Okay. No more food related distractions. It's time for a rematch against Celine Dion!

Last time we were in Montreal, Hiro was professing his undying love for this ice princess, but was unable to perform when it counted.

Since then, we've got a number of new items and ice racing techniques that will hopefully give us an advantage.

If we're lucky, we can win her medal, if not her cold, icy heart.





: Oh, you’re here again.


: Did you bring a proper car today?



A proper car? I almost find that insulting. 


: Hmm, it looks like you have a car.


: Then I'll choose the car to ride with me today...


: Drive this MR2.



Ah, drat. Whilst certainly the most proper of proper cars, the MR2 really is not suited to ice races due to all the wheelspin. :(


: That's right.


: If you don't want to, that's fine. I won't do it.


: Okay, okay, I'll run with this.


: Well, first you'll fight against members of the Beautiful Women Corps.


: Get ready….



We’ll jump ahead here a bit, because we’ve been here before…

… We lose again…





:  Hohohoho


:  I’m the best in the world after all.


:  This should make you feel better too.


: (Damn, I'll have to endure this. If she gets upset, it'll be a pain later.)


:  I'm completely captivated by you. Please smile kindly and treat me well when I come here again.


:  Well, I guess that can't be helped. I'll think about it.



Ok enough of all this… It's the same as we experienced last time.  We simply can’t beat Celine with a mid-engined car!

This time around, we have to think harder… We know that we have to come with three cars to race Celine, and she gets to pick which one we drive.

Previously, I had assumed the pick was completely random. But, it's not. After several tries of different combinations, I realized that Celine always chooses the least suitable car for the race. 

If one of our cars is mid-engined or rear wheel drive, she'll pick that over our all wheel drive cars because she knows it won't perform well on the ice. In addition - she’ll look at the mods on the cars, and pick the one with the least mods. This invalidates the tactic we’ve used for the entire game which is to keep swapping the mods into the car we want to win the race.

Now, in my quest to feature every car in a video or race… I had intended this to be the Godzilla moment. The Monster Skyline GTR was going to rise out of the Montreal lake and devour Celine Dion once and for all. 

Annoyingly however, she is one step ahead of us... She won't let us have this moment, because she's too clever to let us choose the GT-R!

But! 

I had a fun idea. What if… we bought and tuned three Skyline GTRs and rocked up to Montreal?…





Which car you gonna choose now Celine!?

Sadly, I discovered that you can't actually do this. :( The game does not allow you to buy multiples of the same car...

So, back to the drawing board.  We could buy a bunch of parts for all of our cars - but I didn’t particularly want to spend a bunch of time in part-time jobs to buy the complete set of parts for three cars and never have to use them again.

This forced me to get clever. I didn’t actually need the best parts - as the NSX ice race taught us, we don't need high end power for ice races, we just need to tune the cars to best avoid traction loss…

So, I picked my three, already tuned AWD cars, the Galant, the Pulsar and the GTR, and split what parts I did have between them. 





I also went to the part store and bought several of the ‘cheap’ parts, namely the small turbos and intercoolers, and some four speed transmissions for each car in case they were picked for the race. 





Now, with three, lightly tuned AWD cars in tow, we head back to Celine Dion. 


: Hmm, it looks like you have a car. Then I'll choose which one to ride in with me today.






: Drive this GT-R.



:sickos:


The plan worked! When struck with deciding against several all wheel drive cars with various mods, she picked the one with the least mods…


....but it's the one that just so happened to have the most raw power…





And with our beast let loose, we blitz through her three ‘Beautiful Women Corps’





: That's pretty impressive.


: I'm working hard with the sole desire to run with you.


: Well done, next time I’ll run.


: I've been waiting for this…



Okay Goons, it's time. Time for us to finish Celine Dion, once and for all…