continuing with my "rant" theme from yesterday, today i'm going to bitch about the mini cooper s i just bought. after buying the car i jumped in for a test drive. now, i use cockpit view, because a) i like it, and b) i really enjoy using the actual car's tachometer over that stupid digital one they give you now. one of the things i absolutely hated about fortza 3 was that some of their tachs didn't match what the car was actually revving to. the evo 8, for example, red lined at 7,000rpm on the car's tach, but you had to rev until a tach indicated 7,500rpm because the game's tach (the meaningful one) didn't red line until then. to a driver, that's really fucking annoying. however, what's more annoying is in first gear, on your first test drive, smacking into a rev limiter at 5,500rpm when the tach indicates that red line is at 6,500rpm. how fucking hard is it to make sure every car's in game red line and the red line from the car's tach actually match? apparently, it's fucking impossible.
the second, and surprisingly more annoying thing is that they classify the car as german. yes, bmw does own mini. but i don't think that qualifies as the mini brand as a whole is now german. the mini challenge has three minis racing on a union jack, so obviously, someone at polyphony doesn't think so either. but, when you try to enter the car into the british lightweights series, you can't because minis are german. that would be like if i tried to enter a chrysler into an american series and i couldn't because they're italian. fiat owns them. fuck off.
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