Cars with unusual traits
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Odd, I agree, but if you think of the racing it was involved in (endurance racing) then a spare wheel could've been a real advantage on long tracks like le Mans or the nurburgring (did they use the nurburgring in the p4?).
But that's really cool! But that's probably why...
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Pretty sure they were there only because of regulations. I know the Lola T70 has one as well, It's from a couple years after.
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It was probably mostly for the Targa Florio. They wouldn't really have needed to carry a spare at LeMans and the like, it's not that far to limp back to the pits on a flattie, but it was probably still mandated. At the Targa, it could be miles on unforgiving roads until the next service area - it probably did come in handy at the Nürburgring, too. Here's a full lap of the shortest circuit they ran (44 miles), in GPL. Here's a list of the races in the '67 season of the World Sportscar Championship.
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As promised:
Flipped the Mine's Skyline. Just like the Nissan Skyline GT-R V spec II Nur, this one says "Thanks for finding this!" underneath.
Apologies in advance in case if you can't see the picture; no idea how to fix that...
P.S. Yay! Post #250!
Flipped the Mine's Skyline. Just like the Nissan Skyline GT-R V spec II Nur, this one says "Thanks for finding this!" underneath.
Apologies in advance in case if you can't see the picture; no idea how to fix that...
P.S. Yay! Post #250!
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Apparantly there were certain (Le Mans) regulations at that time with the aim to link the sportcars with regular roadgoing cars, so things like another seat and a spare wheel were required, they loosened up those rules a few years later.
Keep in mind that it probably wasn't as easy to drive a car with a flat tyre around La Sarthe as it is nowadays with the extremely rigid chassis and superior suspensions/tyres they now use, and maybe a driver was allowed to change it himself.
When they entered the P4 in some Can-Am races (for example the famous Daytona win) the wheel was removed amongst other changes.
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Well that just makes a whole lot if sense. I find it intriguing that the Gran Turismo team modelled it with the spare wheel (and presumably all other data) when it was often not even there.
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It mostly is there though, I've coincidentally got a 1/43 scale model of the P4 since I was a kid and it also has the spare wheel in the rear compartment.
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analog
I still think it odd... they could've easily got away with rendering it without the wheel and dropping the mass by what, five kilos?
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Was there not? I SWEAR I saw it in a movie... one movie, for all of two minutes, but it was in a live action scene with actors beside the car. I'm sorry, I've no idea what movie, but it was futuristic, obviously, and eighties, and contained some guy dealing with humanoid computers and the ethics of that... I think. It might not have been, I must've been about twelve, because it was quite soon after I got the Dome car on GT4
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As promised:
Flipped the Mine's Skyline. Just like the Nissan Skyline GT-R V spec II Nur, this one says "Thanks for finding this!" underneath.
Apologies in advance in case if you can't see the picture; no idea how to fix that...
P.S. Yay! Post #250!
Just out of interest, why did PD put that message there under those two skylines?
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When you buy a Mitsubishi Evolution X, the TCS is automatically set to 1 instead of 5.
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And if you buy the fully customizable suspension, the front camber is automatically set to 1.0.
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I don't know if this is actually unusual, but the interior of the Mercedes 300SL Changes colour scheme if you re paint the car...
I bought the red, because I wanted the red centre console, but I repainted it the exact Mercedes paint chip that gives it the slightly over the top red interior.
My car now is Weißgrau with the Weißgrau interior but RED wheel hubs!!!
EDIT
I have just painted the car Fuewehrot (the red the 300SL came in) to try and sort the red interior. What's happened is the grey bar for the centre console is now red, but the rest of the red interior (Which should be gray in the red painted car) has STAYED red! So basically, what I have achieved is a FULL red interior on a car which in standard colours in game should only be partly red.
I bought the red, because I wanted the red centre console, but I repainted it the exact Mercedes paint chip that gives it the slightly over the top red interior.
My car now is Weißgrau with the Weißgrau interior but RED wheel hubs!!!
EDIT
I have just painted the car Fuewehrot (the red the 300SL came in) to try and sort the red interior. What's happened is the grey bar for the centre console is now red, but the rest of the red interior (Which should be gray in the red painted car) has STAYED red! So basically, what I have achieved is a FULL red interior on a car which in standard colours in game should only be partly red.
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The blitz r34 the premium one in the dealer the brake light look like happy faces
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I already posted that. Check page 32.
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Cars available with multiple interior colours always automatically change to one default interior colour when you paint them, this is always the same colour (one of the other interior colours available with another paint was selected by PD) for a particular car (in the case of the 300SL it's red) which probably has to do with technical limitations but which severely limits the possibilities if you want a certain interior/exterior colour combination.
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I knew it'd possibly change when I painted it, but then, when I changed the colour BACK to the red it was before, the interior has become a colour scheme that CANNOT be bought on the car! It's pretty crazy...
If you know the interior of this car REALLY well, you'll understand what's happened here.
The section of the dashboard containing the "300SL" type, is red in a car bought in red, while the rest of the interior is a calm shade of gray. If you buy a weißgrau car, that situation is exactly reversed; the central bar is gray but the entire rest of the interior is red. My particular car has become some interesting hybrid of the two color schemes.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned already but you can install a horn on the 125 SPL Kart, the default horn is the Tank Car horn (I think, not sure if I had changed it previously). Noticed it the other night and rather took me by surprise.. (You cant put a horn on any of the others)
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So basically, what I have achieved is a FULL red interior on a car which in standard colours in game should only be partly red.
That's cool! I love experimenting with colors as well. Too bad you can't change the hubcaps on the 300SL.
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i want the red one behind it.
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Bump, this thread must live!
Found a small bug on the Mitsubishi FTO '94, I got one at the UCD and when I repaired the engine at GT Auto I noticed the stock rims look weird while the car is moving. They constantly keep changing between light gray and dark gray. This also appears when you are on track, though it's hard to see while you're racing, when you roll slow or go to photomode and freeze the rim you'll see what I mean.
(I took photos of that, probably going to post those later)
Found a small bug on the Mitsubishi FTO '94, I got one at the UCD and when I repaired the engine at GT Auto I noticed the stock rims look weird while the car is moving. They constantly keep changing between light gray and dark gray. This also appears when you are on track, though it's hard to see while you're racing, when you roll slow or go to photomode and freeze the rim you'll see what I mean.
(I took photos of that, probably going to post those later)
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