The Great Wall Update

The Great Wall update is the v1.3.0k update of Asphalt 8: Airborne.

Overview
The Great Wall update introduced in March 2014 was the biggest update since the launch of the game. It added a new location, The Great Wall, which consists of six playable tracks amidst pagodas, temples and flying dragons to along the selection of the original nine tracks. The Great Wall was the first location in Asphalt 8 that was added in an update. For more information, please see its page.

Four new cars were added:
 * 2014 Ford F-150 (Class D)
 * SRT 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8 (Class C)
 * Ferrari Testarossa (Class B) - This car earlier appeared in ?
 * 2014 McLaren P1 (Class A)

The update added some new core features to the game and contained many tweaks and reforms. Most prominently 30 Events were added to the eight Career Mode Seasons. Twitch Broadcasting (live gameplay streaming) was made possible and new songs from Martin Garrix, The Crystal Method, Band of Skulls and Silversun Pickups were added. The Multiplayer matchmaking system was tweaked and the Leaderboard feature that inactive players will be removed from the leaderboard after 2 weeks was implemented. The main screen was given a fresh look.

Trivia

 * At the time of the release, Asphalt 8 had 210 Career Mode Events divided into 8 Seasons (including the 30 Events added in The Great Wall update).
 * The Great Wall update was made on the Year of the Horse and Gameloft celebrated it "by adding some horsepower to the game".
 * At the time of the release, the 2 hour Nitro Starter cost 9,000 Credits and the 8 hour Tuning Kit cost 24,000 Credits (source: YouTube (rrvirus): Asphalt 8: Airborne v1.3.0 (The Great Wall Update) [@ 1:09]). Compared to the the price level roughly a year later, the annual average inflation rate for Nitro Starter is 900 % and the annual average inflation rate for Tuning Kit is ~1233 %.
 * Nitro Starter: 75 credits / minute &rarr; 750 credits / minute = 900 % annual average inflation rate = the prices are doubled every 3⅔ months.
 * Tuning Kit: 50 credits / minute &rarr; 666.67 credits / minute = ~1233 % annual average inflation rate = the prices are doubled every 3.26 months.
 * This rate is well above the limits of hyperinflation, and in real life numbers like these would cause major difficulties in the economies in question. Such numbers (inflation rates over one thousand percent) are rarely seen, usually only during war-time and the at the time of a collapse of a nation (the Weimar Republic of Germany economy in the early twenties, The Soviet Union hyperinflation in the early nineties and the Robert Mugabe-era in Zimbabwe early 21st-century are all text-book cases of hyperinflation). In a normal economic recession, the annual average inflation rates tend to keep well below 50 % in all accommodation categories.