August 03, 2008 UPDATE: vDream is temporarily down

08:33pm by Lijen (Site)

vDream has been experiencing some growing pains due to our quick user growth. The app is currently down for repairs, but bear with us, we will be back soon!

July 29, 2008 Lotus: 50pence, BMW: 36pence

04:25pm by Cheechoo (Random)

You’ve gotta see this. A radio show host in the UK was mouthing off on the radio about how he’d trade his family for Jodie Marsh. He owned a slick S4s Lotus Esprit, and once his wife got word of what he said on the radio, she sold the beautiful car on eBay for a discounted price of 50 pence. That’s a bit over $1 USD. WHAT A DEAL!!! I wish I were scouring eBay at that time.

Fortunately, he’s a radio show host, and they’ve got a lot of pull for companies seeking publicity. They’re building him a BMW 3 series, and with all the goodies, it’ll be worth around 50 thousand pounds (over $100k USD), and he’s only planning on using that 50pence he got for the Lotus. The embedded Youtube video shows what he’s got for spending only 36.

What a hilarious situation. Personally, I think I would rather have the Lotus, though.

July 28, 2008 vDream Poll 3: Supercars and New Car Type

03:40pm by Cheechoo (Site)

Greetings fellow vDreamers. We are here to offer you an aspirational vDream, as well as inquire you as to what new type of vDream you’d like to see. Vote on this week’s poll for $1000 vDollars! Remember to provide your name so we can reward you – the only people who will see your name are Lijen and Cheechoo, so don’t be shy!

July 28, 2008 Your Old Pending Challenges Have Been Cleared!

12:08am by Lijen (Site)

Hey vDreamers! This is just a friendly reminder. From here on out, all pending challenges that are older than 4 days old will automatically be expired and the sender of the challenge will be rewarded $25 vDollars. Last night around midnight we expired over 10,000 pending challenges! Many of you who had a lot of old sent pending challenges should see a little extra in your wallets.

Happy vDreaming!

July 25, 2008 Weekly Awards!

11:32pm by Cheechoo (Site)

I love how the weekly winners actually change every week! Here are this week’s winners:

Most Active: Neil Moody, with 365 activity points. Here I am with around 100, thinking I have a lot…

Most Losses: Natalie Brassard-gerhardt with 86 losses. Keep the faith. Hopefully this vDollar reward money will allow you to buy some more goodies or something.

Cars of the week: Andrew Franklin with a very cool looking E46 that looks like it came straight from the Speed World Challenge series, minus the fuzzy dice and Boba Fett…

Congratulations to all the winners! Happy vDreaming!

July 22, 2008 Update: Expired Challenges

04:56pm by Lijen (Site)

Starting next Monday (July 28) we will be automatically denying all challenges that are over 4 days old! Here’s how this will affect you vDreamers:

• 1. Any pending challenges that are not accepted by next Monday will automatically be denied, and the account that received the challenged will have an extra chicken out on their record.

• 2. The sender of the challenge will receive an extra $25 vDollars for every sent challenge that is automatically denied.

• 3. From now on every challenge that is not accepted or denied within 4 days will automatically become denied and the sender of the challenge will receive a $25 vDollar reward.

Happy vDreaming!

July 22, 2008 New vDream Parts

02:57am by Cheechoo (Site)

We have released new parts and part-types into vDream! Every car has gotten some love with some new goodies. But I’m not telling! It’s for you to find out to see what’s new for you to buy! Good luck and Happy vDreaming!

July 18, 2008 Awards of the Week!

02:15pm by Cheechoo (Site)

Most Active User was Jon Bausano, with a whopping 402 activity points. We’re setting world records every week here! Use your reward money well!

The coveted Most Losses award goes to Eiki Tanaka, with 77 losses. Keep the faith, brother – karma will come around and hit you back some day. Some day… We’ll try and give your karma a kick-start with some vDollars.

CAR of the week, yes, just one this time, goes to Seely Vargas. I only wanted to do one this week because I felt this one was special. Seely has the first multi-colored car in the system that we saw! Not just one or two colors, mind you. Seely’s car has a total of SIX different colors! Seely will get a double reward this week because of the pure coolness factor. Call it a clown car if you want, call it ugly if you want. I call it awesome.

July 17, 2008 Enter the Honda Civic Si and poll results!

04:44am by Cheechoo (Site)

Hard at work for the past two weeks, we’ve finally released the Honda Civic Si! A perfect beginner car, the modern Civic is another lightweight, and will prove to be loads of fun.

The results of the last poll were:

1. Subaru WRX STI: 43%
2. Mitsubishi Lancer EVO: 35%
3. Lotus Elise: 22%

Expect to see a Subaru within the next few weeks!