Haven't played the game... but it's either bad mapping, a glitch, or the its an underground portion of the map...
I have it, I like it but it's the same as the previous ones which is fine. Besides the level-designers did an amazing job, the overall world is huge too bad they added fucking fast travel so the only time you really have to drive around is during races, otherwise you can just press tab to go to the next race etc.
Yea that's a major flaw, I wish they put in the GPS from underground/Most wanted back in. It was hawt.
Over-all I dig the new queerly named "heroic driving" however the "driver skills" make fuck all sense unless the driver has super powers that make vehicles bend to the will of his mind and makes them perform better. The fact that everything is locked just pisses me off. Also: Netherlands?
Only racing game I have is the NFS 2 for the playstation 1. So you can tell how much I like racing games.