Good gawd the RX7 is just glorious in this game, both full stock and performance are just loads of fun. I made a beeline straight for the BRZ and then the Mazda shortly after. The FD just did everything I asked it to do, through traffic, threading the needle, through rain in the dessert.....this new physics engine just completely crushes the old one, the feel of the tires on road is phenomenal, a huge improvement. Screw the eye candy, the meat and potatoes of this update is that new physics engine! I even took the FD up to the mountains where the roads are Icy and it did great, not one crash, not even a guardrail kiss. Cars seem to have way better grip on those roads than before.
monster trucks are worthy, but mostly just in the stunt arenas, which I found 3 on the map so far. dragsters are fun, simplistic but fun, drifting is the clear winner, I suck, terribly I might add, but when I was doing it right, it felt really great, like I had great control over the slide. I look forward to getting more practice in.
I bought a dirt bike, this is good fun, just thrashed it over the hills off road, catching air, doing accidental supermans (I still haven't figured out the trick system), it's more fun than a raid vehicle by a Vegas mile. I still haven't tried the racing bikes, or the Indian, I simply couldn't tear myself away from the dirt bike, which I bought dirt spec for and then did even more ridiculous things with it, like wall climbing in the dessert.
They need to patch the new skill rewards system, if I win a platinum award, I shouldn't be getting a gold performance part, that's just weird.