McLaren in GT4: Welcome to the Party or Uninvited?

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Would it be illegal for PD to paint the F1 long tail (in the game) a normal road car colour and call it the road version.......because then you would be able to have one without racing livery seeing as PD can't get the rights to any others.
 
I think as long as it doesn't resemble or use the name of any other Mclaren they could, but I'm wondering if they would be able to use the Mclaren name. Maybe mclaren could sue them for creating a car they did not approve of.
 
At least if the long tail had a choice of colours it would make it more interesting. I hope that this licencing stuff isnt whats keeping the SLR out of GT4......I want it in!!! Its one of my favorite cars!..........but I'm sure it comes under Mercedes, not Mclaren?
 
SLR should be in. I'm pretty sure mercedes controls all of it's license. If mercedes is willing to put the clk gtr in they probably will put the slr in. I thing I'd rather see the street version of the clk gtr though.
 
I also want the AMG CLK DTM Limited Edition Road Car........the new one, its quite impressive.......actually........I want all mercs!
 
If PD put ANY other F1 in GT4 without the proper license it would be illegal, I don't even think thery could give that car different livery. Different licences allow different levels of freedom, a license for a racing team would not allow the livery to change.
 

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BMW actually doesn't own the license to all F1 GTR Longtails. If they did, PD could make it so you could change the paint, each paint being a new paint.

EX.

From Fina to Gulf paint. LIke what they did with the Lupo and Clio in GT3.
 
robin2223
Would it be illegal for PD to paint the F1 long tail (in the game) a normal road car colour and call it the road version.......
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i asked this some time before too!!
why can´t PD just paint the F1 GTR black and remove the rear wing???...cuz then they would have a road car!!!
and how was it in GT2???..remember the "ELISE GT1"...when u race modificated it it looked exactly the same as the road car---only in other colors----so would it perhaps be possible to get a little license for a "black F1" from Mc Laren and to do this little work to create a "new" car???
 
No because the there is a road version of the Elise GT1 that looks the same as the race verion, there are pics of it with and without the rear wing. PD can not just change a car they have a license to into another car and get away with it. They need a licese to indlude each and every car in the game, if they don't have the license they don't have the car, can't you understand that?
 
...yes of course!!!....i just want the F1 GTR LM Road Car sooooOOOO Much!!!
it would be thaaaaat great to have this car in and to race against the GT-One LM road Car, the R390 LM Road Car and the CLK-GTR´98 LM Road Car!!!!!!!
....whaaaa i just want the road version:(:(:(........
...and can u understand this???
 
robin2223
.......I WANT EVERYTHING!!! :lol:...........there......I never have to post again! :lol:
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Damn! You got there before me!!!

to someone, wayyyy back, i doubt any mclarens come off a production line, they're so small numbers they're probably like made in a garage. An expensive one, of course!!!
 
I remember back when they were still being produced I saw a show on them. They said the carbon fibre bodies were hand made. they probable had some sort of a production line though, to ease assembly. Anyways there was also a six month wait on them.
 
I think 100 McLaren F1's were built and sold, McLaren hoped they would sell 400 of them but buyers were too few and far between.
 
live4speed
I think 100 McLaren F1's were built and sold, McLaren hoped they would sell 400 of them but buyers were too few and far between.
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Yeah it was conceptualized in the 80's when there was a good market for supercars, but when it came out the economy had slumped. Same sad story as the XJ220.
 
I'm not sure with the all carbon fiber body, and if I recall correctly it had gold plated parts.
 
Thats true, the engine bay was surrounded by a layer of gold, but I can't remember exactly why. I think it was to remove heat more efficiently. Get Mclaren F1 GTR on this.
 
Gold reflects heat better than any other metal so they used gold to reflect heat away from the engine.
 
live4speed
Gold reflects heat better than any other metal so they used gold to reflect heat away from the engine.
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Well, it seems live has already explained that. Actually, a 106 cars were built but those 6 were prototypes are were not sold. As for the F1 LM, it is actually an F1 GTR.

The F1 is a road car of the GTR shorttail. The reason the LMs look like them is b/c the 5 LMs built were a tribute to the 5 short tails that made it into the over all positions in it's first LeMans win.
 
Yep, the F1's were modded into GTr's for race use and then 5 GTR's were made road legal and sold as the F1 LM then there was that F1 GT which was a road version of the GTR long tail.
 
live4speed
Yep, the F1's were modded into GTr's for race use and then 5 GTR's were made road legal and sold as the F1 LM then there was that F1 GT which was a road version of the GTR long tail.
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The F1 LM's were not GTR's made road legal, they were totally new cars. There inspiration was the F1 GTR of course. As well as being built as a tribute to the Le Mans winning car, it was also used to homologate new bodywork parts, such as the wider front wheel arches.

Recently however at least one, possibly more, F1 GTR race cars have been made road legal. One of the 1996 FINA short tail cars is now a road car.
 
Hmmm, £600,000+. I wonder why there weren't many buyers. That's provate jet money - and I think I'd prefer a plane to a car. No offense, people!
 
JAGUAR
The F1 LM's were not GTR's made road legal, they were totally new cars. There inspiration was the F1 GTR of course. As well as being built as a tribute to the Le Mans winning car, it was also used to homologate new bodywork parts, such as the wider front wheel arches.

Recently however at least one, possibly more, F1 GTR race cars have been made road legal. One of the 1996 FINA short tail cars is now a road car.
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Sorry I didn't mean McLaren took 5 GTR's and made them road legal, yes the F1 LM was a seperate model but it was basically a road legal GTR, thats what I meant I just said it wrong :).
 

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