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Gavril Roamer

'It Roams... Like a brick.'
- Gabester

Originating from the videogame BeamNG.Drive, the Gavril Roamer was the among the first wave into a new era of automobiles, one that unfortunately never came to fruition, but was instead still in its early infancy within the American life. And of course, Gavril was no different on picking up on this new trend as soon as they feasibly could to shove into their vehicle lineup.

And boy, did it really show. The car as a whole was nothing more than just their D-Series chassis with an SUV body slapped on top of it. Add in the same engine, suspension, and drivetrain, and the end result comes out to be a massive, lumbering, but awfully utilitarian and luxurious SUV for its time. Since it's made of nothing but heavy-duty pickup truck parts, this thing can and will take a beating without even breaking the slightest sweat on its part, as per Gavril's quality standards, while its interior amenities were among the forefront of their entire catalogue thus far.

The Roamer debuted in late 1991 for its 1992 model year, and ever since has found its way into nearly every single business, jurisdiction, and governmental organisation from here to Alaska. It quickly rose to be the best-selling SUV in North America, wildly surpassing its competitors, and leaving them all in the dust with its unmatched performance, ruggedness, and ride comfort for whatever you may possibly need it for.

Retailed Models:

I6: The bog simple, stripped-down base model of the Roamer. As its name suggests, the I6 Roamer got stuck with the weakest, most pitiful engine that Gavril was somehow still retailing. Despite being made entirely from stone age materials and being horrendously inefficient, it had the advantage of being an outright indestructible motor. Even if it did break down, it is impressively trivial to get it back in working order, at least for Gavril standards. Unsurprisingly, the civilian market barely bought this thing directly, and was never even intended for such sale. Instead, it found its place amongst their fleet sales for the many, many industries of America. Whether its roadside service, contractor work, or even park maintenance, you can best bet this model filled the gap wonderfully. Expect to find this model either in RWD or 4WD configurations.

V8: This model acted as the more 'standard' model, with a much smoother riding V8 engine to propel the vehicle over wherever it needs to go. This was its most common configuration out of its lineup, at least for the civilian category. Whether you live in a fairly remote cabin, farmhouse, or just the American suburbs, this model will happily oblige to any task you'll need it to do, big or small. Expect to find this model either in RWD or 4WD configurations.

XT: Gavril's more premium, 'executive' model. With an even bigger V8, two-tone colour palate, and running boards, it created this perfect balance between utility and style, which unfortunately led to its tragic downside; the upper class. Its target demographic saw it as just this fancy, shiny fashion piece, and most would inevitably rust away than ever touch their tyres on an unpaved road. Regardless of this unfortunate outcome of its life though, this was genuinely a very capable vehicle, just with the power to do more. Expect to find this model either in RWD or 4WD configurations.

LXT: Have you ever needed to carry your friends, your family, your friend's family, the family dog, and a whole caravan with just one vehicle? The LXT filled exactly that role, and it could still fit everyone's luggage in the boot with a football field to spare. It was the epitome of middle class America, and what every single family dreamed to have as the ultimate roadtripper, but unsurprisingly most of these vehicle's lives would almost be entirely dominated on getting Joey to his little league's baseball game while the parents go shopping at the GigaMart for the rest of the day. Expect to find this model either in RWD or 4WD configurations.

RS: For the first time since the Barstow days, Gavril had finally brought back their legendary RoadSport naming scheme back to their road fleet, introducing it back with the Roamer, of all vehicles. With an added supercharger, AWD-only chassis, and sport-ified everything, this monster had fully embraced itself with the open interstates, even if its aerodynamics were still the equivalent of a cinder block. Despite all these changes though, it's still faintly a Roamer at heart, and can still do a pretty mean job at tearing up the backwood countryside, now with more roaring engine noise!

RS LXT: Take a moment right now and ask yourself; 'What would the Grim Reaper drive?' Your answers may be something traditional, like an old black hearse, or it could be something more sick, like a classic muscle car with a huge skull outline on the hood. This thing was the result to bridge those gaps, and it puts them together like mixing in nitroglycerine into a bottle of Kentucky bourbon to create the greatest vehicle ever to grace God's gifted lands. Horsepower galore, more seats than miles per gallon, and a suspension more rigid than the Constitution makes this thing the single most bad-ass, patriotic vehicle of the United States of America. God bless this magnificent configuration.

Other Cool Features:

• Undercarriage Spare Tyres: Thanks to the pickup chassis, all Roamer models have a special space just underneath the trunk for a spare tyre to be inserted, which is accessed by sticking a lug wrench into a slot behind the trunk door to detach and reattach it back without compromising your precious trunk space. Just be careful with all that added weight now...

• Standardized Vehicle Upgrades Armor Support: Using my patch for SVU3 you can now turn your Roamer and basically any other BeamNG car that I offer into the equivelant of a makeshift APC for improved lategame enjoyment. Finally, a car that you can throw at a wall and won't disintegrate!

• Easy Retexturing: Also bundled with this mod is my baseline texture editor save file that has all the necessary layers equipped on it so that if you want to make any special changes to the Roamer's texture for whatever reason, it's almost a piece of cake! Just a heads up though, all textures here have been created using paint net[www.getpaint.net], and uses the .pdn file type. If you wanna change anything, you probably wanna first make sure you got that installed before moving on.

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Workshop ID: 3136045735
Mod ID: Roamer