Haha, that last line and my taste for computer racing games sounds spookily like my hand in life.

I really liked that. Hated the way it drove, though. It was even more anaemicthan the 1.2 Corsa my wife bought.

I've always liked them anyway, but that top moves it into near untouchable status. What a fantastic addition.

Lol what? If you put a relatively modest petrol four in fourth and accelerate, it will pull with linearity. Try that in a modest diesel - I’ve sampled both VW’s 2.0 and GM Europe’s 2.0 and they judder as if to stall. Then you wait for the turbo to spool and it makes a mockery of peak torque figures at sub-2000 rpm.…

For all their torque, diesels are absolutely rubbish at low revs in fourth or higher, waiting for their turbo to spool again. If you’re not ready with the gear change, you could be driving a sub-1.0 petrol.

Eh, I played EA’s UFC purely as a boxer and built my heavyweight exactly so. First round KOs are pretty sweet, in a discipline I don't actually enjoy watching or playing. I was playing it thanks to EA Access, but I just wish they'd made a next-gen Fight Night.

They sit in McDonalds car parks here, despite some amazing moorland being 10 minutes away that would be fun to actually drive on.

I don’t think any part will be stamped Vauxhall. Under most grille badges, is the Opel Blitzen template moulded into the plastic and the Vauxhall roundel mounts on top of that. Individual parts will likely just have the GM logo on them.

The 86 looks at its best as is, unadorned by lips and wings etc.

A Road Rash reboot as one of these smaller release would be superb. That game series is ripe for a modern update, but with the old mechanics. It was near perfect on the Mega Drive.

Anything that reminds me of Hot Rod is good by me.

That was my first thought seeing as the footage is green and all.

The Corsa D is no better in most of those regards!

Your Martini looks better than my effort. I did it better on FM5 and was narked that they weren't transferable like FM4 to Horizon.

I drive the cars realistically, as I would given the opportunity IRL. They don't feel that arcadey then and in fact most satisfying.

A car you can wring out every last ounce of power and therefore let it breathe is preferable to silly amounts you can't unleash. Whilst I still drive a car with 125bhp, I'd defend that to the death!

I started with Querataro in Be A Pro, with latest squads and he isn't there :(

I think that is possibly the most narrative photo ever taken. Man rolls car, man gets in a hump at said accident and drinks a beer ASAP.

Now that sounds like a modern BMW I could get behind. I really liked the E90 320si because it was different to the mainline models, and the car you describe would be, too.

I still find it odd that it doesn’t have a graphics package and for that I just can’t love it. Even in Forza, I make my Rufs into RS with the decals and coloured parts.