Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 150: Ventnor Revisited

Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 150: Ventnor Revisited

After a strong finish (fourth overall) in QFC22 with my sports-focused wagon/estate, I was left anticipating what the next QFC would bring. To my surprise, it was themed around flagship luxury cars with a high price cap ($80,000 AMU), and I was relieved to find something that I could rework for this latest challenge. That car was the Ventnor V12, which I had made earlier in my spare time. Given the brief, however, I decided to rework the exterior and interior to make them even more opulent than before, in addition to upgrading the mechanicals and trim options. The result was the AMS Ventnor V12 6.0 Ultimate - an even more lavish version of the most luxurious car I have ever made since Automation switched to the latest LCV 4.2 build. In a nutshell, I took the existing trim and made it even more detailed (and technologically advanced) than ever before.

Above and below: A thorough exterior rework of the Ventnor V12 makes it look and feel even more opulent and ostentatious than it once was - in a good way.

In keeping with the more liberal rule set of QFC23, I added a few tech pool and quality points in every area (except forced induction), and exploited this to incorporate a whole host of advanced technologies such as sat-nav and an electronic LSD, as well as retuning the engine for slightly more horsepower and torque, along with improved efficiency. This bumped up the Ventnor's price to $70,000 AMU, but this was justified by the car's stats (especially key criteria such as drivability, comfort and prestige) having been commensurately improved across the board. 

A heavily revised interior makes the Ventnor V12 even more pleasant to sit in than it once was.

Overall, the revised Ventnor is unquestionably a much better-looking (and more thoughtfully engineered) car than it once was, but considering that I was expecting most of the other entrants in QFC23 to also come up with visual masterpieces, it needed to be. At any rate, I was quite satisfied with how well this build turned out, and am justifiably even more proud of it than I was before - especially after it secured a top-5 finish in the final rankings.