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There is a new car being offered at TheSims2 http://thesims2.ea.com/getcoolstuff/ford/index.php looks like a great commercial for Ford

It does look pretty schnazzy. I haven't seen it in game yet, but I'll be giving it a test drive tonight. Apparently there's only the red color, though. No other schemes. Ah well.

Sadly not the classic 60s Mustang ... and what sort of barbarian would want a colour other than red? A bright colour's high visibility gives the plebs a chance to get out of the way and for those who are still too slow ... it doesn't show the blood.

I know people will object to the product placement concept......but I bought a Ford Focus last year, my very first brand new car ever, so I'm happy to have this  ;D

Anyone complaining about product placement will be drowned out by the cheering Mustang fanatics. 

My brother is one, and I know he'll be thrilled to see this download. 

I think this is product placement done right.  It's an add on, I'm not forced to have it in my game.  Also, it's for something that seems "special."  A McDonald's burger doesn't seem special.

Now I'm off to download, so one of my sims can join the Mustang fanatic hoard.

And recolours are sure to follow.

One question. What is in the Maxis driveway / garage door set that is taking up 12M that's worth bloating my DLs for?

Did you download just the car,or the car kit? If you have NL, all you needed was the car. The kit, with the driveway and garage door, is for those who don't have NL but have OFB, Pets, or Seasons, so that they can actually use the car. The code has been there, it was just useless to them until now.

Boatloads of free continual advertising.  They're just showing off the fact that they have *the* cool, retro rod and Dodge totally failed with theirs and GM...well...GM would like some attention too, I'm sure.  Maybe someone could make a 'picture' of a 'Camaro concept car' so we could download it and put it on our sims walls.  Ha!

Thanks for posting this, by the way.  I almost never go to the EA site.

It's soooo purty, and perfect for one of my Self-Sims :D

Thanks for the link :)

*rofl* That car's almost as hot as me. Mwah :P
Thanks for the link :)

SimFlowerchile with a Ford?

Tis a sad day indeed.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA..  Silly Baddmark..  One of my Self-Sims.. not my Self-Sim  :D  If, of course, there was such a thing as a Sim-Flowerchile ;)   If there was one.. she'd drive a Holden, you know that...

Anyone out there who doesn't have Nightlife? I'm curious if the car works well for them and also lets them use the custom cars for download on other sites.

There is such a thing as a sim Flowerchile...isn't there? I had one, but she died. :P

There was such a thing... she died. 

She lives on in my game, so far... ;)

She was toasted by lightning while in a hot tub in mine.  :'(

Just the car. Went to poke at Objects to see if anything else was new.

one word.
YUCK!
I didn't like the fact that it was poorly recoloured on both the outside and interior.
Too messed up.
Anyway I prefere the one on sims2carsource.net

Ah well, at least her daughter is still alive. :D There's still every chance I could turn sim flower into a zombie. ;)

Absolutely, spot on. I suggested right at the beginning of TS2 that it would be great, if some companies could be persuaded to see the wisdom of making custom content as advertisng. All design work is CAD anyway so there's nothing to separate a Sony Bravia HDTV and a TS2 mesh.

But they should never be 'sold' as part of the game or an EP - that looks like product placement and arouses questions as to who is paying whom, and for what. Advertisements are the bedrock of capitalism and long may they thrive, but charging the punter for consuming an ad -- or creating doubts via product placement -- is so wrong on so many levels, I can't even begin to count them.

 ;D

 
:'(


Yay for Liss!!!  A Zombie?!  With pustulent oozing sores??  Now that would be kewl  ;)

 
Stop giving me ideas. :D I don't really like having zombies in my game because they're immortal. So I guess sim flower will just have to stay dead. :( At least she had a good life. She was permaplat when she died. And her husband was permaplat when he died, too, he got his 20 woohoos. :P

You looked after her well, Lythie, and don't worry, I'll do the same for Sim-Lythdan..


As for the 'Stang.. it works well in game, so far....  Looks pretty hot, too :)

(http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/flowerchile/snapshot_532c0645_d32c065b.jpg)

Looks like a sweet ride to me.  ;D I may have to drive a "mommy vehicle" due to practicality but my simself is going to have this hot car.

My bro-in-law tells me that red cars get pulled over more by cops and get more tickets than any other color.

Even unmarked white vans? My stepdad drove an unmarked white van for a long time because he'd haul construction equipment (he sold countertops and such for a living, before that he worked at home depot, so when you add in his own construction projects, he'd usually have lumber or granite in the back, I guess it was cheaper when he bought it than a pickup) and he had issues almost every time a robbery was committed.

I'd always thought that red cars were pulled over more often until I read this article at Snopes- http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/redcars.asp Now I'm not so sure.

Thanks cabelle, that's very interesting.  I think I will share this with my bro-in-law.  ;)

I had a red car for over two years... some sort of record for me as I generally sell them when the ash-tray is full ;), but I never once was pulled over.  My current baby however..  it was made to be driven fast..  I have to keep it happy now, don't I. 

The ideal vehicle to sneak around in is a hearse. Even if they find the body, who's gonna stop a hearse merely because there's a corpse in the back?

Since installing the new car I have this problem with the car headlights...any idea why? :D

(http://hometown.aol.co.uk/Madsimaddict/snapshot_3322fa4e_132ba010.jpg)

Needless to say I have deleted the stupid thing. I have plenty of better custom cars that do not cause this problem :P

I did a bit of night travelling too, but the headlights are normal, so I wouldn't think the Mustang is the problem, but maybe someone more awesome could say for sure...

That's weird.  I just tested this out on mine, and nothing usual happened.  Maybe it's your video card or the settings?  I have an ATI card.

nVidia here, and nothing funky happens for me.

I've been having that happen too Emma... now I know which package is causing it.

If you look at it closely you'll see EP5 (5 i believe) text on the texture.

This is how mine looks..  viewing it from a distance is the same, no distortion or anything ..(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/flowerchile68/Riverblossom%20Hills/Community%20Lots/snapshot_532c0645_b32c0ff8.jpg)

I've seen several reports of that headlight problem on the BBS. At least one claimed that all headlights of all cars were doing that until he pulled the Mustang back out of his downloads. 

::Shrug:: The usual sheeple credibility rules apply.

Well I took it out and my headlights are back to normal.  I'll put it back in when I've got all the expansions installed on my new pc which will be shipped in 9 days. Not like I'm counting or anything..... ;D


Mine said 'Automatic' on the headlight texture. I have no idea why!

Now that I look closely at Emma's picture, I can see that there are words on it like ScoobyDoo mentioned, like when a texture is missing.  Weird.  I have all the EPs installed so I'm not using the car kit.  I take it you don't have all EPs loaded right now, Emma?  What EPs do you have right now, and are you using the car kit?

Actually it said "TEP4" and some other words.  I accidently put the mustang back in while trying to fix my Insim clothing problem.  Yup all the cars got that missing/messed up  texture.

Over at MTS2  Numenor has recolors and looks like he has fixed the problem with the headlights.

Yours looks like it  has a Tazzie in it!

Apparently, if you don't have Pets installed, the texture is screwed up. Numenor's supposedly fixes it.

I have two computers with Sims 2 installed; one has all the expansions up to Pets, and the other doesn't have Pets or Nightlife.  I got the texture error on the lesser computer.  (I also noticed that the car usage package allows driving, car woohoo, etc., but not selling cars on those huge circular displays that came with OFB.)  I'll be trying out Numenor's fix.

YAY!!  I was wondering if anyone would notice that..  of course there's a Tazzie in it..  Can you think of a more appropriate sim to be drivin', The SHTANG?  ;)

Here's the link to Numenor's fixed version- http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=228574 He also has two great looking recolors, yellow & black.

Thanks cabelle  :)

RainbowTigress, I don't have pets or seasons installed yet, but I do have nightlife and I haven't used the car kit.

I checked out that fix by Numenor, and it sounds like it is just what you need!  Did someone say here it was caused by not having Pets?  I'm not sure what Pets did to cars, but it sounds consistent with your situation, Emma.

Woot! My Shtang!   ;D  They did a good job on it, looks just like my baby, minus the stripes. ;)

I do have a lot of cruisers follow me around. I do know that having a red car increases the cost of the insurance.  :P

You cannot be serious?! 

It looks like Taz can get into MATY again!  ;D

Yup. :P

And yup.  ;D

Strange. My insurance company has never asked the color of my car.

I guess they might know what color it was manufactured as from the VIN, but if they have that kind of resources, why did they ask for make, model, and year?

Looks like a job for.......*drumroll*  MYTHBUSTERS!!!!!!

Yep, I have the Numenorian version and it works just fine and doesn't break my other car headlights ;D Yay!

Yay!!!  I am genuinely very happy for you.  :)

:yay:
*does dance of joy and then glomps Taz*

Has anyone tried multiple occupants because the car blurb says it carries only one passenger at a time? This would make sense since people who had the downloaded the driveway would not necessarily hve downloaded the multiple occupants in each car.

Twink

yes only one passenger at a time - so no car woohoo.  I hadn't read the blurb or I'd have known that :-[  I tried in game.  With two controllable sims, the action just drops out of the queue, but an uncontrollable sim got stuck on the drive when asked to join her boyfriend.  Had to force error twice to unstick her.  That's irritating - "ask to join" shouldn't come up in the first place if the action isn't possible.

The other thing that doesn't work without NL is the car turntable "show 'n ride" or whatever the name is.  I got the turntables with OFB even though I didn't have NL, but I can't place the mustang on tit.  >:(  I can make a car lot anyway using wholesale mode and moveobjects to place the cars on the ground.  Numenor said he'd look at it.