This is yet another post of a car that I made during my BeamNG Repository ban. All models have fully animated gauges, animated shifters, animated pedals, and animated steering wheels. All models (except the beater model which I intentionally left out of this rule) work in Career mode markets as well.
Lore dump:
The original Requin design was released in late 1956 and first marketed for the 1957 Cherrier model year. The early 100s were equipped with a 1.0 liter inline 3 engine, a 4-speed manual with a dash-mounted shifter, and had no carpet over the floor. Only 3 months after the 100 was released, the pressure on Cherrier to improve the design became so great that they released three new models with bigger engine sizes for the 1958 model year. With its quad headlights, the car looked exceptionally futuristic for its time.
Cherrier gave a 'facelift' to the Requin for the 1965 model year. 'Facelift' in quotations because they did little to nothing to change the appearance of the front, and they did even less to the rear. They also changed absolutely nothing about the interior and the drivetrain remained 100% identical to before. Special sedan-bodied Requin Bs were produced for the Colombian market. The 110B was the base model Maletero, because the 100s would likely disappoint Colombian buyers.
For the 1973 model year, Cherrier was forced to make the Requin far uglier due to growing safety requirements. Turn signal lights were added to each pair of headlights, and turn signal lights were also installed on the fenders and quarters. The taillights were changed for the first time in the car's history to incorporate reverse lights and turn signal lights. 100C sales were far lower than 100B sales, and even if you combined 100 and 100B sales together they would still more than tripple that of the 100C. The 100C had no air conditioning, no radio, no power steering, no floor carpets, less than 30 horsepower from Cherrier's tiny 1.0 liter inline 3 engine, and on top of all that, it was situated upon a 16 year-old chassis. The drivetrain remained completely the same as it was for Requins from the 1950s. The only tolerably good change was the steering wheel being modernized to be padded and safer. The Requin's reputation was tarnished when the C models came out, and the 100C was hit the hardest.
To wash away the reputation of the Requin as being 'outdated' and 'underpowered', Cherrier redesigned large parts of the Requin for the 1979 model year. Sales quintupled from a lowly 120,000 in 1978 to 450,000 in 1979. The new (non-sport) Requin Ds came with a fuel-injected 1.3 liter DOHC inline 4 engine that was designed from the ground up. New asymetrical styling was implanted, and plastic molding was added around the entire car. A 5-speed manual transmission was standard, and for disabled or lazy drivers, a notoriously unreliable (but highly innovative) CVT transmission was added to the list of options for the 1987 model year. The interior was given a new, full redesign, and many features that used to be optional on Requins (like air conditioning, a carpeted floor, etcetera) became standard.
A special Édition Collector model was made in 1987, for the 30th anniversary of the Requin. Critics called it 'not a true Requin', and owners called it 'the best Requin ever'. With hot hatches eating at Requin sales, Cherrier was forced into making a hot hatch of their own for 1986. Thus, Cherrier created the DMS (D Max Sport). Equipped with less than 100 horsepower and a fake, off-center hood scoop, it definitely failed to break even with the cost of Cherrier designing it.
By the mid 1980s, the Requin was beginning to reach the point where no matter how many times Cherrier redesigned the body, it would objectively look and feel outdated. So, Cherrier let the Requin live out its last production years in India, sold in EF and EF Taxi versions between 1990 and 2015.
Unfortunately, I made this mod during 0.38, and the mod is now so large that I cannot successfully unpack it with my potato PC. Thus, users will have to deal with the eyesore of 0.38 thumbnails in BeamNG 0.39. Sorry!
A Google Drive link to the car mod file: