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    BMW M3 PS3 Simulator

    Extreme sim driving.


    Click and scroll down.


    http://jalopnik.com/?refId=276487

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    That's pretty damn cool if I had to say so myself.

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    wow. now that is sweet. one way to ride the 'ring without killing yourself

    they had something of the sort at a rally i once went to. a subari STi was hooked up to a ps2 with colin mcrae on and the car itself was used as a simulation with a large screen directly infront of the windshield, and the suspension was linked up to the game. Very cool but this is even cooler.

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    Imagine one of those in your garage.... endless hours of fun!

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    extreme simulation without the downside of crashing and having to splash out your year's earnings

    or dying.. ofcourse.

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    Looks pretty cool...maybe they'll have them in good arcades in future years...

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    What game are they running there for the PS3?

    Subaru had something similar, although they didn't have the car. They had 3 screens and it sat on a hydraulic platform for the motion sensing.

    It's a cool idea, it's just massively expensive. Gutting an M3 to do this is kind of a waste I think. I don't think they gutted an M3, but it's still a cool idea.

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    Sega did something like this for some touring car game. They had a Mercedes C-class DTM car, a Toyota Supra one, and some other ones in Tokyo.

    But that is still awesome.....
    I'm dropping out to create a company that starts with motorcycles, then cars, and forty years later signs a legendary Brazilian driver who has a public and expensive feud with his French teammate.

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    What a cool idea, I hope they didn't gut the M3 for this although a great experience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NSXType-R View Post
    What game are they running there for the PS3?

    Subaru had something similar, although they didn't have the car. They had 3 screens and it sat on a hydraulic platform for the motion sensing.

    It's a cool idea, it's just massively expensive. Gutting an M3 to do this is kind of a waste I think. I don't think they gutted an M3, but it's still a cool idea.
    The game is GTR2, which has been rumored for console, guess it's confirmed now.

    I doubt it's PS3, looks just like a compy hook up, and he was driving the BMW M3 GTR which is in GTR2 I could tell from the sound.

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    Yeah, the guy didn't seem to know what he was talking about. He said that it was a Playstation Projector.

    Considering that there was a keyboard, it's pretty safe to say that it's a computer.

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    Damn that's cool! At Goodwood FoS 2005 on the GM stand there was an Astra Sporthatch BTCC car hooked up to a PS2 playing ToCa Race Driver 2 with a hive LCD TV on the dash, pedals and wheel with gear change paddles all hooked up too, it was sooo awesome but took a while to get used to, the steering was really sensitive, and I sucked!
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    I seem to remember there being an arcade game with an F355 Challenge as the main car- unfortunately, never got a go... but meh...

    I'd like to play with this if it's exactly what the M3 feels like.

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    Would have been about 10 years ago now but there was a game in Belconnen's Intencity (canberran members might remember) where they had a similar set up to this only using a Mk1 Mx5. Much fun
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