How Do You Manage a Large Car Collection?

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I'm almost at 450 cars, which isn't huge, but it's not small either. I almost exclusively drive premiums, but I do own many standard cars - especially with certain manufacturers I like. I own every BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi non-race car. There are some cars that I absolutely adore and I happen to own multiple cars of the Lamborghini Diablo and Ferrari F40, for instance. In many of these cases, I have multiple tunes applied to the three tuning tabs provided by PD.

I'm trying to figure out a way to best organize my collection of cars. I always have my laptop next to my driving seat, so I've been leaning toward building a spreadsheet of some sort. For example, with my Ferrari F40's, I currently have 5 that are different colors and setup like:

Yellow
Tab A EU Spec No Cats 2 No Fuel 101/101 27/36/36 554PP 1169kg
Tab B EU Spec No Cats 1 No Fuel 101/101 27/36/36 553PP 1169kg
Tab C EU Spec No Cats 2 No Fuel 101/101 17/27/27 554PP 1169kg

White
Tab A EU Spec Stock No Fuel 101/101 40/27/27 540PP 1169kg
Tab B EU Spec Stock No Fuel Lowered 81/81 30/36/36 540PP 1169kg
Tab C EU Spec Stock No Fuel Raised 115/115 30/36/36 540PP 1169kg

Red
Tab A US Spec 101/101 30/36/36 543PP 1286kg
Tab B US Spec 101/101 20/36/36 543PP 1286kg
Tab C US Spec 81/81 17/27/27 543PP 1286kg

(Tab # - Short Description - Ride Height - LSD settings - PP - Weight)

I just happen to keep a text file on my desktop, as a cheat sheet, so I can find the exact Ferrari F40 setup that I want to drive as quickly as possible.

What do you guys do to manage your car collections?
 
ALB123
No Cats
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:P

Sorry, I know that isn't especially useful, but I simply don't have a collection big enough to warrant measures such as those mentioned above.
 
I collect by category, so I first focus on getting all the SUPER GT cars, then JGTC, then Le Mans Prototypes, etc etc. I usually put VGTs in the stock yard. I'm planning in having a completely race-car centered garage.
 
I started a new GT account where I plan to only collect Premium Stock cars. The main account is a mess of mostly stock but also some failed attempts of tuning... Some tunes picked up in the forums etc.

Give us search by tag PDI :)
 
In Gran Turismo 6 I only use about 4-5 cars at most, as I focus on league racing.

With Forza Motorsport 4 I was more active in Public Lobbies and had about 3-4 cars per class, which when combined with league cars was around 50 in total. Forza 4 had a nice feature where you could highlight a number of cars and "group" them, that helped a lot with finding whichever car I needed at any time.
 
I have about 800 cars with about 1200 tunes applied in a mysql database containing all the specs and tracks (for laptimes) with an IOS frontend.

Here is my color coding,

another concept but very useful in list view:

- praiano - matte red
- motor city hami - spirited green metallic
- exeter - matte green
- bowtie-muscle - matte orange (looks great!)
- cars with multiple tunes - matte yellow
- stock - matte gray
- little duckpond - matte brown
- misc - matte black

and i go a step beyond,

cx,sx,rx tires: white rims ( i treat the as 2 or 3 tunes to be able to compare them )

different tunes (updates) by same tuner: colored rims

all others: black rims


so:

- a 500pp sh tune by praiano is matte red with black rims, if he publishes an update it will get colored rims

- a 525pp sx tune by bowtie-muscle will be matte orange with white rims


except my most used tunes i either have all my race cars in the stockyard or all my road cars in the stockyard

i use my favourites to keep track of cars i want to record laptimes, so for excemple i put 86 450pp streetcars in the favorites and as soon as i have recorded a lap-time i will take it out of the favorites.


this will keep me busy until i will have to buy a ps4 with gt7 on it...


grts Steef
 
How do you manage a large collection?

The same way as always.

Very carefully. :p

Joking aside, it's tricky for me as everytime I think I've got through the whole list, another update comes out with a new to personalise the cars (Paintable Brake calipers, racing numbers, paintable wings and custom wings) and then I have to go through them again to modify them.

A good portion of my cars in the main garage are ones I bought when the game came out. :scared:
 
superstreet556
You don't
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masterrawad
>Buy a car

>forget it exists

rinse and repeat
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This. My garage consists of 700 cars currently. I have a few regular cars, up to 10 examples of cars I like/drive a lot like the Gallardo or GT-R, simply to have multiple colour/wheel combos and tunes. The rest are there to be driven once in a while at best, or because they are expensive race cars 'I will need for a race or a seasonal or something... some day' (that's what I tell myself, this actually applies to at least 25% of my cars!), or because they simply look pretty so I want to photograph them at some point. At least I improved since GT5, where the used car dealer was a perfect excuse to accumulate enough cars to hit the 2,000 cars limit. :D
 
Most of my cars are (unique) non-race cars. For these I try to keep the stock settings active and some choice of comfort tyres, should I be looking at a rubber restricted list (which is seldom these days). For specific tunes that are meant for engine upgrade or weightr. I put a note of that in the A, B or C description.
 
MustangManiac
Would it really be that hard for them to give us a couple dozen garages we could name ourselves to organize our collections? This game is so far behind the times it's just not even funny anymore.
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Kind of a 'wish list' though - with some criticism about their tardiness thrown in.
I definitely agree that we sorely need a new Garage layout - multiple layers of them, multiple sort options and environments, and . . . and the capability to . . oh, wait . . I'm making it a bigger wishlist now.
I better stop before my thinking gets critical.

Working with what we have (which I have to admit is not a lot) I limit myself to 500 cars.
I have had to get rid of some of them to claim the Prize cars off the current Seasonal. Almost all my VGTs are still at the dealer - and they can remain there till I have an excuse to use them.
I buy only Premium cars I want to use - the rest can gather dust in the dealerships till I need them - I can't waste my instantly bootable (compared to the Stockyard) head space of 500 cars for cars not needed until needed.
Same with the standards.
I made sure I got the Anniversary cars.
I look for more iconic cars, specialty vehicles, great workhorses, cars with some nostalgia attached to it, or some movie theme or unusual quality.
I buy, use and sell off cars at random - cars I use for COTW or AI Challenges, etc.

All my fastest, most reliable machines are painted a certain blue or a certain orange. (If they are paintable.)

By limiting myself constantly to only 500 cars for use (I did put three in the Stockyard recently - for the very first time :crazy: I don't trust those Stockyard crooks) I have a sort of 'culled' selection for use.

Don't try this at home.
 
Frankly most of my cars are in 3 or 4 categories. Most of my cars are premium, so they're sorted into; stock, lightly tuned for looks, fully tuned. As mentioned above by @KiroKai I also have multiple version just for the sake of a new colour scheme.
 
Due to the initial Stockyard problems, I've managed to avoid needing to use it. I have mostly Premiums. The main exceptions being the ZZII and Minolta Toyota LM car. I have around 450 cars on my main account.
 
Working with what we have: I buy only premiums (I only use cockpit view) except a handful due to a group I used to play with here. All the race cars go on my favorites list, the others stay put in the garage and the standards are in the stockyard...I don't care if they disappear :sly:
 

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