Need for Speed Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-21 · 26 entries checked · 8 flagged · 17 issues confirmed · 8 corrected · 9 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Eddie — The 'Speedhunters' car pack was free DLC, not paid.

Eddie — Speed Points were not microtransactions purchasable with real money; they were earned in-game.

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Unit — The Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 was not released until 2008, so it cannot appear in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) or Need for Speed: Underground 2.

Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Unit — No 'ZR1 Unit' or faction exists in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005) or Need for Speed: Underground 2; the ZR1 is not present in either title.

Criterion Games — Acclaim owned the Burnout IP, but Criterion did not buy it back in 2004; Electronic Arts acquired the Burnout IP when it purchased Criterion Games in 2004.

Criterion Games — RenderWare 3 was first used in Burnout (2000), not Grand Theft Auto III.

EA Sports — The entry states 'The series had sold over 140 million copies as of October 2013', but the widely-cited figure from EA is over 150 million copies as of 2014, and 140 million was a figure from around 2012. The specific date and number combination is not accurat

EA Sports — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section states 'The 2010 Hot Pursuit title introduced the Autolog social platform, allowing players to track progress and share screenshots.' While Autolog did debut with 2010's Hot Pursuit, it allowed sharing of screenshots only in later up

EA Canada — The entry states EA Black Box was founded in Burnaby, but it was originally founded in Vancouver.

EA Canada — The entry says EA Black Box became a subsidiary of EA Canada after acquisition, but it became a subsidiary of EA, not EA Canada.

Ken Block — Block drove a Ford Fiesta RS WRC in 2010, not a Ford Focus RS WRC 08.

Ken Block — The Gymkhana Five video's first 24-hour view count is commonly cited as 'over 5 million' or '5 million', not specifically 5.1 million.

Hunter vs Racer — The 'First Major Appearance' is incorrectly listed as Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999); the core police chase dynamic first appeared in the original Need for Speed (1994).

Hunter vs Racer — The 'Setting' incorrectly lists 'Rockport' as a setting for the 'Hunter vs Racer' conflict in general, which is misleading as the conflict appears in many other games with different settings.

New York City — The entry states that in 2020, cameras caught drivers speeding 4.4 million times, but the correct figure from official NYC DOT data is 4,397,375.

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