No V8 Vantage anymore?

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Anyone noticed the main car of the last 3 remote racing events is now the GT-R SpecV '09?

Maybe PD listened to the complaints about the Vantage being too slow?
 
As far as I know it's still in there, it's just not the main car anymore. I had to watch my bob get a dnf in it the night before last.
 
just did another b-spec online race. (disad)vantage is still in there, just not the example car anymore.
 
The V8 Vantage is very much still there, I just got it on the new SSR5 remote race and guess what position I'm in !!!!!!!
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Did you know that car weighs more than the Audi Pikes Peak Quattro SUV? :guilty: I'm surprised they didn't put in something better like an XJ220.
 
Did you know that car weighs more than the Audi Pikes Peak Quattro SUV? :guilty: I'm surprised they didn't put in something better like an XJ220.

I wonder if putting in the Pikes Peak Quattro would have yielded a better result.
 
V8 Vantage still alive and kicking - one of my mates drivers has just been lapped by the top 3 in the 458 italia, Ford GT and Scuderia. Amazingly slow car!
 
TBH they ought to take both the Vantage and the Nardo out. All the rest are reasonably competitive with each other but the Nardo is 10mph faster down the SS5 straight than anything else and the Vantage wallows round the track like a fat girl on a scooter.
 
Ha! The only time this things in front of anything else is when it's holding up the lapping Nardo ;)

And when I crashed out - in the Nardo (!) - the other day and for some reason hit the barrier about 20 times trying to straighten up 👎

TBH they ought to take both the Vantage and the Nardo out. All the rest are reasonably competitive with each other but the Nardo is 10mph faster down the SS5 straight than anything else and the Vantage wallows round the track like a fat girl on a scooter.

I sort of agree but in another race today I beat the Nardo in a McLaren MP4. It struggled, but it won.
 
Just had TWO Nardo's in the same SS5 race. At least the 1st place will be more competitve I guess and you'll not know from the start who's going to win as previously.
Aston Martin V8 (disad)Vantage still last :rolleyes: but hey, someone has to come last.
 
Haha! Yeah that Aston Martin V8 Vantage was a lot slower than every other car. Even with my Lvl 40 driver he couldn't catch or pass even a Lvl 16 in one of the other cars of that race. Whoever got that car finished dead last every time.
 
the Vantage is cool though since it's been proven that the payout for remote races has nothing to do with the finishing position. And you really had two W12s in the same race? I've never seen that before
 
Nowadays these cars can double up. In one SS5 race today, I had a Buy One Get One Free deal on the V8 Vantage. Oh, how overjoyed I was to run a 16 car race but have a pair of fat slow twins clogging up the final two spots.
 
I just saw the Nardo get beat my the McLaren. Whoop!

Nardo can lose that's the shocking thing to most. About 4 or 5 cars can beat it (none of them the Vantage).

Sadly, the Vantage has buddies in other races.

Daytona Road Course: One skyline is always going to finish in last (one specifically, I forgot its exact name).
Lemans: Panoz Esperante is outclassed as is the 2J and CLK-GTR.
Laguna Seca: An even more ridiculous race than the SSR5 race. One of the Cobras will always win (there are two different kinds) and the Corvette C2 will always lose.
 
I feel bad saying anything bad about the V8 Vantage because it looks like it could kill me.
 
Let me put it this way.

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"Whoops, I seem to have accidentally driven into you at 30mph! Please, allow me to drive you to the nearest medical facility"

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"I'll hit you head-on at 700mph and eat your children"
 
Let me put it this way.

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"Whoops, I seem to have accidentally driven into you at 30mph! Please, allow me to drive you to the nearest medical facility"

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"I'll hit you head-on at 700mph and eat your children"
Only issue is that the Vantage won't hit 100 MPH and if you are trying to escape one of the remote racing ones, you could probably walk like a turtle and still come out alive.
 
My Nardo just lapped the disadVantage on the last lap of the SS5 and I actually found myself feeling sorry for it. It really does need a good overhaul.
 
My Nardo just lapped the disadVantage on the last lap of the SS5 and I actually found myself feeling sorry for it. It really does need a good overhaul.

The Nardo's advantage at SSR5 isn't as much as it had at Trial Mountain. I've only seen it win 2 or 3 times out of 10 races while the Lexus, Citroen and others now are better suited to win. The only car not better suited to win is the Vantage.
 
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