Similarly Named Works: A web series about building cars, a video game about destroying cars and a BBC miniseries about political corruption that has bugger all to do with cars. All three totally unrelated.
The Game
- What Could Have Been: In early demos, Spike (the sidekick who shoots the machine gun) was a clown, to fit in with the rest of the Daredevils. This could imply that Spike was meant to betray the player, or change appearances when he changed teams, or that every car was going to have its own sidekick to correspond to what gang it belonged to. Also, the initial pickup truck was going to be driven by the Daredevils and treated as a gang car.
- Using Game Shark, Action Replay or a similar cheating device will let you view a ton of bonus cars that are usually only drivable by non-player characters, with their own stats and even faction affiliations (amusingly labeled things like "Old People" and "Prostitutes") suggesting every car seen in the game was going to be drivable at some point, but many were cut due to time constraints or just not working well. As of this writing, it isn't known how many of the bonus vehicles actually work in-game. Attempting to drive the Final Boss' car will usually, if not always, result in the game immediately crashing.
The Web Series
- Development Hell: In episode 46, the stock car (now dubbed the "Nascarlo") finally got featured about 4 years after they bought it. The crew spent 5 days making it sort-of-street-legal...and Freiburger crashed it after 15 minutes on the track.
- Executive Meddling: Why the show is on the Motor Trend channel rather than on Hot Rod’s channel.
- Schedule Slip: Not on posting the show itself, but frequently mentioned during filming.Freiburger: Take all our time estimates, double them, and add 3 days.
- Troubled Production: Pretty much every episode, but episode 23, featuring the "General Mayhem", beats them all. It took over SEVEN MONTHS (real time) from start to finish. (And this is after Freiburger had let the car sit for several years.)
