EA has been working on some community features to help celebrate their 16 years of Need For Speed, and their 100M achievement. We (Mike) were asked to give some information about running the site and how Need For Speed has kept the interest for the many years. However, since Mike has been AWOL in Vegas with his IRL work, I had the idea of asking Sander, the original founder of NFSCars for his opinion and answers for the article. I felt that it would have been more practical and honorable rather than utilizing Rick or Myself to fill the void of Mike who has been misplaced somewhere deep in the bowels of the Vegas Strip. There were three sites mentioned in this article, NFSCars, NFSUnlimited, and IIRC which is a racing club ran by jussi a moderator of the EA NFSForums.
I will post a small part of the article, with the link to the rest.
How long have you been running your fansite?
I am not the current webmaster, but the original founder of NFSCars. It was founded in March, 2000, so almost 10 years ago now. By the end of 2004, I handed over the site to it's current webmaster, Mike Geise.
What made you want to make the effort and create your site?
Back in early 2000, the most recent NFS was High Stakes. There was a lot of user created content for that game (and it's predecessor Hot Pursuit) in the form of cars, tracks and other mods. As the name of the site suggests, I wanted to offer a site where people could easily download the cars created in the community. The idea was to gather most if not all cars available. Dozens over cars quickly became hundreds and later thousands of cars available, which greatly exceeded all my expectations.