Car Information? What happened to it?

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I remember in GT3, for each new car, there would be a wealth of information streaming across the bottom of the screen.

I enjoyed reading these little blurbs about each car and I haven't been able to find anything similar in GT4. I read the manual and perused the FAQs here and couldn't find anything that referenced something like this.

Is the car info gone for good? I was hoping with so many new cars in this version there'd be lots more for me to read, but it doesn't appear to be the case.
 
Just general info. GT3 would give you a whole background on each new car, it was really cool. It would mention things like interesting features, history, revisions from the prior model, etc...

I thought it was one of the best features, apparently most people ignored it entirely, lol.
 
WanganRunner
Just general info. GT3 would give you a whole background on each new car, it was really cool. It would mention things like interesting features, history, revisions from the prior model, etc...

I thought it was one of the best features, apparently most people ignored it entirely, lol.
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I don't think most people ignored entirely, it's just that we don't know what happened to it. You see, we didn't make the game. Perhaps you could ask PD?
 
I did not ignored that option,that was very helpful and you can learn a lot of car history from that!But i only viewed that on GT2 but i will try it on GT3 when i borrow it!
 
Tourist Trophy has it, so PD didn't drop the idea all together. My assumption is that 700+ cars is to much to do history on, but then again GT2 has a lot of cars aswell, so maybe they just got lazy.
 
Yeah,that`s bit of true.Gt2 have around 500+ cars as far as i know.It can be that the PD is busy with making GT5 or something,better that than car info :D
 
GT4 was incomplete. Period, there are many things that were supposed to be in it but weren't. The pressure to get the game out forced them to leave out certain things, that is one of them.
 
In terms of car info, GT2 was fantastic. I guess PD didnt have time to copy and paste the same blurb for each of the 70-or however many skylines.
 
RenesisEvo
In terms of car info, GT2 was fantastic. I guess PD didnt have time to copy and paste the same blurb for each of the 70-or however many skylines.
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32 skylines, i think.
but its not that hard copying that..
 
damn! thats a lot of skylines!
 
I can just see it now... "The Nissan Skyline started life... blah blah blah blah... the Midnight Purple II special edition... blah blah..." :lol:

It's sad that they didn't include it... and it wouldn't have taken that long... just subcontract the work out to a motoring magazine... or cut and paste it from a coffee-table book. It would have been nice to have more info on some of the more obscure cars, like the Airtrek Turbo, or the Cizeta.
 
I agree, you don't need detailed info on every car, maybe just the obscure ones, or the ones that mean a lot in terms of motoring history (Auto Union Streamliner, Model-T and the Daimler motor carriage etc.) And perhaps a short history of the real life race cars, like race wins and things like that.
 
I would love to see the history of the Shuichi Shigeno Trueno, I can't imagine what it would say since it really dosen't exist in real life, same thing goes for the 22' Nike.
 
SS Trueno does exist.

but, IMO, the history of the car could had been added to the diary's pages when you purchase it first time. that would had been nice, and it would had made the diary more useful.
 
Whell,it is easy to PD to insert Skylines,but i don`t like that Special Color thing,i would be more satisfied with ie. Bee Racing B324R,maked from Gts or GTR!One for Drifting one for racing!
 
ImprezaAddict
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56 is quite alot and 24 are R34s?
omfg
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There's also 11 Supras, 19 Evos, 20 RX-7's, 20 WRX's, and 25 NSX's.

If all cars that shared the same chassis were grouped together, Gran Turismo 4 would have less than 400 cars. Granted, some of the groups there include road- as well as racecars, but that's still a significant drop.
 
Wolfe2x7
There's also 11 Supras, 19 Evos, 20 RX-7's, 20 WRX's, and 25 NSX's.

If all cars that shared the same chassis were grouped together, Gran Turismo 4 would have less than 400 cars. Granted, some of the groups there include road- as well as racecars, but that's still a significant drop.
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Yup, and you can also say that 1 out of 14 cars in GT4 is a Skyline! Since 1 out of 7 is a Nissan, and half of those are Skylines...
 
now seriously, 300 cars is still a lot of cars!
 
When it was implemented in GT/GT2, the "duplicate" cars actually had "duplicate" information. For example, the R32's all had the same info, because it described all variations of the car (GT-R, V-spec, V-spec II, et cetera). It was interesting reading when you needed a break from racing, it sort of pushed you to try a car out.

Not all cars had info on them; mostly the "LM editions" and concept cars were without any description.

Anyway, this is something I'd like to see return to GT5; GT3's "side-scrolling" was hard to read, and if you missed something, you'd have to start all over again...

We have our wiki for car info.
 
The guys at Polyphony Digital could have easily used something like Wikipedia as their source of information, 400 pieces of copy and pasting would only take two days. Anyway, I also miss the descriptions too. They were nice and fun to read, plus they gave you some information about your cars.
 
What really sucks is that the Japanese version had the info scrolling on the bottom of the screen but it was cut out for the American and PAL versions.
 
KSaiyu
What really sucks is that the Japanese version had the info scrolling on the bottom of the screen but it was cut out for the American and PAL versions.
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WTF PD thats not even half-assing it. Its third-assing it :grumpy:

Also, they got ALOT of info wrong. For example, in the dealership before I went to an '01 i think Skyline R34 GTR N1, it said it had 276 hp. When I hit the track to fiddle with it, it had about 310 hp :confused: no oil change. Not really a bad thing though, unless it said it has more power than it really does.
 
Wolfe2x7
There's also 11 Supras, 19 Evos, 20 RX-7's, 20 WRX's, and 25 NSX's.

If all cars that shared the same chassis were grouped together, Gran Turismo 4 would have less than 400 cars. Granted, some of the groups there include road- as well as racecars, but that's still a significant drop.
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Let's not forget the Tommy-Kaira "Shylines" as there were like 5 in GT2.
 
samj_13
WTF PD thats not even half-assing it. Its third-assing it :grumpy:

Also, they got ALOT of info wrong. For example, in the dealership before I went to an '01 i think Skyline R34 GTR N1, it said it had 276 hp. When I hit the track to fiddle with it, it had about 310 hp :confused: no oil change. Not really a bad thing though, unless it said it has more power than it really does.
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In Japan, there is some "gentlemen agreement" that only allows all cars in Japan to have a maximum of 280hp, and Nissan agreed with it and said that the R34 Skylines "only" had 280hp, but everybody knows that the Skyline's produces 300+hp stock
 
KiwiBoy
In Japan, there is some "gentlemen agreement" that only allows all cars in Japan to have a maximum of 280hp, and Nissan agreed with it and said that the R34 Skylines "only" had 280hp, but everybody knows that the Skyline's produces 300+hp stock
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Right! I completely forgot about the Gentlemen's Agreement. :dunce:
 
Condraz23
The guys at Polyphony Digital could have easily used something like Wikipedia as their source of information, 400 pieces of copy and pasting would only take two days. Anyway, I also miss the descriptions too. They were nice and fun to read, plus they gave you some information about your cars.
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Too bad Wikipedia isn't an incredibly reliable source for information... :indiff:
 

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