Yenko Stinger 1.0

This is a lovely mod but note than the negative Linear Steering Rod Ratio in car.ini gave reverse steering. The car was unusable until I changed this

pretty good but... eh... is it supposed to have inverted steering?

Love it! I've been waiting a long time for a Yenko Stinger to come to a sim racing platform, and I'm not disappointed. I'm having a great time driving this. Now if I could also get a version for rFactor 2, I'd be in heaven.

Hardest I've ever laughed while playing a racing game.

Love the Yenko Stinger!

The feel of the car was beautiful, progressive, and simply delicious. The limit was easily accessible. The handling of the car is forgiving and communicative. As the rear begins to slide, it does so gradually as the steering goes light but correction still has some control so that a not so quick old geek like me does not snap it around easily.

Within a few laps around Laguna Seca, my home track, I fell in love with this Yenko Stinger mod. I have never driven a Corvair but have seen them around local AutoX. Always wonder about Nadar’s claim.

The 2nd generation Corvair suspension was modeled correctly I believe. The rear suspension is like on a Jaguar E-type or some of street rods. Now I am curious about how the 1st gen. rear suspension drives, with reverse trailing arms, I believe. I thought incorrectly that it was swing axles.

The look of the car is very nice. The ride height looks a bit high like a “stock” car.

Thanks to Stereo and the team that brought this mod to us. You are the gifts that brought us so much delight and made Assetto Corsa our virtual home on motorsports. Now I only wish someone make a 85 Toyota MR2 (AW11a) with flat black bumper/rear wing, hardtop, no skirt with stock triangle wheels.

(Sans April 1)

A great car to drive, and handles just like I'd expect a rear engined 60s car to: Squishy, loose, and heavy. It's hard to push to its limit, but despite that, it's actually remarkably forgiving and not that difficult to drive. With some practice laps, it's fairly straightforward. Far, far from a modern sports car in handling, but that's to be expected.

In essence: The thing handles like you're driving a particularly large dog running on mud with a dumbbell on its rear. I love it. It's perfect.

I'm docking two stars at the moment, though for a couple of reasons:

The stance of the entire car seems to be far, far too high compared to every Stinger I've seen in real life, stock or not. The ride height in my opinion should be reduced significantly, by 2 to 3 inches, if not more. The springs feel like they should be a *bit* stiffer, too, in my opinion; though admittedly I don't exactly have experience driving an original Stinger to corroborate that particular hunch.

The wheels really do not match the car at all, and I have no idea where they're from; Stingers stock from Yenko had 13x7 painted steel wheels, with all others aftermarket; most often I've seen the ever-present Minilites fitted, but nothing remotely close to the rims fitted on this one that look more like they'd be more at home at the Baja 1000 than at Lime Rock or your neighbor's idyllic 60s surburban driveway.

The driver's hands do not line up at all with the steering wheel, floating above it and clipping through it on turns, which is incredibly egregious and annoying when using first person view like I typically do. The interior also feels a bit... unloved, for lack of a better word, like it was unfinished or not correctly lit.

Finally, the lack of any kind of racing-style skins despite it being specifically a race car, and very prominently used as such. This isn't major, but it does mean it visually doesn't fit at all while racing with contemporaries. I'd love to see some of these, it would really make this thing look right at home with the Alfas and Fords and etc. I've enjoyed racing it with. Some historically accurate ones would be icing on that cake. I'm sure some other users will make skins, but it would be nice to have them as an option right off the bat. I also understand that this is supposed to be the roadgoing version of the car versus a race-prepped version, but it would be nice, regardless. This also goes back to the wheel complaint: if this is supposed to represent a stock car from the "factory", what are those wheels from?

Those things being fixed will gain two stars right back, easily. There's no fundamental issues with the car, and the model itself is beautiful and well-detailed -- It's a hoot to drive, too. But it feels unfinished, like it should be in beta versus a 1.0 release. With some issue fixing and tuning, this is definitely a 5-star car. The Stinger has always been one of my favorite racing-modified cars; one often drives in the local vintage grand prix near me and it's just as fun to watch. Being able to actually drive it and slide it makes me respect the real drivers that much more.

This unusual Chevrolet (I mean the Yenko one, not the April 1 ;-) is not really easy to handle at first sight.
But when I thought about its unique architecture - indeed it behaves a bit like a big long Porsche, then I could better understand how to drive it, and then the car became really fun! Excellent work on the physics, it really makes sense.
The exterior is beautifully rendered, and the rolling rims are great to watch -almost hypnotic :-) on replay!

I only noticed some visual issues with the 3Ddriver's arms, the F1 view with bits of his head when I want to adjust the view,
and the dashboard exposure maybe a little too dark.
But all in all, it's a real treat, and a wonderful addition to AC.
Thanks to Stereo and aphidgod!

Sliding this around the corners... giggling about the engine sounds... a very relaxed experience. :)

Handles beautifully, sounds even better, really put a smile on my face.

Very elegant, and the engine sounds fantastic.
It's a car with a face of speed. :)

Haha, just amazing :)

Cars like this are the reason why I love this community

Nice Corvair. Could you please add a Ralph "Unsafe at Any Speed" Nader skin to version 1.0?

really nice, though copy/paste physics

like I said when I saw the wife suck a tennis ball through a length of garden hose..."She's a keeper!" 10 stars!

Awesome car. Produces close racing and is fantastic in VR. Shows its teeth on the straights and is hair-raising in the corners. Breathtaking.

Brilliant!

O my , what a good mod!
Thx so much!!! Really appreciated.
(laughing cures whatever stick is up ur b** jenn ball... try it!) ;)

I had a good time, thanks!

Drove one of these at Nelson Ledges once. Felt too big and too heavy.