Chassis
Wheelbase: 2,489m
Length: 3,958m
Width: 1,820m
Weight: 1,200kg

Transmission
M-Sport / Xtrac six speed
sequential gearbox with AP clutch

Power
280 BHp / 8000 rpm

Torque
260 Nm at 6500 rpm

Suspension
MacPherson struts with Reiger external reservoir dampers

Brakes
Brembo ventilated discs
RallySportLive.com - Homepage
RSS Feed - RSL Featured Rally News RSS Feed - Latest Rally News Follow RallySportLive on Twitter Become our Fan on Facebook Bookmark us with Delicious Save RallySportLive on StumbleUpon Digg RallySportLive's Stories Subscribe to RallySportLive on YouTube Subscribe to RallySportLive on Vimeo Subscribe to RallySportLive on Flickr Subscribe to RallySportLive on FriendFeed Visit RallySportLive on NetVibes
Date: Thursday May 23, 2013
Next WRC Event: ADAC Rallye Deutschland

PC Games

Colin McRae DiRT 2


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: Autumn 2009
DiRT 2 will feature a roster of contemporary off-road events, taking players to the most diverse and challenging real-world environments. This World Tour will have players competing in aggressive multi-car and intense solo races at extraordinary new locations, from canyon racing and jungle trails to city stadium-based events. To be powered by the third generation of the EGO™ Engine’s award-winning racing game technology, DiRT 2 will benefit from tuned-up car-handling physics system and new damage engine effects. It will also showcase a spectacular new level of visual fidelity, with cars and tracks twice as detailed as those seen in GRID.

DiRT 2’s garage houses a best-in-class collection of officially licensed rally cars and off-road vehicles, specifically selected to deliver aggressive and fast paced racing. Covering seven vehicle classes, players will be given the keys to powerful vehicles right from the off. In DiRT 2 the opening drive is the Group N Subaru; essentially making the ultimate car from the original game the starting point in the sequel and the rides just get even more impressive. In addition to the World Tour, DiRT 2 will come complete with full online functionality that will be core to the overall experience, with head-to-head competitive online play and new social features to engage the racing community. Prepare for mud, gravel, dust and dirt too in DiRT 2, coming 2009.

Colin McRae DiRT


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: Summer 2007
A reinvigorated McRae rally ride, built for next-gen systems for the realistic feel of racing off-road. This edition goes beyond the series' point-to-point rallying to deliver its most diverse selection of extreme off-road competitions yet. Sensational gravel, mud and dirt racing events from the world over will include perilous Hill Climb, collision-packed Rally Cross events, and grueling C.O.R.R. (Championship Off-Road Racing) events.

The game also features international rallying competitions, with official cars on tracks based on real roads and locations around the globe. McCrae expands on beat-the-clock racing and include events with multiple cars on track to satisfy gamers who want to push their on-the-edge driving further. This 2007 edition also features official cars and official events across a wide variety of off-road and rally disciplines, the most authentic and thrilling tracks ever in a McRae game, and modes that make the most of online multiplayer.

Sega Rally Revo


Developer: Sega Driving Studio
Publisher: Sega
Release Date: 2008
The classic rally racing series series hits next-gen consoles, with powerful new technology fueling its bumper-to-bumper racing. Vehicle selection affects driving strategy in Sega Rally Revo, as race course surfaces dynamically deform upon repeated contact with vehicle tires and changing weather effects.

Sega Rally Revo features a variety of fully deformable surfaces, from gravel-littered tracks and smooth tarmac roads, to snow-covered mountain passes. Driving skills will also be tested by Sega Rally Revo's advanced AI which allows NPC drivers to dynamically adapt their driving style to the varied racing surfaces. Players can enjoy a comprehensive single-player campaign as they travel the globe racing the best drivers in the world. Sega Rally Revo also features online capabilities, with multiplayer splitscreen modes offering an extremely competitive rally experience against drivers around the world.

Rally Xpand Xtreme


Developer: Techland
Publisher: Strategy First
Release Date: 2006
Xtreme sequel of Xpand Rally features: new car groups, extreme rally tracks, expanded economical-tuning plot, additional game modes and realism of driving known from original Xpand Rally. This time players will compete for the champion title on picturesque special stages and tracks in China, Malaysia, Japan, Germany, Ireland and Poland. Xpand Rally Xtreme has all the best elements of first part in an Xtreme release.

The game has 3 modes of play: Career mode, Single Race and Multiplayer. The career mode require players to advance into ever more tough races in order to grab the best driver title. You won’t be able to achieve that without constantly upgrading your car and buying new vehicles. New features of the career mode include parallel races on the super special segments and a Free Style race against demanding AI controlled opponents. Players will get to drive around in rally cars, huge 4x4 off-roaders and – surprise – exotic sports cars for classic, flat-track races.

Richard Burns Rally


Developer: Warthog
Publisher: SCi
Release Date: 2004
Every aspect of modern rallying has been precisely modelled to allow the player to experience life as a top-class rally driver. Richard Burns Rally surpasses its rivals in every area -graphical quality, technical accuracy, car physics, gameplay and unique features. Marking a significant move forward for the rally genre, Richard Burns Rally pushes the limits of technological capability whilst revising gameplay conventions. Richard Burns Rally is a game that will both challenge and astound any fan of motorsport video games.

Richard Burns is the UK's top rally driver and winner of the 2001 World Rally Championship. Endorsed & developed in conjunction with one of the biggest names in the world of rallying. Unprecedented photo-realistic graphical quality, the most realistic, accurately modelled car-handling model ever devised and a variety of gameplay modes. To reach the top and win a championship requires tactics, intelligence, foresight and perseverance – in addition to speed, aggression and risk taking. There is no easy ride.

Euro Rally Champion


Developer: Brain in a Jar
Publisher: Oxygen Interactive
Release Date: 2006
With a high-performance engine under the bonnet and a whole boot-full of features, Euro Rally Champion is set to scream away from the starting line on September 10th. Dirty drivers must test their skill against the elements, as well as against the clock, in the Championship mode raced across densely wooded forest trails, treacherous Alpine passes and the extremes of the African desert.

Featuring realistic tuning and modification of your mud-spattered vehicle, it's not just your rallying career you'll build up as you race every part of the car that can be tweaked in reality can be honed in Euro Rally Champion for a fully-customisable rally experience. Even if you don't know your 'rear differential' from your 'toe-in' you won't be left choking on the starting grid as Euro Rally Champion gives drivers all of the adrenaline and emotion of an arcade racer as well as the precision and realism of a true simulation.

Colin McRae Rally 2005


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 2005
The steering wheel-gripping heart of Colin McRae Rally 2005 is the all-new Career Challenge, which takes players through a full professional rally career, driving the most diverse selection of rally cars. An incredible 23 individual rally events provide a personal challenge with real progression and rewards through a non-linear series of Challenges, Cups, SuperCups, Shields and Championships as you earn the right to complete with the very best. Launch your career as a privateer but take the lead and progress onto more powerful cars, taking part tests to win further upgrades. Through the 23 events, drivers will be pummelled through a staggering 300+ stages driving cars from 4-wheel drive, 2-wheel drive, 4-wheel Classics, Super 2-wheel, Rear Wheel, Distinctive and 4x4 classics.

Beyond the Career Challenge, there's a toy box of rally-fuelled adrenaline racing gaming with its 4WD Championship, Rally, Stages and Online gaming modes. And just when you thought a McRae game couldn't offer more detail or visual splendour, the game's development team is cramming it in: the new bonnet-cam and an improved chase cam gives a real sensation of speed and undulation. Enhanced damage and scenery visuals include new individual damage models for each car and should you crash into a tree, it'll shudder and even drop leaves!

Colin McRae Rally 04


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 2004
The steering wheel-gripping heart of Colin McRae Rally 2005 is the all-new Career Challenge, which takes players through a full professional rally career, driving the most diverse selection of rally cars. An incredible 23 individual rally events provide a personal challenge with real progression and rewards through a non-linear series of Challenges, Cups, SuperCups, Shields and Championships as you earn the right to complete with the very best. Launch your career as a privateer but take the lead and progress onto more powerful cars, taking part tests to win further upgrades. Through the 23 events, drivers will be pummelled through a staggering 300+ stages driving cars from 4-wheel drive, 2-wheel drive, 4-wheel Classics, Super 2-wheel, Rear Wheel, Distinctive and 4x4 classics.

Beyond the Career Challenge, there's a toy box of rally-fuelled adrenaline racing gaming with its 4WD Championship, Rally, Stages and Online gaming modes. And just when you thought a McRae game couldn't offer more detail or visual splendour, the game's development team is cramming it in: the new bonnet-cam and an improved chase cam gives a real sensation of speed and undulation. Enhanced damage and scenery visuals include new individual damage models for each car and should you crash into a tree, it'll shudder and even drop leaves!

Colin McRae Rally 3


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 2003
Codemasters has cemented a deep working relationship with Ford Racing for this project and will be making use of their vast expertise to add realism and a passion to the game?s atmospherics. Visually, Colin McRae Rally 3 will be a feast of cars, stages and countryside, with the Ford Focus RS World Rally Car returning as the lead car. The in-game Ford Focus is being designed to feature fully moving working parts, such as suspension, and the enhanced damage engine will result in a totally destructible car ? panels can be ripped off and punctured as well as dented.

Authentic high-performance rally cars recreated under license; Cars include Mitsubishi Evo 7, Subaru Impreza 44S and Ford Focus RS WRC; 56 stages in 8 countries including UK, Australia, Finland and Japan; Full environmental graphics; Destructible car body with fully operable component parts; Drive for the record against your friends in multiplayer rally championship.

Colin McRae Rally 2


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 2000
Former World Champion Driver Colin McRae, known around the globe as 'The Flying Scotsman' takes you on the race of a lifetime! You'll get to race in 12 authentic laser-modeled world rally cars on 52 unique courses in 8 countries. It's just you and your car racing against the clock in conditions that would make most drivers pull over and park! Includes: championship or head-to-head split screen multi-player.

Colin McRae Rally 2.0 advances the original Colin McRae Rally. Improved graphics and better, more realistic gameplay have allowed this game to be among the greats when it comes to quality rally driving. If you're a rally fan, then it's well worth the investment. If, however, you believe that once you've played one rally game, you've played them all, it's probably best to steer clear of this one and stick to the one you've already got.

Colin McRae Rally


Developer: Codemasters
Publisher: Codemasters
Release Date: 1998
Colin McRae Rally, the first title in the series, was released for the PC and PlayStation platforms in late 1998 in the United Kingdom and in early 2000 in the United States. The game featured real cars and drivers from the 1998 World Rally Championship. Colin McRae's Subaru Impreza was featured on the game's cover. The game contains stages in eight countries; New Zealand, Greece, Austria, Australia, Sweden, Corsica, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. The PC version also includes four unlockable tracks to which real-world locations are not attributed.

Apart from Colin McRae himself, and Travis Pastrana in Colin McRae: DiRT, this first edition of the game featured real-world drivers whereas all of the sequels used fictional competitors. Featured real-world drivers include Didier Auriol, Philippe Bugalski, Richard Burns, Juha Kankkunen, Piero Liatti, Alister McRae, Colin McRae, Harri Rovanperä, Carlos Sainz, Bruno Thiry, Oriol Gomez and Kenneth Bäcklund in the place of Tommi Mäkinen, who has his own rally game.

Rallisport Challenge


Developer: Digital Illusions
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Date: 2002
RalliSport Challenge is anamazingly realistic racing experience that puts you in the driver's seat of rally racing excitement, with more than 25 fully licensed cars, four adrenaline-pumping rally race modes, a wide choice of tracks to choose from, and much more. Four distinctly different types of rallying, all in one game: Race to the clouds in the hill-climb events.Navigate rough country roads in "traditional" rallies. Fight for pole position in the bumper-to-bumper Rallycross and Ice Racing championships.

More than 25 famous rally cars: Licensed vehicles from manufacturers like Audi, Citroen, Lancia, Ford, Subaru and Mitsubishi.The (in)famous Group "B" cars of the 1980s are also included as part of this great assortment of vehicles. Robust career mode: Starting off with a limited selection of cars, you'll have to race to prove yourself and gain entry into the Professional, Classic, and ultimately, World Classic circuits. As you race, you'll earn points - your key to unlocking new cars and qualifying for the upper race-circuits.

Mobil 1 Rally Championship


Developer: Magnetic Fields
Publisher: Electric Arts
Release Date: 2000
Thirty-six stages from the official British Rally Championship can be raced in over twenty licensed cars. As in real rallies, you must manage the repair of your car between the stages of the race. The game features superb, photo-realistic, 3D graphics including weather.

Test your skills in Arcade mode, Championship series, Time trials and Two-Player mode; The Championship series features 48 challenging races; customize countless features on your car in Arcade mode.

Rally Trophy


Developer: Bugbear
Publisher: JoWood Productions
Release Date: 2001
Rally Trophy is a challenging racing game and the first ”historic" rally simulation. One of the most exciting elements of the game are classic racecars such as the Ford Cortina, the Fiat 600 Abarth and the Morris Mini Cooper. There are twelve shining old classics to drive in total, all of which have been modelled in great detail and extremely realistically.

Great emphasis has been put in visualization. The race passes through beautiful landscapes with varying time and weather conditions such as daylight, sunset, snowfall, rain, storm and foggy weather. Everything imaginable is included, such as fine particle effects, skid marks and reflections. We have used the latest digital photo technology to create a more realistic and stunning graphical environment than ever before.

Rally Trophy is a combination of stunning playability, shocking visuals and a fine selection of cars and tracks. It’s true fun, smooth to play and adds some unique content to the racing game genre.

Rally Masters


Developer: Digital Illusions
Publisher: Infogrames
Release Date: 2000
Rally Masters throws you into the Michelin Race of Champions by setting new standards in driving physics, graphical presentation and depth of game play. Choose from over 17 real licensed rally cars including: Mitsubishi Lancer, Skoda Octavia WRC, Peugeot 306F2 Evo, Citroen Xsara Kit Car, Renault Megane Kit Car, Lancia HF Delta Intergale, Lancia Stratos and race them on more than 40 tracks based on real world locations.

Features 30 real-world drivers; 46 unique tracks; 17 real rally cars; race through all kinds of track and weather conditions; real-time damage effects.

Copyright (c) RallySportLive.com 2006-2010, All Rights Reserved, Best viewed at 1280x800 or higher
hit counters Car Racing Blogs - BlogCatalog Blog Directory Rally Sport Live - Daily Dose of Rally News - Blogged TopOfBlogs
joomla visitors

Chassis
Wheelbase: 2,486m
Length: 3,992m
Width: 1,798m
Weight: 1,200kg

Transmission
Xtrac six speed sequential gearbox

Power
265 BHp / 8250 rpm

Torque
245 Nm at 7000 rpm

Suspension
MacPherson

Brakes
Brembo ventilated discs