XLR8 app for iPhone and iPad
Wish you owned an exotic supercar? Now you can with XLR8!
XLR8 (pronounced accelerate) is an exciting new app from 2XL Games that makes your car sound like an exotic supercar as you drive!
Connect your iPhone, iPod or iPad to your car stereo and you are off and running.
Once secured inside your vehicle, XLR8 uses the accelerometers of your device to realistically respond to acceleration, braking and cornering forces.
Select from one of five exciting engines:
- Classic V8 muscle car
- NASCAR engine
- Ford GT40
- Ferrari sports car
- Lamborghini Supercar
Dazzle your friends when you roll into the parking lot with the sound of a lumbering muscle car.
Each engine realistically delivers the thrill of driving a different type of supercar.
Uses Hollywood quality recordings of the real engines to sound totally authentic.
Tune the performance of your engines by adjusting the shift point and gear ratios.
Sound like you are burning out your tires and drifting without driving recklessly.
Supports both cabled and wireless Bluetooth audio connections to your car stereo. Some vehicle Bluetooth connections can experience a slight delay.
Automatic Mode measures the acceleration of your car and Manual Mode lets you control the engine by hand.
XLR8 works well with any device, but works best with a GPS.
Drive the car of your dreams – XLR8
Pros and cons of XLR8 app for iPhone and iPad
XLR8 app good for
Although i feel silly using it, it worked great and i was really impressed with the default car. The ferrari sounded more artificial.
For those stating it worked bad i suggest listening to the tutorial and making sure the device is fixed.
Dont buy the in apps. The only good sounding one is the one you get in with the basic app.
It works REALLY well 75% of the time. But you need to do what it says. Start off in park then move when prompted.
Each "pack" is only one car. I thought Id be getting several in each pack to select from. Be aware of this before purchasing.
That having been said, I found it surprisingly accurate....and a helluva lot of fun, driving along in my Chevy Traverse sounding like a wicked Chevvy Camero!
I read about a pack you buy for $80 that does just this (with hardware). Might be a little better but 99c at 75% accuracy beats $80 at 100% accuracy any time in my book. Great job 2XL!
Its a fun app. And it does work properly after a little play. Listen to the tutorial and u may need to stop the car and press the reset button once or twice for it to work properly. But once its set it works great. I showed it to a couple friends they thought it was cool as well. Not sure if id roll the windows down and blast it though. Not surr how it would look or sound from another vehicle
Dont listen to the negative reviews, just spend a few minutes tweaking the settings. My Rav 4 is much improved with this cool and fun app.
I would really like to see more sounds, possibly like a diesel pickup, transport truck diesel engine, porche maybe the jetsons car.
Thanks for a fun app.
PS there was a show on discovery channel years ago called Beyond 2000 a show about future tech. There was a car featured on it that had the same system similar to XLR8 built into it but required a huge computer to generate the same sounds that the iPhone can.
Some bad moments
Good idea in theory but in practice the biggest load of rubbish. The sounds are poor and the activation is laughably inaccurate. Most definitely an app where I would wish to have a refund.
Its ok I guess. Still have to buy cars after you pay for the app, dont like that.
I though that by paying for it that it would use gps to see when you your excelarating but it just revs randomly and sounds stupid. Radio 1 this app 0
Terrible lag. Revs dont match actual speed most of the time. I could be idling at a stop light and this thing is revving up to 3rd gear. You have to accelerate and break real hard to make this thing pick up changes in your speed. And the worse part is, they made the app free the one day after releasing it. App store needs to bring in a price guarantee for 7-10 days!!!
It dose not work as well as its has been described in the description for iPhone 3GS .. but if you have passenger it could control manually.. Its sounds good inside the car and you only get one car the rest you need to purchase ..
Has only 1 default car and you have to pay WAY too much for the others.