The overall performance of your car as well as its looks has a major impact on this, so invest in some good dealings for maximum cash. ShowOff lets you do just that, show off your car and somehow get an amount of credits and visitors. If you're looking for paint jobs, those are under Garage. Store allows you to buy upgrades for your car, such as engine parts, cosmetic changes, and so on to build the ultimate racer.
It's best to try out cars in Arcade mode first so you have an idea of what kind of car works best for you, since you're not exactly high on money early on. Garage lets you view and edit your collection of cars, change their specs, tune them up, or paint them with different colors.ĭealer is where you can pick out what car you want to dominate the entire racing world with, you have a huge selection of makes, models, and colors to choose from. In Tuner, you have the following options. If you are in the red zone for too long regardless of what gear you're in, your engine will blow and the race will be over.Īrcade Mode is a sandbox that lets you pick any condition you want, while Tuner is the full experience of working your way up from a guy with 50 grand and no car to a multi-millionaire racer. If you increase it too early, the momentum of the engine wont be enough to handle the new resistance.
The middle gauge is the RPM, if it gets to the red zone, you have to change gears which increases the resistance of the engine to prevent it from blowing.
Of course you can't just floor it and hope for the best, cars in Drag Racer v3 work on a manual gear, which will be over the heads of quite a few Americans who are used to Automatics. Drag Racer v3 gives you a large selection of cars, opponents, and fine-tunable racing conditions. Drag racing, a straight line race between two cars from point A to point B, with success hinging on who hits their top speed first, and keeps it there.