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Re: Asian Career Commentary
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2008, 12:33:08 PM »
That didn't take long - good luck with the new job Fit.
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Re: Asian Career Commentary
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2008, 04:27:05 PM »
Whoa go away for a while...   Good luck on the new job and more important with the kid!
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Re: Asian Career Commentary
« Reply #17 on: September 13, 2008, 10:44:12 AM »
Thanks guys.  I knew I would find something even if I had to work at a domestic dealer or independant shop.  Not that they are bad just out of my comfort zone.

Drift, there are plenty of Audi dealers in my area.  There are 2 within 15 minutes of my last job so that's three in the DC metro area and I live just outside of Baltimore and there are 4 more within 30 minutes of my house.  So the market is good enough to support all 7 Audi dealers.  Suprisingly enough the higher end car market isn't suffering as much as the lesser makes, specially domestics.  Lexus is booming, Infinity is always busy and Acura has a line of cars out front most days.

Back to my career for a minute, I finally finished all the race series that required me to hang on to my Ligenfelter Vette.  I like that car a bunch but its a bear to drive.  I can now compare it's near uselessness to that of the 3 800+hp Supras that you get in the game.  All RWD all too much power and all go straight to U class when you add enough tire to make them useful.  However in U-class they are well under gripped and not worth a crap against the AWD's, well without TCS at least.  I just don't like U too much I guess. So I sold the Vette for around 50k and sunk that money into building out Ske's version of the Mugen Integra.  Right off the batt I was in the low, low 92's around Laguna and with a few tweeks to eliminate a touch of push entering turns I believe I'll be knocking on my A-class RWD times very shortly.  As much as I hate the car it really is quick and grippy but severely lacking in top end.  Can't say I'll make one for my online account but no sense not trying it offline just to see what all the hype is about.
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Re: Asian Career Commentary
« Reply #18 on: September 14, 2008, 01:01:21 PM »
Another quick update.  I went through and started spending time setting up more of my cars.  I decided that B-class was the place to begin in hopes of dethroning the Mugen Integra that I had just run through the professional series.  It was the default fast time at that point so its the bar that all other cars will seek.  I have two rivals primed and ready to go in hopes of besting the good ole MugInt.  The #1 contender isthe Mugen Civic.  It gets off the line faster and has more top end and I hope it can use both to whoop up on the other Mugen.  The longshot is my IS430.  Not much weight reduction and stock tires mean its not a lot of work to do but I think it will do well overall anyway.

After that I have 3 cars ready for the C-class Pro Series and I'll be using that to gauge how well a car does overall along with the Quick Rank of each car.  Its a good way to prep cars as well as make a boat load of cash.  Just running the few cars I already had stock that fit the bill pushed me over the 2 million mark with no trips to the auction house, offline dangit or I could sell cars for more than 100crs.

More to come.
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