VIP Payday!

[Detrick]

Vote for the next VIP gift car.....

http://forzamotorsport.net/en-us/VIP_Gift_Battle.aspx

Duh, vote for the Ferrari.  She's worth a whole lot more......   

[Blooze]

Whoops...

...now in order to keep these polls about the cars and not about the sell-back value, each car featured in our polls will have a set sell-back value in order to avoid skewing the results.

Voted Ferrari anyways because the Ford costs less...  

I already have both of these, but that's cool - they are worthy of duplication...

Heavens, Turn 10 is really gonna mess with my car count...

...also this week will will be gifting two painted cars to the VIPs, one Jalopnik sponsored car done by Ayo Jube and a Toy Soldier inspired car done by phredesign. Make sure to check the Weekly Community Update on Friday to see more images of the cars that will be making their way to the garage of all the Forza VIPs.


Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but...

I sure wish I knew what the driving force behind this is...

Oh, and the hew and cry from the Daught GNet non-LCE masses is going to be Biblical...  What a Hoot.

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[fndrbndr]

Well, now I know to hold off on buying either of these til gift day lol

[barumba]

The 330 P4 gave me fits in FM2. I hated that car, it held me up in career for weeks. Could not get it around the 'ring in stock config, until Blooze tipped me off to a tire width upgrade that I could "get away with". Anyway, never to back down from a challenge (I am Irish, after all) and I must be a glutton for punishment, so I voted for the Ferrari. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

[BarbecuePete]

The 330 P4 gave me fits in FM2. I hated that car, it held me up in career for weeks. Could not get it around the 'ring in stock config, until Blooze tipped me off to a tire width upgrade that I could "get away with". Anyway, never to back down from a challenge (I am Irish, after all) and I must be a glutton for punishment, so I voted for the Ferrari. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I wouldn't worry to much Barumba, both the Ferrari and the Ford are pussy cats to drive in 3 compared to 2. I had no end of troubles with those stock Legends races in 2 as well but we took a room of stock P330's around Le Mans the other night and they're great fun, in car view is great too, kinda like driving a fish bowl.. 

I also voted Ferrari, an 11 million Cr. saving sounds good to me. 

[Blooze]

BBQ is right - those are a lot better to drive this time around. 

They had some sort of device like -  Friction Ratio x 80 percent - back in that other game cause there was no way all of those cars could have been that squirrelly.  Like the Chevelle, no way!  Granted it was a monster, but impossible to drive without burning rubber through the first two gears?  Not likely...

Those Legends races and the Time Trial on New York with the GT40...  another nightmare.

Anyway, whatever they did last time, they un-did this time.  RWD cars are actually fun to mess with again instead of like pulling teeth...

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[barumba]

I should take a look around the paddock more often with the lights on. I just checked my stable and it would seem I have both those cars. For the life of me I don't know if I got them via car pack purchase, was gifted through T10 download, or if I acquired them through levelling up.

Anyway, I have both, so needless to say I took them for a spin. WOW, what a difference from the same cars in FM2. There is still a tendency in the P4 to be tail happy and in the GT to peel out without much effort, but still, there is a hope in hell of manhandling these rigs like never before.

Best of all, I can unclench my third eye when I get behind the wheel.

[TheJohnNewton]

Hey I'm a VIP now too.     I was out of the country when the game came out so I didn't pre-order.  Was glad to see they sent me all the VIP cars too.  It seems weird the Sidewinder and test tracks are for pay content now though.  I thought those would always come with the regular game.

[BarbecuePete]

There's a new VIP gift car poll running:

1999 Lamborghini Diablo GTR

VS

1999 Pagani Zonda C12


Voting was at 50% / 50% just now...

I'm not really that bothered about either of them so I went for the Zonda as I use cockpit view and it has a better interior. 

[TheJohnNewton]

I voted for the Lambo because I don't have one.

[Fit4aking]

Zonda for me too.  I'm really not that thrilled with the the Lambo's short of the Miura.  Must be a personal preference thing.

Congrats to all that have taken the opportunity to buy in to the VIP program.  I can't tell you how beneficial it has been.  Selling the Strassenversion pulled me out of a credit crunch and now I have a 330 to use as I please!  It will definitely add a car to my list that I won't have to shell out a ton-o-cash for.

[Spiny Anteater]

OK, guess who but in a bid for a Zonda in the AH last night Guess I'd better hope someone outbid me

[Drift2XL]

Next two cars are up for Week 3.

GT3 Flying Lizard 911 vs. GT3 F430 Risi Competizione

Chances are good either one would get sold back due to the fact that they both are gifted in game. I still have both and other than the considerable amount of time I spent tuning the 911. They both are handfuls to drive. Porsche a little less. I don't need the extra car in either roster to make the 50% off discount.

The Panoz LMGT is still the fastest of the true R3 cars. Fantastic, once you tune it softer to bite out of the turns. 

[Blooze]

I wonder at that, but if they wanted to get people voting on the merits of the car, use a couple of them that all but the nooby-est already have.   I have spent time with both cars, and got the most in return from the Porsche.   The Ferrari has joined the ranks of the unmanagable MR cars that is growing in my garage.

So, do you think they will use this venue to leak all of the top 4 down to us?

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[Fit4aking]

Picked up a 330P4 for around 200k on the AH, now I have two.  I immediately stashed the cheapey in the back of the garage to pull out in a month or so when the prices go back up.  Heck even a 500k buyout would be over 100% profit.

It seems that the voting public is swarming to the highest value cars instead of what they would be passionate about.  In my opinion, those people are doing it wrong.  I'd rather have a free car that I actually want to drive and will use than some high value car that I'm going to flip for pennies on the AH.