I did the same. Wire is tucked into the headliner, then run down behind the a pillar trim and into the dash. Wired in a socket in the lower steering column/knee area. I didn't really have much of a choice because both of the factory sockets aren't switched.
Want to get some feedback on my reaction here. I don't think I reacted poorly, other than not braking smoothly, but I'm not sure I should have moved over. I think he saw me in the right lane and thought he could make it across before I got there, but I thought he would stay in the right lane. Thoughts?
You aren't at all in the wrong for moving over. It's his fault for coming out in front of you. That is probably what happened, though, he didn't anticipate you moving over. Reaction looks fine to me, just a bit hard on the brake at first. No big deal.
The M-body and anything Chrysler made with the Slant-six and most of their body on frame sedan's, they are pretty much reliable.
Looks like you did fine to me. It's the other guy in that whatever it was that did wrong. He should've used his indicators so that you would've known that he was about to do that.
Niva actually has great offroad capabilities because of the short wheelbase. Also I guess they're reliable as well juding by the number of them I still see on the roads.
Well, my earlier decision that the Canary Islands would be a good place to set a "Forza Horizon but super hardcore" game has been reinforced. I'm not the only person who thinks they have good mountain roads there - the locals apparently find the curves quite alluring as well. On a whim, I Google Image Searched for "Canary Islands Touge" and immediately netted a "Mulpix" account prominently featuring a modified Mitsubishi Mirage and using hashtags like #tenerife and #touge on the same photos. Switching the search to "Tenerife Touge" netted a YouTube video of a closed-road drifting event, and the drift scene there seems to be typical Euro-style drifting, except that at least one driver has caught the Memelord Brain Disease from America, or wherever the idea of putting meme and lolcat stickers on drift cars came from (instant transmission of car culture via internet makes it difficult to tell where trends and styles come from sometimes, especially if you're not paying very close attention). Canary drifters seem to use almost nothing but E30 and E36 BMWs, although you will see an occasional S-cassis or a bigger Bimmer. This is why I cringe when people automatically associate drifting and mountain pass racing with Japan. I'm not sure how much the presence of a drift/pass scene in those islands is traceable to the cartoon I recommend you not watch or to drifting just being the "in" thing now, but I suspect that wherever there are young men and cars, there will be racing, and wherever you add curvy roads to that mix, there will be people that find them irresistably tempting.
If you want famous mountain passes, the Tail of the Dragon is easily one of the most famous roads in the US
I've heard of that place too. I've heard it's not actually that fun compared to some other roads, and it's full of cops now because of its fame, but it's far from the only road in its area. Believe me, the Smoky Mountain area crossed my mind as well, and would probably work too. All depends on what kind of scenery you're going for, I guess. Funnily enough, that place could actually be the true birthplace of pass racing, thanks to the rum runners.
Absolutely beautiful too, I went with my family in middle school, and I remember taking our suburban on one of the old wagon paths that ended up exiting onto the Dragon. Way too many motorcyclists kill themselves there though, too many blind corners and corner cutting
I'm kind of tired of U.S. locations, to be honest (more than in just Forza), and was super happy that 3 was in Australia. It never occurred to me to consider a place like the Canary Islands, but I like the idea. Other places I've thought of are Japan (got to admit, even if it's cliche), Norway, Ireland (the Isle of Man could also make a good British Isles location), New Zealand, and Taiwan.
Judging by a lot of comments on Youtube videos and stuff I would go for Horizon 4 in NZ or japan but then i guess Japan might not have that many rally tracks. NZ has awesome rally oriented gravel roads like in these pictures.
Oh yes, the double yellow cutters. Those are the ones who end up eating a Darwin Award off the hood of an F250. I don't know how some of them (including a certain YouTuber) stay alive as long as they do, as I know from experience that the "headlights on the guardrail" method of predicting traffic is dodgy at best (relying on it is how I ended up drifting right past an Army cop on an icy hairpin about a year ago, fortunately he just chalked it up to the conditions), but I think they need to stop. Japan is another idea in my head; it is cliche but that's for a good reason; it has a world-famous car culture and more good roads than any one country has a right to. Besides, it's been a while since there was a really good open-world racing game set in Japan. Norway and Ireland I haven't really thought of as much; the Isle of Man I did check out and while it does have its reputation as No Speed Limit Land going for it, it's actually rather thin on good pass roads and even thinner on highways, so it might not work unless you could add bikes to take advantage of its legendary place in motorcycling lore. Taiwan is another place I glanced at and it's actually surprisingly good, though I don't know how much car culture it has; its fellow Chinese-but-not-Communist place Hong Kong is another place that I looked at and that doesn't look too bad. For New Zealand, see below. The problem with New Zealand is that it wouldn't really work with a "super hardcore" theme, as the police there are notoriously anti-fun. Isn't that the place where "deliberate loss of traction" will get your license yanked or get you sent to jail (not sure which) on a first offense? Another place I thought about is my own home state of Alaska, but that's not got many good pass roads and most of them are residential roads or dead ends. The other side of that, however, is that it's so sparse that you could make extra pass and rally roads for the game by co-opting and digitally upgrading (where necessary) the unofficial snowmachine/ATV/dogsled trails that exist in some places. Or, since it is a game, shutting down some of the hiking and biking trails to use as a sort of Alaskan Gunsai Touge - sort of inverting what's happened to a local mountain road in real life, which is still open to motor vehicles but is so overrun with hikers and bicyclists that that you can't go for the apex on a blind corner for fear of finding a health nut right on it.
Yeah, now that I think about it more and look at pictures, the Isle of Man just doesn't have the variety or, as you said, the roads. I forgot to mention Scotland before, which is a much better contender. It has lots of fast, curvy roads which seem to be a favourite among the developers. I've also thought about Hong Kong a little, but I'm not sure about it. It's a beautiful region and I would love it as a setting for something like GTA, but I think it might be too urbanised for FH. Not to mention, if any of Horizon's past urban areas are any indication, the map designers are either terrible city planners, or too rushed/lazy to try. They're good at making it look great, but in terms of actual functionality (traffic lights, lanes, road markings, AI, intersection design, etc.), nothing really makes any sense. It's definitely one area the Horizon franchise is way behind on compared to a lot of other open world games like GTA. Even the Crew did better, and it's not great. /rant Anyway, I honestly think Japan is the obvious next choice. It's pretty much the last major car culture that hasn't been covered, and probably the most popular worldwide.
Well Australia is a basicly a nanny state and they have had it there. I think the burnout law has some sort of safety reason behind it not because some body hated the awesomeness that is a good burnout. Its not like that has stopped people from doing it, for example I see burnout marks on my road from time to time.
