Car Review Thread

[leepangfu]

Welcome to the car review thread. The pictures below are links to the reviews. L, H and F stand for the criteria the cars are judged on. L being looks, H is handling and F stands for how fun the car is to drive. The total score is the average of these three. I should add that my reviews are my opinions and they can vary from yours so don't feel offended if you don't agree with me.

Open for everyone to review a car.

This thread is open for everyone to review a car on. Try making an effort out of it. I won't add too small reviews to the first post. If you want a picture link ask me and send me a photo if the car has a special color or if the car is tuned. I won't add the times of other reviewers to my leaderboards as I use them on a different forum as well. If you want your own leaderboards send me the links and I will add them to the first post.

Cars reviewed so far
The pictures below are links to the reviews

[leepangfu]

Seen a couple of these threads and thought it might be fun to do. Gives me a reason to test some cars I normally don't use and judge them. Will be a little bit more detailed when the test track comes out but I was bored so it was time to play some GT5 Here's my first.

Opel Corsa Comfort 1.4 '01

This car is the closest thing in the game to the first car I owned. I owned a '97 Corsa 1.4 Sport which had about the same specs. But mine weighed about 100 kg less if the specs I found on the internet are good. I remember it as a fun car to drive. It was easy in the corners, but it lacked speed. I owned it when I was 18 and only really drove in my own city so for that kind of driving it was ideal.

My time with this car came to an abrupt ending when I had to bring someone home after a night of rain and hail and I slided and crashed into a parked car at 30 km/h. Somehow the engine got damaged and it was total loss. So one thing I want to test in the game is how it drives in the rain.

SPECS

90 HP
998 kg
315 pp
Standard Tyres: Comfort Normal
12.037 km on the clock.

I chose not to do an oil change or engine restoration because the car I drove had a similar mileage and horsepower.

LOOKS

It doesn't look special. Just a normal hatchback. The stock wheels are aweful. They are the first thing I'm going to change if I drive it again. It doesn't look bad, but like I said: There's nothing special about it. I remember that my car looked pretty modern when comparing it to cars from the same year and class.

SOUND

It sounds nothing like the real car. I think the sound is a bit too loud for a slow car like this.

TESTS

Test 1: Nurburgring Nordschleife Variable Weather/Time lap time

Time for it's first test. The Nurburgring. Being a small and affordable german car I expect this car gets driven a lot at the Ring in real life. I've heard from people who went there who got overtaken by a Corsa while there were driving a much faster car.

So I started the free run. It was around 5:30am and no rain or surface water. Ideal conditions to test the car. The car drives as simple in the game as the real one did. I had no problems with understeer and set a clean time in my first lap. Only went a little bit off track once in the corner which is called Eschbach I think but quickly went back on the track. The car reached a top speed of 172 km/h on the straight. The fastest I've reached with my car was 185 km/h on a empty highway at 3 in the morning so that is something I would like to test again when the test track is released.

The final time on the Nurburgring Nordschleife was: 10:09,476. As you can see it's not a fast car, but it's easy and quite fun to drive.

Test 2: Suzuka in full rain

Next up is the rain test. A slippery road meant the end of my car so let's see if I can control it in the game. The track to test this is Suzuka. With a lot of corners, 100% surface water, grip set to real and rain it should be the ultimate test.

The first thing I noticed was that it was a standard car, so it had no windscreen wipers. After crashing in the first corner because I couldn't see it I switched to the bumper cam and restarted. The rain proved to be no problem for the Corsa. The car handled very nicely and after 3 laps without going off track I decided to stop. It set a time of 3:14,102. So either my driving skills increased, slippery tracks are badly simulated or the road was icy the day I crashed.

Test 3: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

Time for the final test, a lap with a standing start on the Top Gear Test Track. It's a bit like the reasonably priced cars so I expect it to do the lap in about 1:40-1:45.

Well, it did it in 1:45,938. Great lap apart from a strange line through hammerhead because I braked too late.

FINAL VERDICT

This car will always be special to me. It was the first car I owned. It was my grandpa's car and I got it when he died. I'm suprised I didn't use it before but now I'm sure I will use it more often. The handling on this car is great. It's missing speed so I think I'll put some more power in it and change the ugly wheels and hope it doesn't lose it's handling. It's sound is strange for a car this slow and it doesn't look that good but still it's a great car to drive. Even the rain doesn't stop it from taking corners without a problem. It's exactly how I remembered it, apart from the rain. I'll give it a final score of:

13/20

Later I will review a tuned version. I think I will like it a lot more if it was a bit faster.

[leepangfu]

Citroen C4 Coupe 2.0VTS '05

Next up is the car my father had when I was getting my drivers license. I sometimes took it for a drive to practice and also driven it after I had my license when I got the chance. What I remember most about this car was how easy this car was to drive. I could turn the steering wheel with one finger. Of course that's something I can't test in game. Same with how comfortable the car was. So I will focus my tests on handling.

There is a big difference between the car in the game and the one my father had. He had the 1.6 or the 1.8 version. I couldn't find anything about the 1.8 version so I decided to get close to the specs of the 1.6 version. That meant decreasing the horsepower from 170 to 110, but I could also decrease the weight to 1175 kg.

SPECS

110 hp
1175 kg
341 pp
Fresh from the dealership so no mileage on this one.
Standard Tyres: Comfort Soft

LOOKS

I always liked how this car looked. It had some special stuff that seperated it from other cars. Like the steering wheel where the middle doesn't turn and the digital see-throught speedometer. What I also liked about this coupe model was the back with the very small window and another one on top. The headlights look great too.

SOUND

What I remembered most about the sound of this car was well.. the lack of it. This car was so quiet. If you drove it how you should when you want to spare fuel you wouldn't hear the engine. Testing this was hard because the car in the game has a 2.0 engine. It made more sound than the one I drove did so that was no suprise. The big suprise was the very annoying sound it made in the game when stationary. I can't describe it but you should check for yourself. I never heard this sound coming from the real car.

TESTS

Test 1: Nurburgring Nordschleife Variable Weather/Time lap time

Another car that drives like I remember it. Even easier to drive than the Corsa and a bit faster aswell. Didn't have any problems with driving clean so also finished this in one lap. The lap was in the night so I think it's safe to say that the handling of this car is great.

It had some problems going uphill. I can't know if this was a problem with the real one aswell as there are no elevation changes in The Netherlands. It's probably because I've lowered the power but didn't lower the top speed. I didn't do this to compensate the extra torque it had compared to the real one.

Forgot to look at the top speed but I think it was around 190. I never tried to drive real fast in the real car but I remember my brother saying he reached 200 in it so that's something I will have to try on the new test track.

9:38,667

Test 2: Checking if there's understeer in Monaco

If there is one track that really punishes understeer in GT5, it's Monaco. Understeer will send you into the walls there. So let's try it with this car.

I definately found some understeer in this car. Not much and it only seems to be a problem when taking tight corners at speeds lower than 70 km/h. The last corner before the tunnel and the second to last corner proved to be problematic sometimes. But overall it wasn't that bad and most of the laps I would not notice it. Did a laptime of 2:09,628.

Test 3: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

A great car for this track. It follows the lines perfectly. Bentley and Follow-through were taken with full speed and no hint of understeer on this track. Not even in the slow Hammerhead where it was very easy to stay on the inside of the corner. Was able to take the last two corners pretty fast so ended up with a time of: 1:38,239, beating the Corsa by more than 7 seconds.

CONCLUSION

Another car with a biased view from me. And I also liked this one. It's a low pp car so it's not hard to drive. It is a fun car to drive because of the lack of understeer. I ended up doing over 15 laps on Monaco when testing the understeer and never thought about checking the time or laps to see if I should stop.

I like how it looks, especially the interior. It definately misses power. Shown by the way it struggled to get uphill on the Nurburgring and Monaco but on a flat track like the Top Gear track it's a great car to drive. I drive without the racing line but I think it would be very easy to follow it when it's on. The final score is:

16/20

[leepangfu]

Aston Martin V12 Vanquish '04

Next up is a car that I have no experiences with in real life. I've seen it once when I was at a car show but never heard the sound or seen it drive in real life. So my Sound comparison will be based on YouTube videos if I find some and shouldn't be taken too serious.

I did hear and see it drive in the James Bond movie: Die Another Day. Seeing it in that movie made it my dreamcar for a while. For those who haven't seen the movie. This car can be invisible and shoots rockets while driving on ice. This is not Mario Kart so I won't be able to test how well it shoots other cars and apart from an invisible interior we are lucky enough to see this beautiful car. I also can't test it's handling on ice because GT5 doesn't allow me to put Snow Tyres on it.

SPECS

Max Power: 487 hp at 7000 rpm
Weight: 1835 kg
Performance Points: 509
Max Torque: 566 Nm at 5500 rpm
Sport Hard tyres

LOOKS

This car looks great. All Aston Martin's do in my opinion. The lines on this car are amazing.The hood with the middle bit heightened gives it a strong look. The back somehow seems wider than the front because of the abrupt change in the line behind the door. But when you look closer you'll see that that front and back are the same width. From the side it looks like it's going fast without moving because of the window and the (don't know how to describe it in English) the line accessory over the vent (?). The only thing I really don't like is the thick black line around the headlights. Maybe I'll paint the car black so I don't see them anymore.

SOUND

The sound in the video's I've found seems a bit louder and a lower tone than the one in the game. I'm not going to comment to much basing it on YouTube videos. I do like the sound in the game. Watching the replay with the surround sound on sounded great.

TESTS

Test 1: Nurburgring Variable Weather/Time lap time

Seemed like the game knew it failed on me because I couldn't test the car on snow because when I loaded up Nurburgring it was raining with 100% surface water. The closest I will get to snow and ice with this car.

My problem started in the very first corner. After two cars in the 300pp range I forgot the power of normal supercars. I barely held it on the track and continued with care. The Vanquish is an FR car so I expected oversteer. It was controllable oversteer though. Being easy on the throttle made sure I could get through most corners without a problem.

The first real troubles started at Schwedenkreuz (thanks Google), the fast corner before the corner with the gravelpit before the second sector split. I didn't manage to keep it on track and slammed into the wall. Ending my 2 lap clean streak I had build up with the slow cars.

Other than that there weren't real troubles with this car. Fast corners with the wet track were really fun to take. Letting go off the throttle for less than a second followed by full gas made sure you could slide a bit through them which is fun to do, but probably scary as hell if you try that in real life.

The second mistake was in corner before the straight with a banking like in Karussel. I couldn't get on the banking followed by a sort of a drift to regain the line. The really fast corner after the splittime on the straight was the best moment with this car. With the method I explained above this corner was a real blast to take at over 270 km/h. I really thought I would go off track but the car was great. Ended the lap with a time of 8:33,969 in the red.

In the second lap the rain had stopped and the lap started at 99% surface water. Knowing the handling of the car now it was a great lap. Coming up on Schwedenkreuz again it seemed like I was going to hit the wall again when I had 3 wheel in the grass but the car suprisingly got out of it and I could take the next corner with ease.

I continued through the fun fast sections again and managed to get onto the banking this time.

I was a bit more cautious in the fast corner at the straight dropping just below 270km/h and managed a clean lap ending at 84% surface water with a time of: 8:28,573.

Test 2: Controlling the oversteer in London.

I was thinking oversteer would be the biggest problem of this car so I took it to a city track with slow corners. After a couple of laps I found out that oversteer wasn't the problem. It was very easy to control and was only there if you tried to go full throttle through the slow corners.

The main problem was it's understeer while braking. You really need to have a good braking point. The corners that gave most problems were the two 90 degree corners. Braking too late and hard will cause it to understeer away from your line and braking too early means you will have to be careful with the throttle to not drift throught the corners. After a couple of laps you will find the braking points and should have no problem getting this car around the track. Best lap time was: 59,906

Test 3: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

Time for this cars second test in the UK. The real Vanquish did the track in 1:36,2. That seems a bit slow to me. The Vanquish S did it in 1:27,1.

Had some troubles getting a clean lap with this car. The other two I've reviewed only took one try to get a lap. But here I had some problems. First I braked too early and bumped into the tyres in Chicago. After that I understeered into the invisible wall at Bentley because I wanted to take it too fast. And after that I oversteered onto the final straight and spun out after going too fast through Follow-Through.

But the clean lap was great. A little oversteer in Chicago followed by a completely controlled Hammerhead. Bentley was no problem braking a bit which made it possible for me to take followthrough at full speed. Got two wheels on the grass in the last corners which slowed me down a bit but managed a time of: 1:22,628. A bit fast comparing it to the real world times.

CONCLUSION

I'm glad I chose another great car to review. Being a dreamcar of mine meant I had pretty high standards judging it. I like the sound in the game and I knew it looks good so I was more interested in the handling because I probably never get to test that in real life.

The laps on Nurburgring were amazing. I can advice anyone to take it onto a full wet track and enjoy the fast corners, especially the last one. It does have some problems with handling though as seen on the other two tracks. Oversteer at low speed and understeer when braking hard. The oversteer is really easy to control but you need to study a tracks braking points to not experience the understeer.

Final score is: 16/20. Yea, I just gave a Vanquish the same score as a Citroen C4. Although it's ofcourse a much better car I was biased with the first 2 reviews because I liked the cars in real life and biased review scores shouldn't be taken too serious :P The Aston is a very good looking car and fun to drive. Can't wait for the V12 Vantage!

[leepangfu]

Toyota Prius G '09

Now let's make a big jump from cars I like to one I really don't, the Prius. You see more and more of them and I always laugh a bit when I remember a thing I once heard about the production of the Prius. The production of this car causes more emission gases than it saves because of the hybrid system. I don't know if it's true, just something I've heard. I want to try out this car in the hope that it suprises me in some way. Maybe it's fun to drive. You never know.

SPECS

Max power: 101 hp at 5000 rpm
Weight: 1350 kg.
Performance Points: 337
Max Torque: 145 Nm at 4500 rpm
Comfort Normal tyres

LOOKS

Even though it shares some lines with the C4 it has a completely different style. If I had to compare the front with a face I would call it a babyface. It just looks like it's too nice with the small lights and the small grill. The back also has a small window like the C4 but this is a lot smaller and I don't really see the purpose of it. The car just hasn't got any special details that makes me like it.

SOUND

Not too much words on the sound. There hardly is any sound and it's boring and mindnumbing.

TESTS

Test 1: Nurburgring Variable Weather/Time lap time

The track conditions were good. No rain or surface water. Started my first lap thinking I would only have to do 1 lap like the other two low pp cars but the Prius had different plans. It took me three laps to set a clean lap. Combined with the time setting set at 30 it meant I got to see the sunrise and beginning of sunset.

The first two laps were just awful. This car has some serious bad brakes and strange unpredictable understeer. One moment you're taking corner after corner thinking: This car drives pretty good. The next moment you're scraping the wall again. It's like there's a little devil inside hiding and waiting for the right moment to kill some trees but lucky for them the car gets stopped by the guardrails. Here are some pictures to describe the first two laps.

For the third lap I knew I had to do something different before I ended up doing a lot more laps in this car. I thought that I might be distracted because I didn't like the car so I switched to bumper cam and put my headphones with some music on. It helped in some way but also did something that shouldn't happen.

People who drive will know the feeling when they suddenly realise they have been driving without really knowing what they did in the last minutes. That feeling happened with me in the Prius, I was just listening to the music and not really paying attention to how I was driving. Don't get me wrong. I think it's special that something like that happens in the game, but it shouldn't happen on an exciting track like the Nurburgring. It did help me get a clean lap although it was slower than the two before filled with crashes.
Lap
1: 9:52,052
2: 9:45.928
3: 9:54,098

Here's how the car looked after the three laps. Guess the money you save on fuel goes to new bodywork

Test 2: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

As you can see I skipped to what normally is test three. After half an hour on the Ring I just had enough of this car and wanted to get it over with. I hoped it would suprise me with it's handling, but it didn't. I don't think another test will change my mind.

Took me two tries to get a clean lap. Ended up in the invisble wall just before the finish in the first try. The handling of this car is just strange. I went wide in Chicago followed by a great line through Hammerhead. Bentley and Follow-through could be taken at full speed and at the end the understeer returned again. Well it did it in: 1:43,057.

CONCLUSION

I started this test hoping I would like it. But I'm sad to say that I didn't like it. If this is supposed to be the future of cars I am scared. It's not that I hate hybrids. The new NSX concept looks like a great car. It just that I hate the Prius. The looks are boring. The sound is boring. The handling is unpredictable and the brakes are bad.

Slow cars can be fun to drive, but they need to have no understeer, or at least understeer than you can predict and control. Sometimes the handling was good and then you start to think: Why doesn't it handle like this the whole time while running into the guardrails again. It took me 2 laps to take a 490 HP FR clean around the Ring on a full wet track where the first lap only had 2 mistakes. I needed 3 laps filled with mistakes for a clean one in a 101 hp FF car. I think it's safe to say the handling on the Prius is bad. This was a test and it failed bad, it had it's moments like the line through Hammerhead, but I can't do anything else than giving it a bad grade: 7/20.

Love this photo by the way. It looks like The Stig doing a facepalm: ''Why the hell am I driving this car.''

[Yohaan93]

Awesome thread! Nice reviews too!

I must say, i was contemplating something like this for a while...

May i contribute? i would love to write some quality articles about the cars in GT5!

If i may, i'd also like to add a 'recommendations' section, since i do various tunes for my cars, i want to share some of my tweaking to increase their intended driving purpose. Maybe something like, go for this part, avoid this part, setup suspension this way for flip flop and adjust drivetrain for bleep bloop...

Doing some popular cars might be a great way to enhance the experience of more players in GT5!
Do you mind? =)

Great idea and execution! Jolly good sir.

- Yohaan

[leepangfu]

Originally Posted by Yohaan93

Awesome thread! Nice reviews too!

I must say, i was contemplating something like this for a while...

May i contribute? i would love to write some quality articles about the cars in GT5!

If i may, i'd also like to add a 'recommendations' section, since i do various tunes for my cars, i want to share some of my tweaking to increase their intended driving purpose. Maybe something like, go for this part, avoid this part, setup suspension this way for flip flop and adjust drivetrain for bleep bloop...

Doing some popular cars might be a great way to enhance the experience of more players in GT5!
Do you mind? =)

Great idea and execution! Jolly good sir.

- Yohaan

Yea sure I called it Car Review Thread for a reason My thread on GTplanet is for me alone but here I hoped others would contribute too. There's one thing though. I will not add the TGTT times (if there are any) of others to the Lap Time board because you can't compare different drivers and I use it on my other thread too.

If you have any request I'll be happy to take them after I am done with reviewing the DLC cars that come out tomorrow. Just finished another one which I will post now.

[leepangfu]

Opel Corsa OPC

Tuned Opel Corsa Comfort 1.4 '01

I ended my first review about the Corsa saying that I would probably like it more if it was a bit faster. So I thought I would test that. Opel’s fastest cars are their OPC cars. I looked for the specs of the 2007 Opel Corsa OPC and tried to adjust my Corsa to that one. I got to more than double the amount of horsepower and got very close to the 230 Nm that were advertised with mine having 231 Nm. I did have to add the maximum amount of ballast to get closer to the ’07 OPC’s weight. I upgraded the tyres one notch to the Comfort Soft tyres. The specs of my Opel OPC are found below and under that you can find the tuning I’ve done on it in the spoiler tag. I’m not good at tuning so don’t expect something special.

I will skip the looks and sound but it does look better now with the new wheels. I couldn’t find a colour to match the blue one most Opel OPC’s have so I chose the closest blue one from Opel I could find. I’ll be doing the Nurburgring and TGTT tests only with this car to find out if it’s still as fun to drive as the stock Corsa and I hope it is improved.

SPECS

Max Power: 192 hp at 5900 rpm
Max Torque: 231 Nm at 5400 rpm
Weight: 1198 kg
Performance Points: 394
Comfort Soft tyres

Tuning specifics:

Spoiler! (click here to reveal)

Parts added: (my game is in Dutch so I don’t know the English names) Engine stage 3 ECU upgrade Intake upgrade Race Air filter All the exhaust improvements High RPM turbo (the medium I initially wanted gave too much torque) Added all of the customizable parts. Couldn’t get a 6-speed transmission which the real OPC has Ballast: 200 at 48 Power Limiter: 92.2% Gears: Think I only changed the topspeed to 240 km/h and the final gear to 4.089 LSD Initial: 5 Acceleration: 15 Brake: 10 Suspension: -30/-30 5.4/4.4 5/4 5/4 2/2 Camber and toe 0.3/0.0 0.00/0.20 Brakes: 5/5

TESTS

Test 1: Nurburgring Variable Weather/Time lap time

Track conditions were dry. I started the lap and you could immediately feel the increase of power. The very first corner is a good one to find out if the car has low speed understeer. It has some more than the original but that’s something you would expect if you double the power of a front wheel driven car. It wasn’t bad though because the car was still a very good drive through the many corners of sector 1.

Had a scary moment at Schwedenkreuz. I wanted to see if I could go through it at full speed so I went to the outer side of the track to get a good line. I accidentally went a bit too far and the right rear tyre went into the grass which got my car into a slide. As you can see in the pictures it looks like I’m about to go straight through the grass on the inside but I steered right hard and slided to the other side. Managed to keep two wheels on the track and escaped a dirty lap with a bit of luck. But it was a very fun moment. Especially when I could just brake easily in to the next corner and continue without any problems like nothing happened.

Continued through the next fast downhill sector where it looked like the car was glued to the track. Thought I felt some hints of oversteer so I decided to test that by braking very late into Bergwerk. It didn’t go as well as I hoped (see 3rd picture in the 4-in-1) and I just managed to keep it from the guardrails and continue my lap.

Didn’t have any problems later on. Karussel was really easy to take with this car. Full throttle way before the middle keeping it on the banking. At the end of what is sector 3 in the AMG challenges I found the oversteer I was looking for. Slid through the corners which brought a smile upon my face. The 4th photo in the 4-in-1 photo shows the slide.

The next sector had some annoying understeer but when you experience the understeer in a fast corner it’s really easy to control by letting go off the throttle for a moment. Another bit of fun FF car oversteer in the speedy downhill corners a bit before the straight. It hit a top speed of 220 on the straight which is close the the advertised 225 of the Opel Corsa OPC and ended the lap with a time of: 8:57,670, less than a second slower than a Golf V GTI time that was on my board.

Test 2: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

Well let’s test the car on a flat track. First thing you will notice is that it has some problems getting off the line. Huge wheelspin when taking off. Got a clean lap in the first try. Braked late into Chicago which caused a bit of a drift and some very bad understeer at the exit of Hammerhead. Bentley, Follow-through and the last two corner were no problem for this car and it did a laptime of 1:32,675.

CONCLUSION

I started this test to find out if I could make the original better. I think I did. It has some understeering problems but overall it is a great drive. Sliding through the corners of Nurburgring in a small hatchback is fun for me. I didn’t manage to keep the perfect handling of the original but made it more fun to drive. On a flat track like the TGTT the problems are easier to notice. But when I take this car out it will be on the Nurburgring and for that purpose it is great. I wouldn’t recommend this car for an endurance race on the TGTT because it eats tyres on that track. Still the car feels improved to me and since the original got a 13/20 I will give this one a 15/20.

[Yohaan93]

Cool!

im going to get started on my first, and its ok that i cant use the TGTT, i use Trial mountain for my hot laps / testing, i love the track, know it better than anyone so i can really push cars to their limit there and i've found that its a better test of cars overall skills because it has a very nice blend of high speed sections, tight corners, banked and unbanked sections and twisty bits.

I'll post my first review soon, probably the 2012 GT-R black edition...

Again, great thread man, keep it up =)

[leepangfu]

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4

I'll start with a warning. This is probably going to be a long read. I've been waiting for this car to be in GT5 ever since I saw the first pictures of this car so I will be taking my time testing it. This car is on the top of my list of dreamcars at the moment. I like Lamborghini's and when I saw this car I was stunned. If someone said I could pick any car I want and he'd give it to me I would choose this one.

The Murcielago SV is one of my favourite cars in GT5 at the moment. The new Aventador will have to be very good to take the throne. I'll set my focus on handling and fun because I can already tell you now this car will get 10/10 for looks from me. This will also be the first car I will test on the new Route X. But let's begin with the review.

SPECS

Max Power: 714 hp at 8500 rpm
Max Torque: 703 Nm at 5500 rpm
Weight: 1575 kg
Performance Points: 586
Sport Hard tyres

LOOKS

I should have called this the patience test because I need to drive it. But first let me take it to the photomode to take some pictures. This car looks amazing. The stock wheels that come with the car are great. Everthing about this car just shouts SPEED and POWER. The headlights look nice, the rear lights look great. The enormous exhaust built up out of 4 smaller ones is amazing. You can see the V12 engine through the glass. From the side you will see how low the car is and I think the vents behind the door look good aswell. As you probably noticed I love this cars looks so I will stop here and post the pictures to see for yourself. On to Route X!

SOUND

The car sounds a lot like the Murcielago SV. Which is a good thing. I love the sound of the car. Especially from inside. Too bad the wind noise takes over on the high speeds on Route X.

TESTS

Test 1: Route X Speed Tests

Finally, time to drive it. I'll start with the top speed test. This test is awesome. The track looks great. But I'm not reviewing that. The Aventador reached a top speed of 354.5 km/h. The acceleration on this thing is crazy. It just kept on going. The interior looks nice and when you look back using L1 you can see the engine and the glass covering it.

Time to test the crazy acceleration. After finding out that I forgot to turn traction control off I restarted. Did a couple of runs and I must say that I like to do this. Can't wait to test all sorts of cars on this track. The results for the Aventador's acceleration tests were:

• 0-400m: 10,857 s.
• 0-1000m: 19,375 s.
• 0-100km/h: 3,234 s.
• 0-200km/h: 9,170 s.
• Max G-force: 1.13 g

Test 2: Nurburgring Variable Weather/Time lap time

As you can see from the pictures I'm driving a different Aventador this time. Why? Well because this is a game and I can buy expensive supercars any minute I want one The track is dry so it's time to see how this car feels in corners.

First thing I notice, understeer while braking. Well that sucks I guess. But I would soon find out that while there is understeer while breaking, it doesn't have to happen. The problems was that the last cars I've reviewed were, apart from the Aston, all low PP frontwheel driven cars. Now I've got a 700+ hp Lamborghini and my braking points are way off.

Well thanks to the little delay in release time I don't have a lot of time to drive it now so I will use this as a way to get to know the car in a lap filled with crashed testing my limits, exceeding them a bit too often. But hey, I'm excited. The level of grip on this car is very high. At first I thought about letting go off the gas when I felt like I was losing control, but then I found out that putting full throttle at such a moment would glue it to the track. I finish my recon lap in a big red 7:31,806. Time for a break because of other things to do and I will return later tonight to finish this review.

Returned after driving in a Suzuki Swift. Now it's time to get back into the virtual Aventador and see what it's capable of. I wonder if people who drive an Aventador use this game to find out how slow cars like the Swift drive. Returned to a dry Nordschleife again and started a new lap.

It took me one lap to post a clean lap this time. The understeer I thought I felt in my first try was mainly because of bad braking points so I adjusted to it and the feeling changed completely. This car is a blast to drive, just as the Murcielago SV. The level of grip on this car is very high. Had a small mistake braking too late for Karussel which caused me to hit the guardrail. Lucky enough I slowed down a lot before so I didn't get a red time and continued on. The fast corner on the striaght was taken at over 315 km/h which got my heart going. The corners following were just as fun to take trying to control the car while braking a bit later than you actually would want to and finished the lap in: 7:24,005

Test 2: Supercar Test at Nurburgring GP/F

A couple of months ago I started a supercar test with ten cars. Afterwards that list increased and most supercars were covered. The idea of the test was to give every car 5 laps to set a good lap. All cars were tested with Sport Soft tyres and Automatic gears so I needed the Aventador to use this setting to in this tests. Some cars got more than 5 but one car did not need more and reigned supreme on this test and that was the Murcielago SV with a time of 2:04,880. Time to see if the next Lambo can take over the throne.

After only two laps the Aventador, that feels like it's on racing tyres, did just that with a time of 2:04,427. After months the Murcielago SV was overtaken. In the laps after I got better splittimes up to a second faster but screwed up the chicane both times. On the Top Gear review Jeremy Clarkson said that this car misses the feeling it wants to kill you. A feeling that all other Lamborghini's do have. I felt like it wanted to kill me in the crash that followed after I tried to take Schumacher-S a bit too fast. This crash meant the end of the test.

Test 3: A rainy day at Spa

DLC 1 and 3 meet in yet another different Aventador. I set the track conditions to 100% rain and 100% surface water and let the fun begin. First thing I notice is that the sight is pretty bad in the rain with this car. Coming up on Eau Rouge is pretty scary not seeing where you're going. Somehow I got through it. On the straight I found out that the car is unstable when braking in the rain. Hit the gravel two times but somehow managed not to get a red time and finished in 2:54.

The following laps I got more and more in control of the car decreasing my laptimes quickly. But because of screwing up the exit of Eau Rouge three times in a row and a bad braking point before the final chicane I couldn't get another clean lap in.

Test 4: Top Gear Test Track Power Lap

I had some more tests planned like a night lap at La Sarthe and some laps on Monaco but it's time to move on to the other 5 new cars. So I changed car one last time and loaded up TGTT. The real car did it in 1:16,5 so let's see how close I can get.

I had some problems getting a clean lap. Mostly because of the speed of this car and the small distances between corners on this track. I've got a huge amount of respect for The Stig for the way he can get all those supercars around this track and make it look easy. My clean lap was the 6th try.

It got off the line with a bit of rear wheelspin. I braked late into the first corner which caused a slide but got through the corners without problems. Had a nice braking point for Chicago and Hammerhead. This car is very good on the exits of these slow corners. It really plants itself on the track. Was cautious in Bentley and Follow-through after some problems there in the other laps and reached a topspeed of 224 km/h on the straight braking a bit too early. Accelerated through the finals corners and finished the lap in 1:16,219.

CONCLUSION

I had really high expectations of this car. And it delivered. The car looks and sounds great and PD really got the details right on this one It took some getting used to the fast cars again but when I did it was an amazing drive. The grip and sheer speed of this car is unlike any of the other supercars in GT5.

One of my favourite moments with this cars was the exit of Chicago. You need to turn right first and left to get onto the straight. You feel the back sliding but never feel like you're losing control.

The Murcielago SV was on top of the boards but it's time to let his newest brother in the Lamborghini family shine. It only took 2 laps to do what other cars couldn't in months. I'll end this review by going back to my introduction. I said: ''If someone said I could pick any car I want and he'd give it to me I would choose this one.'' I've changed my mind. I'd choose a Bugatti Veyron SuperSport, sell it and buy a couple of Aventadors!

Looks: 10/10
Handling: 9/10
Fun: 9.5/10
Total: 9.5/10