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Carmack's Ferraris...

Tim (fusio

Carmack's Ferraris...

by Tim (fusio » Wed, 12 May 1999 04:00:00

This may have already been mentioned, but I was in GPL exile from RAS
until SCGT came out. :)

Car and Driver went to a test session where Bob Norwood were testing
some of the mod's done to Doom/Quake wizard John Carmacks Testarossa
and F50. The cars made crazy numbers on the dyno, but they didn't add
up to much in reality.

Carmack paid something like $650,000 for the F50 (he tried to get a
new one, and couldn't. Had to buy a used one when it came off lease),
and spent $50,000 in modifications to it, including twin
turbochargers.

Cool article, just because of the cars. Also shows you that a computer
game genius doesn't necessarily have much car-sense.

Tim


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