GT Sport’s sounds are light years ahead of any previous GT title, so GT7 will probably have the sound department handled well now that Polyphony Digital actually understands what a car sounds like. Camera angles... well, not sure what you mean there but the only view to properly use is cockpit and GT Sport allowed…

I’d say be a little weary as to what will come out of Codemasters now that EA owns them. EA did state they very much intend for Codemasters to continue as they have as an independent publisher, but ultimately they’ll be at the mercy of EA and I’m guessing that EA wholly expects everything that comes out of Codemasters…

Well buildings are not very effective noise barriers. In many cases buildings have a tendency to increase nearby sound propagation, and while things like vehicles and the land itself can often be designed to assist with sound propagation buildings most of the time are not. They’re not designed for any sort of noise…

I remember when Chrysler showcased the Firepower, which is one of my favorite concept cars of all time. A Viper chassis, utilizing a full Chrysler Hemi drivetrain, wearing a suit, and likely would have been equipped with the automatic used in the then circa 300c/Magnum. The model would have probably taken a pretty…

2) Good Years are only in the top tier for old men that ‘member the good ‘ole days of Good Year Eagle billboard tires plastered to every race car because we didn’t know any better. Modern Good Years are maybe mid-tier at absolute best, and at their worst are no better than really good off-brands. The second you get…

JD isn’t the only one but where they have advantages over other marques is their dealership and service network; possibly some irony considering the topic of this post. JD is just much more well-equipped for the farm industry compared to anywhere else in the game.

You may, but many potential buyers don’t have that luxury. There’s not an authorized Tesla service center in my entire state. On the other hand I have four Chevrolet dealers within a forty mile radius.

They’re exceptionally nationalistic, to the point that the term ‘immigration’ is often openly avoided in political discourse. Right-wing nationalism has a strong presence there and while you may read stories of how well tourists and such are treated not many Japanese want someone foreign living near them unless…

Is it weird for what was once a really viral video in twenty year’s time it only has a little over 2.6 million views on Newgrounds? There are budding YouTubers that have way more views than that on year old videos they’ve uploaded. I remember quite well the internet world in the 1990s and it’s nothing like it is today,…

This has been absolutely my entire problem with bitcoin and crypto. I invest near every extra penny I make into something - mostly low risk or fairly safe investments that don’t yield hardcore ROIs. However if I invest in a crypto it doesn’t actually function like cash whatsoever. Cash and similar money markets are 100…

lol complain on Jalopnik about Jalop writer writing about Jalop stuff. If I give you five dollars will you be upset it’s a five instead of five ones?

You can very much get a loan for a $140K vehicle. You can get a loan for a $500K vehicle.

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What I always like about seeing old cars in Japan is you don’t even have to explicitly say how long he’s owned the 2000 GT because you can tell by it’s license plate. If you can see the prefecture and the series you can roughly deduce how long someone has owned the car.

It’s completely counter-intuitive to what it’s supposed to be; it’s a preserved work truck. Think about how many many variations of full sized trucks have been built. No one bought one and held onto it. They would have been immediately put to work.

For those that haven’t been to Japan, one of the biggest issues places like this face aside from being arcades is their locations are not very versatile. Here in say the US if your arcade business was failing you could easily get a beer and liquor license and repurpose yourself as a bar-cade or similar. Those sort of…

This car was originally called the C8 Supernatural by Callaway.

That was cool (huh huuh huh).

When Super Monaco GP, the original, first came to arcades there were banners present with ‘Marlbobo’ and ‘Hoster’s’. There was a really big stink thrown up, as at speed - the original arcade game moved REALLY fast - they appeared to read Marlboro and Foster’s. SEGA was forced to update the game after being sued by Phil…

Keep in mind that in the later 80s/early 90s Japan went through a MASSIVE F1 boom. No doubt was F1 as popular anywhere as it was in Japan during that point other than maybe somewhere like Brazil with Senna. There was a lot of money coming out of Japan and it often found it’s way to mega sponsors and all the seemingly…