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hey see if you can find screenshots of the 1949 vw betle and thwe morris minor that are 'said' to be in the game.
 
Came out of the text of BBC Top Gear magazine only, I'm afraid. They say they've seen it - but no-one else can come up with a screenie...
 
I do... But I'll need to instal my scanner on my new computer first... There's no new in-game pics in the article though.
 
Originally posted by Famine
I do... But I'll need to instal my scanner on my new computer first... There's no new in-game pics in the article though.

New puter? Early B-day gift? What kind did you get? I'm in the market for a new computer too.
 
No, I just bought one because my P2 was pissing me off.

It's an AMD 2200XP+ with WinXP, Radeon 9200 128Mb (with ViVo :D), CD-RW and DVD-ROM. And it glows blue, for some reason. Not bad for £400 (well, not bad in the UK - similar spec systems are £700-£800). I love eBay. :D

nitro - I'll scan it, I'll scan it! Give me a bloody minute to sort everything out!
 
Bah! I've got to find some new drivers for it...
 
Originally posted by Famine
I do... But I'll need to instal my scanner on my new computer first... There's no new in-game pics in the article though.

Hmm... Aaaah... Mmmm... Not sure... Hmmm... :D

Posting the article in a minute - just have to upload it.
 
Okay - here's the article. Please take the advice at the bottom if you can... :D

topgearscan.jpg
 
Thanks Famine!

One thought - The article says he's driven all cars that were in GT and GT2.. This means he has driven cars like the Wector W8 and Espace F1.

Anyone knows if this is true, cause if it is he's a lucky man.
 
It's clearly an exaggeration - since the Cerbera LM and FTO LM don't exist, the Ford GT90 has never budged a smegging inch and the Espace F1 only made a single drive - a lap of Silverstone before the 1994 British GP.

Perhaps the meaning has been misinterpreted, as I'm sure he will have driven every car which WAS driven for inclusion.
 
Looks like PD is showin their skills, like it says in the article. They got new hardware to make the backgrounds look amazing, I didn't know the ps2 could render those kinds of graphics, damn and the reflections of the enviroment will be on the cars and it's going to look better than gt3. Guess the ps2 ain't weak like ppl say it is.
 
cheers famine, that should provide a huge boost in knowledge for all gtplanet members.
 
Wow! You guys can read that article. I can't. I'm limited to 480i, S-video, on HDTV, and I can't read it.

Thanks Famine, I think you just convinced me to get a new computer on eBay, and one with a monitor.

I think I waited long enough for my computer.
 
Sorry puddin... I shrunk it to 50% size to fit on the screen and it all seemed legible to me...
 
do you think the classic lotus f1 car will be the Lotus 49 that would be cool as well as a few other lotus f1 cars.
Lotus49-front.JPG
 
A few points.....

The article states that GT4 will have "all the small independant UK makers, from AC to Westfield".

Yet no Dodge Charger or Challenger seen, heard of or announced yet?? Sorry, not buying that.

It also states an "Escort & Fiesta RS Turbo" will be in.

Yet no USA Ford Taurus SHO?? Again, not buying it.

I know this is a UK mag, but lets be realistic. Unless GT4 truly plans of only having three American cars total (Viper, Vette and Mustang) I don't believe for a second we'll see all these obscure UK cars before we see MORE of the US makes in the final game.
 
That was an exaggeration there are literally hundreds of small car manufacturers in the UK.
 
Originally posted by Blackfish
I know this is a UK mag, but lets be realistic. Unless GT4 truly plans of only having three American cars total (Viper, Vette and Mustang) I don't believe for a second we'll see all these obscure UK cars before we see MORE of the US makes in the final game.

Indeed it's a UK mag. So why would they be saying:

"Look folks! There's a Ford Taurus SHO in GT4!"

The responses would vary from "A what-now?" to "So?" - they are reporting the things they think we would care about - there are literally thousands of Escort/Fiesta RS Turbo owners in the UK. There are far, far more owners of Westfields than 1971 Dodge Challengers - and the only way most of the UK would know about that car is through GT2, The Dukes Of Hazzard and Vanishing Point.

They are reporting on what WE want to hear. They haven't said anything about the US cars that may or may not be in the game, because we don't care - the UK is currently served by just SEVEN US cars, and three of those are the Cherokee, Grand Cherokee and Voyager (Dodge Caravan).
 
Yeah its coz most US cars are only good for going in straight lines ;)

My uncle drove a Dodge Neon (Which they made a R/T sports edition & I heard its a good car to modify in US) and he said it was the worse piece of crap called a car he'd ever driven. Incidently he drives a Westfield...

Also the tyre retreads (A rental car) came off when he was doing 90 & it pulled off the rear bumper :lol:
 
Originally posted by Famine
The Ford GT90 has never budged a smegging inch and the Espace F1 only made a single drive - a lap of Silverstone before the 1994 British GP.[color]


Just me being sad here, the GT-90 was drivable, Jeremy Clarkson tested it on Top Gear ages ago around Le Mans although they jammed the wastegates open, no boost! :( As for the Espace, I am pretty sure it did more driving than that, I have vague memories of a magazine article with a journo testing it.
 
They test drove the Espace F1 at Silverstone that time but I dont think it was driven anyomre after that, t remained a show car, the GT90 was driven at LeMans but I thought it was Tiff Needel driving not Clarkson, anyway whoever it was t can go and it went fast.
 
"Yeah its coz most US cars are only good for going in straight lines

My uncle drove a Dodge Neon (Which they made a R/T sports edition & I heard its a good car to modify in US) and he said it was the worse piece of crap called a car he'd ever driven. Incidently he drives a Westfield...

Also the tyre retreads (A rental car) came off when he was doing 90 & it pulled off the rear bumper "

Nice. Though you Brits were more intelligent.

Anyone who would rent a crap ass BASE neon (with all of about 90 hp) and run it at 90 mph (quite illegal btw) is a fool. Plain and simple. The Neon RT-4 is a fine car and can take on any car of similar size in terms of performance, bith starait and in turns.

If Westfields were so great (as seems to be implied), why are they not exported to the states? Oh yea, too small a company (like almost every British company) for such grand thoughts.

Hell, the best cars made in the UK are both FORDS, the Jaguar and Aston Martin brands. The other two (Bently and Rolls) are now German brands. So lets not get too excited about the great cars around in your little country. The only thing the UK has these days, in terms of cars, is history.........

As for Famine, well, I'm glad you think a UK mag should only cover UK cars in a clearly multinational game. I'm glad you think your cars are so worthy of mention compared to those of the rest of the world. Personally, if I lived in the UK (and I have in the past), then I would want to know a bit more about the WHOLE GAME< not just some tiny little local brands.

Oh, and I be very interested to know what model of Westfields outsold the Dodge Charger or Dodge Challenger. Please, enlighten me on those WORLDWIDE Sales figures.

Or are you trying to tell me that in the UK ONLY there are more Westfields. In that case, so what. There are probably more Smarts too, doesnt make them a worthwhile car for a racing game.

Point of my original thread is this: Don't hold your breath on getting all the little brands you want in GT4. While you may get a few, it's not, in any way, going to be the Superlist 3000 car game that article implied.

As the article claims: "Almost every Marcos Ever made will be in the game". I will believe that only if Marcos made only one car (I have no idea, never heard of them). Same with most tiny UK, US or Mainland Eurpose car makers.

-Blackfish
 
uk cars kick the paints out of amrican cars. letes look at some small english cars. You seam to of forgot about most of them.
Chterham cars for example make great cars such as The Caterham R300, R400 or R500 a car that will beat most supercars round a racetrack. As well as the road.
r300_c.jpg


And what about Radical they make the road Legal Sr3 this car is roadlegal and almost nothing could keep up with it on road and track unless it is a race car.
lg_too_fast.jpg

And what is the fastest production car around the old Nürburgring a british built Radical Sr3 Turbo.
http://www.radicalmotorsport.com/News_Folder/nordschliefe/

I hope the cars i have said will be in gt4. if you want i can name a lot more great English cars i will. And we have alot more then your ****ty american cars. (All brawn and no Brains= American car)
 
Originally posted by Blackfish
As for Famine, well, I'm glad you think a UK mag should only cover UK cars in a clearly multinational game. I'm glad you think your cars are so worthy of mention compared to those of the rest of the world. Personally, if I lived in the UK (and I have in the past), then I would want to know a bit more about the WHOLE GAME< not just some tiny little local brands.

Well, what I actually said was they WOULD only cover UK cars, as it's UK interest, not that they SHOULD.

Originally posted by Blackfish
Oh, and I be very interested to know what model of Westfields outsold the Dodge Charger or Dodge Challenger. Please, enlighten me on those WORLDWIDE Sales figures.

Once again, read what I said, not what you think I said. I said that there are more Westfields than 1971 Dodge Challengers - not that any particular model of Westfield outsold the Challenger.

Originally posted by Blackfish
Or are you trying to tell me that in the UK ONLY there are more Westfields. In that case, so what. There are probably more Smarts too, doesnt make them a worthwhile car for a racing game.

Well, seeing as a factory standard Westfield FW500 lapped Nurburgring's Nordschleife in 7'45 - despite only having a top speed of 125mph - would seem to advertise that it's a good car for racing with.

Originally posted by Blackfish
As the article claims: "Almost every Marcos Ever made will be in the game". I will believe that only if Marcos made only one car (I have no idea, never heard of them). Same with most tiny UK, US or Mainland Eurpoe car makers.

Marcos are fairly large, for a cottage car-maker, and compete in international GT races - alongside the Porsches, McLarens, Saleens and suchlike. They are another car maker - like TVR - where no weight, masses of power, FR and no traction control feature a lot. They're also not renowned for their reliability (like TVR). But the sales boost TVR got in overseas markets from GT1 is what is enticing the smaller UK manufacturers into the game. TVR still sell fewer cars worldwide than even Daewoo, Ssangyong or Tata - but I bet you've heard of them now...


You seem to think that I have some kind of anti-American agenda going on here. I can assure you I don't - I can appreciate every car for it's merits. I LIKE the 1971 Dodge Challenger, and my favourite car in GT2 was the 1969 Camaro Z2/8.

I was asked - repeatedly - to post the scan. So I did. Don't blame me for anything you like/dislike contained within. But logically it makes more sense - from a journalistic point of view - to tell UK people about the UK cars they might own which will feature in the game, rather than a bunch of American cars they probably won't have heard of.

Imagine it the other way round - you've not heard of Marcos. A US motoring magazine presents a feature on GT4 and proudly tell you that practically every Marcos ever made will feature in GT4. Your reaction? "So what?" and "A what-now?". The US magazine would feature news about the US cars - or cars Americans are more likely to own.
 
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