I would also add that if they stand at the traffic light you shouldn´t go close ahead of the car because it will otherwise start to flee no matter if the traffic light is red. I used to just trigger the bomb when I was a bit behind the car and then quickly drive a bit infront and block the car by parking it one car width in front of it and quickly get out.

@outtakes: Things similiar to the medicar happened to me with some garages in the past, annoying as hell. I once had a Mission complete and fail at once (just one or two frames between them) in Armored Car Clash, I got busted while the second car exploded. That was weird because I got the money reward for the mission and I could still redo the mission. xD Another rare event was a bouncing Molotov which doesn´t explode, happened to me only three times in my whole "career" playing this game. Too bad i don´t have recordings of this.

I had some runs go poorly today, so instead I decided to do some testing. I decided to test out vehicle speeds for the cars in the Downtown Area. I did this by driving in a straight line on a long stretch of road and timing from dead stop to reaching the end. I didn't test all the vehicles, just the most common ones and all the sports cars. Here are the times I came up with in order from fastest to slowest:

11.10 - Cop Car 11.22 - B-Type 11.31 - Z-Car 12.07 - Michelli Roadster 12.17 - A-Type 12.19 - Wellard 12.30 - Beamer 12.79 - Shark 12.91 - Yakuza Car 13.47 - Medicar 16.81 - Aniston BD4 18.00 - Romero 18.40 - Minx 19.71 - Taxi 20.25 - U-Jerk Truck 20.87 - Van 22.32 - Schmidt 23.16 - Bank Van 24.04 - Truck Cab

Note that the cars from Michelli Roadster to the Beamer are all about the same speed with only a few milliseconds between them. The cop car, B-Type and Z-Car are by far the top tier, finishing a full second in front of the others.

The next thing I tested was to see if getting out of your car to switch to a faster car is faster than just continuing with the car you have. I tested this by placing a B-Type about a car length away from the starting point and started timing from the moment I press the button to exit the first car. My final time was 14.65. If you compare this to the normal time of the B-Type, it took 3.43 seconds to switch cars. Compared to the other sports cars, such as the Shark, it still finished two seconds faster without switching cars.

My conclusion from this is that if you already have a decently fast car, it's probably not worth it to switch to a slightly faster one. However, it may be worth it if you have an average speed or a slow car.

Ok, so I managed to get a better time than my last run. The new time is..... 48:32. Only 20 seconds faster than the last run, and once again, there are stupid mistakes :|

However, it's still a good showcase of the new route. Here is the new video:

Spots that went bad:

• Follow That Traitor: I didn't have four stars by the time the snitch got to the garage, so I had to waste time getting four stars and waiting for a swat van to spawn.
• Dementia To Go: My car got blown up thanks to GTA2 physics and so I had to waste a lot of time getting a new one.
• Big Bank Job: Nothing specific, just sloppy play on this one.
• Armored Car Clash: I blew up the cars fast enough, but the second car didn't stay in the Zaibatsu area so I spawned at the wrong hospital.
• Final Job: The stupidest moment of the run. I get hit by the Loony boss's flamethrower and die right in front of the exit after completing the mission. I have to waste about 30 seconds getting back to the exit.

And now for the requisite outtake. I had a run that was going really well until ... this happened:

:|

Nice, you definetely will get a sub 45 run soon if things go well. About your run and general:

• In missions where you have to kill some amount of assassins you spawn them quicker if you run in the direction against the traffic on the street.

• Final Job: They usually show up very quickly when you are on the road, should just drive them over if you are in a car already.

Updated the first post with the new route. It is more flexible now and the improvements come from doing the Yakuza mission fast as in the old any% strats and having the cop car or other fast cars for the long drives. Also you have more possibilities to grab the darned Ice Cream Van, plus a little trick with the A-Type blocking the Bank Van in the Zaibatsu missions. Sub 41 is possible with it.