| “ | Now remember kids, a Freightliner is not a toy! Treat it with respect. Hey, can I honk the horn? | ” |
— Chicago Announcer, race openings with the Freightliner Century
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The Freightliner Class Century C120 is a playable vehicle featured in Midtown Madness and its sequel Midtown Madness 2. It is a large trailer truck with a detachable bed.
In the first Midtown Madness, the Freightliner Century can be earned through beating the clock in five Blitz Races.
Overview[]
In-Game Description[]
Freightliner Century Class C120
"Throw around pure muscle and mass to take undisputed ownership of the road."
Freightliner Century Class C120
"Awesome durability, but its top speed and cornering ability are nothing to brag about."
Midtown Madness[]
The Freightliner Century, specifically called Freightliner Century Class C120, is a trailer truck. It can jump across traffic so it can damage cars at high speed. It can be unlocked by beating the clock in 5 Blitz races, and you can drive it with a trailer. If you make a turn too wide, however, the trailer is likely to toss the truck all over the place. The truck can go at 130 mph, and it has a horsepower of 360 bhp, and a mass of 8069 kg. It comes with four colors: blue, black, orange, and white, with three cut paint jobs: red, grey and tan.
Midtown Madness 2[]
The Freightliner Century is a standard vehicle that is unlocked from the very first time you play Midtown Madness 2. It is the most durable vehicle in the standard game, the original Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 3. The big rig in the first two games is based on the Class C120 model, while the one in Midtown Madness 3 is based on the newer Class S/T model.
In Midtown Madness 2, this semi-truck does not have its flatbed trailer attached to it unlike the original Midtown Madness and the alpha and early beta versions of Midtown Madness 2 (since the sequel was originally going to have a flatbed trailer attached to this truck, but due to glitches that caused it to fly high in the air if it hits a building at a high speed, the problems couldn't be fixed, so the trailer was cut from later versions of the game). However, the trailer's files remain inside the mm2core.ar file of the final version of Midtown Madness 2, and can be enabled by adding a "TRAILER_HITCH" object to the truck's .pkg file, or by just taking the old one from one of the beta versions of the game and putting it in a custom .ar file, even though it can be glitchy unless you carefully modify other parts of the vehicle (see the trivia section of the article for the American LaFrance Fire Truck for more information).
In HQTM Team's Classic Madness mod, it is replaced by the classic Mack W-71.
History[]
A real Freightliner Century
In 1942, Freightliner Trucks launched, and went on to build some of the most iconic trucks to come from the US. In 1951, Freightliner started selling trucks through the White Motor Company, but after success in the 60s, the early 70s saw the demise of WMC and in 1974, Freightliner split to form its own private company. In 1981, the firm joined the Daimler-Chrysler group and sold rebranded versions of Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Unfortunately, these were not popular, so in the 1990s, Freightliner developed its own line of medium duty vehicles. From 1995 to 2000, the company acquired many other brands of commercial vehicle. It was in this period that the Freightliner Century, Freightliner FLD 120 Classic XL, American LaFrance Fire Truck and Silver Eagle Fire Truck were produced. Between 2001 and 2005, Freightliner began selling marques it couldn't sustain, including LaFrance. In 2007, Freightliner was split, to form Daimler Trucks North America. Now, Freightliner deals in heavy-duty trucks, as well as a rebranded Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. They are also experimenting with battery packs supplied by Tesla Motors to produce an electric vehicle in the future.
Races As An Opponent[]
All races with the Freightliner Century as a computer-generated opponent:
All races with the Freightliner Century in Chicago:
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| Beginner's Luck | 0 | 0 |
| Tough Turns & A Tunnel | 0 | 0 |
| North River Run | 0 | 0 |
| Soldier Sneaker | 2 | 2 |
| Freeway Flyer | 0 | 0 |
| Nocturnal Navigator | 0 | 0 |
| Beat The Bridges | 0 | 0 |
| Crosstown Switchback | 0 | 0 |
| Perimeter Perils | 0 | 0 |
| Aptitude Test | 0 | 0 |
| Beetle Blast-a-Thon | 0 | 0 |
| Frosty Finale | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| The Littler Loop | 0 | 0 |
| Riverside Run | 0 | 0 |
| Tunnel Turner | 0 | 0 |
| Downtown Driver | 0 | 0 |
| Museum Marathon | 0 | 0 |
| South End Circuit | 0 | 0 |
| City Central | 0 | 0 |
| North End Navigator | 0 | 0 |
| Old Town Twist | 0 | 0 |
| Loop-De-Loop | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
All races with the Freightliner Century in San Francisco:
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| Racing 101 | 0 | 0 |
| Deck The Hall | 0 | 0 |
| Golden Hour | 0 | 0 |
| City Tour | 0 | 0 |
| Foggy Memory | 0 | 0 |
| Park & Ride | 0 | 0 |
| The Hills Are Alive | 0 | 0 |
| Lookout! | 0 | 0 |
| Wanted! | 0 | 0 |
| After Hours | 0 | 0 |
| Full Speed Ahead | 0 | 0 |
| Panoz Pressure | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| Take It Easy | 0 | 0 |
| Hang Time | 0 | 0 |
| Gimme SOMA | 0 | 0 |
| Wind It Up | 0 | 0 |
| Midtown Mayhem | 0 | 0 |
| Chinatown | 0 | 0 |
| Presidio! | 0 | 0 |
| Square Dancing | 0 | 0 |
| Circuit Breaker | 0 | 0 |
| Floor It! | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
All races with the Freightliner Century in London:
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| Top Of The Morning | 0 | 0 |
| Bridge Bash | 0 | 0 |
| Through The Park | 0 | 0 |
| V & A Visit | 0 | 0 |
| South Bank Brawl | 0 | 0 |
| River Thames Run | 0 | 0 |
| Circuit Within | 0 | 0 |
| Check This! | 0 | 0 |
| Splish Splash | 0 | 0 |
| Cut It Short | 0 | 0 |
| Dizzy Driving | 0 | 0 |
| Foggy, Foggy Night | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
| Race |
Number of Cars (Amateur) |
Number of Cars (Professional) |
|---|---|---|
| Mini Race | 0 | 0 |
| Round Westminster | 0 | 0 |
| View From Two Bridges | 0 | 0 |
| Parks But No Parking | 0 | 0 |
| City Circuit | 0 | 0 |
| Underground | 0 | 0 |
| London Run | 0 | 0 |
| Gimme Some Royalties | 0 | 0 |
| Soho Mojo | 0 | 0 |
| Zany Zigzag | 0 | 0 |
| Color | Featured in Race |
|---|---|
| Yes | Yes |
| No | No |
Stats[]
- Top Speed: 114 mph
- Horsepower: 360 bhp
- Mass: 17,790 lbs.
- Durability: Very High
Trivia[]
- In the original Midtown Madness, whenever this truck came to a complete stop, an air brake hiss sound effect was heard. In the sequel, it was silent when it completely stopped since the brake sound effect was left unused, but it can still be found in the .ar file for MM2's audio files (mm2aud.ar), though it can't be installed due to MM2's new vehicle audio system unless MM2Hook is used. This also applies to the City Bus and the Double-Decker Bus.
- This is one of the default vehicles to be referred to by the announcers as its brand name, alongside the Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, the Mini Cooper Classic and the New Mini Cooper.
- As mentioned above, the flatbed trailer for this truck is not attached to the truck unit in the final version of MM2. Fortunately, there is a mod made by Sajmon14 that restores the trailer and also fixes its wheels, however, the mod is not compatible with the vehicle's additional colors from the MM2 Revisited mod (V4 onwards), and when the truck goes in reverse, its trailer really goes out of place.
- The cut grey and red colors were only featured in the early beta versions of Midtown Madness 1, so this was one of the only vehicles in MM1 to have additional paint jobs in the beta versions of it but were cut from its final version, along with the Panoz Roadster.
- In the original Midtown Madness, when the player has installed its Windows XP compatibility patch or the MM1 Revisited V3 mod, the trailer is detached when the F5 key is pressed, but when this truck is used in the game's races as an opponent, it will automatically detach its trailer. In Midtown Madness 2, when the trailer mod is installed, and when the truck is being driven by the player, it is nearly impossible to remove the trailer from the truck unit (unlike the American LaFrance Fire Truck's trailer) unless it has crashed into a lot of solid objects, but when this truck is used in any of the sequel's races, the trailer doesn't stick to the truck unit and acts like a non-solid object that can be driven through and its high-poly wheels are invisible. This also applies to the American LaFrance Fire Truck and other add-on trucks and when both articulated vehicles are used as pursuit vehicles in custom .aimap files for the default or custom cities.
- As it is one of the largest vehicles in the game, it is very good at jumping over traffic, however, it has very slow acceleration.
- Along with the City Bus, it has reverse beeps.
Colors[]
| Blue |
| Black |
| Orange |
| White |
| Red (originally cut from Midtown Madness 1 & Midtown Madness 2 for unknown reasons, but made available through use of MM1 Revisited & MM2 Revisited) |
| Gray (originally cut from Midtown Madness 1 & Midtown Madness 2 for unknown reasons, but made available through use of MM1 Revisited & MM2 Revisited) |
| Tan (originally cut from Midtown Madness 1 & Midtown Madness 2 for unknown reasons, but made available through use of MM1 Revisited & MM2 Revisited) |
NialBlack's Color Mod[]
| Yellow (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
| Green (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
| Ocean Blue (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
| Purple (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
| Pink (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
| Lime Green (made available for MM2 Colors Pack) |
Sounds[]
| Sound | Information | Audio File |
|---|---|---|
| Demonstration | This is the sound heard on the vehicle selection page. | |
| Idle | Vehicle motionless, idle | |
| Driving | Driving the vehicle | |
| Brakes | Activating the brakes | |
| Reversing | Reversing beeps | |
| Horn | Horn sounds |
Quotes[]
All in-game commentary applying to the Freightliner Century:
All Chicago quotes that apply to the Freightliner Century, provided by the announcer:
| Quote | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|
| Congratulations! You have just unleashed the awesome power of the Freightliner Century Class! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. | |
| Congratulations! You just unlocked the the Freightliner Century Class! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. | |
| Congratulations! You just unleashed the awesome power of the Freightliner Century Class Eighteen wheeler! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. | |
| Congratulations! You just unlocked the the Freightliner Century Class Eighteen Wheeler! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. | |
| Congratulations! You just unleashed the awesome power of the Freightliner Century Class Semi! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. | |
| Congratulations! You just unlocked the the Freightliner Century Class Semi! | Winning five Blitz races to unlock the Freightliner Century. |
| Quote | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|
| Now you are fully licensed to drive that eighteen-wheeler aren't you? Of course you are! | Race opens with the Freightliner Century | |
| Now remember kids, a Freightliner is not a toy! Treat it with respect. Hey, can I honk the horn? | Race opens with the Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|
| Hey, half of Chicago looks like a Freightliner came flying right through it! | Losing races with a Freightliner Century in second place or below |
All San Francisco quotes that apply to the Freightliner Century, provided by various announcers:
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| People just seem to get out of your way when you're driving a Freightliner! And I think I can see why! | US Sportscaster (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| I'll tell you one thing: I don't envy the car that finds itself in the path of that Freightliner! | US Sportscaster (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| Look at you! Large and in charge! | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| Remember to pick the traffic out of the grid of the truck when you're finished! | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| Okay, hey man, anybody got any bread for gas? These Freightliners cost a lot to fill up you know? | Hippie (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| Hey man, you know, it would be really cool if your headband matched your Freightliner! | Hippie (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century | |
| I don't know what's more fun about driving a Freightliner! Taking damage or giving it out! | Woman (San Francisco) | San Francisco race openings with the Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well, I've been in the urban racing business for quite a while! And it's not every day you see a Freightliner enter a race, much less win one! | US Sportscaster (San Francisco) | Winning a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Now that's how you roll on the wheels of steel! Good driving! | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | Winning a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| I can't believe you won in that big truck! Groovy driving dude! | Hippie (San Francisco) | Winning a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Hey, I just looked up groovy in the dictionary, and I saw your picture! | Hippie (San Francisco) | Winning a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| For some reason, San Francisco looks like a Freightliner came flyin' right through it! | US Sportscaster (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Not bad! Not bad! Did you pull cars out of your tire threads yet? | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| How do you know how to drive that big truck? I couldn't even get it off the starting line. | Hippie (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Well, you've got more wheels than any other car in the road, you gotta use 'em to your advantage! | US Sportscaster (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| What's the matter? You've got twice as many wheels and you're still losing! | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Did you crawl in the sleeper cabin and take a nap? Come on now! | Urban Guy (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Dude, sorry about your loss, um, but do you mind if I crash in the back of your Freightliner? | Hippie (San Francisco) | Losing a San Francisco race with a Freightliner Century |
All London quotes that apply to the Freightliner Century, provided by various announcers:
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| I can't think of anything in all of sports more exhilarating than driving that Century Freightliner through and I do mean through this city at breakneck speed! | UK Sportscaster (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century | |
| I fully expect ya to crash the competition in this race! Figuratively speaking I mean, you know, figuratively! | Scottsman (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century | |
| I have a feeling you're going to have to hoover the whole city after you drive that big thing through it! | Mister (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century | |
| Come down from there my dear! Come down! What are you doing? Driving that, articulated vehicle? | Woman (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century | |
| Be most careful driving that lorry! We've got so many breakable items in this city! | Woman (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century | |
| The potential for destruction in this city with that Freightliner arctic is monumental! Have at it! | Punk Girl (London) | London race openings with a Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Freightliner Century literally smashed the competition once again! A tremendous race for this big machine! | UK Sportscaster (London) | Winning a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Woah! Brilliant driving in that big dinosaur! Now, that's what I call Power Stein! | Scottsman (London) | Winning a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| We're big racing a big Freightliner lorry! We really are good you are! | Mister (London) | Winning a London race with a Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Well, that Freightliner didn't win, but you have to say, that it sure made the race action-packed! | UK Sportscaster (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| It's fun driving a big Freightliner, idinit? So next time go really fast, and see how far things fly when ya hit them! | Scottsman (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Nicely done! You've gone through it all in one pace! One big pace! | Mister (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| I can't say I'm surprised by that Freightliner's last place finish! It may have a size disadvantage on some of these narrow London streets! | UK Sportscaster (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Well, you didn't win! But, on the bright side, you crushed everything in your path! | Scottsman (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century | |
| Take heart, you can't expect to win driving an Arctic like that through the city! | Mister (London) | Losing a London race with a Freightliner Century |
| Quote | Spoken By | Heard When | Audio File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weeeell done! You've just unlocked, THE FREIGHTLINER CENTURY! | Shakespeare (London) | For when the vehicle was originally meant to be unlocked in London |
Gallery[]
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