Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 236: Flagship Revitalized

Confessions of an Automationeer, Part 236: Flagship Revitalized

I just revised the LVC LS60 I made a couple of years ago, in light of what the Al-Rilma open beta build of Automation has brought us. Here is what it looks like now:

Above, from top: Apart from a refreshed interior, the aesthetics of the 1995 LVC LS60 I made back in the Ellisbury era of Automation have remained unchanged - the real transformation is under the skin.

Although the exterior is unchanged, the interior has been redone with new fixtures, most of which are available as Steam Workshop mods. Moreover, to account for the differences between the current stable release and the open beta, I revised every mechanical aspect of the car, resulting in an unchanged power output, and a gain of only 100kg in overall weight, while maintaining its hardcore performance-oriented feel. Overall performance is broadly similar to the previous version of this build, but 1,100kg is still very light in absolute terms, and it comes in at $90k AMU (10% less than my intended $100k target) due to the techpool being set at +7 across each individual engine and trim area.

In short, the revised LS60 may be 10% heavier than before (the Ellisbury-era version weighed 1000kg exactly), but that figure is a more realistic and achievable one - and it's still a hard-edged hypercar through and through. Crucially, though, I will use its interior aesthetics as a reference point for all future updates across the model range going forward. As a side note, I attempted a similar build using the '88 Copy Cat (in fastback and notchback configurations) in Al-Rilma, but found it (or rather, its overhangs) to be too long, which vindicates my original decision to go with the '98 Stradale for this build.