killers, and supercars pass through gamemodel and end up converted into most wanted with vulgar colors... sadness.

[pete9516]

I mean, in general, the whole process about car innovation and ideas and production goes into a whole terrible direction. Not only talking about EU market. Electric motors are a sinn. They're not supposed to be engines for cars. Good and beautiful cars like in the pictures you've sent are forbidden to reproduce due to european standards for new cars. I don't dislike SUVs or other designs. What i dislike is a ton of unnecessary electrical motors in a car for stuff you don't need while driving. That's making me basically disliking every new car. But i still like the designs from some new cars. But since i know how bad they are assembled as i've worked a short time as a "bodywork specialist", i generally dislike them due to this and also because of the lot of unnecessary "features" and electrical stuff. In a new car, there's over a 100 electric motors from several parts of the car which can all get broken. This is just insane to think about