Konian announces a remake, Vuelo comes back with a bang, APEXGROUP goes for the atmosphere, ROBLOX hates us, and other news stories. Written by Catalyst_0.
Image Credits: T3STAR
What We Missed
Where Was Carblox?
The entire months of June and July. Carblox was planning to release Industry Digest 25 earlier this July, but it was left at 100% complete and it was scrapped. Carblox Staff got to take a break from the publication over the summer, and we launched Carblox Reviews and released a review of the Nimbus SE. Expect more activity now.
Artion Group: The New Home for PIO and C-WORLD.
Yeah, it's basically just reorganizing Performance International Omega's brand portfolio to be under a new name and face.
Nimbus "Facelifted" The Veir
We got another Veir. Nimbus dropped the V20E and V20E RWD sedans earlier today (or September 4th). The sedan featured slightly higher quality and a CarPlay system that was jammed into the GPS screen, alongside working gauges. Otherwise, it's more an update to the previously released V30E we got earlier this year than a full facelift. Otherwise, nothing has changed, from the trunk door not opening to the tuning.
MXZBRO's New Company Valiente
The performance car company is planning to unveil their debut model this holiday season, and it looks to be a hypercar.
Vector Wants Back In
You know how Vector has essentially been non-existent in recent times? Well no more! The Divisor Group company is returning to become the fastest car brand once again, after both Electility and the forgotten brand Rapide both took it's crown after the brand went silent. Well Vector released a test mule, and is making it clear it's coming back.
Image Credits: AreDee
The Next Car Chassis From NVNA
After over 2 months since merging with/acquiring APEX and Oaken to form APEXGROUP, NVNA has remained relatively silent, until recently. NVNA is iconic for being the brand that powers some 90-98% of ro-fictional automotive's vehicles alongside the majority of motorcycles. If you're not releasing a plane, a tank, or a boat, chances are you're using A-Chassis, unless you're Quo and Elektrisk who's using the mysterious BoltChassis or the one brand who uses RivionDrive (Auva, formerly Velodo).
Well, NVNA is making a new car chassis, using the core from driving game BeamMG Drive's own car chassis. The car chassis, which is looking to be called NVNA Constraint Type: Car (although that's not confirmed naming) is not A-Chassis 7, which was announced way earlier this year.
NVNA Constraint Type: Car will be the official chassi on NVNA, APEX, and Oaken cars, alongside possible other partner brands, and will feature a standalone release after. Avxnturador, APEXGROUP's owner, gave us a look into a unfinalized set up of the chassis.
Image Credits: Avxnturador
And it looks nothing like chasses we've seen before. Constraint Type Car will feature damage and thermals, but that will come after it is debuted to makers. Thanks to being ported straight from BeamMG, one of the top games for open-sourced simulation, Avxnturador says that NCT: Car:
"Ported to Roblox, this is slated to be one of the most accurate models."
BUT that's not all we got from the company...
Headline: NVNA Achieves Liftoff
NVNA isn't done dominating this press cycle, as on August 26th, the APEXGROUP marque published a release about the next big thing from them. To quore Avxnturador, the guy who runs all three brands:
"Ever since we’ve been admitted to APEXGROUP, we’ve been working in the background with plans and the like. APEX is for the masses, Oaken is for luxury, and we’re for the performance. However, we’re also the ones for the tech. It’s our new goal to be right at the crossroads between technology and the automotive industry while extending out to either direction."
This is where they announced Skies, their "flagship technological frontier". Or in layman's terms, Android Automotive inside Roblox. Skies is a separate subsidiary of NVNA, which was added in an addendum to the original announcement.
Skies (or more accurately, S.K.I.E.S) is an acronym for Standardized Kiosk, Information and Entertainment System, and yes, it is an infotainment system, but also a control center, for not just APEXGROUP cars, but for select partner brands. But it's not just an infotainment system, according to Avxnturador:
"However, it will also be in other items such as other partnered cars, phones, keyfobs, house control, music systems, anything that we can think of for work, home, and mobility."
So, it's more Android in whole. NVNA is already known for maintaining A-Chassis, which is the basis for most of the ro-automotive industry's cars and motorbikes, but is also planning to power your car's infotainment and key fobs, your smart home, your phone, your jukebox, and probably more. So essentially, they're joining Roblox's ro-technology market, but they have already won the entire sector, with the formerly popular prop tech niche on life support.
But while this is quite exciting news, it's closed, to quote Avxnturador once more:
"As of now, this system is under closed doors as development kicks off and then continues. All APEXGROUP cars will use this system, alongside other partner cars at the sole discretion of NVNA. Applications will not open for developers as of now, however in the future we do intend to offer our services to select technological developments."
So while it's plenty possible for a brand you like to use Skies, it's not going to be soon (obviously, this is a very ambitious project) and besides APEXGROUP brands such as Oaken and APEX Technologies, partners are completely unconfirmed (besides Quo, who has their own iQ (IQ) auto infotainment system).
NVNA plans to keep us in the loop on Skies, be it "progress updates or news-worthy accomplishments", so you can join the NVNA server here if you want news straight from the horse's mouth, or follow up on Carblox updates about it.
"Shoot for the stars, that’s where we like to #inNVNAte."
That slogan will always be cheesy. #inNVNAte
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Excellente? Eccellente!
Konian gave everyone a look at the remake of the Excellente, the Austrailian brand's coupe model.
Image Credits: T3STAR
To quote T3STAR's description of the car:
"Unmatched quality, timeless design and hours of perfecting every millimeter of this car down to it's engine, interior, wheels, etc. Nothing has been left unseen or unfinished."
The company hasn't given much information behind the car, but from the looks of it, it may not be from the 2022 year, but nothing can be confirmed. Even in the middle of it's development, it still looks incredible. Carblox will keep you in the loop on the vehicle's development updates.
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