XBox 360 Forza 4 100% Completed Chapter Eight

Gentle reader,

It's been a while since I posted. I've been busy, especially with Spring finally here! Although it has been cool here of late, still, heat will be arriving before we're ready, so am enjoying the cool.

We left off with 1971 BMW 3.0 CSL painted in Jagermeister beer sponsor livery. Next up is a JDM 1985 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT Apex. Quite a mouthful name! Right hand drive being a Japan-only car.

Below, if I HAD to have an SUV, I suppose I could stand a Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Love 'em or hate 'em, the Cayenne has sold well and allowed Porsche to race again and create the 918 Hybrid Super car. Painted up as an American Le Mans emergency response vehicle.

What may appear to be a Ferrari similar to the Magnum P.I. car that drove all over Hawaii on TV. However, the GTO was and is way more. The engine is mounted lengthwise rather that transverse as in the usual models with this body style. Turbocharged too. Very fast and fun.

The "KR" in the 1968 Shelby Mustang GT-500KR stood for "King of the Road". A popular song at the time. Nice period SCCA Trans Am livery.

Next up a car I'd love to have, but am too tall to fit in. The Chrysler Crossfire. A gorgeous car whether in coupe form here or top-down roadster form.

Yet another of the many WRX cars I enjoy in my digital garage. This a 2005 sedan. Most I have painted in the official WRC color scheme.

Below, a car I had high hopes for, and it's painted in one of the spec series race liveries. This in GULF colors. Frankly, it doesn't handle nearly as well as I thought it would. Pity.

On the other hand, this 1995 Toyota MR2 GT below is AWESOME! Converted to all-wheel-drive, and far more powerful. It is fantastic and beats everything in it's class handily. 

The Cadillac CTS-V is a car that has had the the automotive world taking ample notice. They even made it in a station wagon version! Supercharged and it could be had with a six-speed manual transmission.

Below is a paint scheme stated by the Forza member who designed it, to be correct for an owner/racer later on after Ford stopped racing them as factory cars.

 

Below, a car that should not have been cancelled after so few years. As Pontiac finally got it right in 1988. It is also the first of my "S" class racers. Far faster than stock.

An S-Class Toyota Yaris? You bet! AWD and really fun to drive.

A 1970 Chevy Chevelle with the largest engine they offered, the 454 C.I. V8. Painted in period-correct livery as a NASCAR car.

The first speedy front-wheel-drive VW, the Scirocco, this being an "S" model and in this case a highly modified, AWD S-Class racer.

The largest Mustang built right before the smallest, the 1971 Mach 1. I like the fastback model that this one is. Almost vertical rear window didn't show much in the mirror.

That's this chapter's hot-15 virtual racers. I just passed level 250. My buddy who also races Forza 4, and I compared our records. He was shocked to find that the Events page was mostly empty and all the races he completed seemed to have disappeared. We theorized the perhaps reaching Level 250 erased them and made one start fresh. However, when I got there, all 100% of mine were still there. 

Thanks for looking!

Scott

 

XBox 360 Forza 4 100% Completed Chapter Seven

Gentle reader,

I finally found a good Rally racing simulation for the XBox 360: DIRT. Dirt 3 is the latest and the one I bought. One arcade-like thing I don't like and I think I can eliminate it, is if you go off course, say into the woods, POP! and you're back on the course.

Anyway, last chapter left off with my A Class '06 Z06 Corvette. Now, one of my favorite BMW cars and one that I'd love to own, the M Coupe. Based on the 4 cylinder Z3 sports car, it has the M Series 6 cylinder in a sleek hatchback body, sort of like a 2 door wagon. Way cool. Since I've been an ebay member since 1998, I was pleased to find this ebay livery for it:

Here, surprisingly strong in stock form, the 2010 Audi S4 sedan. Nice Audi themed livery.

One iconic car that maintains traditional looks with ultramodern capabilities, the 2010 Morgan Aero SuperSports.

A recent Wheeler Dealers that I saw had Edd China fully restoring a Morgan Plus 4. So cool. 

One unique car from Sweden, Audi V8 powered, the Spyker C8.

 See the air intakes that look like gun ports on a fighter jet.

The first Porsche to sport what came to be called a "Whale Tail" spoiler. Dual purpose in providing needed downforce and stability at speed, it also houses a large oil cooler.

Wearing nicely done Gulf Racing livery. Fast, fun and it sound's great.

I'm not sure why Carroll Shelby named the new Shelby creation a "Series 1", but he did. Powered by an Oldsmobile V8 engine from their Aurora (I think) car.

Painted in a design few are aware of from a smaller racing team in the 1960's: Terilingua Racing Team. It featured a fierce Jack Rabbit.

Next, a sports car from Honda that set the exotic car industry on it's collective ear, The NSX. Using a simple V6 engine, riding in the middle, it was an exotic one could drive everyday and it was reliable. Sold here as an Accura.

This one, being JDM (Japan Domestic Market), is a Honda and right-hand drive.

Yet another of my Volvos. This one closer in age to my real V50 which is a 2005, this '04 S60, I converted to rear-wheel-drive. The wagon version of this is a V40.

Next, what Top Gear called "The best sports car in the world", the super fast Lotus Exige.

Completely impractical for the street, it was made for racing. Cool livery.

Another factory racer, the Viper GTS ACR. American Club Racer. Before the days of SRT, and the Neon bagded SRT4, they made racing version of the Neon also called ACR.

Really wild paint livery.

Next, the updated looking Audi TT from 2007. Mine was a 2000. This one is an S-Line:

I think this one is a V6 where mine was the 1.8T. Later they fitted the 2.0T which is the base engine for many Audi cars today.

2008 was a year in which Subaru completely changed the look of the Impreza line and sadly softened the WRX. There was much protesting from the masses. Subaru listened and corrected it for 2009. 

Traditional WRC blue livery.

Next, one of the best of the BMW sedans, the M3. This one a 2008.

Next, a car the thoroughly pisses off the "AI" cars that one races in Forza, the highly modified 1991 Honda CR-X SiR. "Call me sir." 

 Being an "A" class, it is super fast and I converted it to rear-wheel-drive. My ex-step-mother-in-law had a CRX and I drove it and loved it.

Finally, the fifteenth for this chapter, one of the factory super-light cars, the 1971 BMW 3.0 CSL.

Appropriate that it's sponsored by a German Beer company.

I just started level 248 in Forza 4. According to my friend and fellow racer, level 250 increases the number of points from 100,000 a level to 200,000. Also, it resets the percentage to Zero, he thinks. I'll see, and if so, I won't have to buy cars like I did before.

Thanks for looking,

Scott