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GT4 progress

Progress continues, as I worked on more of the manufacturer races last night.

Starting with the one Korean race, I did the Hyundai series with a concept car I had won in some previous race. Looking at the specs, you'd think it might be a decent car - 215hp, MR, fairly small...but it was junk. I couldn't spin the tires in 1st gear from a redline launch, and it pushed horribly everywhere. No fun to drive, but it beat the flock of Tiburon GTs I was running against.

Moving towards finishing up the Japanese companies next, I bought a Daihatsu Copen for that series. Not a lot of fun, just a boring car, and an even more boring prize car.

For the Isuzu race there was one car I could buy that was eligible, it was also lame. Of course, as soon as I finished the series, one showed up in the used car lot for half of what I paid for mine.

The Nissan March series was at least somewhat interesting...there weren't any eligible cars in the used lot for 2 weeks, so I finally bought a Cube (in the ever-popular "Beans" color), and I promptly found out that in stock form, it was a 200pt race! I could catch up a little in the turns, but I couldn't make any progress on the straights, and the higher-speed stuff probably wasn't made any easier by my less-than-aerodynamic shape. ;-) This drove me to my first purchase of nitrous in the game. :-D Just held down the button all through the straight and things took care of themselves. For such a short race though, I should have moved it more towards power and away from duration.

I bought a Vitz Turbo for the Vitz series, that too was boring. Obviously I'm leaving all of the boring cars for last here.

So now there's only one Japanese manufacturer series left for me, the Toyota Altezza series. The problem is that I can't find one for sale anywhere. They don't even show up as new cars, so I think I just have to keep checking the used lot every week until I find one.

I happened to find a Peugeot 206 in the used lot, so I'll be doing that one next. On to the European manufacturers next, which will be costing me a bit more than the Asian manufacturers (especially the Aston Martin race).

Oh, and my Bspec driver did the Fuji 1000km race for me last night, winning $750k and the R92CP. I believe I'm at 61.8% complete now.