An LM or RM version of a real car is considerably more real than a fictional VGT.
BDR!
I'll just leave this here, my favourite Hot Wheel when I was a kid:
It's still fantasy.For fictional cars, I'd prefer something like this, designed to fit into a certain category and compete with real cars:
Yes, that's what I said, a fictional car but designed to fit with other real cars. A fantasy GT500 or GT3 or DTM...whatever. I didn't have much interest in an RM's simply because they couldn't compete on an equal basis with other cars. Now a fantasy GT500 or LMP2 or whatever is a different story.
That's why they add real race cars, these fictional race cars give PD an opportunity to create interesting regulations for a machine or group of machines. I'd prefer them to make more of the TC and Rally Car type of machines introduced for GT5, but with GT6 cars as a basis. Those are really cool.
I raced an absolute ton online in GT5 and quite a bit on GT6 and the some of the rarest cars of all were the RM's because they didn't fit in with any other cars, you had to race them separately in one-make races and that's not popular at all online. Like it or not, people want to race series. GT500 was very popular, DTM, LMP's etc. I don't see much point in creating more standalone racing cars that will look nice in the showroom, get a few laps here or there and then just be put away to collect dust like most of the cars in the game. It seems like a lot of effort for very little result. Designing at least some of them to fit in with series expands opportunities to fill out some of the more underutilized grids and will provide more incentives to use the cars and bring them to the forefront.
This is the easiest part. Specs are known and if other cars exist within those regulations, duplicating their performance should be easy. Copy/paste + a few tweaks, new engine sound and voila, new car. A little performance testing prior to release to ensure compatibility and you're done.
Nascar, GT300/500, some DTM and LMp were quite popular in GT5, several dozen per night in it's heyday. Other series not so much, mainly because there weren't enough cars to fill out grids and people generally don't prefer single make races in open lobbies, hence....
I agree. All we need is some more aero kits, rear wing availability, maybe some more cars that can have alternate rear view mirrors and such and then an actual livery editor on top of that would allow for so many unique automobiles in the game. Then take into account the performance upgrades that are available. We can create such a diverse range of any particular model of car with those tools. I think some people would also like to have the ability to adjust the width of their tires, but if that were possible, I'm sure the majority of people would just want to put on as wide of a tire as the game allowed for an increased contact patch - the way that so many people apply RS tires to street cars.
