I like my cars like I like my women: Blocky and filled with angry bees.

Well, you know, fun DID happen even back then.

It was real fun. The stages are really large and open-ended with a bunch of cool places to go, and you can run over squirrels and turn on your wipers to wipe off bugs that die on your windshield.
There are also some amazing glitches - civillian cars driving off cliffs and flying into space etc.

Man, I thought I only dreamed that ghost truck.

Also, there were cows in barns, and if you went exploring off the road on some level, you'd find an ugly human model.

Now why did I go five star myself? That wasn't very bright.

Apologies for commenting on a submission that's almost 2-and-a-half years old, but I loved the hell out of both TEST DRIVE III and its city driving counterpart, VETTE (from a different developer, Spectrum Holobyte, but comparable as being both early attempts at open-world driving games).

Both games, primitive polygon-fill as they were (and the VETTE cars looked even more primitive than even this), made me dream of the possibility of bigger, better open world games, but we had to wait the better part of a decade for DRIVER and then MIDTOWN MADNESS to revive the open world driving genre, and I didn't find any open-world driving game that was as fully satisfying the potential of the genre until TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED in 2006, although for city driving, I did like THE GETAWAY from 2003.

Since the edges and corners of the maps looped into each other (like the PAC-MAN map), on a couple of maps, you could cheat and get to the finish line in seconds by jumping over a short gap where the edges met, but that defeated the purpose of exploring the map.