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StasevichZ Mar 8, 2019 @ 11:00am
where are V4 engines?
Hi there! Bought that game few days ago and trying to make
1967 Lancia Fulvia Coupé 1.3 Rallye HF
it used V4 engine
https://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=64196#a_engine
i didnt found bodywork from 1967, and have choosed 1969 year.
So my question is : There are no V4 engines in the game or did I smthg wrong?
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Boudewijn Mar 8, 2019 @ 11:13am 
Since these engines are so rare, they aren't in the game (yet). They will probably be released in a dlc after the main game is done. Also the lancia V4 engine is more of a VR-4 engine, because of the narrow angle. The V4 engines that will be added will be 60 and/or 90 degrees.
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StasevichZ Mar 8, 2019 @ 12:06pm 
ok, thanks mate!
Also Bodylong is 3917mm.. looks like limousine :) Hope they will add that type of coupe soon.
any forecasts of release? This year or next? :)
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Boudewijn Mar 8, 2019 @ 12:59pm 
Originally posted by StasevichZ:
ok, thanks mate!
Also Bodylong is 3917mm.. looks like limousine :) Hope they will add that type of coupe soon.
any forecasts of release? This year or next? :)
The 1965 2.4 meter coupe might work, if you morph it a bit. And the 'length' in-game is the wheelbase, which in the lancia fulvia coupe, is 2.33 meters. The actual length of a car can be seen in the summary screen.

Instead of a v4 engine I'd use an inline 4 engine, since thats the most similar.
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Admiral Obvious Mar 8, 2019 @ 1:00pm 
Originally posted by StasevichZ:
ok, thanks mate!
Also Bodylong is 3917mm.. looks like limousine :) Hope they will add that type of coupe soon.
any forecasts of release? This year or next? :)
I think right now the plan is LC4, LC5, maybe a LC6, then, most likely a somewhat long wait for the grand campaign. Then 1.0. Then, I think the forced induction overhaul. After that I think extra engine types will come as DLC.
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StasevichZ Mar 8, 2019 @ 1:31pm 
I see, thanks mates.
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StasevichZ Mar 8, 2019 @ 1:35pm 
Originally posted by Boudewijn:
Originally posted by StasevichZ:
The 1965 2.4 meter coupe might work, if you morph it a bit. And the 'length' in-game is the wheelbase, which in the lancia fulvia coupe, is 2.33 meters.

Got it!
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CBR JGWRR Mar 9, 2019 @ 8:37am 
V4s are maybe for the future, because, in cars, pretty much only Lancia have used them on any sort of long term basis; they are basically only as common as rotaries. (and even then, Lancia's V4s were slightly offset I4s mostly, not 60/90 degree as they will be in Automation to fit in with the V6/8/10/12/16s)
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JohnDoe1974 Mar 9, 2019 @ 2:57pm 
Originally posted by CBR JGWRR:
V4s are maybe for the future, because, in cars, pretty much only Lancia have used them on any sort of long term basis; they are basically only as common as rotaries. (and even then, Lancia's V4s were slightly offset I4s mostly, not 60/90 degree as they will be in Automation to fit in with the V6/8/10/12/16s)
You have forgotten that Ford europe many models with 60 degrees V4 engines have sold between t960 and 1980
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CBR JGWRR Mar 9, 2019 @ 11:14pm 
Originally posted by jf-hf:
Originally posted by CBR JGWRR:
V4s are maybe for the future, because, in cars, pretty much only Lancia have used them on any sort of long term basis; they are basically only as common as rotaries. (and even then, Lancia's V4s were slightly offset I4s mostly, not 60/90 degree as they will be in Automation to fit in with the V6/8/10/12/16s)
You have forgotten that Ford europe many models with 60 degrees V4 engines have sold between t960 and 1980

Many models? That's about 8 model families powered by two engine families, in the context of a global manufacturer who has more than twice that number of model families on sale currently, never mind the back catalogue that reaches well into the hundreds of models, and 34 families of Inline 4. (one of which was produced from 1959 until 2002)

Which is to say, the scales are not comparable, and the usage of V4s by Ford does not count as long term within their history.
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JohnDoe1974 Mar 10, 2019 @ 3:48am 
Maybe they used it only from 1962 to 1979, but i think its long enough and enough models, if you count the cars from Saab and Matra on top, that you can´t say the Ford V4 is in common with rotaries and only Lancia has used V4, witch is more a l4 than a V4. Right, for a companie like Ford it´s al very little percentage, but it was a full v-engine with 60 degrees in a big series. This engine was a kinky development from Ford USA for a V8 for the Ford Cardinal with FWD and then Ford Europe got this unusable engine to make something usable out of it and they cut the V8 to a V4.
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CBR JGWRR Mar 10, 2019 @ 8:22am 
Mate, while there are comparisons between the four stroke compression ignition cycle and sex, I'd hardly call developing an engine "kinky". :) SAAB bought in Ford V4 engines to replace their two-stroke cycle engines (which itself is another technology rarely employed in cars) likewise with Matra's road division. It's still two engine families that your premise rests on.

I'm not saying V4s shouldn't be in the game, just that - in the context of cars, motorcycles have used V4s extensively - they are limited in usage and so are necessarily less important than engine layouts used more frequently.
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★Let’sGoBrandon★ Mar 17, 2019 @ 4:05am 
Soveit ZAZ use Rear V4 Engine to)
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VaderDFXB Mar 17, 2019 @ 11:07am 
It's funny since at least visually it should be extremely easy to add even V2 and V4 type engines. Have you looked at the engine while changing the number of cylinders? Yeah, not much going on there in terms of graphical complexity. My guess as to why they don't add them is either they're incompetent and slow or more likely they need sound samples from such engines and performance figures as well. Still, they should be added. And horns. Need horns.
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Boudewijn Mar 17, 2019 @ 12:02pm 
Originally posted by VaderDFXB:
My guess as to why they don't add them is either they're incompetent and slow or more likely they need sound samples from such engines and performance figures as well. Still, they should be added. And horns. Need horns.
My guess is they are busy doing more important things
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CBR JGWRR Mar 17, 2019 @ 12:04pm 
Originally posted by Boudewijn:
Originally posted by VaderDFXB:
My guess as to why they don't add them is either they're incompetent and slow or more likely they need sound samples from such engines and performance figures as well. Still, they should be added. And horns. Need horns.
My guess is they are busy doing more important things

There are a lot more important things to be doing than adding more types of engine.

And yes, ZAZ did use V4s, but no one cares precisely because they were Soviet.
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