Ariel brings professional driving-simulation to livingrooms

Regular car enthusiasts may recognize Ariel as the maker of a bloody fast scaffolding called the Atom, a hardcore, no-compromise ride for the incredibly enthusiastic. Lately however, Ariel has expanded that hardcore no-compromise mentality to sim-racing too. What they've come up with is a simulator that takes virtual-racing to a whole new level.


And here it is. Let me introduce you to the Ariel TL1, the world's first driving simulator with a portable 180 degree, spherical picture projection-system that projects it's picture with three HD-quality projectors. Quite tech-serious.

Inside you'll get the lot from bucket seats to top-notch controls and software with no expense spared. Ariel even offers customers the ability to choose what features they want to have in their TL1 at purchase, so buyers get the set-up tailored for their specific needs. All this attention to detail makes for quite a professional experience, but unlike the massive professional systems the TL1 can easily be linked to both PC, PS3 and Xbox 360-platforms standing in your livingroom.


Sadly, as everything car-related hardcore and no-compromise, getting the TL1 will set you back a fortune, 11,500£ to be exact, and that's quite hefty even for the thicker numbskull considering he could just go out and race a real car for the same money, and that, I predict, is the elephant in the room that'll keep demand low.

Not many would even want it. After all, looks resemble a giant egg in race-spec with go-faster stripes attached, or how the girl you just invited for a date would put it; a giant red-and-white turnoff. A raging social suicide with the price up there between idiotic and ridiculous (In fairness though, it needs to be remembered that this is hardcore, and hardcore sim-racers neither care about, nor have girlfriends and/or social status)

Anyways, nothing is going to take away the fact that the TL1 is a really, really cool gadget. It's a gadget that I feel guilty about wanting because at the end of the day I'd still want keep my girlfriend.

-HS

Watch the video below to see how it works



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  1. Inside you'll get the lot from bucket seats to top-notch controls and software with no expense spared. Ariel even offers customers the ability to choose what features they want to have. england euro 2016 team

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