Gearbox History

GEARBOX est. Sept. 2007

When it comes to economic principles, specialization is more efficient than generalization. Most often, an organization will waste resources trying to produce a good that could be sourced elsewhere for less effort. GEARBOX, and most likely all the founding Tuning Marketplace garages, were formed on the basis of individuals of varying specialties joining together to make the process of releasing projects and earning credits more efficient and appealing to the Forza 2 community.

GEARBOX was established on September 6, 2007 with the intent of uniting many independent tuners, painters and testers into one organization with minimal rules and loose organizational structure. With Jfiler as the sole remaining founding member, GEARBOX has continuously released projects, posted free tunes, and held competitions in the Forza 2 community. By the end of the Forza Motorsport 2 product cycle, our catalog of projects numbered well over one hundred and thirty cars with a cumulative value exceeding fifty-six million credits (this excludes limited releases and out-of-garage collaborations). Our core of excellent painters produced LE-quality liveries for standard releases in addition to the limited releases that were so sought after and controversial, as well as several accolades from the real-life car owners whose cars they have replicated in Forza Motorsport 2. Our tuners have created leaderboard cars as well as tuning the cars other tuners couldn't be bothered to touch.

GEARBOX will be entering Forza Motorsport 3 with twenty-four members after the recent acquisition of four new painters. New changes you can expect from us will be more projects into the area of fantasy liveries along with the continuance of our tradition of some of the most accurate replications of racing liveries. Also, you can expect more collaborations with other artists as those opportunities present. Our tuners are welcoming (and salivating, frankly) at the chance to work on different facets of motorsport tuning from grip to drag and sprint to drift. And, lastly, we will continue the popular GEARBOX Challenges and release-specific contests in order to give away some great prizes!

Thanks to our website's excellent new home, we will have more automotive and team-related content to check out as time goes on. Coming up weekly will be feature articles on every GEARBOX member as a way of introducing ourselves to the Forza Motorsport 3 players that might not be familiar with the team. These articles will run from the most senior members on down to our newest members, which means the first article will be on Jfiler. Some say that he could only ever tune two cars and that he is the least approachable member of GEARBOX. Do those statements have merit? Watch for the first article next week!

In the meantime, please register in the forums if you have not done so and explore the content that we have posted so far, such as GEARBOX's Forza Motorsport 2 Promo Gallery by Dragnet. That gallery includes almost every promotional poster created by Dragnet for almost every GEARBOX release.

Good Luck in Forza Motorsport 3!

GEARBOX Team

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GENERAL FACTS

Founding Date: September 6, 2007
Members at Inception: 7
Current Members: 24

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GEARBOX'S FORZA MOTORSPORT 2 RELEASE FACTS

Excluding Free Tunes, GEARBOX Exclusives, GEARBOX Challenge Cars, Collector's Editions, Limited Editions, Retired Releases, and some numerous recent releases into the Tuning Marketplace, here is how GEARBOX's catalog looks after two years of action:

R Class Cars: 2
R Class Value: 700,000 credits

U Class Cars: 4
U Class Value: 2,700,000 credits

S Class Cars: 40
S Class Value: 20,570,000 credits

A Class Cars: 70
A Class Value: 27,700,000 credits

B Class Cars: 13
B Class Value: 3,950,000 credits

C Class Cars: 2
C Class Value: 430,000 credits

Total Cars: 131
Total Catalog Value: 56,050,000 credits

Donations to the Tuning Marketplace: Over three billion credits in 2008, estimated four billion credits total. Does not include value of prize cars or LEs given away.

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GEARBOX ACCOLADES

Dragnet, our all-around graphics and web expert, is a moderator of the Forza Motorsport forums.

GEARBOX members and cars have appeared in the Turn 10 Blogs and Pit Pass Reports over thirty-five times since we began keeping track.

Aenyn, Cr1mzonChris UK (x2), Dragnet (x2), Nahos and Skywalker have each been awarded the cover photo of a Pit Pass Report.

Dragnet and Nahos won the Turn 10-sponsored Artist & Photographer Gallery Contest.

GEARBOX members have tuned and/or painted at least six special edition cars for Turn 10.

Aenyn's photo of the #44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche GT3 RSR appeared in the "Fan Corner" of the Official Flying Lizard Motorsports website.

Cr1mzonChris UK received a great message from the owner of the APT-sponsored Team D:MON after replicating their drift livery on an S14 in Forza Motorsport 2.

Raudi has received numerous comments and correspondence from Auto Select's Yellow Shark owner, E. SAWA and also from the Endless S15 owner, Dominic Chen, after replicating the various Yellow Shark GT-Rs and the Endless S15 in Forza Motorsport 2. Dominic and his S15 were also featured in an issue of Modified Magazine.