Kevin Countryman's 2004 Z16 Corvette

An American Gentleman Takes to the Road

By: Che Chou

08.31.06 // 17:02

Although it may not be the very first aspect of the game to grip your senses, audio is a crucial part of Forza Motorsport 2's simulation equation. The audio characteristics of each car in the game remains a fine point of detail you pick up after hours, days, weeks spent on the edge of grip in the world of Forza Motorsport. For the development of Forza Motorsport 2, we go through pains to record hundreds of cars to get that aspect of the game just right. In an effort to share with you some insight into how all of this game development voodoo works, we're pulling together a recurring series of features called the Turn 10 Dyno Spotlight that looks at a sampling of the most interesting cars we've gotten to record over the past year of Forza Motorsport 2 development.

For our fourth Turn 10 dyno session, we cast the spotlight on Kevin Countryman's 2004 Z16 Corvette — an undeniably sexy beast we were eager to throw on the dyno earlier this year and nab as an audio source for Forza Motorsport 2. As if it wasn't obvious enough, our choice of car for this spotlight is two-fold: First of all, we've already shown you a couple of European beauties, as well as a burly Integra Type-R; but due to the fact that there are all kinds of cars in FM2 (over 300 rides from 50 manufacturers), we wanted to cover the breadth of the diverse car roster in the game by going American muscle this time around.

But the real reason Kevin's 'Vette is worth calling out is because it is an incredible machine and his story is one that gets to the heart of what Forza Motorsport  is all about — modification and customization. So read on, and find out what happens when an American gentleman takes to the road...

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