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Is there anybody but me that wants to encorporate the famous Pikes Peak hillclimb in the comming GT5? It would be cool with the improved graphics of PS3 because the hight of the mountain is stunning.

If there will be Pikes Peak Hillclimb in the new game, I'd love to drive the old Group-B rallycars and Supertuned Hillclimb specials up the mountain. Like the Saab 9-3 Viggen and the Audi Quattro S1 Pikes Peak(my favorite car) :)
 
Definately. I miss Pikes Pike from GT2. Besides, it will finally give the Escuso somewhre to race where it isn't too powerful for its own good.
 
Yep I'd love to see that track return, ideally in full lenth form.

I'd also like to see other hill climbs both on and off road and some general point to point rally tracks perhaps as well.
 
Hill Climb's like Pikes Peak would be Awesome to see and would also make a good Drift Course I think. Also what about some MT. Passes from Japan so that could be a Rally, Hill Climb, and Drift all in one track depending on how you setup the Car and what Car you use. It would be fun to see how everyone would drive the Course's.
 
Why do they always have to be from Japan. Does Initial D really mean that much to people. on't get me wrong, I'm not criticising, but Japan isn't the only place you'll find mountain raods, and great ones at that.
 
I don't guess that HAS to be only from Japan, but I think the Japanese have a bit better publicity. Blame Initial D, or blame some lack of publicity. If you know of some great Uphill/Downhill roads, get the word out!

who knows, PD might give that road some publicity of it's own.
 
What does publicity have to do with a road that goes up, down or round a mountain. You do know that they exist outside of Japan, it'd be pretty damn narrow minded not to.
 
yes, but I couldn't name one of them. that's the problem. there are passes outside of Japan, everyone knows that, they just don't know their names.
 
No ones named a specific road from Japan in here "some MT. Passes from Japan" is not naming a road. I couldn't name any roads from Japan but I do know about the Dragons Tail in the USA and the Cat and fiddle and the Snakes pass in England. The Llyn Brianne & Devil's Staircase in Wales and The Ardèche in France amongst others.
 
See, I haven't heard of those, however, Haruna, Akagi, and Miyogi all easily come to mind.

My point is, people aren't going to suggest things that they don't know specific examples of.
 
There is many mountain passes here in Croatia,and also narrow roads,but problem is that quality of the asphalt isn't as good as it is in Japan.That's why japanese mountain roads are good in compare to other mountain roads,beacuse of quality of the asphalt IMHO!
 
Since when did the asphalt quality stop guys from going fast? Ever seen WRC?

((There's another idea, Tarmac WRC stages.))
 
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See, I haven't heard of those, however, Haruna, Akagi, and Miyogi all easily come to mind.

My point is, people aren't going to suggest things that they don't know specific examples of.
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Don't get me worng, if that's what you know then fine it's not much different that saying I'd like Bahurst or Brands hatch in. But as I said, no one had said any specific roads or route names then. Just saying "MT. roads from Japan" is not naming roads, it just strikes me as odd that people will let something influence them to such a degree that they'll completely overlook the fact that there is just a possiblity that there might be some great driving roads in other places too.
 
live4speed
Don't get me worng, if that's what you know then fine it's not much different that saying I'd like Bahurst or Brands hatch in. But as I said, no one had said any specific roads or route names then. Just saying "MT. roads from Japan" is not naming roads, it just strikes me as odd that people will let something influence them to such a degree that they'll completely overlook the fact that there is just a possiblity that there might be some great driving roads in other places too.
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Maybe they're not overlooking. Perhaps they just figure you know about other roads.

I'll agree, that's a little vauge, and a bit insensitive, but I really don't think people mean to annoy you by it.

BACK. on topic.

I've always said, "The More the Merrier." I'd like to see some linear courses in GT5, not just Hillclimbs, or Touges, but some other stuff, too.
 
There are some great windy mountain roads in Colorado that would be fun, some of those have a speed limit of around 30mph and nothing but a metal railing and one foot of mountain seperating your car from a 400' dropoff. Since GT5 wouldn't have traffic, allowing you to utilize both lanes, you could go screaming around some of those roads in an Elise with the top down.
Now that would be fun... :trouble:
 
Perhaps they could also include the future version of Pikes Peak. It is going to be fully paved sometime.
 
Yeah, I heard about that. Itt'l change the nature of the races up there, for sure...
 
It'll change the nature of the cars that compete as well, depending on how smooth the paving is you might even see some proper GT cars having a go.
 
Yeah, they are paving it because it is "too dangerous". Hah, with a paved road the cars are going to be going even faster.
 
Yeah can you imagine derestricted DBR9's and C6R's rnning up there packing 8-900bhp.
 
Could you imagine Rod Millen getting out the Tacoma again, this time on slicks... :crazy: :nervous: :scared:

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I couldn't imagine why they wouldn't be able to reproduce the climb as accurately as they did the Nurb', afterall a lot of the 'background' would be sky... both courses are approximately the same length at 20km's

The could always 'future proof' it and have both the dirt and future asphault versions...
 
Im sorry that I left out MT. Roads from other Countrys and America. Im sorry
that Japan was he first place that jump in my head and not any other roads
like in Canada, China, Iraq, and I left you this time im Sorry but I like
Drifting and as I think you all know that it is the Birth Place of Drifting.
 
chrishardcore1
Im sorry that I left out MT. Roads from other Countrys and America. Im sorry
that Japan was he first place that jump in my head and not any other roads
like in Canada, China, Iraq, and I left you this time im Sorry but I like
Drifting and as I think you all know that it is the Birth Place of Drifting.
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Birthplace of drifting, eh? Are you referring specifically to the sport of competitive drifting, as seen in D1GP and other series? Or are you simply referring to the concept of controlled oversteer?

I hope you're talking about the sport, because claiming that the Japanese invented drifting is like saying that Christopher Columbus invented North America.
 
Even then wouldn't drifting in motorpsort have started in America in the early oval racing scene.


Chris don't worry about it, there's a saying about being difficult for the sake of ;).
 
About the the Birth Place thing I was talking about that they invented
drifting as drifting. Meaning that they were the one to put name on it and
while I know that Sprints & Midgets Late Models have been sliding around dirt
ovals across America for meny meny meny years now but thats on dirt not
roads like the D1 & Formula Drift and like they did in the MT's in Japan.
 
As a sport then it probably originated in Japan, I don't know my history of drifting, but it seems commonly accepted that the sport did start in Japan.
 
Yes to hillclimb. I would even go a little further and say I would like to have street hill climbs in GT5. But first bring back Pikes Peak up and downhill section. :dopey:
 
live4speed
Yeah can you imagine derestricted DBR9's and C6R's rnning up there packing 8-900bhp.
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Forget the GT1s, what about an Audi R10?! All that diesel torque will be perfect, and the downforce should help keep it from taking flight off the side of the mountain.
 
I don't know the cons of running a diesel at high altitude would be, the torque would be great, but I don't know how fast it will lose that as it goes up the hill. You have to remember that a 900bhp petrol car will only have about 400bhp by the time it get's to the top of the Pikes Peak, the higher you are the thinner the air is, the less air gets into the engine, the less powerful the engine performs. The Suzuki Aerio (their latest Pikes Peak car) uses the same enigine as the later Escudo's used producing at sea level, around 990bhp, at the top ot was under 500bhp.
 

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