Bobcat T870 for BeamNG.drive
Most BeamNG mods are another car or another truck—the Bobcat T870 is neither. It’s a compact track loader, the short, squat machine you see crawling around construction sites, and it’s here for worksite roleplay, slow terrain testing, and sandbox scene-building rather than lap times. Drop it next to trucks, trailers, dirt piles, and roadwork props, and it instantly makes an industrial scene look believable. It ships with a single configuration, so there’s nothing to sort through—pick it and go.
How it handles
Think slow and deliberate. The T870 lives in dirt yards, loading zones, slopes, and bumpy off-road ground, and its compact body slips into tight spots where a full-size rig would never fit. It’s not built for highways or high-speed stability, and it’ll let you know if you snap the steering on uneven terrain—smooth, patient inputs keep it predictable. That makes it a neat little testbed for low-speed traction and how a short-wheelbase machine reacts to rough ground.
Detail and use
The loader-style shape gives it a clear construction identity that reads well in screenshots and roleplay setups, and there’s an unusual working racing seat tucked in as a gameplay extra. Treat it as a compact utility machine for creative sandbox scenes rather than a full heavy-equipment simulator, and it earns its place in the garage. The short body also makes low-speed bumps, rollovers, and worksite collisions easy to study.
Installing is simple: drop the .zip straight into your BeamNG.drive mods folder — don’t unzip it — and it appears in the in-game selector. New to mods? Our BeamNG.drive installation guide walks through every step.
🔧 Our Test Notes
Hands-on notes from the CrashMods team
There's a small adjustment period here, and it's worth naming up front: snap the steering on uneven ground and the T870 will let you know about it, so give it slow, deliberate inputs for the first few minutes and it settles into something very predictable. Once we did, we stopped treating it like a vehicle and started treating it like a scene-builder with physics, which is where it shines. Parked among trailers and dirt piles, it makes the whole setup read as a working site, and the compact body squeezes into corners a full-size rig can't reach. It's also a surprisingly useful low-speed testbed for watching how a short-wheelbase machine copes with rough ground, bumps, and rollovers included. One configuration, no menu digging, and yes, the working racing seat made us laugh. Tested on BeamNG 0.38.
