Faviroute touring car

[Ash3rs]

choose ur fave touring car from GT3

 

[ving]

go astra go!!!

 

[ving]

tho i like the high pitch whine from the calibra too

 

[Ash3rs]

i like the astra but the xr8 has won my affection

 

[BadBatsuMaru]

The Astra's the best car that actually has Touring Car in the name, and the best looking one, too. "Genau mein Ding" is a rather odd thing to have written on the back of the car, though. For some reason it makes me think the car belongs to some kind of pervert.

The Impreza LM looks a lot like an ugly version of the Astra. It's the fastest one of the bunch, but if you're going to include LM cars, I'd have to go with the FTO.

 

[Solid Lifters]

I picked the Opel Calibra. It is the most fun and best sounding car on your list.

If I remember correctly, and I usually don't, this car was misspelled in the NTSC version of GT3.

 

[Tazio]

Yeah, the Calibra is my favorite too.

In the game version that I have, NTSC Greatest Hits I think, it is spelled both correctly and incorrectly. It depends on which screen you are looking; Garage, starting grid, replay, etc. Of course, this is assuming that I'm correct that it is spelled: Calibra. Sometimes, in my game, it's spelled: Caribra

 

[Famine]

Japanese-English translation error, I'm afraid.

The Japanese execs write it down in katakana, some know-nothing-about-cars-numpty translates it, no-one picks up on it. "Calibra" in Japanese would be written, in Katakana then Romanised back to, "Karibra". It's spelled properly in the garage, but the car file on the disc, and any race-situations where it's displayed (results, grid, "pitting in") it's spelled "Caribra" in all versions.

A similar thing happened for real with the Mitsubishi Starion - Mitsubishi execs wanted an animal name. Chrysler chiefs heard them say "Starion" and didn't use their brains...

BBM "Genau Mein Ding" translates to "Exactly My Thing". Which it isn't...

 

[Tazio]

So is this where the "fly lice" thing comes from?

 

[eddieturner2002]

calibra......the 18,000 rpms redline sounds awesome

 

[Famine]

Originally posted by Tazio
So is this where the "fly lice" thing comes from?

Kind of... I accidentally Nobbied my Japanese teacher once with this. The Japanese sometimes use "counters" - suffixes indicating the kind of object being counted. Mai is for flat things (ichimai, nimai, sanmai), pon/hon/bon is for things like bottles (ippon, nihon, sambon)... We were being quizzed on the counters and she asked what the -bon counter was for, and I said "cylindrical things"... We were there for an hour while she tried to say it... I felt so bad...

Lethal Weapon 4:
"And "Flied Lice", is "Fried Rice", you plick!" - Uncle Bennie...

 

[BadBatsuMaru]

Originally posted by Famine
BBM "Genau Mein Ding" translates to "Exactly My Thing". Which it isn't...

Yeah, I know. Something about that just sounds creepy.

My favorite Engrish story: In the 50's, Douglas MacArthur was rumored to be running for President of the US. Japanese supporters put an enormous banner up that covered the entire 5th floor of a Ginza office building in Tokyo that read "WE PRAY FOR MACARTHUR'S ERECTION."

BTW, there is some hilarious stuff at Engrish.com .

I got a minor in Japanese -- Took 3 years of it from a crazy little woman who must've drank a full pot of coffee by 7am the way she jumped around in class. Katakana has gotten pretty creative in modern times with many words that are virtually unprouncable by Japanese people. Spelling Calibra "Caribra" is such a cliche mistake.

 

[Tazio]

Did you ever see the movie "The Corruptor"? He's Uncle Bennie in that movie too.

I thought that maybe this character jumps from movie to movie, & they just finally killed him in Lethal Weapon 4. But no! He dies in both movies. Maybe he's like Kenny in South Park.

"Oh my god! They killed Bennie! You B*stards!"

 

[VIPFREAK]

I like the astra but when I got it I was dissappointed in the handling.

Nick