Thread:Mr. Mysterious Spyman/@comment-31144234-20170822130901/@comment-27736210-20170823044823

By my observations, the ranks of the cars, at least at the default level, generally dictate their starting ranks.

So, a car with a rank 500 will be slower than a car with a rank 600, and so on.

Cars with large top speed stats tend to be faster than cars with large nitro stats if their ranks are the same. However, this is only not true for Class D, where cars with large nitro stats are actually faster than cars of the same rank.

A perfect example would be the Ford F-150 vs the Scion FR-S, for Class D, while a good example would be the Pagani Huayra vs the Mercedes-Benz Silver Lightning for Class S.

This explains why all of the Porsche cars were bad except for the Porsche 918 Spyder with Weissach Package and Porsche 959. Being from Class D, the Porsche 959 is very fast in comparison to cars of the same rank. It also has excellent nitro duration and acceleration. Being Elite and at the top of Class S, the Porsche 918 Spyder with Weissach Package is among the top ten fastest cars in the game, but its large nitro stat means that it still can't outrun cars like the Lamborghini Aventador SV. It also isn't overly efficient in nitro and has pretty bad drifting/handling. However, it is still useful to some degree. The other three Porsches, which have large nitro stats, are all slower than the cars around them.

As for the Koenigseggs, they are supposed to be slightly faster than the nitro-based cars around them. The Koenigsegg Agera R SHOULD be slower than the W Motors Lykan HyperSport, that is if you were to say that cars with higher ranks are faster. However, on the contrary, the Koenigsegg Agera R is actually faster than the W Motors Lykan HyperSport, although, the Lykan has better performance overall.

The Pagani Huayra is quite possibly the worst car in Class S speed-wise, with the lowest raw top speed and second lowest total top speed (speed with nitro) in the entire Class. It is slower than the first three cars behind it in both raw top speed and total top speed, and can only compete with the Lamborghini Veneno, in terms of total top speed (it around 1 km/h faster) while having a much lower raw top speed. However, this doesn't mean the car is bad. It has what is likely the fastest acceleration of the early cars in Class S, the strongest handling, similarly strong drifting to the other early Class S cars, and the most efficient nitro by far. The reason the Pagani Huayra is so weird is that it is simply a stat upgrade from the Pagani Zonda R. It shares the same top speed stat, which appears to be higher but is actually the same due to a Speed Modifier. It has a higher nitro stat to place it in Class S, however.

I will elaborate later.