I (and anybody) can already take zoom calls in my car through regular old carplay, including while driving. Works great. It even is smart enough to give you the mute/unmute button handy in the split view with navigation.

They could be had with a V8 and AWD which is a pretty rare combination in a wagon. I seriously took a look into them when I needed a new daily, and if the interior wasn’t so horrendous I may have gotten one instead of the Audi A3 VR6 quattro I ended up with.

Wait where’s the VR6?

I mean, customization is great but only if we get a wide range of options of bodies and engines to start with. If we just have the option of putting a handful of common rally car engines in a handful of existing rally car bodies...it’s not really going to give that mad scientist feel.

Previous codemasters games have…

Mine would be a DeTomaso Pantera. Preferably a GT5 model. They look absolutely amazing, but were already kind of a mishmash of parts mechanically so I wouldn’t feel bad about replacing the old engine, suspension, and braking components with modern hardware the way I would an old Ferrari or Lambo.

I’m sure the fact that the C5 intakes all its air from *under* the front bumper works perfectly offroad and doesn’t cause any issues on dirt, gravel, or when going through water.

Not just you. The T.33 is a properly pretty thing

That’s....not how electric motors work, the front motor can’t send its power to the rear. Drift mode will just be disabling the front motor, leaving you with a 270kW/~360hp RWD car

That...sounds like a 90s video game’s interpretation of a minivan V6, just louder. Ick.

Some old bikes don’t work that way. My ‘84 Honda just had a switch you could put in one of three positions, left center or right. Center was off, no ability to push it in to cancel.

I think many cars have had that feature since at least the mid-00's. I know both my 07 Audi A3 and my 09 Corvette had it.

On the other hand, I feel like when EVs and autonomous vehicles are mainstream and objectively superior vehicles, all the new ICE cars left will be enthusiast vehicles where people are buying them for the experience. In that case they are much more likely to also want a manual transmission.

The people buying cars as…

Yeah, with the torque spec comment I was more thinking about the hypothetical center lock car trying to do this. If it had to be torqued to factory spec that could make it very difficult to get off, that’s usually like 400+ ft-lbs

I wonder if there are rules about how many lug-nuts you need to have to be eligible? And if they need to be torqued fully...wonder if anyone feels like modifying a mclaren or porsche with center lock wheels to give it a try...

More realistically, something small and rwd with a 4 lug pattern (AE86?) could probably work…

Golf GTI with DSG is a good choice for sure, that’s a fun transmission. Anything with a CVT is not.

Yeah, I really liked how the wing fit the body shape of the previous one, just didn’t like all the fake vents. If they could put just the top half of the rear of the old one on this one it would be perfect

Honestly? The front end and back half of the rear one with the top half of the back of the old one. This thing looks great except for the way the roofline/wing transition looks. The old one got that way better.

This is the correct call IMO - especially if you’re looking at a modified vehicle. The value of your race car may only be say 5k, but it would cost you 20 to build another one. Therefore you fix it unless it would cost more than 20 to fix.

You absolutely have more precise control over the car in other games than this one. Art of rally was built off the absolute drift engine, the cars are intended to be sliding all the time unlike most arcade games which give you a ton of grip. It takes a lot of getting used to but I’ve grown to really enjoy it.

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I love having the Esso Speedpass app on my phone, so that I can pay for fuel without needing to touch the keypad on the pump, put a card in, etc. It’s especially handy when I’m on my motorcycle so that I don’t have to dig my wallet out. If they can slickly integrate something like that into carplay so I can just hit a…