I wouldn't get all excited about this. Sorry guys, but we never know what EA means with "we're going back to the NFS roots". What roots? Pre Underground? Pre Most Wanted? Pre High Stakes?
I would gladly see a NFS coming back to its true root, which is the first game. Even though I only started playing NFS games in 2000 with Porsche Unleashed, I remember playing Hot Pursuit II and I loved racing with Ferraris and Lamborghinis on those tracks. So a NFS with that in mind again would be great. No tuning, no city to explore, just great single tracks in various scenarios, supercars and well, some cops to give it some fun.
PS: The Wiki here never works for me. I always get a blank page with this message: "Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/nfsweb/public_html/wiki/htdocs/includes/User.php on line 676"