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This mod started when I was trying to find a way to make a smaller rover for landing on Duna. It strikes me that building rovers requires a crew capable part, which are all pretty big. So I thought to myself, I need a small off-road vehicle to land, AND to see the scale of the stock parts to reality check my impression. Then, looking around for a familiar, real-world vehicle, to use as a rover, I stumbled into realizing I could not pass up the opportunity to make a Rover rover. So, like most real world parts from mods, this is half scale. Because kerbals are (roughly) half human scale, most of the rocket parts are about half the scale they should be, and, well it needs to kinda fit in, and with the IVA overlay, it'd be nice if Kerbanauts didn't look like they'd stolen their mom's car. And well, it's smallish. Download from SpaceDock, http://spacedock.info/mod/602/KerbinRover%20Off-Road%20Vehicles Dev thread at Features; Hybrid generator/fuel cell powering a small battery system powering electric wheels. Two wheel types available, dual purpose road/off-road and dedicated off-road tires. Roof rack. It's useful, honest. Miniaturized spotlights. Handy for seeing where you're going. Versioning: X.Y.Z X: Changes to number of and which fully working vehicles are included. EG: I'll increment when I add a new rover. Y: Any changes that significantly affect any deployed vehicles. Caution to be applied moving from subversion to subversion if (and only if) vehicles using the parts are "In Flight". Z: Tweaks, bug fixes etc. Plans for next vehicles; I really want to do the Haglund Bandvagn 206, but there will be a slight delay as there's no module for tracked vehicles. Plus I'll need to look at KAS/InfernalR for articulation and decide what (if anything) will work. So, although it's my favourite for next-to-work-on, it won't be the next released. (The Bandvagn is a low centre of gravity dual box on tracks that floats, is sealed, and is generally used by every country that has to deal with really cold horrible conditions.) APC: I want to add in a modern style APC like the Russian BTR range or any of the others that look very similar. I'm thinking an 8x8 amphibious sealed vehicle. I'll probably do an original and light-weight variant. The mil spec APC would be a lot more solid, but a lot heavier than anything built for space. So I'll do that second version without the armour, and provide some waffle about lightweight construction etc. This will mean two wheel variants as well. APC wheels are often solid. AWD car. I really want to make a GTR or WRX type AWD coupe type thing just for contrast. But experience with ground edges and smaller wheels is suggesting this might not be a good idea. Also, KSP hates close wheel arches due to wheel colliders liking lots of elbow room. So this may not be possible. Which would lead me to a 1930's style open-wheeler racing car with KSPification. A dedicated, probably invented from scratch, extra-planetary rover. And, taking suggestions.