Because its vastly quicker and cheaper than modelling entirely different cars. Why add a ZZII when you can include a Japanese mx5, and American mx5, a European mx5 and still brag how many cars are in the game? Same reason we have Gr2, Gr3, Gr4 , and street versions of the same cars. For GT type cars, where are the Ginettas, Bently, Cadillac, Lister, Panoz? Sorry m8, the new GranTurismo leaves all its decisions up to its corporate sponsors (and the money demands of Sony).
Unless my math is off, this makes... «checks calculator» two variants of Porsche Vision GT.
Gran Turismo 6 called, and would like the Standard version of its joke back. Although it also had a ZZ-II, so...
Yeah, that's not only not true - only the Nissan GT-R and second-gen Honda NSX are available across all those categories - it's blindingly ignorant of how incredibly different "Gr.2" (GT1 and Super GT) cars are from "Gr.3" (GT3, GTE, Group 5, and Super GT GT300 cars), and how incredibly different they are from road cars and "Gr.4" (GT4) cars that all wear the same basic badge.
The next time you hear that whoooosh sound you might want to look up to see what just went over your head
Ooooo, blindingly. In italics, even. Well color me suitably cowed. I was unaware we had someone who codes automobile simulations professionally on staff. Next time I'll remember it's exactly identical to building a physical car out of steel and aluminum and carbon fiber and glass, because coders always start from scratch, right? They never reuse code.
They've all been free so far. But people have a right to criticise PD for not doing more to improve the game and flesh out the numbers.
I believe the Lexus RCF is also available in all of those classes. But it's worth mentioning the Gr.B versions of those cars also add to the car list. Not to mention the safety cars and "Road Car" variants of the race cars - which few people are a fan of.
Not to mention there are two near-duplicates of the Gr.3 version of the Lexus RC F, though the 2017 RC F GT3 does have a larger engine than the 2016 RC F GT3 Prototype (5.4 L versus 5.0 L) as part of losing the "Prototype" moniker. On the flip side, other than the Gr.4 version of the RC F, all of the RC F's are real-world cars, and the GT500 is at the high end of Gr.2.
It wasn't "revealed" per se either, I don't think we knew what it'd look like, just that it was coming at some point. The Dior car is the closest example to what we have with this, though the major difference there is that the announcement came from a GT event rather than a YouTube community post lol.
I guess, at least, they have a road map of what’s coming.
