Never seen the point in the carmageddon series tbh. Seems as pointless as guitar hero. If I wanted to play the guitar I'd just buy a guitar and play it. Same with carmageddon.
But couldn't you use that argument with any game?
You're saying 'if you wanted to get in a car and mow down pedestrians and crash other cars off the road', you'd do it. I mean you might actually want to, but you can't.
In that way it's not the same as Guitar Hero.