Talk:Lamborghini Huracán (Research & Development)/@comment-59.92.215.10-20160309133723/@comment-27693246-20160309170333

I agree - this will be FAR, FAR harder than the 4C and will demand you pour some credits & tokens in to keep up so that by the time you're finished you'll have a nearly MAXPRO car in the garage (you can also expect to lose some sleep!)  But the benefits are obvious: you'll get the car for far cheaper (overall) than if you bought it outright (a ridiculous 11,000 tokens), and you're earning prizes all along the way through the R&D event. So if you're able to invest the time & endure the stress, I think it's worth it. So far I've won all R&D cars except this Huracan (which was the first of them), so I'm really happy it's back! Upgrades aside, I spent maybe 300 tokens to earn the Egoista... a steal. Some tips:

1. You really need to have cash & maybe also Pro Cards to compete. Total for all upgrades on the Huracan = 2.5 million, plus pro kit upgrades on top of that. You'll win some cash & upgrades along the way, but if can't spend this kind of cake you'll simply not make it. I think it's wise to boost the hell out of the car & stay way ahead of the recommended rank. Some challenges can be actually harder this way, but overall you'll plow through the challenges faster, I think.

2. race every three hours! Set an alarm, even, so there's no delay when three new keys arrive. You can't take your time with this contest. While this isn't a big deal in the early labs it'll get VERY hard nearer the end, and three free keys beats the hell out pouring tokens into otherwise easy races. On a 5-hour drive home from Christmas vacations I stopped at a McDonald's to race for the Egoista at the 3-hour mark. It'll boil down to that or several hundred tokens spent in auto-testing races.

3. Be sure to be ready to start the last 'LAB003' as soon as it opens. If you're slow to finish LAB002 and start 003 late, you're probably sunk (or will spend a load)

4. you can trade tokens for skill/effort, but the value you get varies a LOT: Auto-test & refreshing your keys is pricey, keeping lost checks on a failed race is not so bad. If you run into a mostrously difficult race (and you will), you can simply aim to gather lots of checks on the track rather than winning the race. Then you just spend 25 Tokens to keep those checks. I find each R&D has one or two near-impossible challenges, so after dumping 6 keys into failed races, this is a good trick to know. On one race in the Egoista R&D I simply quit on the challenge, and ended up turning around on the track to go back for more checks - I'd never have won by beating the challenge (the "right" way).

5. if you can't realistically win the car, then don't upgrade it: race all the races you can for some prizes, use a booster maybe, if you need to, but don't pour your money into something you won't own. On the other hand if you intend to go for it, be ready to spend like crazy (all the way to MAXPRO) & marry your tablet for the 2 weeks.

Good luck!