Quote from ajp71 :

Lovely car, again I would say no to a quick spin but it can't touch the Eagle in my books.

For me it would be a toss-up between the two

Now back to road cars, where my interests lie, the ultimate Cobra has to be the 260 - fantastic ballance and more elegant than the brutish 427 (which was a 428 from the factory - big difference!). And thats coming from someone that likes brutish cars

Mini Se7en rocks! (also Mini Miglia, if they still do that for the budget racers ).

(nice skin BTW)

Quote from ajp71 :

^^I think the W154 is even more beautiful and a greater feat of engineering, not too picky though if you have any pre-war Merc GP cars kicking about

What about the shark-nose Ferrari?

Quote from JTbo :

Corvette is crap when talking about performance and handling, so we can forget those, they won't affect at all how car looks and C3 looks much better than C2 that is like sketch of C3, still was looking it's style.

So you prefer the one that looks like a wang on wheels to the one that looks like it rolled off a sci-fi B-movie set?

The Corvette is great when talking about performance and handling, if you could master driving a big block C2 around Riverside (with the cross ply tyres and drum brakes all round) then you could handle anything!

Nobodies said anything like a Westfield, Radical or Ariel Atom, which is surprising since they're the epitome of cars worth driving.

For those wanting a car that'll put hair on their chest - Hennesey Twin Turbo Viper, '85 Porsche 911 Turbo, '69 Plymouth Roadrunner 6-pack (400hp with drum brakes), Shelby Super Snake (or Daytona or 427 GT500 (none officially made)), '68 427 Chevrolet Corvette (or LT-1 Camaro), '69 Plymouth Hemi Barracuda, Aston Martin V8 Vantage ... and so on. Now those cars have balls.

(edit: Jensen Interceptor FF can go on the list too )

I'd love to get some of the peeps at Front-Runners.net or MoparUK.com to have a bash but they're usually too busy working on their cars, lol.

Considering how popular it is overseas, I'd go for the latter of the two Gotta be getting hard to come up with new ideas now though!

I liked the old series when they did taboggan vs. rallycar and rock climber vs. V8 Audi - I'd like to see more of that kind of racing

ah right, I was going by the 'Formula D' that I've seen on TV

I thought real drifters only used the front brakes (?)

Of course anyone who's got ntl/Virgin can watch Top Gear on on-demand for nout ... I caught up with the rest of the series on Saturday

Yes, Top Gear is turning into Blue Peter with bigger toys. Its entertaining but not informative any more ...

I've been on the gantry when this one's gone underneath - your feet get warm, so its definately one of the hottest cars out there ...



On an easy run it'll do the quarter mile in 5 seconds with a terminal speed of 280mph, so the performance is pretty good too Off the line the gantry sways about 6" back, from the blast of air ...

^ Has cracked 1000 miles on LFS
< Is working on two cars for competition
v Lives on planet Earth

(yeah, this is much better )

Thats a very simple skin, I'm sure you could do it yourself if you put your mind to it

Quote from March Hare :

A track done just for hill climb sounds stupid.

Yeah, good point, why am I even bothering to build a car to compete in hillclimb competitions, it wouldn't be fun or competitive to take part in that form of motorsport at all :chairs:

Quote from CSU1 :

More so the pad itself as it is the most combeersome uncomfortable piece of hardware I've put my hands on, also imo it is not in any way suited to driving games/sims.

I have long fingers, the original XBox 1 pad is the only gamepad that feels like it fits in my hands comfortably. It works nicely in LFS, the only problem I have is the springing is a bit too heavy for long races.

I tried the rFactor demo too, hated the menu system (very bling bling and slow for no good reason), and couldn't work out how to switch off the driver aids so I could give it a proper spin ... anyway, got LFS, thats enough game to keep me going for the next few years, lol.

No argument here, I'm not into open wheelers, just wanted to point out they shouldn't be excluded

Quote from Electrik Kar :

About the scariest modding I've seen recently is coming out of the Trackmania United game. People will just use every block in the box just because they can- it's nuts I tellsya! 95% of the tracks I've raced on so far are just terrible- no sense of flow, or economical design, most tracks don't make sense and you're left wondering where you're supposed to be going. I don't remember Trackmania being like this before- it's really bad.

Yes, but then making tracks is half of Trackmania; generally only good tracks get voted for, or get used on servers (at least the ones worth playing on).

Quote from ShannonN :

keep open wheel stuff on flat scalextrix type tracks and put real cars on the mountain.

The serious hillclimbers use open wheelers, often ex-F1 cars. Some of them manage to traverse corners that I couldn't with the Shelby on its lowest suspension height, and thats a road car!

Quote from Racer Y :

No. it just seems that every time I have bothered to look at the exchange rates for some reason, it always seems to be at about 2 to 1 i know it changes a bit, but i dunno just dumb luck on my part that it's 2 to 1 when I look it up. Like 4 years from now, I'll need to know the rates and it will be about 2 to 1. 15 years ago(?) I looked it up and it was 2 to 1. When I was in the 4th grade the subject came up for some reason and the teacher said.... 2 to 1. now in between all those times the rates can be whatever, the next time I'll need it, it'll be 2 to 1. Does that make sense?

I import car parts from the US on a regular basis, its hit 2 to 1 before, but not for a good while (like before Clinton).

Mislaid the pic from the new car, here's the old one - the Pro-comp is 1 1/2" bigger diameter, and the shift light is about 1" accross ... either way, much easier to make out at a glance than the regular LFS gauges ...

Fab! I have a red 1275GT and Yellow Mini scalextric in the loft

Quote from Racer Y :

The exchange rate between the dollar and the pound has always been about 2 to 1 for as long as I can remember.

Then you don't remember for long ... it only hit about $2 o £1 in January, not long ago it was $1.40 to £1. Sorry, but saying its expensive because of the exchange rate won't wash when console games cost $60 there anyway!

Yeah, at the mo I'm playing on the laptop on my lap, with my other half watching the TV or playing on pogo.com at the same time ...

I play LFS with the sound off, so have to keep an eye on the tach!

I've got a photo at home of the setup in my car, and the old one with a smaller dash-top tach ... I'll pop them up tonight