Its not , i would say its in the top 4 it has some problems with grip simulation at lows speeds also the tracks are too smooth to emulate the notch fealing you get on a real race track. lfs is defently the best designed in terms of getting into a race with other people though and the interface is relay nicely executed.

best racing sims in order.

I racing , Ritcherd burns rally , Gtr evolution , R-Factor , LFS

i don't like R factor but the fact is on average it has better physics simulation than LFS Evan if its a mess takes ages to set up and has hardly any decent online servers,

oh and don't bother with I racing because in my opinion it costs to much and you don't get good value for money Evan if it dose have the best physics and car handling simulation. you can find a "free" version of i racing that gives you access to all tracks and cars with no multilayer letting you practice driving on the most acuret sim without having to pay a ridiculous monthly fee.

Oh if you have R factor make sure you download BOBs ( maker of bobs track boulder)laser scanned track

The Opel's rear axle was narrowed and super-hard low-friction tires were used.

Makes the car unfeasible to drive on wet roads, snow, ice, high heat, or any other real world driving conditions. The narrow rear axle and super-hard low-friction tires would have to be replaced with standard equipment to meet safety regulations. There goes the theoretical 'efficiency'...

To save even more weight, a chain drive was used.

Chain drives exchange the $4 bucks per fill-up in gasoline you save for about $2,000 a month in increased repair bills. They're also noisy and messy.

Now of course this isn't exactly a practical car. But even if you changed it enough to reduce its performance by 250 mpg, that still leaves you with 126 mpg!

Like far too many people, you are subscribing to a complete logical fallacy. You are assuming, "Well, if this thing gets 350 MPG, then even if we tweak it a LOT it would still get 150 MPG when we put it in the market." That assumption is patently false. If it was that simple then someone would be making a car right now TODAY that got over 1,000 MPG. These 'tech demo' and 'eco challenge' cars have no place in practical consumer markets for a reason. Most of what makes these fantasy-dream cars function is either illegal, impractical, or incredibly expensive.

For example - the wired blog link you supplied indicated that the record is over 10,000 miles per gallon. Following your logic, "Well SURELY we should be able to build a car with only one TENTH of that..." Well, yeah we probably could... However, it would cost about 10 million dollars to make and you'd only get 1,000 MPG when you use it exclusively on 1,000 mile long downhill racing tracks with no cargo, perfect weather, and with you pedalling like Lance Armstrong the entire time.

I'm living near a race track in Germany and you see dumbshits like that all day long here. If there is an accident, its a motorcycle accident (900 of them each season in just a radius of 15 miles). Already seen 3 of them dead at the side of the road, even though I only rarely drive.

I really never thought bad about motorcyclists, but here I realized how many of them are total fucktards. The cruiser and chopper drivers are all cool and relaxed, but those wannabe-racers with their ugly sounding POSs are mostly Darwin Award nominees.

Oh and hes prolly showing his middle finger (and ignorance) because someone honked or yelled at him for his idiocy.

Wipeout has been one of my favorite games since it's release on the PC, it was the first I remember playing that would really convey the feeling of actually racing at preposterous speeds.

The interesting thing is that the original developers actually hired professional designers to come up with the distinctive look and feel of the futuristic world, especially in the logos and various billboards around the race tracks. Some of which you can see in the video above.

The soundtrack was perfect as well featuring throughout the series artists like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Leftfield and Cold Storage. Electronic techno beats that leaded themselves perfectly to the anti-gravity racing.

Ok, yes they need manpower, but go ahead and apply for a job. They are NOT taking anyone who wants to join. It is not a a convent, you cannot join because you have faith. They very selectively screen all their employees. So yes, they are still selective.

They use narconon and criminon for money, gov't money, more money, there is big money in drug rehabs. And yes, they use those programs to get access to vulernable people who have addictive personalities. Scientology is like a race track, you waste lots of money and it is addictive.

They are very selective. Go there and tell them how all your problems are money, and how you have lost everything. On the one hand they do like their slave labor (which is illegal for for-profit corporations and even non-profit entities, but churches can get away with slave wages, and guess what, they don't pay any taxes or social security.

I saw Cheap Trick perform live in 1987 in Palmer, Alaska at a race track.

Cirque d' is in Houston right now! Drove past the race track yesterday and saw the tents....they always transform the landscape,(and other things) when they come to town .....This would be the traveling show to run-away from home and join!!

Ok, I don't get it. They're comparing the racing capabilities of a pick-up truck and a car obviously built for racing? Who buys a pick-up to race at a race-track...unless it's against other pick-ups.

But hey, he must know exactly what he's talking about. So where do I get that little race-car from because I need to haul some lumber, get some top soil and a bunch of bags of concrete. Since he's making idiotic comparisons, wheres the idiotic comparison of hauling things?

Oh, and the crack about only liking the truck if you're nine...wouldn't a nine year old prefer the little go-kart racing thing more?

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