Amphibious Car Challange

[StigBelcherStyl]

The Next Gran Turismo, Amphibious Car Challenge:

IN GAME CHANGES

• A race track that involves a water crossing
• The cars have to be configured to land and water racing

IN GAME CHALLANGES

• Faster land cars will have their advantage on the race track
• Faster cars on the water will have their advantage in the water sections

AMPHIBIOUS CAR ATTRIBUTES

• New Range, New Innovation for Gran Turismo
• First racing Simulation game to incorporate a land to water race
• A variety of innovative cars from different eras

AMPHIBIOUS CAR LIMITATIONS

• Amphibious cars are generally not great in performance and they also suffer from terrible handling due to the duel purpose design.

Examples of Some Amphibious cars and their Performance Specs:

Top Speed On Land
161 km/h (100 mph) = Gibbs Aquada, 2003
120 km/h (49 mph) = Amphicar 770, 1961
105 km/h (65 mph) = Ford GPA 'Seep' (Sea Jeep), 1943
79 km/h (49 mph) = Volkswagen Schwimmwagen Typ 166, 1942

Top Speed In Water
50 km/h (31 mph) = Gibbs Aquada, 2003
13 km/h (8 mph) = Amphicar 770, 1961
9 km/h (5.5 mph) = Volkswagen Schwimmwagen Typ 166, 1942
8 km/h (5 mph) = Ford GPA 'Seep' (Sea Jeep), 1943

 

[RZQSPEED]

Rinspeed Squba?

 

[Maldoxx]

Awesome. Very unlikely, but still awesome.

 

[BloodHawk]

I'm not against such an idea but I can imagine this Amphibious Car Challenge being a challenge to test your patience, with some cars having a top speed of about 5 mph on the water I can't really feel anything else other than boredom.

Two of the cars mentioned on the OP have a quite reasonable top speed however, and with that we don't have enough variety for a competitive grid, unfortunately.

I still give my full support to this idea. 👍

 

[Aesthetics]

This is highly unlikely to make it, but if it ever does, I want to be able to make Amphibious modifications to any car in the game. Maybe some will sink.

 

[StigBelcherStyl]

Thought I'd sketch up a course to demonstrate my idea

The track is unique in the fact that it contains a water crossing, a stop zone (Just like the Pod Race Circuit) and a bridge crossing. Please note the circuit only goes in the one direction and is limited to the use of Amphibious Vehicles Only.

 

[StigBelcherStyl]

Possible Competitors:

 

[Roger the Horse]

Thought I'd sketch up a course to demonstrate my idea

The track is unique in the fact that it contains a water crossing, a stop zone (Just like the Pod Race Circuit) and a bridge crossing. Please note the circuit only goes in the one direction and is limited to the use of Amphibious Vehicles Only.

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I'm not sure why the amphibious track would have to be a separate location. Could it not be contained within another layout? And why would it only be able to be run in one direction? Isn't this needless complication?

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