Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27095714-20160706070519/@comment-28753807-20160910000455

At one point, Acura was supposed to be the top line Honda. Some ran on premium gas (petrol...). I don't know about them, though. I buy Dodge. Minivans.

Oh, and as for NASCAR... they are SUPPOSED to be the same. Rules make them the same, so driver skill makes the difference, not dollars. As it turns out, race teams spend a lot of dollars doing all they can to bend the rules to give their driver/car any advantage they can.

I was watching a race and the announcers pointed out that a skirt at the bottom of the body was supposed to be straight, in line with the body panel. The car had bumped against the track and bent the skirt at the bottom, so it flared out some. That 'flare' helped the aerodynamics of the car. The rules stated the body can't be shaped that way, but the engineers had fashioned the bottom of the body panel to flare out, when it bumped the track to a perfect flare to help the driver. When the car started, it passed the inspection. As it raced, it improved itself through natural means. Of course, NASCAR will make new rules to stop that kind of 'engineering' and call it cheating, all in the name of keeping the cars equivalent to all the other cars on the track.

Ok, time to start the Gauntlet....