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[Agent Arrow]

Now, NFS World is planning on having more fantasy cars in the game, and this made me wonder just what these cars would be. I had the idea to create modern representations of classic NFS cars from the older games. To get an idea of what this would look like; I decided to try my hand at creating once such car. Granted, while I've created car parts before, this is the first whole car I've actually created in 3D model form.

Those of you who have been around long enough to have played Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit may remember the car that I drew the inspiration for this from.
Several hours of 3D CAD work later, I now present:

It's not identical to the original. I ditched the round headlamps for smaller, sharper, triangular ones. Same with the taillights. I forgot to add mirrors (I meant to, it just kept slipping my mind) and added a spoiler. I dropped the gaping mouth in favor of two slotted intakes on the sides, and made the roof section a solid piece of domed glass (because it looks awesome) and thinned its width to a single driver, reflecting the car's true track nature (although this gives a seemingly VERY wide stance). The wheels are my own design, and though I didn't intend them to be: they ended up considerably smaller in comparison to the rest of the car.

But enough idle chit-chat

[Normalaatsra]

I actually did not expect this much fantasy to enter World. What the devs meant is more home made cars by the designers instead of wicked fantasy cars, or parodies, which what everyone thought it would be.

[Skitter302]

I'd drive that.

[Samantha♥]

Looks like a funny insect!

[Krieger22]

It's really... insectoid. But I love it!

[LamboGTR]

That looks strange but drivable.

[ZTR]

It looks a bit weird but still looks much better than those Elite fugs...

I will drive it

And yeah I remember driving the original El Nino in NFS3....

[R1CARDONL]

Wohoo, El Niño in Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit and La Niña in Need For Speed IV: High Stakes. I love those games, NFS classics. Terrible handling, but it is incredibly fast! This one looks fast, too. It looks alien-like, like advanced technology. You know, wierd, but in a good way.

I'd drive it and I'd gave it a matte black paintjob.

[UNIQUE]

it looks like a car from thw movie CARS

And this would be in it's own class

[Pollux]

el nino in nfs3 was one of the coolest cars in the game, it was by far the fastest and one of the toughest cars to drive in the game.

(other than the FZR2000 in nfs2 which was even more godmodding as the gt3rs)

[Siggu]

No wonder I've always thought the El Niño looked weird...

Pollux, on 24 July 2012 - 11:33 AM, said:

el nino in nfs3 was one of the coolest cars in the game, it was by far the fastest and one of the toughest cars to drive in the game.

(other than the FZR2000 in nfs2 which was even more godmodding as the gt3rs)

The FZR2000 can defeat any car in World, even if they are using the Infinite Powerup and No Cooldown cheats to have endless NOS

That thing makes World's Miura feel like the SuperBee

PS: Now that I'm thinking about it... it would be fun if Black Box added a 'Fantasy' car class in World in which all the fictional cars that have been in NFS were there... with Fantasy-exclusive events, since they shouldn't be used against real cars

Edited by Siggu, 24 July 2012 - 02:03 PM.

[RobVaivodiss]

Dang you're good at 3D CAD! That car looks insanely fast.

[fadithegenius]

It looks a concept car to me..it is only drivable..nothing more than it

[ZTR]

fadithegenius, on 24 July 2012 - 05:04 PM, said:

It looks a concept car to me..it is only drivable..nothing more than it

Thats cause it is a concept car lol

[Victor Braga e Bravo]

Man, I remember driving this one in my childhood! Thanks for the flashback!

Edited by Victor Braga e Bravo, 24 July 2012 - 06:35 PM.