Maximum auto-upgrade class for d-class cars

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Thinking about this ten million credits in the test track accolade, I thought it might be worth having a look at which cars could be more likely to have the most expensive options for upgrading.

To do that the only vaguely sensible way to look of which I could think was ordering my cars by PI (they’re all stock) and then seeing what the auto-upgrade menu had in it. Of course, that’s not going to be anywhere near thorough but there might be some correlation. The time taken to look in detail is not worth the effort. Not even sure doing what I did was worth the effort either!

For D class most of them can be auto-upgraded to A class.

S1 class - Toyota AT38.

B class - Bentley Blower, Ford Transit SSV, Ford F-150 '86, Ford Anglia '59, Ford F-100, Ford Wagon, Ford Coupe '40, Ford Coupe '32, LR Defender, Range Rover '73, M-B Unimog, M-b SSK, Morgan 3 Wheeler, Morris Traveler, Nissan Safari, Reliant Supervan, Renault 4L '68, Toyota FJ40, VW Class 5 Bug, VW Beetle, VW Type 2, Willys Jeep, Wuling Sunshine.

C class - Bentley 8 Litre, Ford Transit Mk1, LR Series III, VW Pickup '82.

Still D class - BMW Isetta, Peel Trident, Peel P-50,

The issues now are (1) is that actually of any use to anyone anywhere and (2) can I really be bothered to keep going?

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The test track badges are absolute crap.
Why should I do this?

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you don’t have to, I intend to get them regardless of their degree of crappiness!

I simply thought that there are other completionists out there so some kind of effort to simplify things might be of use. Put in a bit of legwork to help others.

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I mean, that’d be more useful if the auto-upgrade tune was optimal.

I’ll probably try to find high end tunes of folks here to slap on. I was a little worried… but I’ve probably got a TON of cars just collecting dust that have never had tunes on them.

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I tried to indicate it’s not going to be optimal, but I think it will give some idea of which ones are more likely to have more expensive options - limited but perhaps not useless

maybe go by low-cost cars, cheapest is the 15k [redacted] svo, then a load of 20k cars

the upgrade menu in the test track does not have auto-upgrade, unless it’s somewhere not obvious, it’s the custom upgrade menu, I’d hoped it was presets which is an easy way of adding a load of stuff, but that’s not there

I didn’t notice if there was a “find tune” option in the test track upgrade menu, didn’t think to look

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I can’t even see where auto-upgrade is an option. Also… yeah, no tunes.

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if you go to a house/festival, go to the upgrades where the big one in the middle is “custom”, on the left at the top (below it is presets)

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Oh… I see. To know which cars to target.

The V12 swap is 75k. If you can turbo over that it’s another 7k.
Forza aero is usually 5k a pop. Tire compound is 10k. Tire width is around 3k.

I’m generally able to rack up about 125k or so per car, which will mean about 100 cars to get the 10 million mark.

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yes, that was the thinking

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I can’t remember any of the others but I got the Vandura to 133k yesterday, anything with the 7.4 V8TT engine swap available is a good choice as that’s 75k on it’s own.

I’ll only go for these badges when/if I decide to go for all badges though, which I’ll only do if I ever find the patience + willpower to grind to level 1000 in Open.

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for level 1000 in open it really is a pain in the neck if that aspect is of no interest - that and Eliminator are more or less the only things I’ve yet to do, not good enough and don’t find them interesting enough

one thing that is easy, if tedious anyway, is to do custom drift; set all assist to on, rubber-band the accelerator - needs a push on the steering occasionally, once/45s or so or it kicks you out of a race; use Corvette FE for A and the Maserati FE for S1 as they get skill boosts so there’s also a small build-up of skill points

point is the steering input is so minor that it’s possible to do something else while it’s running

a couple of championships usually results in 4 levels, so still very tedious