Car Culture

The PlayStation 3 era captured Need for Speed in flux. EA moved the series from street racing to sanctioned circuits, then to simulation, then handed it to Criterion, then tried a cinematic story mode. Almost every idea the franchise has ever had was tried on this console. That makes it the most interesting platform to explore the series on, and ...

A note on method, because ranking these purely by review score produces a bad list. Metacritic scores vary significantly by platform, and a game that reviewed poorly in its week can still be the one people remember twenty years later. So this is an editorial ranking that weighs how well each game holds up, how much it mattered to the ...

Need for Speed shows both American muscle cars and European supercars. In less than six months, 15 supercars were copied. The cars look exactly the same on screen as they do in real life, with the exception of their pricey carbon fiber bodies, all-aluminum engines, and high-end tires. Note: The specs shown in the movie are not the real specs ...

What Is a Stanced Car? Stanced cars are all about keeping your ride as low to the ground as possible, often featuring stretched tires and a pronounced negative chamber. But here's the thing - stance doesn't necessarily mean scraping the pavement. There's a whole spectrum of styles to choose from, like meaty setups, flush poke, tucked, stretched, and hellaflush. These ...

When you think of stanced cars, it’s easy to picture sports cars and JDM models with their aggressive looks and performance-oriented modifications. But now they stance anything, even Smart Cars. Let’s explore this unique take on the stance movement and how you can achieve a properly stanced Smart Car. Why Stance a Smart Car? At first, stancing a Smart Car ...

Madalin Stunt Cars 3 is a WebGL driving game made by Romanian developer Madalin Stanciu, the third in a series that has been running since the early 2010s. It runs in a browser tab, it costs nothing, and it needs no account. Setting expectations properly matters here, because a lot of write-ups oversell it. This is not a console-quality game ...

What Is a Squatted Truck? Truck squatting is a controversial truck trend that has been making people look twice and starting arguments among truck guys for years. The Carolina Squat is a truck mod technique that involves lowering the rear of a vehicle to give it an aggressive stance, also known as the "Cali Lean" or "Tennessee Tilt." This is ...

A stanced car is one modified so the wheels sit as close to flush with the fenders as possible, usually with the body dropped low over them. The three tools are ride height, camber, and wheel fitment, and how far you push each one determines whether you end up with a sharper car or a slower, more fragile one. That ...