Cars
The game does not use licensed names of cars (because of the presence of car damage and police chase), but the makes and models are easily identifiable.
Each team (nation) has their set of three unique vehicles: sportscar, sedan and SUV. This does not always mean that the nation in question had manufactured the respective car, for example the Dutch team uses British and Swedish cars. In addition, the player can unlock a bonus car, so the number of drivable vehicles totals to 25.
There is an array of traffic and police cars on every track as well, models varying from country to country.
The civilian vehicles were also based on real models but they weren't as detailed as the drivable cars. These cars were easy to smash out of the way, meaning players wouldn't have to worry about their obstruction as much as if they were heavily weighted. One part of the Marseilles map made players drive through a car park, this wouldn't be possible if the cars were heavier.
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Famous quotes containing the word cars:
“When, at rare intervals, some thought visits one, as perchance he is walking on a railroad, then, indeed, the cars go by without his hearing them. But soon, by some inexorable law, our life goes by and the cars return.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“I looked, there was nothing to see but more long streets and thousands of cars going along them, and dried-up country on each side of the streets. It was like the Sahara, only dirty.”
—Mohammed Mrabet (b. 1940)