AR file

AR file is a Midtown Madness 2 Game Data. Midtown Madness is a racing game developed for Windows by Angel Studios and published by Microsoft.

A game data file used by the racing games Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2. Stores in a concise format the data that the game references. Includes game menus, car models, texture, tracks and 3D objects.

AR files are referenced in the Midtown Madness games, they do not need to be opened manually. But the contents of AR files can be extracted using third-party utilities such as deAR for the original Midtown Madness game and deAR2 for Midtown Madness 2. Files can be extracted using the Zip decompression utility because they are stored in .ZIP format.

File Example
An Panoz GTR-1's wheel stats taken from the core.ar file: