Most Uncontrollable Car

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I found the Nomad Lamborghini Diablo to have unstable limits.

The Enzo handles pretty well for a car of it's incredible power and speed. But it's a caged monster waiting to bite.
 
Shelby Cobra, Yellowbird, Mclaren F1, modified F40 and modified Stratos, both with no aids on. (When the turbo in the F40 suddenly kicks in around corners, it's terrifying!)
 
Lancia Stratos is by far the most difficult car. Anything else you can solve with decent throttle control, but the Stratos is just about impossible to drive quickly.
 
Raven_WET01
Lancia Stratos is by far the most difficult car. Anything else you can solve with decent throttle control, but the Stratos is just about impossible to drive quickly.
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Agreed, the Stratos is on another level of difficultly, it doesn't even make sense to me. Also the Amuse s2000 street tune (the one wthout a wing) is remarkably hard. The yellowbird also difficult as everyone knows, but I argue those two are harder.
 
A stock McLaren F1 with sports hard tires is pretty hard to control. I think it's one of the most difficult to keep on the track.
 
Leonidae@MFT
McLaren MP4-12C. No matter what you do, it'll still handle like it's running on ball bearings.
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Yep! I can't log a good lap in it for the life of me. Very twitchy and unsettled and the throttle is completely useless if your wheel is anywhere off center.

I give PD's physics engine/simulation credit though. The car's behavior seems to be like this in reality as well (when Fifth Gear compared the McLaren and 458: http://youtu.be/ahsIOVx93zs
 
SigmaViper11
I would say the Speed 12, but even though it can be touchy, understeer makes it a fairly predicatble machine. I'd say the FGT, the 427 Cobra, the Stratos is definetly in there. The 8C is just 🤬 around corners. the countach can be tail happy. Oh and lets not forget the Lotus Elise and the Lamborghini LP640 Murcielago on any form of hard sport or less tires. The X2010/X1 can be difficult when being pused (tail slides out like a mad man). Lets see, the McLaren F1 will try to kill you, any moderatley power ful Viper will try to killl you. tThe Ferrari F40 will give you a thousand paper cuts, and the try to kill you. the Enzo will deceive you and then kill you. the CLK-GTR will bludgeon you into a migraine. The CT230R from HKS will kill itself in an attempt to kill you if you think of doing anything other than driving in a staight line. Oh yea, and lets not forget the Zonda, which, specially the Zonda R, which will rip your head off and parade around with it at an evening social, wearing it as a hat.
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:lol: I can't stop laughing
 
X1, because I think it’s beyond human skill.

The other popular options just take skill to harness. I used to never even make it a lap with the Zonda R, and now, I can do clean laps rather quick (but not at potential, yet). Enzo on sports used to be hell, and now, it’s just another car. I hate many of these cars because you can't push them at full potential. It doesn’t feel like you’re driving them fast at all. “It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slowly,” right?
 
This thread is funny and eye-opening. I have just started playing online and decided to try out a couple new cars -- stuff I felt I could have fun with but also compete with on some level. The cars I picked:
McLaren F-1
Shelby Cobra

They are fun, at least.
 
Yeesh the STRATOS and the Cobra are really getting pounded in this thread. You guys can't be dumb and just throw all the mods on them and expect them to handle. There both over 40 years old. You also have to tune them a bit too. For those who don't believe I have tunes for both. The Stratos on RM tires and the Cobra on SS. Please friend me because I have both up for share as well as a MKIV. I'll make you into a believer.
 
Actually Yellow bird is fairly controllable if you set it up and drive it right, most that have seen me drive it know this. But yea it can get quite wild if the "timing" isn't right.

Also AC 427 SC and Cobra with right setups and weight distro those can be very good cars that handle well.

Same with the GT40 I'm sorry to say. You just need to know how to control the over-steer tendencies and can't drive it like a GTR
 
Are we talking stock or tuned because I cant believe some of the critisism levelled at some of the cars. Most of the beastly stock cars will be tamed by tuning and some of the best fun in the game is generated this way IMO. Once tamed they end up being the most fun in the game.

I haven't tamed the Yellow Bird yet but I know it can be done.

That said, the x2010 is plain stupid and the Jay Leno Tank Car is just a brick and nothing is going to make that any better.
 
The Yellow bird is a a blast to drive. It drifts like crazy. Just don't think you are going to be doing a fast lap time with it and you will be fine. It's a great car to take on a "Just Cruise" room.

Oh and the Stratos is terrible.
 
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Yeesh the STRATOS and the Cobra are really getting pounded in this thread. You guys can't be dumb and just throw all the mods on them and expect them to handle. There both over 40 years old. You also have to tune them a bit too. For those who don't believe I have tunes for both. The Stratos on RM tires and the Cobra on SS. Please friend me because I have both up for share as well as a MKIV. I'll make you into a believer.
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Good point. Cars which are already very difficult to drive only get worse by reducing weight or adding power/new turbos.

When I got my first F40 in GT5, I spent hours and hours of driving it around the Nordschleife and sport/hard tires, it was such a joy and it felt very good. Not very fast (compared to new cars), but the sound and the raw feeling made up for it.

Then I won a second F40 in B-Spec mode which I decided to max tune. Well, its terrific. In Suzuka, when you drive through the esses... as soon as the stage 3 turbo kicks in, the car turns into a rocket. So much torque and power. For me, almost impossible to handle on sport tires.
 
Once you understand how the Stratos work it's not that hard, but you need to adapt your driving style to the car. Lift-off oversteer is NOT an option here, forget it. It's all about smoothness and controlled power oversteer. In fast turns you don't even need to steer, just progressively decrease the throotle input. When mastered this legend has an incredible turn in. Don't need suspension tuning here just take sport soft tyres... and tune the driver :)

The Cobra is a total different story, you can't compare the handling of these two totally different cars only because you can't drive them (yet).
 
HKS racer
Once you understand how the Stratos work it's not that hard, but you need to adapt your driving style to the car. Lift-off oversteer is NOT an option here, forget it. It's all about smoothness and controlled power oversteer. In fast turns you don't even need to steer, just progressively decrease the throotle input. When mastered this legend has an incredible turn in. Don't need suspension tuning here just take sport soft tyres... and tune the driver :)

The Cobra is a total different story, you can't compare the handling of these two totally different cars only because you can't drive them (yet).
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+1 I have about 5 Stratos and I know how to drive them. I have a tuned one for the sake of a racing series I'm involved in. I agree with you that they are totally different cars. For the Cobra it's all about throttle control. I guess people don't understand that you can't punch the throttle on corner entry and exit. This car actually handles great if you know how to control it.
 
The minolta , you have to shot shift to keep the traction, and when you get to third, it is still bloody wheel spinning
 
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+1 I have about 5 Stratos and I know how to drive them. I have a tuned one for the sake of a racing series I'm involved in. I agree with you that they are totally different cars. For the Cobra it's all about throttle control. I guess people don't understand that you can't punch the throttle on corner entry and exit. This car actually handles great if you know how to control it.
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Post your Stratos tunes in the tuning forum (if you didn't yet) I'll give it a go ;)
 
I havnt tried the Ruf's myself, purely because of my passionate hatred of porsches..
The pescarolo's are incredibly understeery stock, without a good setup anyway
Also the murcielago chromeline is a pig to turn, no downforce at all and no brakes
Enzo anyone?
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best thing you can do to learn a bit of control on gt is just to drift for a while, i went through a couple of months where i only drifted on gt5 and have very few problems with oversteer anymore 👍
 
my vote goes for that BMW McLaren Race Car
maybe its cause I'm using the DS3, but I just can't keep that car under control
 
Many of the cars mentioned in this thread happen to be in the "best handling car" thread. While many would think of this as ironic, it's not. When a car handles in the extremes, you either love it or hate it.
 

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