The improvements do make things a lot easier, but the coolest improvement by far has to be the addition of Time Trials. The Groups that I was talking about earlier show you where you stand at a glance [so to speak]. They put you into groups with everyone who is in the Top 50%. Then as you run faster, they move you to the next level, Top 10%, then Top 5%, then Top 1%. As far as I can tell, you do have to spend some gold on mods to get to the Top 1%, because everyone else is. They don't differentiate based on car mods.
I don't suppose that android hack will work on my iPhone. Does anyone have one that fits an Apple?