I must get back into it. Got side tracked with life and modding computers etc. Yeah it's definitely the closest we're ever going to get to NFSU3.
downloaded the game couple of days ago since i remembered i got origin access, lol, all thanks to this thread. seems pretty good, although i'm yet to find a good tuning setup so that driving is responsive and i can do crazy drifts, guess its slightly less arcadey than previous NFS game