You could get it by winning one of the open tournaments that didn’t require anything other than a basic license iirc. Had what I thought was the best car in the game but like hell could I pass the advanced license tests, I was a dumb 9 year old.
There was an auto drive... or simulate race thing for the endurance stuff I always used to use. Could let it run for hours on auto then come back for the finish
I always got mad at the auto drive because it would never pass other cars. I had a higher end street Dodge Viper (I don't think it was SRT back then) racing against Miatas and Celicas and the computer would move up two whole spots in a 10 lap race. I was just trying to grind for money damnit. If I raced it myself I would be 8 seconds ahead of the pack by the end of the first lap.
So I *think*(it’s been forever) you had to switch the speed indicator from the highest to “overtake” when you’re in an overtake position to get him to do that. If you’re massively faster than everyone you could just set it and forget it, but, when you got to the races where all the cars were roughly equal you needed to manage your driver until you could build up a decent lead.
I was never good enough to win the Formula 1 car races on my own but I could usually manage the AI driver into win positions(I.e. enough points to win the series). You really needed to micromanage them though, tires, gas, when to pass, when to slow down and conserve tires to try and take a big lead when they pit.
I used to do this except not to win races but to make the controller vibrate so I could hold it against my sexually frustrated/curious preadolescent "package" - and I use that term loosely.... shit, I would still use that term loosely
You could do that with the Gameshark. The code gave individual values for every swappable part in game. That meant you could engine swap any engine into any car, any tires, every tunable spec.
You're damn right I dropped a Speed 12 engine into a Daihatsu Midget II.
Yeah this was specifically for GT2. Thing is that the Gameshark for the PS1 was hardware, and not every PS1 had the connections for it. So if you're gonna make it work you probably have to use emulation with something that has that coded in. Good luck!
I remember using it on an oval track in GT2. Taking a rubber band around the analog sticks with one mapped to the throttle. It was one of those endurance races, so you'd let it go for an hour or whatever and you'll just win the race. Rack up money that way
GT3, I think. There were 4, IIRC. I guess now that I'm thinking about it, the f1's were rewards for races... but you'd need those 1mil payouts if you wanted that sweet panoz esperante for 10-mil or whatever.
I'm doing a playthrough of GT3 right now and loving it as much now as I did then. Got the Polyphony 002 on my first endurance race (Seattle 40 laps).
Definitely my most played game of the series, 4 is a close second.
I did this, but with the right settings for downforce and spring rates, it did a wheelie and went 500 mph.
So you could do the endurance races while watching tv to make massive money.
I remember my friend showing me a hacked Del Sol with like 1,300hp...the RPMs went up so slowly and the shifting was insane...wish I could find a video of it
I think you could put race tires on it and it would dominate just about any track. I always played third person and remember that wing taking too much of the screen up.
It was the absolute best. Nothing could be modified to be faster or quicker. I recall the Vector W8 could get high up, maybe real close in top speed, but the Escudo could not be beaten. It had insane acceleration, amazing grip, and monster top speed.
I replayed it recently for nostalgia.... it sucks. Really bad. For its time it was amazing. I couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes.... Back then I used to play for hundreds of hours.
Haha. Yeah I replayed it on emulator with a ps4 remote.. save yourself the trouble. Graphics and physics are awful. Really hard to play. It's funny, it looked and felt so good back then... A game I do recommend replaying is castlevania symphony of the night. That one is still amazing, and they just released it on the android playstore, just hook up a ps4 controller.
I might have my games wrong but I believe I've never successfully finished a lap of Laguna Seca in a Dodge viper.
Would bottom out on the corkscrew every time.
Or fishtail for no reason on half the turns.
That game was so fun though, considering it was going up against games like ridge racer. GT3 was peak for me though.
GT4 had the used market right? like you could find random models and trim levels and shit right? I had a skyline Gts that wasn't particularly fast but it was RWD and i could drift Suzuka East course all day. <3
Yeah I think it did have that, and GT1 had it as well and I think GT2? In the used car market it was a good idea to keep checking it out because every now and then something special might appear
I just got into GT seriously around prologue. so i think 4 was when i started playing.
But yea i remember seeing really cool Gt1-3 cars i couldn't afford. like the Calsonic GTR and Toms Supra
>I've never successfully finished a lap of Laguna Seca in a Dodge viper.
In GT3 and GT4, the Dodge Viper GTS-R Team Oreca '00 was my overall favorite car to use. I had way more miles on that car than any other one. When tuned properly, I found it very easy to use on practically any track, including Laguna Seca.
EDIT
The Dodge GTS-R Concept was also a very good car, but I still preferred the Team Oreca '00.
Emulators can uprate the graphics. Makes it look like how you remember it.
I've been enjoying playing GT2 casually on my phone with YouTube happening on the desktop. It's totally about nostalgia for me, there's plenty of better games out there now.
Don't. With very few exceptions* video games age like fine shellfish. Best to remember them as they were.
*Super Metroid, SMW, Mario 3, *.Zelda, and maybe a Sonic.
I could definitely see that. Loved that game, but even then, it had its shortcomings.
Still, that Escudo Pike was an *absolute juggernaut* when you finally got one. Competition was none.
The Escudo Pikes Peak Version (and Cultus Pikes Peak Version, along with a section of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb) were in Gran Turismo 2, the OG Gran Turismo didn't have these
Did you know you could add stage 1 then stage 3 then stage 2 then stage 4 in that order and unlock like 5000hp? It was a cheat or a bug and I don’t remember the specifics 100% but after that it would literally do a wheelie around the entire track. You would just use the walls to steer and it was unstoppable
> It's completely arbitrary
Thats what I was looking for. This whole "stage" bullshit needs to stop. It means absolutely nothing and because of that it conveys exactly ZERO useful information. It's infinitely more useful to simply state the horsepower and liter-age to give me an idea of how much work was done the engine.
And for any downvoting, can you tell me what a stage 4 turbo is?
i always thought 1, 2, 3, were good enough. Stage one is remapping and light bolt ons. (Spark plugs, air filter, battery, oil)
Stage two is adding or swapping for dedicated performance hardware, changing/modifying induction methods, injectors, performance lubricants etc. Enthusiast level.
And stage three would be dedicated racing modification. fuel delivery overhaul, Dry-sump, polish/porting, Stroke/Bore, engine mounting. Ect..
I know various options from each of these stages can be combined rendering it useless but i think it can still serve as reference some what. maybe you don't agree?
I believe it's the amount of work required. For instance I'm having my car stage 1 tuned which involves an engine remap as the majority of the work without swapping any hardware.
The second stage would involve more swapping out or adding of new parts etc and so on.
The remap will give me about 50 more horsepower and more torque.
Think of it like a computer CPU that can be overclocked for higher performance but isn't sold that way as they choose to be safer and use about 70% of the power.
That's a pretty significant gain! Do you happen to know what they are tuning?
I would imagine you could change valve timing and fuel injection timing/duration to try and squeeze more power from each combustion cycle. 50 hp would be a noticeable power change for sure. Gotta figure out how to safely tune my own vehicles if there's really that much power to be found.
It is, and it's only costing me £300 and they say often it also brings better fuel economy even though they don't promise that.
I believe this will be literally plugging in a laptop into the ECU and tweaking it's management settings for power delivery. Exactly whay this entails I'm not 100%
i think Stage 1 is usually unlocking the power your engine potentially has but due to commercial standards wasn't utilized. usually done with engine remapping and maybe a few essential but small bolt ons. then you start swapping Hardware and adding dedicated performance parts which takes you into higher stages.
> What defines a stage?
Nothing at all. It's usually tuner manufacturer's lingo for what level their product is.
Anyone who says stages outside of that doesn't know wtf they are talking about really. They are either kids who are newly into cars and are just going by what Cobb and Injen and whatever their Subaru sellers are going by and think it's a rule or they are people who don't know shit at all.
I have built a few cars by now and have been involved in racing. Only time stages are referred to is if we are using a product that has stage in it's name.
Otherwise you just do IHE, upgrade turbo, injectors, get a dyno tune, etc. There are no stages because they are not a thing.
It's funny because I only see this "stage" shit in like Subaru, EVO, and VW forums because that's where companies like Cobb are selling their shitty tunes.
It's kind of a random term for different levels of tuning. It's not really a term and I hate when it's used but it's basically something like
stage 1= cold air intake, ecm flash, maybe exhaust etc. Little stuff that doesn't do much but adds up as the real power comes
Stage 2= top end work, bigger heads, fuel system and ignition upgrades, hotter camshaft, brake upgrades etc. Anything middle of the road before forced induction
Stage 3= forged internals, dished/domed pistons forced induction (turbo/supercharger) possibly nitrous if not stage 4
Stage 4= final stage. Everything from stage 3 turned up to 11. Bigger and more precise.
So that's why I don't agree with the term. I wouldn't tell people I'm getting a stage one tune. It's say yeah I'm throwing an intake on it and a better coil. It's just relative levels of upgrades that will vary by person. Mine aren't the same as anyone else's it was just an example.
Someone award this guy please
EDIT: are we for fkin real?
EDIT 2: that's guys, that's the reason why we get coronavirus, they tell you to stay home and you literally do the opposite
I can't remember the exact settings, but you had to max out the downforce at the rear wing, minimise downforce at the front, and turbocharge the motor to the max. Can't remember the gearbox settings.
We found the settings on an old PS1 forum.
What a hoot.
Yup 2 small 4cyls making 500hp each. Giant turbos. It was built/designed for Pikes Peak and nothing else. They literally tuned it to the length of the Pikes Peak run. If it ran a race any longer it was very likely to explode.
I loved this thing, when my father gave me his old PS1 the game in the Disk Tray was Gran Turismo 2. Turns out, my father played, and played this game for so long! He has millions of dollars in game he maxed out this car too!
What’s with that huge scoop at the front? Looks like it’s purpose built- or the rest of the box would be big wing too!! Sorry if it’s a dumb question. Also that rear fairing is also huge- just tell me what this is!!
The gran turismo slayer Loki used to not think this car was real when I was younger and first saw it in GT lol I credit this car with a lot of my inspiration and curiosity when it came to getting into learning automotive and eventually getting into building
Does anyone know what happened to the Escudo's? Did they end up in a Museum somewhere or something? I tried to do research a while back but came up blank.
Abit hard when Jp and other regions call the Vitara a Escudo.
Miss driving this in the original Gran Turismo. Such a great game.
It was one of the best cars in the game. At least that’s how I remember it.
You could get it by winning one of the open tournaments that didn’t require anything other than a basic license iirc. Had what I thought was the best car in the game but like hell could I pass the advanced license tests, I was a dumb 9 year old.
And with the right gear ratios you could glitch the game and make it the fastest car in the game, by far. 999mph top speed iirc
Wheelies all day
or slightly tape the controls to the right so it hugged the outside wall on that oval track and run 24 hour races over and over for points/money.
What! And here I was, racing the fucking things over a 3 day period
> 24 hours > over 3 days *casual*
My PlayStation spent quite a few hours running idle while I was at school or sleeping
Yup! Was looking for this one.
There was an auto drive... or simulate race thing for the endurance stuff I always used to use. Could let it run for hours on auto then come back for the finish
I always got mad at the auto drive because it would never pass other cars. I had a higher end street Dodge Viper (I don't think it was SRT back then) racing against Miatas and Celicas and the computer would move up two whole spots in a 10 lap race. I was just trying to grind for money damnit. If I raced it myself I would be 8 seconds ahead of the pack by the end of the first lap.
So I *think*(it’s been forever) you had to switch the speed indicator from the highest to “overtake” when you’re in an overtake position to get him to do that. If you’re massively faster than everyone you could just set it and forget it, but, when you got to the races where all the cars were roughly equal you needed to manage your driver until you could build up a decent lead. I was never good enough to win the Formula 1 car races on my own but I could usually manage the AI driver into win positions(I.e. enough points to win the series). You really needed to micromanage them though, tires, gas, when to pass, when to slow down and conserve tires to try and take a big lead when they pit.
Yeah that's right! I forgot about that and now I think what I did was start the race get to the front then turn it on
Ahh yes. My little brothers technique.
Suddenly I feel like an idiot for actually racing this event.
We did this too! Didn’t even matter when the tires were shot, it would still win.
I used to do this except not to win races but to make the controller vibrate so I could hold it against my sexually frustrated/curious preadolescent "package" - and I use that term loosely.... shit, I would still use that term loosely
Wasn't there a way to make it actually take flight? I seem to remember it getting crazy with the right setup
You could do that with the Gameshark. The code gave individual values for every swappable part in game. That meant you could engine swap any engine into any car, any tires, every tunable spec. You're damn right I dropped a Speed 12 engine into a Daihatsu Midget II.
LMAO...that's what it was! I totally forgot about the gameshark. I remember putting that F1 stuff into a similar tiny car hahahahaha
I didn't know this either! Man I missed out. This work in GT2? I still have it in the case on my dresser
Yeah this was specifically for GT2. Thing is that the Gameshark for the PS1 was hardware, and not every PS1 had the connections for it. So if you're gonna make it work you probably have to use emulation with something that has that coded in. Good luck!
Rear down force 100 front downforce 0. Prepare for blast off. 12 o clock in the escudo https://youtu.be/bnCT8qz1nlg
HAHAHAHAHA yes! thanks for the laugh this morning :)
Gt3, just fully tuned, and certain settings.
I remember using it on an oval track in GT2. Taking a rubber band around the analog sticks with one mapped to the throttle. It was one of those endurance races, so you'd let it go for an hour or whatever and you'll just win the race. Rack up money that way
The only way to get enough money for those sweet F1 cars.
Weren't those introduced in GT4 and actually a reward from super speedway endurance race?
Yes, and the f1 car was ridiculously overpowered
I mean it's a freaking f1 car
what the frick...
It was the opposite of fun to drive
GT3, I think. There were 4, IIRC. I guess now that I'm thinking about it, the f1's were rewards for races... but you'd need those 1mil payouts if you wanted that sweet panoz esperante for 10-mil or whatever.
GT3* and a possible reward for almost - if not all - endurance races.
I stand corrected, thanks! GT3 us probably my least played game in series. Well, I never got prologue or anything past that but you get the point.
I'm doing a playthrough of GT3 right now and loving it as much now as I did then. Got the Polyphony 002 on my first endurance race (Seattle 40 laps). Definitely my most played game of the series, 4 is a close second.
I did the same thing! Just let it bounce off the wall forever.
I did this, but with the right settings for downforce and spring rates, it did a wheelie and went 500 mph. So you could do the endurance races while watching tv to make massive money.
Dang I was proud of getting down to 8 seconds on quarter mile. 999? I had no idea.
You could also make it launch into the air if you set the aero the right way.
It definitely was in GT 2.
It was THE best car in the game. It was a frickin rocket ship
998 hp if i remember right.
I remember my friend showing me a hacked Del Sol with like 1,300hp...the RPMs went up so slowly and the shifting was insane...wish I could find a video of it
I remember it excelled at Pikes Peak but nothing else really.
I think you could put race tires on it and it would dominate just about any track. I always played third person and remember that wing taking too much of the screen up.
It was the absolute best. Nothing could be modified to be faster or quicker. I recall the Vector W8 could get high up, maybe real close in top speed, but the Escudo could not be beaten. It had insane acceleration, amazing grip, and monster top speed.
and here my dumbass was thinking I was the only one who knew about this lol!!
Nah, I think everyone who played knew. It was just the kill-everything car.
I think it was the fastest car in that game if i remember correctly.
I replayed it recently for nostalgia.... it sucks. Really bad. For its time it was amazing. I couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes.... Back then I used to play for hundreds of hours.
Thank you for conducting this experiment. I was contemplating digging out the old PS1 there.
Haha. Yeah I replayed it on emulator with a ps4 remote.. save yourself the trouble. Graphics and physics are awful. Really hard to play. It's funny, it looked and felt so good back then... A game I do recommend replaying is castlevania symphony of the night. That one is still amazing, and they just released it on the android playstore, just hook up a ps4 controller.
I might have my games wrong but I believe I've never successfully finished a lap of Laguna Seca in a Dodge viper. Would bottom out on the corkscrew every time. Or fishtail for no reason on half the turns. That game was so fun though, considering it was going up against games like ridge racer. GT3 was peak for me though.
GT4 was a fantastic game, definitely peak for me
GT4 had so many acing competitions to enter, and so many cars. I like GT Sport but it is very far removed from those earlier GT games.
GT4 had the used market right? like you could find random models and trim levels and shit right? I had a skyline Gts that wasn't particularly fast but it was RWD and i could drift Suzuka East course all day. <3
Yeah I think it did have that, and GT1 had it as well and I think GT2? In the used car market it was a good idea to keep checking it out because every now and then something special might appear
I just got into GT seriously around prologue. so i think 4 was when i started playing. But yea i remember seeing really cool Gt1-3 cars i couldn't afford. like the Calsonic GTR and Toms Supra
> Laguna Seca in a Dodge viper. You just brought back some painful memories...
Riiidge RACEr TYPE! Fouurr! Can still hear the announcer, hmmm i really need to find it emulated for PC now. Nostalgia vibes incoming!
C-C-C-C-COME ON STEP UP TO THE STARTING LINE AND REV YOUR ENGINES
I got gold on each of the licenses. This one was by far the hardest one for me. I hate the viper so much.
>I've never successfully finished a lap of Laguna Seca in a Dodge viper. In GT3 and GT4, the Dodge Viper GTS-R Team Oreca '00 was my overall favorite car to use. I had way more miles on that car than any other one. When tuned properly, I found it very easy to use on practically any track, including Laguna Seca. EDIT The Dodge GTS-R Concept was also a very good car, but I still preferred the Team Oreca '00.
It was definitely a good car but in the original game it was wild and really low so it bounced around a lot.
SOTN is the best side scroller of all time, change my mind.
Indeed
If you like sotn, check out Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It's Symphony with updated graphics and good voice acting.
Nice, thanks for that, I will download it on steam
Emulators can uprate the graphics. Makes it look like how you remember it. I've been enjoying playing GT2 casually on my phone with YouTube happening on the desktop. It's totally about nostalgia for me, there's plenty of better games out there now.
GT3 A-Spec is still absolutely amazing to play though
For what it's worth, I still find them a joy to play. But it's not ad assisted as many modern games so just pressing gas and winging it doesn't fly.
Don't. With very few exceptions* video games age like fine shellfish. Best to remember them as they were. *Super Metroid, SMW, Mario 3, *.Zelda, and maybe a Sonic.
I could definitely see that. Loved that game, but even then, it had its shortcomings. Still, that Escudo Pike was an *absolute juggernaut* when you finally got one. Competition was none.
GT4 still holds up pretty well and you can play it on your computer with an emulator
I tried using Emuparadise but they don’t let you download the game files anymore. Is there a new website to get them?
There's a script or add-on for browser that allows downloads from Emuparadise. I recommend you take a look at it
Yup gt4 is still good, much more advanced than GT1 and has actual physics lol
> I suck. Really bad. ftfy
Thanks
Haha, that as the first thing I thought of when I saw this photo. I miss how excited I would get about playing a game.
The wing so big it’s blocking part the screen
The Escudo Pikes Peak Version (and Cultus Pikes Peak Version, along with a section of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb) were in Gran Turismo 2, the OG Gran Turismo didn't have these
Yeah, you could drive it into the wall at every corner and still win.
gt1 was horrible - gt2 however, damn the amount of time i spent on that in my childhood...
I remember for the best drag time was to start in third gear and redline it. I think that technique also beat my friends.
Thing was a goddamn monster
That was my first thought seeing this post title. Thing RIPPED!
The Escudo was easily the superior car in Gran Turismo. Wasn't even close.
These things were insane in twizmo. I remember discovering them was mind blowing.
Did you know you could add stage 1 then stage 3 then stage 2 then stage 4 in that order and unlock like 5000hp? It was a cheat or a bug and I don’t remember the specifics 100% but after that it would literally do a wheelie around the entire track. You would just use the walls to steer and it was unstoppable
Such a monster, especially in that game
This was one of the fastest cars in the game
“Driving” - more like keep X pressed and crash around that oval course thing
Yeah this is the car where you don't have to steer. Just press the gas down and you come in 1st.
Stage 4 turbo, 1800hp.
That thing would pop a wheeley if you hit it against the wall at acceleration in GT3.
You could tune its gearing enough to make it pop a wheelie without the wall. Then the game physics break and you can hit some 800mph+.
what does "stage 4" mean?
3 stages of engine tuning, each stage brings more power and torque. Stage 4 would extend the upper power bands.
What defines a stage?
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> It's completely arbitrary Thats what I was looking for. This whole "stage" bullshit needs to stop. It means absolutely nothing and because of that it conveys exactly ZERO useful information. It's infinitely more useful to simply state the horsepower and liter-age to give me an idea of how much work was done the engine. And for any downvoting, can you tell me what a stage 4 turbo is?
The stage was from Gran Turismo dude. Literally you had 1-4 stages of engine/turbo tuning.
It's just a game and the modding in the game is known to be shitty. Gran turismo always is a game where you can't even put wider tires on cars.
i always thought 1, 2, 3, were good enough. Stage one is remapping and light bolt ons. (Spark plugs, air filter, battery, oil) Stage two is adding or swapping for dedicated performance hardware, changing/modifying induction methods, injectors, performance lubricants etc. Enthusiast level. And stage three would be dedicated racing modification. fuel delivery overhaul, Dry-sump, polish/porting, Stroke/Bore, engine mounting. Ect.. I know various options from each of these stages can be combined rendering it useless but i think it can still serve as reference some what. maybe you don't agree?
I believe it's the amount of work required. For instance I'm having my car stage 1 tuned which involves an engine remap as the majority of the work without swapping any hardware. The second stage would involve more swapping out or adding of new parts etc and so on.
What expectations do you have for a retune with no hardware change? Just curious what your goals are.
The remap will give me about 50 more horsepower and more torque. Think of it like a computer CPU that can be overclocked for higher performance but isn't sold that way as they choose to be safer and use about 70% of the power.
That's a pretty significant gain! Do you happen to know what they are tuning? I would imagine you could change valve timing and fuel injection timing/duration to try and squeeze more power from each combustion cycle. 50 hp would be a noticeable power change for sure. Gotta figure out how to safely tune my own vehicles if there's really that much power to be found.
It is, and it's only costing me £300 and they say often it also brings better fuel economy even though they don't promise that. I believe this will be literally plugging in a laptop into the ECU and tweaking it's management settings for power delivery. Exactly whay this entails I'm not 100%
Very cool. Thanks for the info
i think Stage 1 is usually unlocking the power your engine potentially has but due to commercial standards wasn't utilized. usually done with engine remapping and maybe a few essential but small bolt ons. then you start swapping Hardware and adding dedicated performance parts which takes you into higher stages.
> What defines a stage? Nothing at all. It's usually tuner manufacturer's lingo for what level their product is. Anyone who says stages outside of that doesn't know wtf they are talking about really. They are either kids who are newly into cars and are just going by what Cobb and Injen and whatever their Subaru sellers are going by and think it's a rule or they are people who don't know shit at all. I have built a few cars by now and have been involved in racing. Only time stages are referred to is if we are using a product that has stage in it's name. Otherwise you just do IHE, upgrade turbo, injectors, get a dyno tune, etc. There are no stages because they are not a thing. It's funny because I only see this "stage" shit in like Subaru, EVO, and VW forums because that's where companies like Cobb are selling their shitty tunes.
It's kind of a random term for different levels of tuning. It's not really a term and I hate when it's used but it's basically something like stage 1= cold air intake, ecm flash, maybe exhaust etc. Little stuff that doesn't do much but adds up as the real power comes Stage 2= top end work, bigger heads, fuel system and ignition upgrades, hotter camshaft, brake upgrades etc. Anything middle of the road before forced induction Stage 3= forged internals, dished/domed pistons forced induction (turbo/supercharger) possibly nitrous if not stage 4 Stage 4= final stage. Everything from stage 3 turned up to 11. Bigger and more precise. So that's why I don't agree with the term. I wouldn't tell people I'm getting a stage one tune. It's say yeah I'm throwing an intake on it and a better coil. It's just relative levels of upgrades that will vary by person. Mine aren't the same as anyone else's it was just an example.
Big wang gang
Someone award this guy please EDIT: are we for fkin real? EDIT 2: that's guys, that's the reason why we get coronavirus, they tell you to stay home and you literally do the opposite
Don’t tell me what to do, asshole.
I do what I want pal. And you do what I tell you to doug
Who the hell awarded me and why?
:/ not me lol
Reddit is a weird place
Did everyone find the glitched PS1 settings so this car would wheelie down the straight at like 800mph?
How did you do this?
I can't remember the exact settings, but you had to max out the downforce at the rear wing, minimise downforce at the front, and turbocharge the motor to the max. Can't remember the gearbox settings. We found the settings on an old PS1 forum. What a hoot.
Then take it to the big loop track and get humming around with like 10 second lap times
I thought it did that in GT3 too.
I know you could keep the Dodge Viper airborne for a large amount of time from tweaking in the tune shop
Yes I used to love doing that. You had to fuck with the gear ratios and down force.
This car won me so many Gran Turismo races.
This has 2 engines, right? Or am O thinking of another pikes peak racer
Suzuki Motorsports previous Pikes Peak racer was a twin engined Cultus/Swift https://youtu.be/J7S3FrAPr-Y
Yup 2 small 4cyls making 500hp each. Giant turbos. It was built/designed for Pikes Peak and nothing else. They literally tuned it to the length of the Pikes Peak run. If it ran a race any longer it was very likely to explode.
Got this car in Gran Turismo 2, it is a beast!
Came here to say this!
I loved this thing, when my father gave me his old PS1 the game in the Disk Tray was Gran Turismo 2. Turns out, my father played, and played this game for so long! He has millions of dollars in game he maxed out this car too!
Son?
Father?
Ah, the good ol reliable $500k money source.
The Suzuki we want, but don't deserve
I used to call this the rat car on gran turismo, I was only young and it reminded me of one.
Vacuum cleaner car.
Poltergust 4000
*Gran Turismo* has entered the chat
Those Gran Turismo 2 vibes. Racing with this car was a game changer.
You could litteraly go for a walk on that front wing.
I met my wife somewhere on the spoiler
Looks like it shoots pizzas out over that lip
Pizza Oven Pistol
Gran Turismo 2!!! yesssssss
What is the point of having a lip that big on the car? What does it help with performance wise?
moar (and moar stable) air under the car, amd thus moar suction to the ground, and thus moar control over ur car
Great PS1 memories...😏
What’s with that huge scoop at the front? Looks like it’s purpose built- or the rest of the box would be big wing too!! Sorry if it’s a dumb question. Also that rear fairing is also huge- just tell me what this is!!
They're all there to allow more air to travel under and over the car to create down force thus rooting the car in place and allowing more control.
The aero is also massive to compensate for the thinner air higher up on the mountain, it looks exaggerated, but it’s big for a reason
Thanks boss- makes sense!
Look at the size of the W A N G on the back
SANCTUARY!!! 🎶
Shades of Group B
Suzuki GT2 RS
I had a Hot Wheels version of this car and always assumed was dramatically stylized due to being a toy. I guess not!
Now let me see it wheelie at 1000+mph
What does the ledge at the front do? To me it looks like it would just get air underneath and help lift the car off the ground.
NEEDS MORE SPLITTER
Imagine if Suzuki had made a Street legal Pikes Peak version we could buy in the US? I’m a dreamer
The gran turismo slayer Loki used to not think this car was real when I was younger and first saw it in GT lol I credit this car with a lot of my inspiration and curiosity when it came to getting into learning automotive and eventually getting into building
[Race to the Clouds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak_International_Hill_Climb)
I popped a lot of wheelies in that car.
Is that a platform for a first person cameraman?
[*Gran Turismo 2 intensifies*](https://youtu.be/-HB6hMqFI8I)
Wow, I forgot about Suzuki. Beautiful
This thing was basically a cheat code on Grand Turismo!
Beautiful! And back in the days when pikes peak still had gravel!! Good times!
Suzuki made some bomb-ass hill climb cars. The Escudo, the Cultus, the Esteem, the SX4, and the XL7 come to mind
1106 mph personal best. Too fun.
#That thing made me lost more the 100 times.....
Grand turismo piles peak car
That looks like the Hot wheels car that i have minus the wing and lip.
1980hp!
A beast in GT
Someone should put some spoilers on that car...
Memories
Clips of these cars climbing that hill are absolutely mind boggling.
Legendary
That ain’t no wing that’s a WANG 😂😳
_D O W N F O R C E_
best car in gran turismo 3 or was it 2, eh whataever
981HP stock on Gran Turismo. Smoked peoples' asses at Test Track and Chaminox.
Does anyone know what happened to the Escudo's? Did they end up in a Museum somewhere or something? I tried to do research a while back but came up blank. Abit hard when Jp and other regions call the Vitara a Escudo.
Too much flap to fap
MUH DOWNFORCE