Alright… It’s decided. The name of our car… is Arm.

Time to take her home into her new parking space!








And with our Arm in its rightful place, we're back in the Azakawa living room. Some new stuff is here now that we’ve got our own car. Let's see what everything does.

First of, we have a racing helmet.


: Should I go to an amateur race?



What about the poster on the couch?


: Should I go to work?

Interesting. It looks like we have two job options - just like the first game. Security Guard we're familiar with, but I wonder what parking would entail?

The Super Famicom is also interactable now…





: Maybe I should play a game?



The journal next to the phone lets us save / load the game.

And there's the map on the wall. I'll get into that in a minute.

But, before we go any further, we need to install those tyres that we purchased. Let's select the Toolbox.


: I’ll go look at the car






Ah, we have a similar top down select your car view like ZeroChamp 2. Hopefully we can earn enough to get it as full as we did in that game.

Apparently our MX5 has the hard top. This was a OEM option and is super rare today. In fact, today, the value of a hard top is close to half the value of the car!





The mechanics interface is a big improvement over the last game. We have the Leperflesh chart and active tunes on the left, and the parts we have available and what is installed on the right.

No more needing to translate the parts list each time or accidently choosing slicks when we meant wet weather tyres!

Speaking of tyres, let's equip those Race Tyres we bought. The last game had to set up some story pretext to how Hiro could just work on his cars, but it seems Taro can just do it with no training.

Ok, We've got one last thing to look at, and that is the map:







This is a big, scrollable map that takes us around our area of Tokyo. Using the cursor we can select various places and Taro asks us if we want to go there.

The places are mostly the same as the items in the family room, i.e. car shop, work locations, amateur races at the docks, etc. It really does seem like they're shortcuts.

However there’s a set of shops in the bottom corner that have something different…





: Shall we go pick up some girls?



…I'll bet they'll all come running when we flex our new Arm.

What do you think Goons? What should we do next?