I only play CE and H2, but I prefer the CE vehicles (other than the odd and unpredictable way the Scorpion machine gun scatters its fire). The only H2 vehicle I find enjoyable (compared to CE's versions) is the Wraith, only because you couldnt drive one in CE, and it is fun to lob those plasma rounds. The H2 Hog does have the brakes and the horn (who doesnt like a good tooting once and a while to wake up those grunts!) and the ability to brake can have its advantages. Overall I prefer the CE Hog though. The CE vehicle performance is does not degenerate with damage. The funny thing about the H2 vehicles is that they show damage, but are not impacted much in function due to that damage (other than the ghost, see below). You can lose through fire the parts of the ghost, banshee and wraith that give you boost, but even if they are missing you can still boost. That doesnt make sense, if the game shows them gone from damage, you should lose the ability to use them. What does make sense is that when the front of the ghost takes damage, the trajectory of your fire does change, it is annoying as hell to use them when they are all "a'kilter", but it makes sense. When the Hog wheels look they are falling off, you slow down at top speed a bit, but not much. I think it would be funny to be speeding along and have a loose tire go flying off, sending you and your passengers into the air as the Hog cartwheels over due to the axle grinding into the ground (no seat belts!). Maybe that is in the later games? Off topic, the biggest change to me from CE to H2, that I didnt like was how the PP works. During CE you could ping long distance for a day and a half, watching those single rounds actually drop in height off the ground as they travelled long distances. In H2 they are straight line till they die out, and the distance is much shorter. I had alot of fun dinging and pinging from long distance, on virtually every map. Ah, the old days!