there is a lot of arena combat in carwars, but also a lot of open highway combat too, deathrace( the new remake) is about the closest to carwars of the 3 you listed. Its a little intimidating at first, but once you get that basics down its a prety easy game we used to play carwars with converted micro machines on 4'x8' tables with 3d terrain at my local shop back in the late 90s good times.\
neuicon, thanks for posting the uncle albert's and quarterlies!