SCS Software has dropped another trailer for American Truck Simulator’s upcoming Road Trip mode, and this one is all about the cars: specifically, how far you’ll be able to go in making one your own before you set off across the map.

The Road Trip mode itself is the headline feature here. It’s a departure for a game built almost entirely around hauling freight in a semi, letting you take a passenger car out on the open road for its own sake rather than chasing a delivery deadline. SCS had already shown off some of the customisation in earlier material; this new footage, as covered by Traxion, expands on that with more of the options you’ll have for tweaking the look of your vehicle. Beyond that, the details remain fairly light: no release date, pricing or a full list of parts has been confirmed alongside the trailer, so treat this as a taste rather than a spec sheet.

Why should sim racers care about a trucking game adding a road-trip mode? Mostly because of the map. ATS has spent years building out a huge chunk of the western United States, state by state, with highways, back roads and scenery that no racing sim is ever going to bother modelling. Being able to drive that in a car, with a sim-grade wheel and pedals, is an appealing prospect for anyone who enjoys the “just driving” side of the hobby as much as the lap times. It’s the same itch that keeps people in Assetto Corsa’s free-roam maps for hours.

The honest caveat is that ATS’s car physics have never been its focus, and a cosmetic customisation trailer doesn’t tell us anything about how these vehicles will actually handle. If you’re hoping for a proper driving model rather than a scenic cruise, wait for hands-on impressions before getting excited.

Originally reported by Traxion.