Ok! With the monster GTi-R in our hands, we're absolutely smashing our way through the rest of the grid.
This looks like a 1950’s Corvette…
It should have stayed in the 1950’s, and steered clear of the race track, because it has nothing on Sunny!
This one is interesting. It looks like a 1950’s race car, with the single seat driver, something like the old Mercedes F1 cars. It takes steel balls to drive a car like this, because the slightest mistake will kill you.
However, this guys’ time was up anyway as we absolutely slaughtered him.
This looks like a 1960’s Ferrari 250 GTO. He must have spent a lot of money kitting out that thing, only to lose to a Japanese nugget!
Now, we're this was the supposed highest tier for the regular races. Pretty sure it’s a BMW M3. The artists did a great job of capturing the iridescent paint that BMW is so good at, given the limited colour palette.
But they needn’t need to put in all that effort, really, because we only get to see it in our rear view mirror!
As you guys noticed earlier, we’re clearing 10 seconds. That’s faster than we ever did in the first game, and we haven’t even gotten the bigger turbo or the hyper charger or other mods!
...Nothing here can stop us.
As an interesting aside, notice something about these cars above, and those we’ve battled previously thus far?
The vast majority of them, (with a couple of exceptions) have been European, not American…
I went into this expecting Chargers, Mustangs, Firebirds, Camaro’s etc. Y'know... Good Ol’ boy American Muscle. But instead we’re getting Mercs, Porches, Ferraris, BMWs… we even got a VDub Beetle!
Just felt a little strange, especially since the premise of this game is Hiro proving that Japanese cars are better than American ones.
I wondered if this reflects the Japanese developers' taste / knowledge about cars. European cars are big over there, and there’s a big import market for them. Also, if they’re writing a game about how Japanese cars are better than American ones, perhaps there's some bias in there with what they’re going to pick.
Anyway, now I think we’ve proven ourselves. We can finally select the last option in the list. Challenge!
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Alright, let’s challenge that guy Sting!
...Sting? Who’s Sting?
Oh, I think this must be referring to that asshole burger from the intro.
... We’re finally doing it. We’re going to prove who is the best, Japan or America!