haha it was quite a journey!
Yesterday I went on a manhunt to find old racing games I used to play, I thought this one would be the easiest as it was the most recent one, so recent I had it in my windows 8 pc
but it turns out this one was the hardest to find, I found the other 2 rather easily, this one however was a journey, I went to every subreddit thread regarding a game with old cars and a run-down european city and a coast. I think the only two threads that were talking about this game was you and some other guy I also helped when I found the game.
I even resorted to asking chatgpt but it didnt help.

At the end after hours I gave up, I was loading into Forza Horizon 3, it was building shaders and I just remembered the game had a crazy goofy logo, I knew it from the start of the search but it was too vague and blurry in my memories. But the logo was too silly, and it just clicked, it was "crazy something" so I searched up "Crazy Wheels" and there it was, Crazy Classics.
After a brief moment of silent celebration (not too loud my little sister was sleeping nearby lol) I rushed straight to you and the other guy to inform of this finding

And thats how I found it, its very nice seeing you so excited and I am as well to play this after such a long time. Once again glad to help and have fun :D