Who: Atari, Inc. is pleased to announce Los Angeles resident David Sichtermann as the grand prize winner of the "Test Drive Unlimited - Be a Car Designer" contest. Sichtermann raced to first place beating over 100 other submitted designs judged by 6,500 registered consumer voters. Sichtermann's car design will be implemented as a fully functioning vehicle into Test Drive Unlimited, the ultimate lifestyle and automotive video game experience. In addition, Sichtermann will also receive a $2500 monetary award. Sichtermann is a scholarship hopeful for the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the 28-year-old applicant plans to use the $2500 monetary award from the "Test Drive Unlimited - Be a Car Designer" contest towards his education. "I am incredibly excited about winning the Test Drive Unlimited contest," says David Sichtermann, "I left engineering school to become a car designer in California and after six years of paying my dues things are finally starting to fall into place. Through this contest, Atari is helping to make my dreams materialize." What: Test Drive Unlimited is the ultimate lifestyle and automotive gaming experience packed with the world's most luxurious vehicles, more than 1000 miles of diverse photo-realistic Hawaiian terrain, a challenging single player game and a host of online options with M.O.O.R.(TM): Massively Open Online Racing, which enables gamers to interact with thousands simultaneously. The game offers 90 licensed vehicles -- cars AND bikes -- from exclusive manufacturers that are fully customizable with unrivalled interior and exterior details and functions. Car packs featuring six or more vehicles, complete with genre-specific radio stations, will be available for download monthly, beginning six weeks after launch on Xbox Live(R) Marketplace for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Test Drive Unlimited will be available September 5, 2006 for Xbox 360 and will be available later this fall for Windows platform. When: The "Test Drive Unlimited - Be a Car Designer" contest officially began at 12:00:01 am EST May 15, 2006. The entry with the highest combination of number of votes and overall rating at the end of the voting period was the Grand Prize Winner of the Contest. For full details and official rules please log on to www.TestDriveUnlimited.com
