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Chaparral 2X Vision Gran Turismo REVEALED!
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I see what you did there!
Normally I'm not a fan of such an eccentric design, but Chaparral is the one company who gets the pass. Their cars were so outrageous and innovative back in the day that they looked as different to the other cars on the track as this does to the other VGT's in the game.
Did you know that even though Colin Chapman is credited for his innovation of side skirts on the Lotus F1 cars, it was actually Chaparral that first put side skirts on a race car?
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I was already expecting what the car would sound like, considering I've seen a video talking about the concept of lazer propulsion before.
The good thing is that it won't sound like a vacuum cleaner. It will sound like a taser, mixed with whatever sounds they add.
The good thing is that it won't sound like a vacuum cleaner. It will sound like a taser, mixed with whatever sounds they add.
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For all the talk of how momentous of an achievement PD managed with linking real world professional car design studios with a video game company, I think the obviously-made-for-a-videogame car with the obviously-chosen-because-it-sounds-cool propulsion system that might as well be a drawing on a kids lunch napkin (with descriptions to match) stretches the credibility of the program to the breaking point, yes. This is also the entry using the name of a storied racing team known for being on the bleeding edge of just out of grasp technology; and instead of being some sort of X1 or Delta Wing-esque idea that changes how we think cars need to be designed for racing purposes (which would fit well with Chaparral's history since Chaparral were leading innovators in aerodynamic work) it looks and is described as something that Studio Liverpool might have made 6 years ago for Wipeout HD but never ended up including in the final game.
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Looks fantastic.
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I'm not much of a fan of this, but diversity in the VGT program is good.
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CLASSIC LIVERY!
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Chevy dropped the mic on VGTs.
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I'm afraid I'm kind of with you on this one. I'm usually the one who defends cars like the VGTs and the Red Bulls for being realistic but I feel they stretched a little with the Chaparral. If you look a car with those specs it seems like something out of a science fiction movie. The tecnologies they listed are still in very early research stages. This car was obviously made for a game.
That being said, I'm not the one who's going to hate on the car because it's too close to being sci fi. Yes they looked very far in the future (maybe too much), but this will not destroy the game for me. I'll still drive it and enjoy it. It seems it will be as fast as the Red Bull fan cars. It's nice that they will have a competition now. But you can be certain of one thing: this car will be hated just as, if not more than the Red Bull cars when it is released.
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Is this car.... zero-wheel-drive because of the laser?
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Leave it to the 'Muricans to come up with something this insane. 
I hope when I drive this, "flash low/high beams" mean Laser beams, because this looks like a spacecraft. Spacecrafts have laser guns, and since there's no rules doesn't mean you can't shoot cars off the track.
I hope when I drive this, "flash low/high beams" mean Laser beams, because this looks like a spacecraft. Spacecrafts have laser guns, and since there's no rules doesn't mean you can't shoot cars off the track.
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I thought it was 666 at first. But turns out it's just 66.I like how the body is cut on the side behind the front wheel, make it look like it's numbered 666 instead of 66, lol.
ok, the angle of the picture helps, but it's cool anyway.
I don't know how the system is supposed to work. Apparently some batteries power a laser and some air generator or something and the laser provides thrust. So maybe the wheels aren't directly driven. I'm not sure.
Too bad it probably won't come in cyan.And judging by the video, it also comes in black.👍
So BMW and Audi have real cars with laser headlights, and now we have a fictional car with laser power.
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Jim Hall's cars were hated mostly because his (mostly) independent team's innovative thinking threatened the balance of power held by the bigger teams that could otherwise (and almost always did) just outspend him to rack up wins instead. His cars rarely actually won.
This car doesn't really have anything to do with that; not the least of which being because it is a design study by GM (usually the biggest team there is) with the Chaparral name put on it.
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True, I tottaly agree with you. But the reason why I said that was because this car looks to be as fast as the Red Bull. And being a VGT I guess we'll get an event were we will get it for free. So a lot of people will have one. And the trolls online are going to use it. Everyone then hates the car. And the history repeats itself.
You see, I won't hate this car. I'm looking forward to it. But looking back at GT5, if the car is as fast as they made it look, I unfortunately don't see how things will be different this time.
It's seems to be like a plane turbine. So yes, it's essencially a "no wheel drive".
The car appears to use ablative laser technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion
Here's a video:
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Apparently so, it's pushed forward by the force of the air being heated into a plasma, which is what you see with a lighting bolt.
Isn't it going to melt any cars behind it? Or at least blind them in a night race
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