Both day and night are clear and easy to drive. In addition, the color palette used in VP is great. There is a vibrancy in this game that is wonderful - eye candy all the way. Many of the tracks, especially the city courses, are scattered with familiar landmarks found in real-life cities. One track, for instance, has several bridges, including replicas of the bridge found in Tampa Bay, with it's unique splayed wiring, and what looks like the Bay Bridge.
Car models are equally sweet.
If only there were a visible damage model, I would rank this game among the top of the graphics heap, in DC driving games. The lack of a true cockpit view subtracts some points, as a start. But the big hit comes because of this game's fairly serious clipping trouble, noticed especially in first-person view. Clipping seems to imply an overlay of images on screen, but this doesn't happen. Instead, contact with another car, especially at certain angles can set the cars off into these strange animations.