Super Speed Car Pack: The Other Guys

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And the Trial.

Back to Mexico this afternoon to deal with the latest daily and try out the other new cars from the Super Speed Car Pack.

The Elemental RP1 has 6/9 for tuning. Astounding grip and turning to the point where I was taking the more benign corners in Copper Canyon in 6th gear. The main issue is the lack of power stock, but this is, I feel, my new favourite road-legal superlight. It also has a very sexy wing.

The KTM X-Bow GT2 is 8/9 for tuning. It’s very similar to the Elemental, but not quite as much grip and turn-in. It could do with a bit more power. In the races I tried, the KTM X-Bow GT2 proved to be a right pest, but mine was tuned. This is, though, a decent car to drive and a worthy addition to the game. I believe that KTM is Austrian. Perhaps someone can explain why such a car has an American dashboard.

I wasn’t planning on driving the 2022 VW Golf R, but I thought I’d do the Trial anyway, and since that was B700 VW, I took this rather dubious inclusion to the Super Speed Car Pack to the racetrack. The Stadium Circuit seemed to start well enough until I got shoved out of an early checkpoint by some incompetent teammate and had to do a recovery drive, finishing in third to ensure a victory. The race round Tierra Próspera did not go well. I managed a third (just) after trailing the three drivatars that were ahead of me for most of the event, but one of my teammates languished at the back (a bit of a theme for that player) and my other teammate never managed an overtake. Round Los Jardines, my only teammate who seemed to have an ounce of skill managed to get to first place and I took second, thus ensuring a victory overall. And I got a really good wheel spin afterwards.

As for the 2022 Golf, it’s a nose-heavy barge (I managed to apply some weight reduction) which is prone to understeering unless you slow down for corners. I kept sliding into walls round Tierra Próspera because I was pushing the car too hard on tyres that had little effective grip.

Overall, three of the cars in the Super Speed Car Pack make this a worthwhile purchase, but the Golf R is a bit of an odd inclusion, which is why I wonder whether it’s a marketing/advertising car. We already have the 2021 Golf, and this model probably doesn’t really add anything much over that.

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