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

Comments

[bigevilogre.livejournal.com]

Ever try Midnight Club DUB edition? Now, it's NOT a simulation, but it is a lot of fun. (But I'm biased because I can actually REPLICATE my Camaro in it right down to the side pipes. If I was allowed to put one more graphic it would be identical.)
But the Camaro in the game is surprisingly like mine in acceleration. Right down to pulling one of the front tires off the ground with the acceleration (Mine is ALMOST able to, I just can't get enough traction for that kind of OOOMPH.)
But they have your Audi and a few others, Rambogeenies and Purrrarris....

[mr-squiddle.livejournal.com]

I'll hold out for the Mach 5.

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