I’ve been too busy to play, but I’m looking forward to downloading this new pack and driving that Caddy.
Doors, seriously? 5 seconds?! God, that Mustang II was an awful car.
Also, I need to beat you at the Top Gear challenge. I got within .150 - I had you the whole race until the last two corners. You came inside, whereas I took the outer line with some drift. I lose too much speed through there.
I put a Class A '59 in the garage last night. Handles suprisingly well.
OK…
I just had the greatest glitch in history happen to me. The Forza server went nuts when I was bidding on a car. When I came back to bid my total credits was listed at 999,999,999. No, really.
I continued bidding and it remained at the high number. I’ll get back to you about the aftermath, but suffice it to say that if it sticks I’ll either be banned for glitching that I am not responsible for or you have the opportunity to ask me for any car your heart desires.
Additionally, I just got a SLR Stirling Moss for less than 130,000 credits. A million credit car. Apparently it’s not in high demand.
As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, my husband and I found that using the wireless wheel makes a HUGE difference. We were having trouble getting into driving with our thumbs on a little button…put a WHEEL in our hands and now we are in business! We are totally hooked on this game, both are doing careers but we also do a lot of racing each other with two AI opponents. The game comes up in conversation while driving on actual roads (“Look! I passed that guy with NO damage!”) (all in jest, of course…). We messed up and got the Xbox with the smallest memory capacity and that is hindering some things for us…how did we know we would get so hooked on this game???
Really, nobody wants a free car? That’s a shame.
I think I’m set for now. I’m still at level 31, and I don’t see anything that I need yet.
I’d like to say that I hate, hate, hate the “Chase a car through traffic on a twisty, narrow track” races in the world tour. The AI traffic cars intentionally block during those races, which is ridiculous; no one in a Golf is cutting off a GT40 on the Ring. That would lead to two dead drivers, quickly.
If the car hasn’t been claimed, I’ll take it
Ever since I got my real life '07 VW Rabbit (AKA a Mk. V Golf), I’ve been spending more time driving for fun out in the MeatWorld, the graphics are infinitely better, even though there’s no Rewind feature or Affinity discounts…
Added two more fun cars to the garage;
'72 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3, lightly upgraded, mainly suspension tweaks and stickier tires
'87 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am GTA, black, with black Turbo rims… yes, it’s as close as I could get to KITT, no red scanner bar on the front, though 
, heavily upgraded, all race mods, and twin turbos, pushing all that horsepower to the rear wheels, it’s a handful with the nannies off
Other than chasing pipe dreams of buying Unicorns in the Auction House I have more than I know what to do with. Everybody can have themselves a car (or two, or three). There are a couple of really high-priced cars that you need for achievements. Want them? Tell me what you want or need.
New release: the Top Gear May Car Pack. Included in the cars is an AMC Pacer. Being an avowed AMC fan, I got one and put it to work on the full Fujimi Kaido course.
Results? 11:54.8, by far the slowest car I have yet driven on the course. However, it has a character all its own. Who would expect great things from an overweight, underpowered fishbowl, anyway? good thing, too, because great things were not forthcoming. I might have just touched 50 in a flat on the uphill section. Mostly I was in the 30-40 range the whole time. Downhill, however, was fun. As wide as it is it has stability out the wazoo, and it gave a solid performance down low.
I’ll take it any time over the King Cobra.
As far as this pack goes, there is some debate whether or not it actually is free, as it says. The debate centers over the nature of the Season Pass and whether or not this one is included. We already got six packs, which is what the Season Pass is supposed to be good for. Also, it’s glitching when you attempt to download it through the Marketplace, asking for a ludicrous number of MS points. So, here’s what you do:
The pack comes automatically.
If it turns out that we do have to pay, I’ll do so willingly. I wanted the Pacer, and they provided. It’s worth it. Next up is the Porsche pack on the 22nd, and that we will have to pay for.
Doors, thanks for the info about grabbing the car pack.
I grabbed the pack and immediately started messing with the Pacer X.
Behold the 659-HP beast outrunning a Reventon and everything else in an S-class race! It’s an S-647 now, and that included an engine swap from the Javelin-AMX followed by every upgrade possible. She goes like stink and is stable in the twisty parts. She hits the rev limiter in 6th gear at 157 mph, so on loooon straightaways some of the more modern cars might catch up, but you can more than make up for that with the low-end acceleration.
And yes, I painted it yellow and tinted the windows yellow as well. Because if you’re going to get humiliated by a Pacer it’s even better when it’s yellow!
As it turns out, the pack is supposed to go for $7. I’ll pay it as soon as they get around to letting me pay it.
Agreed.
Yaay! More Gutless Wonders! 
Doors, you were right about the pacer, it may be slow, but it has character and handles great!
My time up Kaido B in the Pacer, first time I’ve driven it in the game, and of course with all nannies off, yes, even including ABS, was a thoroughly underwhelming 4:12, but it tracked well and felt solid, I will definitely add the “Mirthmobile” to my garage
Reviews in the Gutless Wonder thread
Mac, you have got to take my Class-B Smart up Kaido B. Just watch out for those hairpins, she tends to get airborne and not in a good way.
That Class-S Ford Transit is a hoot! How often do you see a van smoke Ford GTs?
That Toyota 2000GT Time Trial livery is my most ambitious yet! And my storefront is the only one selling 'em.
Lute, I took your modded Smart up Fuji B, what a handful it was! Making it faster majorly increased it’s propensity for ground looping, I think that the Smart is one of the rare cars in the game that simply CANNOT be improved, sure, you can make it faster in a straight line, but the fundamental chassis and handling flaws remain.
My nephew spent a few quality hours in the game on Saturday evening, worked his way up the ranks from level two to Level eight now, and even better, he did so with all the nannies except ABS turned off, we’re talking a nine year old driving in simulation mode, no traction control, no stability control, manual transmission, and with the in game music turned off, so he can listen to what the engine is telling him.
He started off in his front-drive Saab 99 that in a previous gaming session he had dropped in the V6 into, he was frustrated at how uncontrollable it was, so with my assistance, I talked him through some strategic upgrades, all I did was explained what the parts did and he chose what to do
First thing I had him do was put his original four cylinder engine back in, then try a lap, he saw the car was much more stable and controllable, but still had mushy suspension and body roll, he then put stickier rubber on it, upgraded the suspension, and installed race anti roll bars, the next race he was utterly amazed at how controllable the car had become, and actually won a few races with it
He realized that he should have tightened up the suspension and handling before putting in a bigger motor, the bigger motor was overpowering the stock chassis components
Then he began to wonder about how rear wheel drive cars handled compared to front wheel drive, so he switched over to his stock Mazda Miata, once he took a few practice laps in free play, and got the basics of the chassis dynamics down, he entered some more races, and absolutely slayed his opponents…
Lets just say he’s now a really big fan of rear wheel drive cars, and his Miata in particular, he’s finally getting good at basic power sliding too, when he went back to his Saab for a few races, the inherent under steering issues of the front wheel drive chassis really frustrated him.
since he loved the Miata so much, he decided to take his Lotus Élan Sprint out for a few free play laps, he loves that car even more than his Miata.
Even better, he’s starting to understand how some cars are “just right” in factory form, and how easy it is to wreck the chassis dynamics and balance with indiscriminate upgrades, while he does want to upgrade his Miata “a little bit”, he loves the character and dynamics of the Lotus élan so much that he wants to keep it in bone stock form, the only upgrade being grippier racing tires.
It does my heart good seeing him becoming a true petrol head thanks to the game, and it’s also making him appreciate true classic cars as well, he’s got the urge to add a new car to the garage, and his dilemma?
Does he want an Austin Healy 3000, a Jaguar E-type, or a TVR Sagaris?
I asked him “Logan, what car simply speaks to you, calls to you, makes you feel… Happy? Trust your feelings, you’ll know the right one”
His response?
“we’ll, I LOVE the Austin Healy’ I mean, it’s perfect, but it’s just too perfect, and I can’t see upgrading it, the E-Type is absolutely gorgeous and there is no angle that it doesn’t look good at, it’s just as perfect as the Healy, and I can’t see upgrading that either, but the TVR, that car is just wrong to begin with, it’s insane, so I couldn’t make it any worse, I think it would be a fun project car to tweak with, but I just LOVE that Austin Healy”
“so, what one do you want?”
“I can’t decide, my heart tells me to get the Healy, my brain tells me to get the TVR”
Logan, such is the dilemma of the petrol head, do you listen to your heart or your mind?…
I certainly don’t listen to my mind. If I did I wouldn’t be such a big fan of AMC, air-cooled Volkswagens, and other oddball stuff. It still annoys me a bit that they have all of these nondescript shitboxes available for purchase but can’t be bothered to put an original Beetle in the game. Who says that, really? That car would roll backwards at full throttle on Fujimi Kaido, yet I want one.
Also, MacTech, you never told me what car you wanted.
Doors, let me check, I’ll post you a PM for the car
I finally got my Mirthmobile fully upgraded, race spec everything, PI index of 660, supercharged and intercooled, and in full race kit, it’s a pretty darned good car, it doesn’t have the sheer unbridled lunacy of Little Crazy Horse, and it still feels a bit heavier than I’d like in the corners, but it has one thing lacking from LCH, stability…
LCH is always on the verge of going out of control, you really need to concentrate when behind the wheel, or much like the TVR’s, he’ll try to kill you, SuperMirthMobile is far more easygoing, dude…
So what you’re saying is that it’s not a thunderbolt of lightning, very very frightening…
Since this thread is active again I’ll use this opportunity to savage the Dodge Viper. It is/was a beautiful car in that macho sort of way, but (in the game) even after all the years of development the engine overpowers the car and the handling is crude. Not a single copy of the Viper is genuinely fun to drive. It’s work, all work. It’s bad enough that you have to grind out the races while working the Event List, but then you hit the Dodge manufacturer R3 races and it’s Vipers or nothing. Pure pain. I’ll not be driving the Viper ever again after this.