Game requests: 8+ cylinder boxers & rear transaxles

[trendyflute]

With the release of 4 and 6 cylinder boxer engines, Automation is getting VERY CLOSE to handling the architecture of car I've had underpinning the car company in my head for years now.

I just need two more things: 8/10/12 cylinder flat engines (flat-2s would be cool too...), and the option to select a front-engined/rear transaxle drivetrain. (e.g. Porsche 924/944/968, and the 928).

(If I would be greedy and ask for a third thing, I hope you guys find a way to update your engine family concept so you can have multiple numbers of cylinders within a family...it's very, very common for automanufacturers to have the same family of engine cover I3s, I4s, I6s or V6s; V6s and V8s commonly share architectures; and personally, I want to build a car company based on a modular boxer engine design where 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 cylinders all share common bores/strokes and other fundamental choices).

[IamJames]

Please read the FAQ

[CasuallyMatt]

A engine update is planned alredy,as james said,read the FAQ

[trendyflute]

Thanks, it answers the first engine question...looks like they'll cover most of my wishlist in the long run, minus flat 10s.

I would still love to hear a response on rear transaxles. Rear transaxles are key to the handling nature of the cars I want to build; I have started exporting my cars in conventional FR format into BeamNG and they're nose-heavy pigs to drive that lack rear traction. It's not what I want out of my car company. A rear transaxle, instead of bolting the transmission directly to the engine, would provide more room for a larger engine in the engine bay, at the expense of rear cargo/passenger volume, and provide a much more rearward weight distribution. It would also prevent AWD, so it's a major give and take decision for a designer.

It is a major, major packaging choice that makes some kinds of chassis fundamentally work when they otherwise do not with conventional FR weight distribution. I hope the developers will consider it.

(Also curious about the engine family concept I raised. I suspect it would be hard to implement, but hopefully it's not!)

[cookienmstr]

Originally posted by trendyflute:

It would also prevent AWD, so it's a major give and take decision for a designer.

Nissan has entered then chat

[sand hanitizer]

radial engine

[Remmelnator]

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Are we done now?

Also nice necropost.