Mercedes Vision SLR by Captain
Update release October 21st, 1999
Here is an e-mail if you want to give your comments. :
thecaptain@technologist.com
LeCaptain@usa.net (if you are sending attached file like picture... see at the end of this file)

Visit my Web page: http://members.xoom.com/CaptnDesign/index.htm
You will find the showcase on the site. If you already have the first version of this car, the showcase is the same.

This car may only be distributed freely, and this file must be included.

You can use the mesh to build another car, under three conditions:
1. Everyone could rather recognize the car you are building rather than
mine.
2. You will inform me about what you are doing before sending it on the web.
Then send me a capture of your car.
3. Write in your "readme.txt" you used my car.

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"NFS 4 : High Stakes" conversion
You can build an NFS4 conversion of this car, but you must:
_ keep the performances
_ not send it anywhere without my writen permission
_ write in your "readme.txt" you converted MY nfs3 car

Installing the car :

Unzip the file .... | .... in this sub-folder
car.viv | ...\Gamedata\Carmodel\MVis (create it)
04_00.qfs | ...\Fedata\art\slides (1) (2)
shmvis.qfs Not included with this file. See above. | ...\Fedata\showcase (1)

(1) : if you don't have this sub-folder in your hard drive, the reason is that you are currently using a partial install of NFS3. Don't create the sub-folder(s), it will be no use, because the game will still search for these files on the CD. 04_00.qfs is the loading slide.

(2) The current serial number of the car is 4. If you have another car with same serial number, change one of them to avoid conflict. (use a viv decoder like vivwizard). You must know that changing the number requires renaming the file 04_00.qfs into @@_00.qfs where @@ is the new number.
If the new number is higher than 49, you won't see the slide and the showcase. (so, if the other car has no slide, rather change the other's car number)

I tried to give this car real technical settings, so don't change them.

The Mercedes Vision SLR is a new concept car, presented for first time in the 99 Detroit auto show. This car is a link between past, present and future: past because of it's similarities with the old 300 SLR, present because of it's nose with double optics and Hakkinen's Silver Arrow rushing out of it, and future because this car will be produced in 2003. Of course, the design may change. Even the new roadster's style is a bit different from the coupe. This future Mercedes supercar will be manufactured in UK by Mac Laren.
The engine is derived from the 500 S class one, but it received a supercharger with air-air intercooler. The displacement has also been augmented to 5500 cc, which gives this engine the power of 557 hp, and 720 NM torque. This engine tuning is made by AMG. The perfomances are quite fast, as the car reaches 100 km/h in 4.2 s, and 200 km/h in 11.3 s, with top speed at 320 km/h.
The brakes are also special: they are made from both carbon fiber and ceramics, and are assisted by the ESP system. This electronic device prevents much slides from happening, by using brake one one wheel when necessary, giving the car an extraordinary easy handling. The disks can tolerate the outstanding temperature of 1600°C !!!
Of course this behaviour is hard to reproduce with NFS3: even the ABS, doesn't work properly, although it exists in the game. I couldn't find the way to prevent slides without treaching on some parameters. The consequence would have been a car that turns everywhere at every speed. It would be exaggerated.

This car has been built from EA's Aston Martin DB7.

I used the following tools:
CardCad v1.4b
MRC Cartool
VIV Wizard v0.8
Breeze designerV2.05 and POV-RAY V3.0 for dashboard and steering wheel

I needed many many hours to build and test it.

Thanks to:
All the authors of Carcad, VivWizard ... and so on...
The Webmasters who will accept this car for downloading.
Main information source : www.mercedes.com

Hope you'll enjoy !