In many respects, FERRARI F355 CHALLENGE is still my favourite racing game (I own it on both Dreamcast and PS2) and I imagine it to be still one of the most accurate Ferrari racing simulators in terms of handling (it's still tough as nails to drive). I still think the graphics are impressive, except for the tree…

Beat me to it. I thought there was a JAL plane with a K-ON! livery (based on a manga/anime series about girls in a high school music club), but it must have been a Photoshop, so any of the Pokémon liveries would be my choice as well.

Montreal may have the Formula 1 (usually), but the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit is out on a manmade island. I'd love to see a race around Montreal's most-striking natural aspect, Mount Royal, via Cote-des-Neiges, Pine, Park, and the Camillien-Houde Parkway. Especially in autumn, though we're already about two weeks too…

Eh, I'm a old-fashioned loner who only plays console games offline and I'm such a luddite that I don't even have my XBox 360 hooked up to the Internet, so the whole concept of DLC is just gee-whiz Amazing Future guys-wearing-jetpacks sci-fi fantasy talk that's completely moot to me. I'll be content with the cars…

The RCMP already has at least one new Ford Police Interceptor on Parliament Hill, though I've only seen it from the bus so far & it's in the secure police parking area by the time I get off the bus and I'm too paranoid to take a photo through the fence there.

Things like people who boast about their videogame lap times make me glad I'm a luddite who only plays racing games on my XBox 360/PS2/Dreamcast offline against the CPU.

You can only rent silver cars? That'll drive the guy on Youtube who thinks the government is placing silver cars on the road to "gang stalk" him even more batty than he already is. (As featured on Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-unhealthy-mentalities-internet-turned-into-movements_p2/ )

Time to get your crayons and your pencils!

I'm the same as you, I got into anime big time in 1994, renting a few US Manga Corps/CPM videos from my local video store, then went to a Montreal comic book convention that had a room playing VHS fansubs of anime OVAs like GUNDAM 00083: STARDUST MEMORY, ALL-PURPOSE CULTURAL CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU, and TENCHI MUYO:…

I've loved open world driving games since 'VETTE and TEST DRIVE III: THE PASSION on the PC over 2 decades ago and FORZA HORIZON looks to be the best one ever made (probably until the next generation of consoles). I'm absolutely neutral on the "Horizon Music Festival" centerpiece as I don't care for plot in my driving…

I saw a Ferrari 412 at the Ottawa Ferrari Festival in 2009 in the exact same shade of blue. Love that colour on a Ferrari, so I'd take the Ferrari 400 easily. I know the maintenance costs would be much higher, but, realistically, I'm not about to have even $25K to spend on a car so we're all talking imaginary money…

Depends on the racing game. Usually, games that are on the sim-mier side of console racers are better with no music, but a total arcade racer like OUT RUN wouldn't be the same without the music.

Auto equivalent: second generation Mitsubishi Eclipse. Alpha's model number is A7M2, which is also the name of the 2nd generation prototype of the Mitsubishi A7M Reppu (codename "Sam") Japanese fighter plane that was intended to be the replacement for the Zero. As such, it's only natural to assign Alpha a Mitsubishi…

Alpha Hatsuseno from the sadly never-licensed-in-English manga YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU (Yokohama Shopping Log), a manga about an android girl who runs a lonely café on the outskirts of what was once Yokohama decades after some never-fully-specified apocalypse, when much of coastal Japan has sunk below the rising…

Not too interesting a reply, but I'd buy a Ferrari Testarossa, a Ferrari F355 GTB, and if I had enough money left over, a Ferrari 308 or 328 GTB. GTB because I prefer hardtops & they tend to cost less used than convertibles or targas. Also, only the Testarossa would be red, the other two would be less desirable…

"To me, none can compare to this little Group C racer of indeterminate origin. A friend gave it to me years ago (that or I stole it, I can't remember). I never grew up with toy cars and I'm not a miniatures person, but I love this little blue thing to death."

When I was a kid, I had a larger-scale (probably 1/43, though it may have even been 1/32) Matchbox Ford Model T (?) vintage BP tanker truck that my grandmother gave me. Unfortunately, I lost most of my childhood toy car collection when I moved to Ottawa from the Montreal area back in 2004. :-/

The hind quarters of the Matchbox Ferrari Testarossa (left) captures the width of the actual car much better than the Hot Wheels version of the Testarossa (right).

Older, pre-Mattel, Matchbox: I don't have that many. Here's a Ferrari Testarossa I got from a $2 used toy car grab bag from Value Village.

I'll limit this to just Matchbox, even though, yes, I read the article and saw it's really open to any 1/64 (or similar scale) toy car brand.