Opera S2000 street legal?

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See, my regular S2000 is tuned perfectly for me, it leans towards neutral then oversteer, but I've worked on it considerably to make it fit me. I'll take a shot at this tonight, and see if my "perfect setup" S2000 can hang with a tuner car, out of the box. I'm betting it can.

But a second isn't exactly a trouncing, and on a track that rewarded HP, you might find the regular S2000 faster, as it has 50 more of them. I'm in a rut with the cars I use anyway, always love finding new favorites :)
 
Lewis_Hamilton_
As you can see, both the Opera and Amuse are identical, and the regular Honda is exactly one second behind. This is only over 3 laps and human error is a factor.

In regards to handling and driveability, this set up is perfect for the R1, no drama whatsoever.

The Opera handled fantastically, but was slightly prone to touches of understeer or oversteer.

The Honda was a fight with understeer, and seemed as if the wheels were grinding against the body work.

With some tweaking and appropiate set up for the normal Honda, I believe it could quite easily match the lap times of the tuner's cars. In this short experiment, I do feel that the Opera could be the best out of the three, albeit by a small margin. With a little adjustment, you could tune out the small bouts of under and oversteer that it was experiencing.
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I guess I'm leery about just ONE person's estimation of 2 cars, based on ONE person's testing on one track.
 
In that case, don't ever watch or read car reviews, since that's just ONE guy driving ONE car in ONE day, and possibly comparing that ONE guy's experience to ONE or TWO other cars that he tested ONE day.
 
TakumiFuji01
I know the R1 from heart so don't be smack-talking "if this & that" sort of stuff, Info on the car is dam big. Look at my picture, it's the actual R1 in real life.
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Ah, Sorry;) Now I see...
 
Lewis_Hamilton_
In that case, don't ever watch or read car reviews, since that's just ONE guy driving ONE car in ONE day, and possibly comparing that ONE guy's experience to ONE or TWO other cars that he tested ONE day.
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Sorry, but...

1. I don't actually read car reviews... and IMHO, the tuning in GT5 leaves a lot to be desired in relation to reality. :boggled:

2. One assumes that the guy doing car reviews has some wide & vast experience with a variety of cars.

That's just not the case with the average gt5 player. Some really good ones yes, are probably pretty good at tuning & driving a variety of cars equally.

But the fact remains that a LOT of people THINK they're good at it. And really, they'll do fantastically better in a 4wd than an MR... but you get someone that's good in MRs and they'll blow away that same 4wd.

Difference might be more slight with these... but just saying.
Slapping the same tune on a car and having one person test it...

No sir, I'm not buying that's foolproof evidence that the car is "identical".
 
Naive question, but: What is the definition of "street legal" which we are using here? From the O.P., it seems that GT5 is not consistent regarding online vs. the challenges.

I know that in Ohio , the car needs to have a license plate, have four wheels and a bumper such-and-such a height from the ground, etc., in order to be "street legal," but many GT (as in gt) cars could be simply modified to fit Ohio's code, yet still qualify (IMHO), as race cars.

Famine? Curious to know your opinion. Reading your posts it seems that you aren't a slave to the ol' black-and-white perceptions of reality. Are there legitimate, "universal" (or at least w/in GT5) definitions of what is "street legal?"

Thanks, I'll take my answer off the air.:)
 
Wow this has got to be the most interesting way I could have spent the last fifteen minutes of my life....(reading these post)

"Drive it like you stole it"...
 
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