AMERICAN, EUROPEAN OR JAPANESE - Choose your favourite manufacturer origin

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AMERICAN, EUROPEAN OR JAPANESE ?

  • American

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • European

    Votes: 193 61.7%

  • Japanese

    Votes: 93 29.7%
  • Total voters
    313
Well, I'd usually go with European manufacturers, because of Porsche. But, this isn't applicable in GT5, so... Yeah.
Additionally, I won't be capable of affording a Porsche for years to come, but a nice Japanese car might be a realisitc goal for the near future.

All things considered, I'd have to say, Japanese manufacturers are my favourite. Both as far as ingame cars are concerned, as well as achievable cars in real life.

If we're considering currently unattainable real life cars, I would've voted for European, though :lol:
 
European, closely followed by Japanese, then American some way off in the distance.
 
seanchump
Next time you want to be taken seriously, please don't quote Al Gore..
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LOL

I voted for European because
1. They invented it
2. They just make the best rides
and
3. The variety is also big (sporthatches- Supercars- EcoCars)
 
Europe. There's geographical proximity bias, but I find more appeal in European cars.
 
Definitely the the euro cars they are just better.
 
VTiRoj
In order of favourite to least favourite: Japanese (should really say Asian since China and Korea makes cars too), American and then finally European cars.

Every time I see an NSX, I stare at it until I cant see it anymore. :lol:
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Haha, me too.

And yes, wouldn't it be fair to vote by region? America, Europe, Asia? Europe is a continent and have like 10 plus countries with at least one manufacture. Japan is a country of its own, and I guess for America, it's basically just the U.S.

"Overall" I have to say Japanese. Yes Europeans have many hot models, but I don't feel like they're something that I can drive and enjoy regularly. Driving a hot, luxury, and exotic car feels like I'm driving it more for the "show," rather than the enjoyment of it. It's like wearing an uncomfortable, yet very expensive and fashionable piece of clothes. Also, by comfort I mean having the feeling that the car won't require many unnecessary, expensive maintenance, and that in tough situations, it can perform well.

With Japanese cars, I feel comfortable and can depend on it for the long run. I mean Japanese cars do fill up about half of the top ten most reliable manufacture recently, which is impressive considering they're all from one country. This tells me that they take good pride and care in designing and building their cars, as goes for their electronics.

American cars at the moment are not in my argument... sorry. But they are getting better and perhaps soon I might favor them in some way or another. Ford seems to be picking up that pace.
 
Europeans have churned out a lot of great cars.
Not so much the USA.
 
In the game and for racing purposes, Japan. If only because of all of the great GT500 and GT300 cars.
If the DTM cars were premium, then Europe.

IRL, European...and it isn't close.
Heck, I would take Germany and Italy vs The World.
 
My favorite manufacturers are located in Europe. Followed by America, although the lack of certain American manufacturers/models in GT5 is a bit of a puzzle to me.
 
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While Europe has produced faster cars than Japan, Japanese cars are my favourite to drive in GT5 because many of them are cars I can imagine being able to afford in the future (honda s2000, nissan 370z, honda nsx). It's fun to test out different cars and imagine what it will be like to race with them in real life, which is something I really want to do.

Given my career path, I will never be able to afford ferrari. I know it's just a game and I do have fun driving exotic cars, but I get a lot more exited when racing a car I could potentially drive in real life one day.
 
Nastradamus87
While Europe has produced faster cars than Japan, Japanese cars are my favourite to drive in GT5 because many of them are cars I can imagine being able to afford in the future (honda s2000, nissan 370z, honda nsx). It's fun to test out different cars and imagine what it will be like to race with them in real life, which is something I really want to do.

Given my career path, I will never be able to afford ferrari. I know it's just a game and I do have fun driving exotic cars, but I get a lot more exited when racing a car I could potentially drive in real life one day.
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You make a good point. Not too many of us can afford Ferrari's... Heck, if I owned one I would be out driving it in real life instead of sitting in a chair behind a Logitech steering wheel playing a video game. :)
 
Japan: Good at cheap mass made cars. (honda civic for example)
America: Muscle cars are nice but they also make lots of rubbish.
Europe: The home of the car, they range forom exclusive makes such as lambo or ferrari, Large makes such as BMW, VW and small makes such as Ariel and Noble.

(Bear in mind I'm slightly bias :sly:)
 
Can't STAND American cars.
And that's coming from an American.

If someone offered mean free Ford GT, I would like to say that I'd refuse it (But how can you refuse a free ford gt?).

Never cared for Japanese cars either.

Go Porsche!
 
Japan, Skyline's, Supra's, hell yeah!
 
European cars. Especially german cars (No I´m not german, I´m turkish :) ). The quality of german cars are unreached for me.

I´ve seen some Ferrari´s with such worse quality, I was shocked... Since Audi (VW) bought Lamborghini, the quality of Lamborghini hit the top...

I also like the look of American muscle cars...

Japanese cars? I can count them with one hand... They are too edged for my taste. I don´t see any line in the design... But ok I only know most cars from the GT series...
Only the S2000 is one Japanese car I like... Ah ok the 370Z is also ok...
 
Nismo34
Nothing beats the american muscle. Just cruising down a straight sittin on 100 in gear 5 or 6 to hear that really low, gruff, rumble. Nothing better.
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Yeah, how does your American muscle take corners ?
 
GeneralJesh
Yeah, how does your American muscle take corners ?
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It doesn't. That's why they're so obsessed with drag racing... No need to corner, no need to brake.
 
I have to say I love all of them. Make me choose between a Lexus LFA, a Corvette ZR-1 and a Lamborghini LP560-4 and I would be faced with a very tough decision...

Each region has its advantages and disadvantages, for example I hate riced up Honda Civics but I love the Nissan Skyline. I hate American pickups and SUV's but I love the Corvette. I hate the fact that Ferrari have dropped the manual gearbox but I would kill for a 458.

I love cars so it doesn't matter where they come from as long as they are fast and beautiful. If I had to pick one region, I would take Europe everyday but at the same time I am a huge fan of muscle cars and Japanese cars as well
 
Japanese >> European >>>...... (1k of " > " later ) American. I think the only American car that i don't hate would be a Ford GT40, too bad original model is standard.
 
Someone tell me you wouldn't love to own all three of these cars...

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TJ31
Japanese >> European >>>...... (1k of " > " later ) American. I think the only American car that i don't hate would be a Ford GT40, too bad original model is standard.
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An interesting fact about the Ford GT40 is that it was developed, engineered and built by Ford of Britain in order to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. Many people mistake it for an American car, when in actual fact, only the modern Ford GT is American. PD should really fix their vehicle nationality classifications. Just because it has a Ford badge doesn't mean it's American, PD.
 
True, but Ford is still an American company. A lot of cars these days are designed and engineered in different countries. The Chev Comaro for instance was designed and engineered in Australia and built in Mexico but it's still an American car
 
CarreraGT
True, but Ford is still an American company. A lot of cars these days are designed and engineered in different countries. The Chev Comaro for instance was designed and engineered in Australia and built in Mexico but it's still an American car
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not sure what the "Comaro" is but the 2010 "Camaro" is built in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
 
My bad, I always get that wrong. Well yeah either way, its not designed or engineered in America. Also a lot of manufacturers borrow parts from other countries so there are less and less cars that are exculsive to a particular country.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just means that we get better cars for the same price :)
 
bimmer3002
that's cause after the war, all of their militaries were all but disbanded and all of those resources went to building cars instead. just a thought
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Doesn't really have anything to do with it.

After WWII, Japan and Germany pretty much had no industry left, most of it got destroyed during the war and they all had to build it up again, so they built up state of the art industry.

Edit: I vote Japanese for price-quality reasons, and European because of their brilliant designing.
 
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