2004 Karin Asterope

The 2004 Karin Asterope was a fictional sedan manufactured by the Japanese car company, Karin. This particular car was driven by Joel Wallace while he worked for Hayes' Auto as a distraction for the L.S.P.D. to chase down, with the car supposedly having a small bag of cocaine taped to the bottom of the car. This vehicle will appear in The Outlaw’s Saga - Grand Theft Auto: Renegade.
== Design ==
== Performance ==
== History ==
=== Joel's Getaway Car ===
A baby blue Asterope with a broken driver window was used as a getaway car for Joel Wallace while he worked under a small racket operation in Hayes' Auto in Los Santos, San Andreas. Around the time Joel would use the car, he was informed that the Los Santos Police Department would begin to close in on the operation, unless they were given false information that "a main man was due to transport a car with cocaine taped to the bottom of the car," and they were called by themselves. Joel's job was to distract the police long enough for the workers to vacate the auto shop and move elsewhere, and then evade the police, as well as destroy the car to get rid of any evidence.
Sure enough, not long after having started the ignition and left the auto shop, the police immediately came and began their chase after Joel, who sued his driving skills and quick wit to outsmart the police, but keep them distracted long enough until his employers were able to evacuate. He drove throughout most of Chamberlain Hills until he was notified that he can shake the cops and he needed to destroy the car somehow without drawing attention. With quick haste, Joel evaded police sight and drove into the Los Santos River until he drove back up an incline onto a train track in La Mesa, where an oncoming train was approaching. Joel drove straight towards the oncoming train and bailed out at the last second, allowing the train to total the car while he was safe. Joel vacated the scene before the police could come to investigate. A news report later stated that the car's remains were found along the train tracks in La Mesa, having been hit by an oncoming train. No body was found, nor a bag of cocaine, but rather, a bag full of marshmallow cereal.
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== Trivia ==
* The chase scene, although highly extended and not limited to highways with this particular car, was based off of the short police chase scene from Talladega Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, where both drivers, Joel and Ricky Bobby, drove a borrowed car to escape the police when a false report was called into the police that a kilo of cocaine was taped to the underside of the vehicle and they needed to evade the cops. Later, it was then discovered that the "kilo of cocaine" was just marshmallow cereal (Lucky Charms in Ricky Bobby's case).
** The main differences are that the chase is longer in Joel's case, it did not take place on any highways, and he drove a fictious Japanese sedan that eventually got destroyed by an oncoming train, while in Ricky's case, it lasted a couple of minutes on a highway while he drove a real-life American muscle car, the 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu to be exact, and the car remained intact, losing the police in a forest clearing.