You can still play Hot Pursuit mode, picking the car of your choice and trying to outrun the police.

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The engineers selected a hot new technology called asynchronous transfer mode.

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It was set to Hot Shot, its heat-seeking mode that Dredd uses when he wants to eliminate fleeing perps.

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Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.

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