The best game in the car is the Mercedes Benz SLR McClaren, costs 216,000 dollars but is well worth it.

I literally beat Carbon over 12 times, though I still only had 98% of the game completed, however. There were I think 8 of those little squares I didn't have done.

Anyway, I never really found the game that difficult, especially not four hours long on a Canyon Duel. I've always liked EA'S underground racing games so I've been into them since part one, and I've played them almost religiously; so I guess I just have the handling down pat.

By the end of it, I was using the unlockable 1992 Nissan and getting all the way to Silverton (I think is what it was called) and having to switch over to a Tier 3. In my opinion, the Tier 2 cars all all shit.

If you're a good enough racer, you can take a Tier 1 all the way until you can afford a Tier 3. I deliberately used the RX 8 or the RX 7 and was able to beat all but the last canyon races.

My first few time I played it, though, I used only Muscles, and the first time I played I was able to get the Dodge Supercharger RT (I think is what it was called) and the way I tuned it was to get from 1-188 (maxing it out) in literally under 10 seconds. No matter how many mistakes I made at turns, I could ALWAYS catch up to a guy in that.

All this talk of Carbon is making me want to go out and buy it again when I literally just sold it back to Gamestop not even 2 months ago.

and PS, even if you tune the McClaren for top speed and horsepower the SLR can still out-accelerate many of the cars (instead for some of the muscles) and it can reach over 240 miles per hour (if you can keep it under control long enough). So I would DEFINITELY suggest trying to get it, it's fun as HELL.

That or buy the Mitsubishi Lancer, that car has the best handling in the game and it can out maneuver any other car, including the new Skyline.