Old Need for Speed Websites - Nostalgia & History

[MADMAN_nfs]

Here you find links of sites no longer available at the web, as well as broken sites with low relevance.
Still these websites and the people behind them will be remembered.
The NFS franchise is going til today - these classic games and their community started it all.
Browse gaming history here, find interesting content and cherish the memories!

Listed sites hosted content for at least one NFS game from the classic era (NFS1-NFS6). Links to webarchive services (like archive.org or internetmuseum.se) are provided, if available. Sites are listed alphabetically according to URL (official EA sites listed first).

Feel free to give feedback and contribute!
Archive services occasionally might have files backuped for the listed sites. So if you happen to find something interesting or rare, don't hesitate to reply and share info here.
But note, if you searching file downloads take a look at the thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles.

Website	Description
www.needforspeed.com (1999)	Official Need For Speed website with EA's most important racing titles back then
www.needforspeed.com (2000)	The site in 2000 with the old Motor City Online logo (as part of the NFS series)
www.needforspeed.com (2002)	The website shortly before the redesign with release of "Hot Pursuit 2"
NFS3 (1998) Gamepage	Hot Pursuit Website, not well preserved - html errors and overlapping nav-bar
NFS4 (1999) Gamepage	High Stakes site for the PSX version, website of PC version was here: Link !
NFS5 (2000) Gamepage	Porsche Unleashed website, suprisingly well preserved - mostly functional (PC+PSX)
NFS6 (2002) Gamepage	Hot Pursuit 2 page with a teaser, wallpapers and screenshots preserved
NFS MC (2000) Gamepage	Pre-Release site of NFS Motor City, later MCO at these domains: 2001, 2002-2003
www.japan.ea.com (1999)	Official EA site for the japanese version of Need For Speed High Stakes
Addict Arts	Author page with cars and utils made by Addict
www.all4speed.de	Once a big german site hosting cars, tracks and tools for NFS series
www.americanmuscle.net	Website by Matt Knapp, hosted content for Hot Pursuit, High Stakes and Porsche
www.aussiemuscle.totalnfs.net*	Author site of Aussie Muscle - with aussie and movie cars
www.blaznmotorsports.com	Nicely designed author site of Blazn Motorsports, closed in 2018
www.bmwsport.net	Partner site of nfsaddons, formerly hosting a selection of cars and tracks
www.btwracing.com	Former main page of the "Behind The Wheel" Network hosted by Jason G. Trusty
www.nfspontiac.btwracing.com	Here was Jason G. Trusty's Pontiac site with cars he created
www.patwodesign.btwracing.com	Small author site featured various games - sadly most captured files are corrupted
www.tomsgarage.btwracing.com	Author page by Thomas Egelkraut with cars for NFS3 and NFS4
www.trackstudio.btwracing.com	Website of Max Custer - joint project with Jason Trusty, Nappe & others
BV-Design	Author site of BenV and KleinHellerchen
www.cheats.de	German cheat site that hosted various user uploads including tracks and cars
CM Racecars	Author site CMR - offered downloads for NFS3 and NFS4 by various authors
www.crazynfs.narod.ru	Russian fansite - small but well preserved
Speed Mania	Nice little fansite with NFS2-5 content - info & official releases mostly
The Drive-In	Nicely designed MCO fansite that hosted some NFS4 cars and tracks
www.eaoutlaws.com	Clan site of EAO, the EA Outlaws
www.fangio.de	Homepage of german author who created legendary 2in1 tracks
Stiff'n'Roll Mod*	Old site of the Stiff'n'Roll (later 4Lower) mod
FM HS Mod	FerrariMan's High Stakes Mod, which was a compilation of quality NFS4 mods
www.franks-highway.de	German fansite/archive dedicated to the NFS series
www.freakforspeed.com	Tutorials that were made by Freak For Speed
www.gamefront.com	Filehosting service that stored many files of classic NFS titles; mirror site exisiting
www.garage.nfsstudios.com	NFS Porsche fansite by Claus Bruun
Mad Max & Mopar Cars	Jon Gibbs' Movie & Mopar cars for NFS3; some polished versions of other authors
www.highstakeshp.cjb.net	High Stakes Highway Patrol - this site offered police add-on cars for NFS4
Zacabeb's NFS site*	Zacabeb's homepage from year 1999
NFS-Bolide*	Former homepage of Butch/NFS-Bolide with cars he made
Marko's NFS HS Downloads	A small private page, that was centered around Online Racing
www.gigafront.de	Once a large german filearchive, similar to gamefront
www.gtrcars.net	Formerly a big modding community for various racing games, including the NFS series
www.hotrods.nfscheats.com	Precision Hot Rods - joint-venture by multiple authors focused on Muscle cars
www.jimi-w.de	Website of Jimi Wich, a german author of tracks and cars
www.jpracing.racerplanet.com*	Site had cars, tracks & tools; unique mod releases by page-staff - part of RPN
Killuncle Cars	Author website (Killuncle) with cars and vidwalls for NFS4
www.mdesign-net.com	Author site "Millenium Design" (Dave Katyher)
NFS Tracks	Old fansite "NFS Tracks`n more", once hosted files for various NFS games
Captain Design	Author site dedicated to NFS3
Midnight Garage	Fansite/archive that hosted files for NFS3-5
www.mozzispeed.com	Italian fansite/archive that was hosted by Massimiliano Caroti
www.musclemotors.com	Site Motor City Hotrods by Steven Carter with NFS3-4 content
www.n4s.de	German community site for NFS4 and later titles
www.nd4spd.de	Back then, the largest german community page for NFS3 and NFS4
www.nd4spdworld.com*	Once a large site with cars, tracks and tools

* significant amount of files have been captured for this website by an internet archive service!
Check out my other thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles for more details

[MADMAN_nfs]

Looking for downloads? Take a look at the thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles.

Website	Description
www.needforbetterspeed.net	High Stakes Online Racing Community
www.needforspeed.pl	Polish fansite/archive that hosted cars, tracks & tools throughout NFS series
www.nfs4cars.com	Fansite/archive  created by Justin Pywell, mainly hosted NFS4 content
www.nfscardesign.de	German fansite/archive that hosted cars, tracks and tools for NFS3-5
www.nfscheats.com (1999)	Biggest english community site at the time in full glory (domain still alive: here)
NFS Edit	Part of nfscheats - Home of CarCAD/DashCAD by Chris Barnard for NFS3
www.nfsdesign.net	Large fansite, once founded by InoD (old URL); went offline in 2005
www.nfsfactory.de	German fansite/archive that hosted cars, tracks and tools for NFS3-7
NFS-BMW	Small german author site that hosted cars of the manufacturer BMW
www.nfsferrari.com	Fansite led by Sander Prinsen - old URL of NFS Cars
www.nfsg.net	NFS Garage, now known as NFS Addons - old site design; browse through history
www.nfsgb.nd4spdworld.com*	This was a fansite/archive hosted by Giles Bett, featuring his track projects and more
www.nfsknights.totalnfs.net	Fansite featuring cars from the TV show "Knight Rider" for NFS3 & NFS4
www.nfsracer.com	Old site hosted by Mike Henderson - Predecessor of NFS Garage
www.nfssd.de	Old german NFS Streetdogs site in full glory
www.nfs.sports-gaming.com	RS Network - Fansite that was hosted by Ronald Kamp
www.nfsstudios.com	Fansite that hosted files for NFS3-5
www.nfs-universe.com	Fansite/archive that focused on Hot Pursuit and Porsche Unleashed
www.nfsunlimited.net	Formerly a big archive site, most files for classic NFS titles are not hosted anymore
www.nfsworld.net	Fansite/archive by Stephen Cameron with files for NFS3-5
www.nfsworld.org	German fansite/archive with files for NFS3-5
www.felixx.nfsworld.org	Author website (felixx) - part of nfsworld
www.nfsxtreme.com	Hardware site with cars, tracks & tools - take note of components from the time period
www.passatnfs.com	Small czech site that had some High Stakes cars and tools
Police Garage	Police Garage site by FP Cyberdesign (2002-2006)
www.pitstop.totalnfs.net	Website of IH8COPS aka J.Martin hosted cars, tracks & tools for various NFS games
Pyrodesign	Small author site (DjZ) that hosted files by various authors for NFS3-5
Racerplanet Network	Founded by Josh A. & Mike H., RPN was a huge NFS community hub
NCOPS	NFS Community Online Play System, the spiritual predecessor of the IP-Lounge
Pursuit Inc	Was a large archive of police vehicles for High Stakes - part of RPN
Detroit Muscle	Mainpage of the (never completed) Detroit Muscle mod - part of RPN
Racer Central	Fanpage by Rune Friis-Jensen aka RunR, hosted various mods - part of RPN
www.racingsource.com	Fansite/Archive hosted by Nik Vakorin - offered files for NFS3/4
Raya's NFS3 page	Small tipps'n'cheats site, clearly this site was created during 56k modem times
Ramm's site*	Czech site with NFS3 content
Reesy's NFS3 page	Small aussie site about aussie cars in NFS3 with some screenshots
www.rkncs.totalnfs.net	This was the webpage of Ryuji Kainoh
Rocket's Racing	Small fansite with some files for NFS3-5
RP-Design	This was the webpage of Lasse Kärkkäinen aka Nappe1
RVD's Skinshop*	This site had nice new paintschemes for Sniper's NFS4 cars converted from MCO
www.speedkings.net	Once the website of SK clan; with NFS:PU car setup guide by [SK]Hill
SuperCar Racers	Medium sized Fanpage/Archive with content for NFS3 to MCO - part of RPN
The Running Racers	Clan site of the Running Racers
www.tippinfs4corner.de	German fansite that was hosted by Frank Tippke, went down due to database hack
www.totalnfs.net	Fansite that hosted cars, tracks and tools
www.wcdesign.nfscheats.com	Homepage West-Coast-Design by Dan2K aka Dan Ewers

* significant amount of files have been captured for this website by an internet archive service!
Check out my other thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles for more details

[noise]

Is JP racing also gone on Waybackmachine?

[MADMAN_nfs]

JP Racing is at the archive. Actually there are even files saved for that site, thats why its listed in the thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles.
But i guess its less confusing if i double enlist those sites here.

edit: I've added the well captured sites, that have a decent amount of files preserved (and thus are listed in the other thread as well)

[noise]

Well done..But. I have no access to car section on jp racing.

[MADMAN_nfs]

Hey noise, its is working okay for the most part.
But you can't expect archived sites to work like a normal site! Thats why i made a seperate section for this kind of links...
You can navigate the car section, e.g. for NFS4 (Link) and some manufacturers are working, e.g. i tested Mercedes (Link).
It will load slow, there are pictures missing and, of course, rarely you will find a downloadable car zip this way.
Looking for files you better use another link, like this: JP Racing files.
Thats the way it works...

[noise]

Sorry to bother you again MADMAN_nfs, but how can I find a car.zip file on the JP Racing files link?
I found cars with filenumber on JP racing site, and than try to find that number on that files link.

[MADMAN_nfs]

No problem, keep asking if there is something not clear.
The thing is, the declared focus of this topic are the sites themselves and not files.

So i wanna point you again to the section "Webarchive" in the thread Online-Resources of classic NFS titles.
There you find links and hints for searching files at archive.org; e.g. sort by MIME type and use the filter function.
If you have further questions about that, please reply in the other topic and i will try to assist with further details.

[Mike]

That all brown NFSG design was awful   

[MADMAN_nfs]

Hehe,
but i did like the "Car of the moment" feature of the older designs 
JPRacing had this too and because of this, one day i found a really great car in a category i probably never visited otherwise...

[Mike]

Working on a site redesign right now actually, with a similar feature. It will show a random car/track every refresh.

If you have any other things you'd like to see, let me know and I'll see what I can do!

[ExoticLover]

Does anyone knows about GMC A-Team NFS3 website?  I really would like to know the URL so I can check if it exist on wayback machine and if it does,  read it for comedic factor.  Something on the line of I pity the fool.

[Remko]

Does anyone knows about GMC A-Team NFS3 website?  I really would like to know the URL so I can check if it exist on wayback machine and if it does,  read it for comedic factor.  Something on the line of I pity the fool.

I may have seen that as well, probably one of those "Mr T vs Everything" parodies from the late 90s. but I never saved the url or bookmarked it, sorry. I believe he ran into the yellow Diablo SV and ended up throwing it 'helluva far', as those parodies usually ended, but maybe it wasn't the same one.