I keep reading this thread thinking it's going to get better and it just isn't. Why complain about race cars handling better than super cars and then calling super cars rubbish? Seriously?
A super car is still a street car. It has things like sound deadening, more than one seat, leather interior, a spare tire, suspension tuned more for "comfort" than driving at speed around a race track, a higher center of gravity, a high-end multi-speaker sound system, GPS, power seats, AC, electronic stability control, ABS, traction control, and a zillion other things a race car does not have which help it handle better and accelerate quicker.
That's like going to the Chevy dealer and buying a brand new stock C7 Corvette and taking it to Willow Springs for a track day. Then when the guy in the E36 M3 which is totally gutted, equipped with racing suspension and slick tires laps you every 2 laps, you pull into the pits and start crying because your brand new street tuned Corvette is junk. Really?? come on.
The Lambos are beastly things in GT for a reason. That's just how they are. They look amazing, they sound amazing, they have sick amounts of horsepower but they don't have giant wings on them or weigh 600kg like an F1 car so they don't handle like one. A lot of the old ones ran on cheaper suspension to keep costs down. They were made out of steel. You would press the throttle and you would get so much power to the wheels you couldn't control the thing. It scared the pants off anyone who was lucky enough to afford one and/or drive one and it was exhilarating. Plus you would look like the man just sitting still on the street in one. The new ones try to keep that feel of terror while driving them at speed. So they are twitchy, they aren't the best handling cars on the road. They are also fairly heavy cars too and they have a lot more HP than the older ones. So are you spinning out and crashing too much when you drive them? Is that why you think they suck? Don't hammer the gas on when you aren't pointing the direction you want to go.
In the case of the F40 it was designed to be the closest thing to a racing car you could buy for the streets. On the streets there are physical/environmental limitations and laws so they did the best they could with those restrictions in mind and with the technology of the day. They also didn't want it to cost $2,000,000 (Though, at the time $480,000 wasn't exactly peanuts.) Yet, somehow Ferarri ended up with what is arguably the best raw street legal performance car ever. Raw why? Because it has no traction control, it has no ABS, it's pretty much stripped to the bare "metal." Hell it doesn't even have power windows. They built it out of carbon fiber...in 1987?!?! It has two gigantic turbos on it's already beefy motor so its making almost 500 HP it weighs 1100kg...If you expect to get all the way to third base on the first date with this car and not get your fingers bit off...you're a moron.
Slagging on muscle cars because they don't handle well or the rev limiter is limiting you....go figure...is ridiculous too. They were designed to go fast in a straight line 1/4 mile cheaply. Or in the case of the Super Bird designed to go fast around a banked oval cheaply. The gearing is the way it is because it allows all that power to hit the road and give you the get up and go you need to go fast over 1/4 mile. Also going 300 km/h (hell even 100 km/h) in a giant steel box with drum brakes and a solid rear axle is flat out deadly. Yeah it will go faster than gearing allows for, yeah it lumbers around like a drunk baby elephant, but to expect it to handle like a modern car is flat out retarded. Let alone a modern super car or sports car with the same amount of HP. If you want it to go faster tune it.
COME ON!!
