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