Spent an inordinate amount of time yesterday searching for a working link to a Vauxhall VX220 mod before finally finding something from 2016 that hadn't been taken down. The place I got it from said something about Smallblockhero as the original creator, but I've no idea if that's true or not.
Anyway, since then I've been modifying and updating it and as it was so hard to find and I'm reasonably pleased with the result, here it is for anyone that wants it:
https://mega.nz/#!DhEAwAZI!RRBi8Z6FebdhVp_4r6eufidavAP3VKscco7IyLQgJGk
What I did was basically change the engine and data to correspond to the real car, so power/torque is pretty accurate, suspension is off the Kunos Elise (but this is actually pretty realistic as the car is built on the Elise platform in the Lotus factory), then brakes, weight, tyres, gear ratios and AI have been updated. Visually, I deleted the old skins and replaced them with the colours you could actually order the car in, made the roof body coloured, changed the textures of the headlights and taillight holders to be black (silver was on the original 2.2 car from 2000), darkened the grilles, corrected the texture of the badge/V, fixed the lights and created LODs B, C and D using the RD LOD generator.
Additionally as a bonus, I created the original car from 2000 with the 145bhp 2.2 naturally aspirated engine, with correct power/torque, weight, gear ratios and body colours. Visually it has the silver headlight/taillight holders to differentiate it from the VXT. Also has full LODs.
Finally I also included the special edition called the VXR220 that was limited to 60 cars. This comes in just the one colour, with black wheels and other bits like the spoiler, front V and petrol cap. This has 220bhp and 300nm and just like the real version, comes with semi-slick tyres. Also has full LODs.
All three drive pretty well, the NA is somewhere between a modern MX5 and the tuned E30 M3, the VXT is a bit quicker, roughly between the Z4 and an R34 Skyline and the VXR is a fair bit quicker again, somewhere between the 718 Boxster and the Exige 240. They all drive pretty well and performance is as I'd expect (I've owned an original NA VX220 for more than 10 years).
As the original model isn't mine, I'm obviously not fussed if anyone wants to make any changes, enjoy!
At me the steering wheel is disconnected. However, on this video you can see the instruments in a normal place (~0:27). Maybe the 1999 and 2002 cars cockpit are different? I didn 't find a photo or video of the 1999 cocpit...
