You will get the Samson Harrier as part of the Sammy's Renovation mission(s). At a certain point during renovation, your aunt will send you to help a bartender out (don't know what is the exact trigger for this mission but it should appear during the renovations). Turns out he lost his car in a street race, and we're gonna go get it for him. Simply follow the marker to the race, complete it, and from then on you can drive the Samson Harrier. Simply drive 50km (shouldn't take too long), I personally just drove a few laps around the map and that unlocked my achievement.
Another option, suggested by xMP44x: "As an alternative for anyone who (like me) didn't plan for this achievement in advance, I used a route beginning at Sammy's Bar. If you head over the bridge straight outside and keep following this road you'll eventually reach the massive roundabout in Downtown, which became the circuit I used.
It's a little bit boring but you can easily hold the Harrier at 135-140mph. At those speeds the game hardly spawns traffic and cars sometimes disappear in front of you. Given how monotonous this achievement is a route where you don't even have to think might be of use to some."
If you're looking for a bit more fun way to grind out this achievement, Macmanius suggested that you could do some of the races instead of driving around.
21 Comments
I don't suppose you know where the mission 'Lil Ernie' is located do you?
I'm at the last stage of renovating Sammys but can't do it until I complete this mission. There's no tracker for it & I can't remember it being a mission from the main game...
By LFC NEMESIS on 25 Jul 2017 20:22
That sounds weird, I got it towards the end of the renovations and I got the marker from Clays aunt, I think it was out in the Bayou somewhere, don't remember it more specifically than that, sorry.
By MyDanishReality on 25 Jul 2017 20:44
Ignore my previous comment. I feel pretty stupid but didn't notice that there are more sections of the bar to upgrade! All I had to do was press right
Have a +1 for putting up with me!
By LFC NEMESIS on 25 Jul 2017 23:12
LOL, that's pretty funny. Thank you!
By MyDanishReality on 26 Jul 2017 00:30
As an alternative for anyone who (like me) didn't plan for this achievement in advance, I used a route beginning at Sammy's Bar. If you head over the bridge straight outside and keep following this road you'll eventually reach the massive roundabout in Downtown, which became the circuit I used.
It's a little bit boring but you can easily hold the Harrier at 135-140mph. At those speeds the game hardly spawns traffic and cars sometimes disappear in front of you. Given how monotonous this achievement is a route where you don't even have to think might be of use to some.
By xMP44x Paul on 26 Jul 2017 13:29
I'll add it to the solution, thank you for your suggestion. To be honest, after doing the 1000 miles achievement in Mafia 2 I thought this one was a walk in the park,
so I didn't really think much of it.
By MyDanishReality on 26 Jul 2017 14:11
I honestly can't believe they put another achievement like this into a Mafia game. Everyone hated the one in 2. I guess it could be worse, they could've asked for 1,000km...
By AllOvaMyself on 26 Jul 2017 14:41
I know, right? But this one honestly wasn't bad at all. I'll take it any day over driving endlessly on the Mafia 2 highway.
By MyDanishReality on 26 Jul 2017 15:16
The route from Sammy's bar to the Downtown roundabout can be extended to start just past Sammy's bar, on the same road the bridge leads to, and the route is 2.5km in about 90 seconds, give or take. +1
By LuckyKant on 26 Jul 2017 17:59
This is my last achievement for this DLC (and likely the game as a whole), and I've been doing using the Harrier to replay "The Big Easy" race. It's something a bit over 13 km in 5:45-6:15, depending on mods and in-race collisions, and it saves cumulative mileage, meaning I should pop this sometime around the end of my fourth go. The nice thing about this method is that I get to earn some extra scratch while going for it, as well as having a way to tangibly measure my progress!
By Macmanius on 26 Jul 2017 22:57
Yeah, I did some races to earn cash whilst waiting for my weed to grow, but never got far enough to unlock the Big Easy race.
By LuckyKant on 26 Jul 2017 23:09
Any Exotic race should do the trick. It's more interesting than driving in circles, anyway. Plus, races unlock other races (and customizations, which are fun enough).
By Macmanius on 27 Jul 2017 02:00
They definitely did this intentionally. Most likely to make fun of their infamous achievement in Mafia 2
By GREGO McGEE on 27 Jul 2017 17:17
Does it have to be done in one chunk or can you get out of it and mess about for a while on foot?
By SolaceConquest on 30 Jul 2017 20:36
It does not need to be in one go.
By LuckyKant on 30 Jul 2017 23:30
This game now has quite a few cumulative achievements. It's a shame it doesn't use any tracking function.
By Easy Pete on 01 Aug 2017 03:58
By LuckyKant on 01 Aug 2017 10:04
for me was triggered after buying pool table
By Robotel Ro on 12 Sep 2017 06:51
Shame there isn't a way to track the mileage.
By Hyperionston on 25 Feb 2024 10:35
Thanks Macmanius, I'll it to the solution in case people want to grind the achievement in a bit more fun way.
By MyDanishReality on 27 Jul 2017 03:14
This achievement can also be done 100% AFK
What I did, was go to the Grow shop entrance (right in front of the door there is a nice gravel/dirt patch) and do a constant 360 Burnout. (Hold stick left or right with a rubber band) and hold RT, the car will spin in circles, and never move from the spot.
Took around 4h to unlock.
Just for the lazy people like me out there.
By Razess on 22 Feb 2024 12:35
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