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NEED FOR SPEED – Legends of the past – FEATURETTE
Petrol in the blood since 1994… There’s simply no getting around the name Need for Speed, probably everyone has heard of it if they’re into cars. Need For Speed, or NFS for short, has made a name for itself in the virtual world since 1994. More than 24 titles have been released in the meantime, each telling its own story. Some games were a complete disaster, others have secured themselves a permanent place in the Olympus of the gaming world. These include, at least as far as we are concerned, the games called Need For Speed Underground, Underground 2, Most Wanted and Carbon. They were released after the turn of…
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DCM BMW M3 GTR E46 – A NFS MOST WANTED FEATURETTE
Racing cars for the road… The BMW M3 GTR E46 was produced almost by necessity to compete in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). Only a handful of vehicles of this type were built in the 00s, technically the road version is almost identical to the racing version, only the power was throttled to 258 kW (351 hp). Body parts such as the roof, rear wing, front and rear apron were made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. In the end, the car had an unladen weight of just 1350 kg, as comfort was also dispensed with and there was only room for two people in the vehicle. At the time…
