The more this game talks about cars, the more it upsets me.
No joke, your enjoyment of this game will be inversely proportional to your car knowledge. The more you know, the more this game will irk you. The less you know, the less there is to be bothered about.
This person is pulling car words out of their ass, and gets the basics or context wrong like half the time. No, you can't just drop in a variable cam system into an engine. Variable valve timing is something you build an engine around. It also needs things like a properly setup ECU to handle the different fuel-air mixture the engine will need when it changes from one cam set to the other. A simple drop-in aftermarket swap this is not.
No, a leaking brake line will not cause that one brake to fail while the others work and comically hard turn the car. Brake lines are linked into a single system (at least on passenger cars), with the entire system being supplied fluid from a single master cylinder. So that when you press on the brake pedal, it operates all of your brakes at the same time. A leak in the brake line going to one wheel will slowly bleed the whole system. This will initially cause the brakes to become less responsive and feel very 'squishy', before eventually enough fluid drains that the system loses all pressure and stops working entirely. Which means you have zero brakes, not one bad brake and three working ones.
No, you don't just use old brake pads with fresh rotors if you know anything about car maintenance. Pads and rotors wear together and will form patterns. Matched grooves and crevices where they touch each other, creating a unique wear pattern akin to a fingerprint. If you put old pads on fresh and perfectly flat rotors, initially only the highest peaks are going to make contact when you apply the brakes. In practice, that means that you only get a fraction of the contact surfaces meeting, resulting in less braking force. It throws off the brake feel, and it is very not safe. This is why shops will resurface old rotors on a lathe (when they don't just replace them) when they replace the pads, so there is a fresh set of clean surfaces interacting.
Nobody cares that the leaking brake lines are dripping onto the paint of Jasmine's motorcycle, despite brake fluid being a notorious eater of paint. Then again, it was leaking onto the paint of the 'rear cowling', which is bodywork that simply does not exist on the British café racer they're looking at. It's a naked bike, with literally zero cowling or bodywork. It has a frame, engine, tank, 2 wheels, 2 fenders, some lights, gauges, and handlebars. Zero cowling. No worries though, the model doesn't look like it even has brakes (no rotors or drums), let alone a master cylinder to hold any fluid to leak out of. Also, it does not need to 'settle'. You bleed the air out of the system with force.
Want the British roadster to be a rear-engine race car? Fine. Don't use a model that looks like a Wish.com version of a Shelby Cobra (with a milky white paint finish on all of the chrome, for extra awfulness), get one that looks like an actual rear-engine car (like a Porsche). Also Delilah looking like a bootleg 70's Toyota Celica GT while having a massive blower air-scoop just looks really silly. It works for Toretto's Dodge Charger in The Fast & The Furious, because that was an actual classic muscle car. Delilah is not a muscle car. Again, she looks like a late 70's JDM fastback, just with a ridiculous overcompensating engine sticking out of the hood.
There's a lot of things to like about this game (MC's babyface notwithstanding), but this car shit just really gets to me.
