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2003 BAP Brio In the world of boring sedans, vans, wagons, trucks, and the like there needs to be at least a few vehicles which have the pure intention of being 'fun'. We're proud to show you one of the newest. We've taken the 1.5 liter inline four from the Dolce, bored out the block to 1.8 liters, and added a turbocharger and a high performance cylinder head to produce 120 horsepower. Once the entire motor is swathed in chrome, it's leveled into a bare-bones fiberglass shell which you see here. Four wheel independent suspension insures that the little monster will handle just as well as it squirts forward. A six-speed transmission helps the relaying of juice to the tires. **Designing Notes** This was a toughie. I've never done anything with a near-spherical body, and no one has been very helpful on various design forums, so this is the first hack of adding white highlights to an odd body shape. The more I look at the finished (or current) result, the more I'm pleased with it. I released this as a 'festive' vehicle for Easter. As always, Brio refers to music being played in a bold, upright manner that's full of energy - perfect for a open-wheeled micro-rocket. 2002 BAP Bourreé We know the current population of our globe is in excess of 6 billion people, and more of those people are moving around on the world's highways. The more people who can fit into a single vehicle the better, thus requiring less fuel and space per person. You can tell as well as I, the answer is a van-type object. The Guppyvan below is strictly a utility or cargo van simply by its short and wide design. The Bourreé on the other hand is designed to seat up to eight passengers in comfort for whatever the road may bring. Powered by the staple BAP V6 of 3.3 liters, it's quiet riding as well which bodes all the better for passenger comfort. The van is available with or without a power glass sliding sunroof. **Designing Notes** There's way too few vans out on the scene these days, so this is an endeavor on quelling the lapse. This concept originally started as a station wagon, then I found an overhead pic of the Volkswagen Magellan concept and that was the end of the wagon. The Magellan is actually a 'cross-over' vehicle. It isn't a wagon or a van or a sport-ute, but it has elements of all three. This was what I was after, noting the four doors like a wagon but windshield pushed forward like a van. Kudos go to Thresh who suggested the sunroof in the first place since the roof highlight is truly massive. Same goes to the striped version which now thankfully lies dead. You had to wonder what the name was for this time didn't you. Bourreé is a type of Dance popular in France in the early 18th century. 'Nuff said. 2002 BAP Chaconne Here she is, the very first light truck to come out of BAP Product Development. Reminicent of the passed Chevrolet El Camino, even the base Chaconne is strong enough to carry up to a half ton of stuff without bottoming the rear suspension. Motivated by either a 3.3 liter V6 in base form or a 5.3 liter V8 in upscale demeanor, moving stuff or leaving tire tracks is no problem especially with the optional 4.55 rearend gearset. Coming late in the 2002 model year is a Chaconne that will have your heart (and ears) pounding long before you ever see one. The Chaconne Rumble Bee edition packs nothing less than 420 horses from 6.6 liters of V8 power. With the 4.55 rearend standard and an upgraded suspension featuring Arvin-Meritor monotube struts, this beast is capable of nothing less than 0-60 times around 5 seconds flat and quarter mile times in the high 13-second range. Let's see your pickup do that!! Who says only the Australians are allowed to have fun with utes? If the two standard trucks weren't enough, there are still three other versions available. There's another version of the standard model with a bed cover. If you like the open-air driving mode of a convertible but need a bed to carry stuff we have a convertible version of the Chaconne as well - otherwise known as the "Truckvertible". Lastly, the "Microconne" isn't a truck at all, but is a small sports coupe that just so happens to share the front end of the truck. **Designing Notes** It's my first project with a bed, and actually I think it turned out relatively well in all versions. I tried using a different window flare style and it worked for a change. I was thinking about creating a second long-bed variant to carry motorcycles in back, but with all the other versions done I don't think it's necessary, especially since it would just make the thing look too skinny. The Rumble Bee (not pictured) has extended wheel flares all around, slightly modified shading to make it appear wider, a different hood scoop, and stripe hack. So what's a "Chaconne" you ask? Like most of the BAP projects, it's named after a classical musical term. "Chaconne" (say "sha-cone") was a type of Spanish dance popular in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote several very interesting Chaconnes in his French and English Suites. They're very difficult to play, but sound rather impressive. 2002 BAP Rigaudon Hatchback Finally, the project that began life as a Seat Ibiza sees the light of day. Some of you may be surprised to not see 'Ibiza' in the name. The project originally began life as a model of the brand new 2002 Seat Ibiza, but due to difficulties in making the nose look like the real one, the intention for similarity was scrapped. And all for the better. Unlike the Chaconne above, the Rigaudon is available in few colors due to the rather somber and desaturated tones of the concept. A very scary bright aqua version is still floating around in cyberspace with an even brighter interior, but its days as a legitimate automobile are much in jeapordy. **Designing Notes** This particular concept has been through probably seven or eight different versions before the one you see here. Many new shading techniques are employed, foremost is the new roof. I began with a highlight running the length of the roof, but after receiving huge amounts of distaste from reviewers in its similarity to projects of other manufacturers, I reduced the length of the highlight and rounded the front. This really helped in giving a contour to the roof itself, making the roof look even less flat. The hood was another great obstacle. It took seven revisions before I got the right side to match the left in terms of shape, but the final result looks pretty good. So what's a "Rigaudon" you ask? Like lots of BAP projects, it's named after a classical musical term. A "Riguadon" (say "rig-a-don") is a short, usually quick piece involving one solo instrument often accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. One of my personal favorite Rigaudons is the final movement of the Holborne Suite by Edvard Grieg. It's a part of my official piano repertoire. 2002 BAP Dolce 1.5GX Ahh, the little Dolce. What could be more appropriate when CAFE legislators are lobbying for 35 mpg? For those of you unfamiliar with what's going on here, 'CAFE' is "Corporate Average Fuel Economy". In the US, it is a law that any automaker who builds cars for mass production the weighted average fuel mileage from all the new cars produced by that company must be equal or greater than 27.5 miles per gallon. Otherwise the automaker must pay a rather hefty fine for each tenth of mile off the standard on each vehicle produced. It's easy to see how this can literally cost a company billions of dollars. Recently, governmental officials started lobbying to raise the CAFE standard to 35 mpg by the year 2012. Obviously, major automakers are unhappy during the popularity of light trucks. The Dolce on the other hand doesn't need to worry about any of that. Here's an excellent little car that already has an average fuel mileage of 38 mpg from it's plenty-capable 1.5 liter inline four. **Designing Notes** I released this car before the Presto (next) simply because the shading was lots easier to change. The straight edges made adding highlights quite simple which is a good thing when you're trying a new style. Unfortunately for me, several people accused me of stealing from someone eles's design in the shading department. You're right, the shading is similar, but nothing here is stolen or borrowed or whatever else you'd want to call it. Look at the right side of the car - the driver's side. I used my own technique for drawing a shadow that runs the length of the body. You won't find that anywhere else. The same goes for the roof highlight - it's wider then most other ones you'll see. "Dolce" is once again a musical term. When a passage of music is marked "Dolce" (say "dole-chay"), it means the secion should be played in a manner as if it was sung. Lots of phrasing is used. These parts are usually moderately quick, hence an excellent name for an econmy car. Only on this website can you get the updated version of the car. The ZIP file submitted for release contained deltasets that hadn't been fixed after being optimized to 8-bit color. When using the car in the game, some areas of the car were completely trasparent. In the ZIP available here, that problem has been done away with. Also, this is the only place to get the official Dolce Pinkster deltaset. 2002 BAP Presto The first sports car of the bunch is here. Continual improvement to the items beneath the hood have now rendered 315 horses from the standard 5.3 liter V8. With the optional 6-speed manual transmission, acceleration times are right at five and a half seconds to sixty. Though there's only two seats, the Presto has a generous capacity for all forms of luggage beneath the rear polycarbonate hatch. Much to my dismay Rinspeed, producer of high-performance Mercedes automobiles, just unveiled their own "Presto" concept. Oh well, mine is faster. **Designing Notes** Let me start by pointing out the roof. It's one of the few items that really shines on this project. I'm not going to tell you how I did it, only that it took a lot of time and many messed up roofs. This was my first attempt at using white highlights to bring out shape to the fenders on both the front and the rear. To be blatantly honest, even I think the rear fender is too washed out. The hood was difficult and still doesn't look right. I wanted to create the effect of having a low hood with taller fender bulges, but I think the right side fender ended up too big. As several commentators have said, it looks like someone or something sat on it. The roof highlight still looks funny, and if I were to do a revamp of the model that would certainly be one of the first things to change. It's too squared-off for the rounded body of the rest of the car. I guess they can't all be perfect. The name "Presto" is once again a musical term. This time it's a very simple one. Presto just means plain old 'fast'. I'm pretty sure that name applies here quite well. 2001 BAP Regal Type 1 Though the name and shape are similar to the rather plain Regal Mark II below, it doesn't take long to realize that this is nothing less than a fire-breathing monster. If you thought the Chaconnne Rumble Bee sounded fast you haven't seen a thing. 7.4 liters of supercharged V8 power press this thing to quarter-mile times of low elevens. Weather or not it's legal to do that on normal roads, well, that's your problem. But then again, when was the last time you've seen a NHRA-spec dragster available from a dealership? Available in three terrific flavors. **Designing Notes** This started life as the regal below, hue shifted to a very interesting deep purple. The wheelbase was shortened, the roof was cut up, and I made my first convertible. This was also my first attempt at adding shading with white. The highlights didnt' turn out too bad, but many of them are hidden by the stripe through the center. That was also my first attempt at adding any sort of decal to a car. The motor and side exhaust pipes were the original ideas behind this remake, but they don't look as nice as the ones I envisioned. Oh well, I guess that leaves room for a most excellent remake someday. The blue version shown here turned out to be the easiest one to shade, so in the ZIP file, the purple one there is a hue shift of the blue version instead of the vice. The concept originally came from an article in Hot Rod Magazine about a 1984 Buick Regal T-Type with a similar engine and similar performance figures. It also had the T roof. 2001 BAP Regal Mark II So what are you supposed to do when the average buyer's age for a specific car climbs continually year after year? I'll give you a hint, GM started doing something similar in the early 1960s and it quickly became known as the Muscle Car Era. Give up? How about add a bigger engine? Here is the original DMA Regal with upgraded shading and such with an optional 5.3 liter V8 under the hood. For the fledgling car company, it proved to be yet another ticket to our success. **Designing Notes** It's obvious to see that this particular vehicle is basically a reworking of the original Regal. I even went as far as to work with the same color scheme. The shape is virtually identical, but due to the shading means used, my version looks larger than the original. This suffers from many ailiments of early car designing - mainly the lack of white highlights. One reviewer went as far as to liken the shading to that of a dirty light bulb. I guess that's not far from the real truth. Exterior issues aside, I really had fun making the deltas for this car. On one of the front corner damage deltas, I had the entire hood rotate several degrees as if the hood had been pushed in the accident. Though the damage altered the shading of most of the front end, it works pretty well in the game. Yes, someday this might be reworked into something better, but for the time being here it is. 2001 BAP Guppyvan If it's stuff you have to carry, here is your van. In fact, this van is large enough that it was chosen by Liberty City to be the official Utility Van used by governmental employees. All this in the first year of BAP mass production! The Guppyvan is wasn't originally intended to be a rocket until an engineer let his project cat out of the bag - a Liberty City Utility version packing a highly potent 6.6 V8! Once the city heard about its abilities, they quickly changed their order from the base 3.3 V6 to the mighty 6.6. In the ZIP, you'll find the standard 'civilian' version to replace the pickup, and the Municipal variant replacing one of the trucks. Specs are included in the ZIP so performance can be adjusted accordingly. Even though this doesn't show a huge amount of work by me, this was probably my favorite project to date. I'll be honest, yes, this came mostly from a scan. That's why it has such a great window flare. The door on this thing actually slides back and forth from the roof - it's the magenta colored part. Because of this I had to do my first full interior, since everything is visible with the door at full open. The interior is the same color as the main body, not the door. The deltas also held several firsts. I did quite a bit of experimenting with window cracks before I found something that looked decent. Also, the dents in the rear are different shapes for a reason - all for the sake of experimentation. So why did I name this thing after a small fish? For the same reason that the massive airplane Super Guppy was named after a fish - the whole idea is to carry stuff. Lastly, the color scheme shown here is the result of some research into GM's concept car past. In the early 1990s, GM showed a concept called the Highlander which was basically the concept version of the second-generation Chevrolet S-10 pickup. The colors of the concept were what you see here - bright green with magenta highlights. Most of the bodywork was done in heavy plastic and included exterior tool boxes mounted in the fenders. 2001 Saab 9X Type R This was my first attempt at a car, and I guess for never even taking a look at a tutorial, it went surprisingly well. However, highlights are basically nil, the interior is terrible, and the whole thing is incredibly rough shadingwise. Nevertheless, it's still here for the sake of posterity - we all started from somewhere, so here are my roots so to speak. If you're still in the twisted vein, you can still download the ZIP file by clickling on the pic. Go nuts.