Best Car to Start GT5 with?

[rncjr88]

My Friend lost all his GT5 stuff and i am going to send him a good car to start out with. What would be the best car to send him to use for the longest time?

 

[VTiRoj]

You could send him a 600PP Viper/Corvette/any other fast American car and tell him to do the latest seasonal races. Heck you don't even need to send it to him, just put it on share and after a few races he'll have enough money to afford any car he wants.

 

[Emman1984]

Or to have a challenge tell him to buy a honda civic it'll be hard of course but that the challenge of racing on GT5

 

[Raitziger]

I started GT5 with a civic. Most GTs I have started with an old toyota supra.

 

[Hotdoguk]

Got to be the Civic
Easy wins on the Sunday Cup and I seem to remember there is also a Civic race.

 

[DJones]

Have him do the license events. He can work his money up without spending any on some crap little car.
When I first started the only car I had the money for was a beetle

 

[rncjr88]

Thanks for all of your replys, We both bought GT5 the first week it came out and worked really hard to get everything we had. And we both started out with the civic, but his hard drive crashed and he did not have his game backed up on a flash drive so he lost EVERYTHING. I was tryin to send him a car that would help him get back up pretty quick. I sent the Nissan Fairlady Z. Thanks again.



He is already back to Lv. 17 in two days.

 

[DJones]

Thanks for all of your replys, We both bought GT5 the first week it came out and worked really hard to get everything we had. And we both started out with the civic, but his hard drive crashed and he did not have his game backed up on a flash drive so he lost EVERYTHING. I was tryin to send him a car that would help him get back up pretty quick. I sent the Nissan Fairlady Z. Thanks again.

He is already back to Lv. 17 in two days.

That's great! It's like cod... You prestige (thank god there's no option for that in gt5) and the levels just fly by. Then you hit level 35 and boy does it take a while....

 

[noisiaturismo]

Send him a fully tuned premium supercar with a new price under 950.000.

Lamborghini Murcielago SuperVeloce,
Ferrari 458,
Audi R8 V10,

and there are more of those.

 

[seanneedscar]

Just put an x2010 on borrow

 

[Bushido007]

get a kart, do the seasonal, get 500,000 in under 1 minute.

do the gt-r time trial, that's another 500,000 and a free academy version.

and don't forget, ya get a free 86 these days.

trust me a year ago, it took a while before ya had 1 mil just starting the game

 

[stormbringer]

Tommy kaira zzII.

 

[Raitziger]

Just put an x2010 on borrow

And kill the game. GT is about enjoying cars of every speed classes. Leveling is just a product of gameplay, not the goal.

 

[dahcmai]

Just hit up the license test for B I think it is that gets you the Tommy Kiara zz II. You do have to gold it out, but it's so worth it and not that bad of a license to gold out. Then you should be able to just tear up most races. I didn't have any idea on how good that little car was for the longest time. Can't believe I didn't use it for most of my time starting out.

The Berlinette you win from World Compact A Spec took me quite a ways before I picked up another car. It's a good little car especially if you bother to tune it somewhat.

The Mazda Furai Concept ’08 is another one that will get you quite a ways just by winning it. It's in NR-A Roadster Cup B Spec. That car will take you a long ways into the game. It takes quite a while before that one gets outclassed. It's easy to get to it also with it in B Spec.

 

[Conza]

I think I started with an RX-7, was good for several seasonals, and not that ideal to control, I suppose its a good leaners car for a FR (better than an M3 for example, which is extremely good handling), and it was cheap.

 

[HuskyGT]

Best bang-for-the-buck beginner Premium. ´Nuff said

As your friend builds up LVL, he then should try either of these two:

I would go with the 135i since the M3 is more difficult to get, plus you would have to fix the chassis and engine. That 135i in the pic is almost stock, except for the sport soft tires, a weight reduction #1 and the ECU chip. With only that it can beat many cars that are not only more expensive but more powerful.

 

[Chad D.]

Tommy kaira zzII.

This 👍 I can vouch for, lol

 

[Boxxsterr]

RX-8. Well balanced and capable of running in a wide variety of performance levels.

 

[Emman1984]

Mazda Atenza or Mitsubishi 3000GT

 

[ELmarcotuff]

I thought the silvia (S15) not the premium version was pretty good

 

[McClarenDesign]

Seriously.

 

[Stash!]

Every GT series i've always started with a japanese car. Ranges from Toyota Yaris to Mitsubishi 3000GT.

 

[cabezzz]

I started with a Prelude, it took me far into the A spec events, great car to start with imo

 

[Griffith500]

And kill the game. GT is about enjoying cars of every speed classes. Leveling is just a product of gameplay, not the goal.

This. There's something magical about "struggling" in the beginning. It's probably coupled a bit to it being the new game at the time, but starting GT2 for the first time, then GT3, GT4 and even GT5 was awesome. Once cash was easy to come by (combined with the open tuning restrictions), the magic sort of vanishes unless you work hard to keep it there (I'm avoiding the seasonals at the moment, it's interesting... but still easy)

I'd love PD to add a sort of sub-mode that allows you to start again without actually starting again, sort of like a "budget" mode. E.g. your task is to win a given championship within three seasons / attempts. Starting with so much money, you can only re-invest what you win. It's early-days GT gameplay you can access at any time! (C-Spec?)

 

[Ryk]

When I started and you had to buy your first car... the first page of cars had a Tank Car and a Veyron... you only get 20,000 kazulas.

End up with a Civic. But one of the best bits of GT is you can pick pretty much anything and get a race out of it.

MX5/Miata/Eunos Roadster would be a good choice as you have plenty of options with it, and so can stay with the car for several races before you drive it off a cliff into a reservoir after the 4 hours of Tsukuba.

Like the idea of a CSpec. maybe another thread with some Iron Man GT5 on a Budget rules to play by.

 

[XEPEGTP]

FC3S, can compete in Japanese cup, 90s cup, FR, Turbo and more. Its premium and has a mean exhaust grunt even in stock form. Not to mention having perfect 50\50 WD and being very lightweight.

 

[count_dynamo]

i started with a civic, took a fair bit of work to get things going, but thats half the fun, huge struggle in the begging to get a foot in the door!
did the same with GT4 and GT3,
in GT3, the first time around i started with a vw beetle (things didnt go so well for a while with that thing)
i then tried the PT cruiser, and realized that was even worse (but none the less i continued with it and that was that)
in GT4, i started out with that 4 four door dodge, twin exhaust thing (dodge neon?) and that carried me for a while, a good long while

 

[greg666]

I started GT5 with a civic. Most GTs I have started with an old toyota supra.

I started with good old civic, no problem at all

 

[TyrrellRacing]

This. There's something magical about "struggling" in the beginning. It's probably coupled a bit to it being the new game at the time, but starting GT2 for the first time, then GT3, GT4 and even GT5 was awesome. Once cash was easy to come by (combined with the open tuning restrictions), the magic sort of vanishes unless you work hard to keep it there (I'm avoiding the seasonals at the moment, it's interesting... but still easy)

I'd love PD to add a sort of sub-mode that allows you to start again without actually starting again, sort of like a "budget" mode. E.g. your task is to win a given championship within three seasons / attempts. Starting with so much money, you can only re-invest what you win. It's early-days GT gameplay you can access at any time! (C-Spec?)

This.

I remember in GT4 racing the FF challenge over and over again in a white FTO trying to save up for a 350z to do the clubman cup. Took me days of doing Grand Valley Speedway East until I got it and when I did I was chuffed, LMP's and the Like the Wind challenges seemed miles off. Good times.

In GT5 I'd gotten I TVR Tuscan by the end of the first day and a Panoz a short while later. Just no satisfaction in that.

 

[XEPEGTP]

In GT5 I'd gotten I TVR Tuscan by the end of the first day and a Panoz a short while later. Just no satisfaction in that.

I know what you mean, the rewards were given out too generously, and thus lost the rewarding feeling.


Blame the masses, who said GT was too hard, and not rewarding enough, for they sought only recompense in Cr. and Prize Cars, rather than from the challenge of racing.