This is a racing game where you get to drive a car against either in time trial mode or against a pc.
Your obstacles are oncoming traffic, cops, or also not crashing into trees [if you get off the road], running out of gas, and blowing out the engine [if you chose one of the hard levels and dont change gear].
In my opinion, this game has the best graphics of the other racing games [of the snes era].
If you start in one of the two easy modes the car will be automatic, if not [the last two] then it will have manual transmission [you would have to click to shift up or down].
Highly recommend it.