Why would I want a car which was used already if I can have a new one? That doesn't make any sense to me.
I already pointed out the reasons. A low mileage used car or even high mileage with an engine/chassis rebuild in GT5 performs better without any tuning mods than any 0/0 car... not to mention the fact that if for some strange reason you want to keep your car at 0/0 the only way to do that and use it is to use a dif account and share it each time... or as you have said, collect duplicates of the exact same car, one to drive (which makes perfectly good sense) and one to just sit there (which makes no sense to me at all)... again, it's not the real world where an untouched car has a real momentary value and in many cases can be a very good investment... but this is a game!
Not only that, but a used car can often be gotten much faster than trying to get it at 0/0.
These are all reasonable reasons to not obsess over 0/0/ cars.
The question is what value is it to have a 0/0 car in GT5 and what value is it to keep it at 0/0?
I want to run in the engine and customize it the way I want it.
In GT5 you can't run in an engine any differently, its strictly mileage based. A used car in GT5 will already be broken in from the start, a 0/0 car is not.
Even worse, why would a collector collect used cars with changes? If you get a car with changes then you don't even know what the changes are, the cars might not even have it's original colour anymore. That would lower its value in real life and the same counts for GT5.
I think you lost me here. We are talking about a game for one, not real life, but in both cases, the stock condition and paint is easy to confirm. Not only that, but no car in any dealership in GT5 has been modified from stock nor do any of them come with non stock paint jobs.
If you are talking about trading online, I never even brought that up, but just like in real life, you can check the car out before trading by having them share it first. In fact, you have to do that anyway in order to confirm if the car you are trading is a 0/0.
The point I thought I was making fairly clearly is why bother obsessing over 0/0 cars in the first place?
I always have two versions of each car, one for driving and one for my 0/0 collection. Well, again that is just my personal opinion, but I don't know why it is bizarre if you rather want something new than used. Just sounds weird to me.
I think you are confusing the real world for the virtual one. After all, visually, in GT5 there is no difference between a stock used car (with a car wash) and a 0/0 car. Performance wise, a stock used car in GT5 will perform better than it's 0/0 counterpart with nothing more than an oil change. So I'm not sure why you find that weird.
So basically what it sounds like is that you collect new cars in a virtual game that you never use, just to say you have them new and have never even turned the ignition on? Yeah, I don't get that at all.
BTW: I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to collect 0/0 cars and never even use them... I just find it really bizarre, as there is no benefit in the game to do that. They don't look any better and they don't perform any better.... in fact without a broken in engine and oil change they perform worse.
