Wednesday, November 30, 2005


Car Stuff: On the complete opposite side of the scale from the Prius, we have the Aston Martin DB9. I don't need to try to be nice to this. I absolutly love it. It's rather expensive, about 200k, but worth every penny. It's fast. 0-60 is taken care of in about 4 seconds, and topend you'll be doin 190 mph. It's well made, I don't have a good example on this one, but it's beautiful inside and out. Oh, the starter button is made of pure crystal. The V12 makes an awsome noise, and the transmission is absolutly ingenious. It's a "6 speed automatic with manual paddle override. So when you want to have a play, you just use the paddles mounted on the steering column, and when you don't, just push "D", and it becomes a normal automatic.
Google image the name to see a true masterpiece.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Review #2: Need For Speed Most Wanted;
I've played most of the "Need For Speed" games. I've liked them too. Now there's a new one.

I bought it because I knew it would be good, and when it was installing it I set my expectations high. They however...were blown to tiny little bits by this one. It's really a nice combo of them all. You've got the nice exotic supercar kind of thing, as well as some of the Japanese tuners from the Undergrounds. You've also got idividual body kits for all of the cars, they actually look right, no matter what. Along-side these are the traditional performance mods that we're familiar with. Plenty of cars too. Everything from the familiar Lexus IS300 to the famed Lamborghini Merciologo. It's sort of got the style from Underground 2. There's a big city to run around and play in. It's fill with cops though, in case you're interested. Don't panic. I've met smarter hunks of cheese. Don't quote me on that one though, because I'm not very far into the game, and I did meet a couple of smart cops. Like Underground 2, there are various races scattered through the city, but that's not what it's all about. There we find the "Blacklist". It's full of racers (duh) and when they think you've earned it, you race them. The goal is to get to the top and get back at someone who did bad stuff to you, wouldn't want to ruin the suprise. When you defeat someone on the list you get to pick two markers, one for a uniqe upgrade, and one from the guy you just humiliated. You've got a choice of three, and one is the pink slip for his (or her) ride. Note to EA; We want free run in quick race mode!!!


despite that it's definitly worth buying, 5 stars
Great screenshots at http://cube.ign.com/articles/660/660273p1.html. Check it out!

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Car Stuff:
When I started this blog I had hoped to be posting pretty often, if you've been looking at it for a while you'll know that that hasn't happened, so I'll start talking about car stuff. I'm gonna try to post this kind of thing like I thought I'd be able to when I first started. It will mostly by my favorite and least favorite cars. Car #1:Toyota Prius. I'll try to be nice to this thing, but no guarantees. I hate it. Why? It's slow, 0-60 take 13.5 seconds and it only hit 99mph, you couldn't even use it to deliver milk, because by the end of your run you'd be delivering cheese. It's not really green, on a route where it did 45 mpg, a Volkswagon Lupo diesel did 75. It's cheaply built, in order to stop the center console lid from rattling they've put on a little piece of advesive foam. And its ugly enough to make small children feel sick. Oh, it's not cheap either It starts at about 21k, you can get a very well equipped Toyota Corrolla for 19k, and it does 41 mpg! So, in short, if you buy one of these things you end up with a painfully slow, excruciatingly ugly, cheaply built, expensive, not terribly green, and therefore pointless way of moving around.


* image courtsey of ALLCARIMAGES.com