What’s a Second Life without your own car? Especially when you are earning an average of L$60,000 linden dollars a month for free! Yes. As of July 31, 2007, my earnings have reached L$60,000 (expenses like clothes, accessories, contest and donations excluded). That’s a total of at least 240$ US dollars and almost how a normal Filipino working on a minimum wage will earn a month.

Anyway, I always liked cars since when I was a kid and now that I have money to buy my own car (in SL at least), I visited 2 of the most famous car Sim in SL.

Starting with the Scion City’s Scion Tc. Toyota Motor Corporation built this 3 region island to showcase Scion with an island wide city-like driving course. In my opinion, Scion is one of the greatly built cars in SL. The curves and details are very remarkable. The prims of the Scion are not edgy and its textures are very realistic. It comes with a HUD which allows you to change the rims and color of the car. It also has a meter and indicates the gear of your driving. In addition, it’s not just the outside of the car that is true to details, the dashboard and the whole interior of the car is also a masterpiece. (see image below, right half) Another remarkable feature that the Scion has is that the car vibrates and it has a SOUND! Talk about realism. For a very realistic car, L$300 linden dollars is a very good deal.

Next is the Mercedes Benz  Class-C. Mercedes Benz Island is a 9 region island with a little showroom for the car, has an automated tour, a gallery, a video presentation, a free racing suit and a HUGE racing test drive course. Just like the popular Scion in SL, the curves and details of the Mercedes Benz Class-C is very very very great. Although it doesn’t have a sound and a vibration like the Scion has, I say its HUD is very elegant, simple and stylish (see image on the left, left half). For such a car with style and very good design, L$1200 linden dollars makes the name Mercedes Benz still for the rich and famous.

The Face-Off

I noticed that the two cars has a different handling. The Mercedes Benz Class-C is very responsive and hard to control while the Scion Tc is very manageable. There’s one thing I don’t like in the Scion Tc though, because it has a vibration, whenever you hit a not-so-flat prim on the road, the car bounces. What we like is something that we can control easily and at the same time very classy and elegant.

With the features the car I’ve chosen to buy has, I know that the L$300 linden dollars that I spent to get that Scion Tc is very worth it. 

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