Fatal Inertia/Customized Parts

The purpose of using aesthetic features in Fatal Inertia is to help distinguish players in online matches and additionally improve a vehicle's performance. New paint skins, emblems, and parts are basically obtained by progressing through Career Mode or achieving specific tasks in the other modes.

Engine Upgrades
Engine parts for the player's racecraft. Affects the vehicle's top speed and acceleration, boosting its thrust capabilities. The hues of the afterburners signify the engine's raw power.

Brake Upgrades
Brake parts for the player's racecraft. Affects the braking capabilities of the vehicle. Better parts enable more opportunities to perform brake boosts during races.

Hull Upgrades
Hull parts for the player's racecraft. Affects the strength, mass, and acceleration of the vehicle. Useful in enhancing both speed and durability.

Wing Upgrades
Wing parts for the player's racecraft. These affect the handling, acceleration, and top speed of the vehicle. Large-sized wings, however, may also cause crafts to be more vulnerable to collisions.

Front Upgrades
Front parts for the player's racecraft. Does not affect the overall parameters of a vehicle.

Tail Upgrades
Tail parts used for decorating the player's racecraft. Does not affect the overall parameters of a vehicle.

Side Panel Upgrades
Side panel parts for the player's racecraft. Does not affect the overall parameters of a vehicle.

Cockpit Upgrades
Cockpit parts for the player's racecraft. Does not affect the overall parameters of a vehicle.

Spoiler Upgrades
Spoiler parts for the player's racecraft. Does not affect the overall parameters of a vehicle.

Paints & Emblems
Garage Mode enables players to further modify the appearance of their vehicle with painted skins and frontal emblems. These are merely for cosmetic appearance and have no effect on a racecraft's overall performance. Paints come in 6 different sets with 40 choices each. Both gloss and metallic colors offer single tone or two tone colors. Alternatively, players may change the skin of their crafts with textures instead. Emblems, on the other hand, decorate the racecraft's front piece with an insignia of the player's choice. They are divided into 12 sets, each one bearing an assortment of 5 different emblems. These come in black, white, red, blue, and green.