Fading Brakelight Obscurity II - Championship Edition (Part 1)

[Robutt]

Front half of the season was just Harvick whacking the field because the SHR Fords were amazingly strong and the Chevys just faded. Meanwhile Kyle’s been the only one to wring constistency out of his Toyota. Second half of the season just went crazy with constantly exciting races, Silly wrecks, surprise winners (Kansas last night was a bit dull till the end though), Brad K getting a hat-trick. Watkins Glen is still probably the best pure race of the season but the Roval was sheer entertainment from start to literally the final corner.

Currently my final four is looking like Harvick, Kyle Busch, Logano and Elliot. Truex will need the hail mary play at Texas to advance. Kurt Busch is strong at Martinsville and probably the dark horse in the round of 8 but Bowyer took the spring race and will be strong as well but Elliot’s on a roll, the Chevy has finally started to come in and almost won last years playoff race till Hamlin outbraked himself and put Elliot in the wall (And then Elliot ran Hamlin into the wall at ISM Phoenix when Hamlin was on the verge of the final 4. Hamlin didn’t pull that shit again for this season). Amirolla has showed that 10 car just needed a cooler head in the drivers seat to prevail but I can’t see him making it out even with good results.

[km]

Horizon 4 has given me a bunch of old rally cars and I’m just so happy

My second car was a Lancia 037 and the only thing that got me out of it was an RS200, but then I found an Escort RS Turbo in a barn and threw a bunch of crazy parts on it and…

I capped off winter with a nice drive down from the mountains in an old beetle

This game is great!

[km]

I bought every upgrade for that Escort RS Turbo and it’s juuuuust this side of controllable ITS SO FUN just flying around

Finally got done with the tutorial, now who wants to be in my convoy??

[Father.Torque]

[BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE]

This is the real America

[Father.Torque]

Keep the bugs off yer glass and the bears off yer ass

[VastleCania]

I didn’t realize this song ended up with the main character getting blown to pieces.

[SUPERSONNICK]

well, i wouldn’t have thought that i would say this, but there’s a new car that’s coming out… sometime in the future, which we all will pretty likely never drive in RL, all 100ish models are surely already sold and virtually parked in some garages in dubai, california, hong kong, tokio et al, and i caught myself thinking ‘this is a worthy SB car, yupp’.
Now, two things that puzzle me:

1. what IS an official SB car all about, anyway?

2. why did i immediately think of SB when it comes to this specific car?

car in question btw is this:

McLaren Speedtail: hypercar makes 309bhp from its e-motor alone!

i’m no fan of the McLaren Senna, for the record, and haven’t claimed mine in Forza Horizon4, which you supposedly can do if you played the demo.
I also don’t buy in the front of this car, the three-seater cabin, the concept of a “Hyper Car” in general and almost all of the specs, but somehow… there’s something about it. idk why!

maybe because they claim in this mediocre news ‘article’ that 108 will be made?
Maybe because it is retro-futuristic?
Why am i asking questions anyway?

so, to at least answer one question, i think it is time to draw the killer7 gran turismo 7 line, and decide, in best SB-fashion, once and for all (until someone else will ask this exact same question a year later or so) what the official list of SB approved cars actually is.
It will be a highly random and crude list, yes, so we better do our best to come up with a list that will not match anything out there, we have to consider our fame, after all!

Challenger #1:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Fiat_131_Abarth_-Cesana-Sestriere_2014%2814460118269%29.jpg

One car we already agreed upon a long, long time ago, the Fiat 131 Abarth is set, no doubt about that.

Challenger #2:

a real challenger, undecided whether it shall be driver san fran’s yellow/black one or the white one from Vanishing Point.

Challenger #3:

Ferrari 512

because SEGA forced my hand.

Challenger #4:

TVR Sagaris, because it looks like someone put the axe on wheels, and if the driving experience in Forza or Gran Turismos is anything like the real deal, it must feel like posting in the axe as well.

… now, your proposals, please!
in best SB-tradition, we will or won’t have a poll in the axe about this.
I will add some more at a later date, but feel free to nominate the MX-5 for me!

[Father.Torque]

I never post in this thread and I think I’m the only 944 fan but,

Obviously it’s the Testarossa I mean come on.

[BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE]

I’m very partial to the Teatarossa, that’s true. I’ve been in love with it ever since I was a little kid. I got a big Testarossa toy car to play with back then and I’d group it in with the F-14 and X-Wing as my childhood favorite mechanical objects. I’m also not a car head though, so my opinion is probably not worth much.

[BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE]

@SUPERSONNICK

Ferrari 512

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because SEGA forced my hand.

512 AfterPurner 69

[doolittle]

The axe on wheels is a Reliant Robin in my experience

[SUPERSONNICK]

if we can agree on the GTS model, i’m in.

why specifically the GTS?
well, it spawned a significant amount of copycats, see the wonderful lot of tries inbetween real examples here:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=944+gts&t=ftas&iax=images&ia=images

#5: 944 GTS

#6: Reliant Robin

next challengers to stirr up posters' imaginations:

#7:
that new obscure japanese game we love to talk about every so often?
here’s the car equivalent:

Mitsuoka Orochi

#8: Elise and MR2 are too mainstream for you? The Garaiya is your thing then:

#9
even though i would nominate the rhino 1 personally, i have to think what SB deserves to put on its officially approved car list:
Up next , the Turbot Rhino II:

read more about it here, if you can decipher anything:

Turbot 2 Turbotraction : du rêve à la réalité !

[Bee]

1987 Cutlass Supreme imo

[Bee]

1995 Mazda RX-7

[BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE]

Want that one mentioned or featured in the Tenacious D movie? If so, yes!

[doolittle]

I think it’s the original MX-5/Miata… cheap, cute, and simultaneously perceived as laddish and queer.

In BRG and tan interior it’s almost the right color scheme.

[problyfine]

I like Miata’s with round headlights like these, but I think they are custom jobs:

Here is my real nomination:

[km]

Yes, every Lancia rally car is eligible - the Stratos ^

The Delta S4

And the 037

[BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE]

That was the 666th post!

Sb car imho, just missing the orange green paint job