Most Disappointing Car in GT5

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Have you tried some suspension tuning. PD has for some reason used zero camber values on many cars even though the sports cars usually run with negative camber right out of the factory. The old RX 7 has rather tame camber setting and the rear camber is unadjustable in real life but it's still not zero (-0.75 +/- 0.5 says one internet source). Also the toe settings are in most cases off.
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Well the whole reasoning is real life FC RX-7s (I've owned one, loved every second, but some people can't drive and took her from me) is stock they come with DTSS, which is Mazda's geometric steering of the rear wheels to help prevent the tail from slipping out during cornering, but I'm assuming PD can't model this into the car, but one of the most common mods out there is the DTSS eliminator bushings, everyone who drifts an FC has to have them, otherwise the car can be very unpredictable. IMO I'm satisfied with the way PD modeled the physics, yesterday I took out an 85' FC stock with comfort hard on a touge run, too much fun.

Car I'm disappointed with is MP4-12C, does it really handle that bad in realife? I guess I'll find out on tonite's top gear.
 
One very big dissapointment to me was buying a Nissan R390 GT1 Race car. Top speed is just 324 KPH and handles bad, is unstable and doesn't even accelerate fast.

Bugatti Veyron is horrible when it's stock. Tuned, (brake balance 1-9) it does steer and is pretty fast too, but it sucks stock.

Ferrari F40 is just brilliant.

Suzuki Escudo won't do over 320 Kph, but it's not designed for asphalt, it's a Pikes Peak car, but when I tested it on sand, it wasn't very much faster than Group B cars, because it's too fast for those tracks, Pikes Peak is a whole different thing. Also agreeing with Dark Ruffo. But anyway I hate it.

Jack, RUF cars look good and they are made from Porches chassis and bodies.
But I agree that they really aren't fast or fun to drive, but they are fun to collect.
 
The only cars disappointing to me were the Ferrari F1s. Why can't you race them?

And I disagree about the Veyron. The acceleration is unreal, and the understeer can be countered somewhat if you plan ahead. If you can't appreciate how fast it rips through speed then IMO you spend too much time tuning cars to the max.
 
The worst car is the "Nismo GT-R LM Road Going Car '95". What a piece of crap. Modded up it has good stats, nice levels of front and rear downforce too, but it is still crap. When I first saw it I thought it was going to be similar to the R390 and NSX LM road cars. Very disappointing.
 
That Nismo car guy said above me or the Toyota supra. Why is it not premium? The car is a icon That can look so cool and everyone loves it. Instead they make the stupid old one premium. Such a disappointment.
 
Enzo & MP4-12C, dissapointing cars (both perfectly represented in GT5).
 
Ferrari Enzo - Bought it just for the sake of hate on this thread, spent a good three hours fine tuning the car to the point is feels like the NSX-R '02 when detuned to 350HP. It also helps to have a wing on the Enzo and set the downforce to the minimal amount. Anywhere above 210mph and I can't jam the steering wheel to the left/right and spin out. I can guarantee when people say this car under-steers badly, they have a wing attached with the downforce set to max, causing the car to under-steer.

STFU people and tune the car properly.
 
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Ferrari Enzo - Bought it just for the sake of hate on this thread, spent a good three hours fine tuning the car to the point is feels like the NSX-R '02 when detuned to 350HP. It also helps to have a wing on the Enzo and set the downforce to the minimal amount. Anywhere above 210mph and I can't jam the steering wheel to the left/right and spin out. I can guarantee when people say this car under-steers badly, they have a wing attached with the downforce set to max, causing the car to under-steer.

STFU people and tune the car properly.
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Just tell me a car that doesn't handle even half decent after "3 hours of fine tuning".
 
ive tried a few tunes off here for the GTR and im unimpressed, but i would say its just not to my style so thats very dissapointing for me
 
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Well the whole reasoning is real life FC RX-7s (I've owned one, loved every second, but some people can't drive and took her from me) is stock they come with DTSS, which is Mazda's geometric steering of the rear wheels to help prevent the tail from slipping out during cornering, but I'm assuming PD can't model this into the car, but one of the most common mods out there is the DTSS eliminator bushings, everyone who drifts an FC has to have them, otherwise the car can be very unpredictable. IMO I'm satisfied with the way PD modeled the physics, yesterday I took out an 85' FC stock with comfort hard on a touge run, too much fun.

Car I'm disappointed with is MP4-12C, does it really handle that bad in realife? I guess I'll find out on tonite's top gear.
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Well to be fair, RX7's, specially FC's are **** for drifting. Every RX7 owners knows this, 50/50 distribution, not enough steering angle, low polar movement, the 7 when you attempt to oversteer it's just going to spin out. Of course the 7's that are drifted are not even close to how they are stock. But anyways even then most drivers that track FC's remove the DTTS so the rear isn't unpredictable
 
Why the Veyron hate? I love the Veyron! To me it handles a lot like the new GTR, you've got to be a bit aggresive on the throttle out of corners to get the most from it.
 
wasnt the enzo supposed to be the closest we would get to an f1 car as they said when it was launched, even in the video above its shocking, the sls is far better
 
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probably becuse it does in real life too. its heavy like a truck XD And also wide and low = Not very effective.
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On the contrary, the Veyron is actually a good handling car in real life. Polyphony just got the handling wrong, just as they did with the Ferrari 599. They both understeer too much and don't handle like their real life counterparts.
 
Veyron weighs more than the typical mini-van but it'll handle as good as any stock weight Murcielago, Vanquish, V8 Vantage, McLaren SLR, or hell even any Continental GT (even though they aren't in GT5). These cars are more of the type it would have competed with if it were ever taken seriously by VW and Bugatti. Though it is a super car, it isn't one in the same sense as the Enzo or McLaren F1. It was a car built without compromises, it's kind of in a league of its own.

I had never thought AWD is a great track setup and the fact that it has a big ol' 8 litre W16 in a M-AWD platform probably doesn't help its case either - it still does well with what its got.

It's never out of control for having 1,000hp+, it has unrelenting acceleration at all RPM ranges which almost makes up for early braking, and it still does have the best braking of all the production cars in the game - IMO. I'm perfectly happy tossing this car around any track, and for the most part it hangs well against cars half its weight with twice the P/W ratio (over-exaggerating a little bit). I never expected it to manuever like a Ferrari, but IMO it's okay.

My most disappointing car would be the Zonda C12S 7.3. In GT4 this car was a beast with over 1,000hp and the only thing quicker than it was maybe that weird Spec C STi with nitrous. It handles more like a bucking bull, but was at least tameable in GT4 without much compromise, I remember... but in GT5 it tops out at around 850hp and is absolutely insane on the track. I'm just not as impressed with it... especially when it costs 1 million credits. Interesting car to whip out though, I don't see many of them online.
 
Mercedes sls. Lots of hype about it but honestly the most dull thing i have driven i could fall asleep for anything more than three laps. Even the miatas are more fun to drive.
 
The Dumb Mazda MX-5/Miata/Eunos Roadster. These annoy the heck out of me! There slow, a bit underpowered, and just seem a bit useless.
 
I think they actually are quite close to what i imagine the real ones to be. Haven't yet tried the real suspension settings on any of them though...
 
Honestly I think one of the biggest let downs is also one of my favorite cars. How? You ask...well...I really want my supra rz to be premium and have closer to 900 hp...
 
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Honestly I think one of the biggest let downs is also one of my favorite cars. How? You ask...well...I really want my supra rz to be premium and have closer to 900 hp...
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I was thinking the same thing this morning. Why would PD make a Prius Premium and not a supra?
 
Dodge Vipers (Premium). All that power, beautiful lines and fairly good customization (for GT5) and can't put any downforce on the nose and that is PD's fault, not the car...missed opportunity
 
I've put down some seriously fast times with the Audi R10 premium. I put down a time of 1:13.002 at Trial Mountain and a 0:57.564 sec run on Eifel in the Supercar festival in Seasonal event. Without drafting.
I think people rely on the tuning forum too much. Everyone thinks that throwing a tune in the car that worked for someone else is always going to be optimal for them. I've come to the conclusion that in order to run the fastest lap times that you are capable of in any perticular car you have to do some practice runs with the car's settings all on default. Then change just a few things at a time. Or if your serious about tuning do just one catagory at a time. I have cars that drive best with the stock/default settings. Then I have cars that are absolutely un-drivable without some major tweaks.
 

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