Ol' Butt-Slider

[zrath]

Warning: racing videogame and automotive blather.

So I've been playing a lot of "Need For Speed: Most Wanted" on the PS2.
My current cars are a nearly maxed-out Renault Clio V6 (yes, a French car), and a Lamborghini Murciélago.
The Renault reminds me of the maxed-out VW Golf W32 that was my first car in "Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix":
it's ultra-grippy, loves to be thrown into turns, and is just all-around fun to drive.
But it doesn't have the top end needed to win certain races.
The Lambo is a beast compared to the Renault and V-Dub.
It's grippy, but it accelerates like a mag-lev train and growls fiercely while doing so.
I can't even imagine what the Ford GT and McLaren Mercedes will be like once I unlock and buy them.
Before the Lambo, I had won the pink slip to some poor racer's Porsche Cayman S.
And when I drove it for the first time, everything I ever read in Car And Driver about the Porsches being tail-happy came back to me.
The Cayman looked for any excuse to get sideways. It was worse than the Dodge Viper.
It was kinda fun at first, but I'm not a big fan of drifting, so I had to sell it.
I bought an Aston-Martin DB8 but it turned out to be heavy and not too grippy.
The Lambo is definitely more appropriate to the job.

The new issue of Car And Driver has a 5-way comparo between famous Hollywood cars:
DeLorean (you know), Ford Gran Torino ("Husky And Starch"), Ford Falcon Interceptor ("Road Warrior"), Batmobile (Adam West version), and Dodge Charger (yeeeeee haw!!).
It's a goofy fun read.

The magazine also pits the Audi R8 (my icon, bottom car) versus the Aston-Martin V-8 Vantage versus the Porsche 911 Turbo, and yes, they complain about the Porsche being tail-happy. Some things never change. :)
I really dig the Audi R8, and if I had a hundred grand to toss at a car (and if I fit in it), I'd get one.
After all, it's $990,000 cheaper than the Bugatti Veyron!! :D