I walked R246!

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man, thats sweet! i had no idea it was real! it mustv been so weird walking that route. iv only ever been to paris and i have no idea if they courses are acurate, maybe some parts.

anyway, i think someone said this but imagine how cool it would be to drive route 246! Although, id get carried away and get stopped by the police very fast :sly:
 
Not sure if I should start a new thread for this or not, here are some pics I took when I walked around the HK track.






Sorry for the large size.
 
I'll try to see if I can get some pics of the New York course. Although, I don't think it is possible to race on these streets cause some of them are pretty bumpy.
 
Tokyo R246 is truly my favorite course eversince the endurance in GT3...

I want to go there too someday.... I live in Holland, that's halfway across the world.
 
Great pics. I wonder if anyone has noticed how ugly R246 is in GT4 compared to GT3? The colours are all washed out everything's grey and dull. The first I saw I thought my TV was on the blink.
Suffice to say my most favourite track has now become my least favourite. At first I thought Polyphony did it to make us focus on the new tracks in GT4, but now (based on what I just read) I think it's because there's been a significant increase in accidents caused by GT3-players driving their cars there in real life.

@rennie: The two Paris tracks are accurate, only the opera track is a real mess I think, so ugly, grey and dull (like r246). In real life that ain't the case. Paris night looks really great though and very realistic.
 
Thanks for the HK pics j_yick!... maybe eventually all these 'real life' circuit pics will end up in a dedicated thread or gallery...

By the way, you can use Imageshack to 'host' your pics... it's easy and it's free, as long as your pics are 1Mb or less...

Cheers,
TM
 
That's curious about accidents on R246but I can understand it. The course is very driveable during the week (some of it is closed on the weekends for pedestians and bicycles only). But, anyone who would try to drive that course during the week is a masochist because it's Tokyo traffic and it's probably one of the worst traffic jams in the world, far worse than Manhattan on a weekday afternoon.

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Great pics. I wonder if anyone has noticed how ugly R246 is in GT4 compared to GT3? The colours are all washed out everything's grey and dull. The first I saw I thought my TV was on the blink.
Suffice to say my most favourite track has now become my least favourite. At first I thought Polyphony did it to make us focus on the new tracks in GT4, but now (based on what I just read) I think it's because there's been a significant increase in accidents caused by GT3-players driving their cars there in real life.

@rennie: The two Paris tracks are accurate, only the opera track is a real mess I think, so ugly, grey and dull (like r246). In real life that ain't the case. Paris night looks really great though and very realistic.
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fwdtamiya
What episode number!?
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Found it! It's the May 2002 edition. There's two NSX-Rs, a Porsche 911, and a few other cars on the cover. It's a VHS tape so I can't really get any screenshots.

It's pretty cool to see him (Naoki Hattori) driving a Super-7 around the same parts and then playing the game in the same spots. They play a few seconds of real life, then gameplay, then real life ... eventually completing an entire lap. What's amazing is watching him blast down the straight right through the Tokyo traffic.

It's a short clip, but quite impressive.
 
Well, GT4's rendition of Tokyo R246 isn't "ugly," it's just that it's not as colorful and as vibrant as in GT3. If you ask me, GT4's rendition is a b*tchslap to GT3's rendition. I still want some evening or night racing at Tokyo R246, but I wouldn't call it ugly. I'm not mad at you, just stating that it still remains a very nice place for some Gran Turismo action. I think this track was based on a bus route in Japan (imagine taking a ride with the bus driver around this lovely place!). If that's true about one of city once rated as the most expensive city in the world, then it's pretty cool to want to speedfreak around here. I still think it is one of the most original tracks in the GT franchise. Tokyo R246 isn't like Opera Paris, Hong Kong, or anything like that. R246 is pretty much a pure road course designed to test the limits of great handling cars with impressive speed to boot. That's why I said that maybe the Autobacs Super GT series ought to try racing in the nation's capital (Tokyo, Japan, in this case). But then, we can enjoy racing LMPs, GTPs, and other high-powered GT machinery in GT4 around Tokyo.
 
i walk around the area of NY track almost everyday coz my school is like on 8th ave. they did a good job recreating it and i can even tell it was from last summer because the time warner bulding is still under construction in the game. the only thing i think is unrealistic is that the city blocks are too short! its a bigger distance from 42nd to 59th
 

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