There are some nice little touches, like flies that smack into your window and birds using your car for target practice, but that's about it. The music is bad. Not only are the midi sounds badly selected, but the compositions are really rather annoying. Thankfully, you can turn down the volume. The sound effects are okay, but yet again Midway shows a total lack of attention to detail.
Collision detection is bad.
Sometimes you spin out because of an invisible enemy behind you, other times you're caught in a crash that's more like a traffic jam than anything else. And try running into one of those huge redwood trees. It simply falls over like a cardboard sign. Level design is unexciting and nowhere near Wave Race or Mario Kart. Sure, it's nice to have linear tracks, where you don't always come back to the same obstacles.