The least realistic things video games think cars can do

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How difficult can it be for a game to get right the hundreds of delicately interconnected mechanical components of a motor vehicle? Super difficult, it turns out, with impossible physics, dramatised drifting and other mechanical weirdness all on the rap sheet.
We're not so tedious that we want all games to conform to simulation standards, but the bizarre stuff that videogames think cars get up to is amazing all the same. Let resident car-liker Mike explain why.
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