Yeah, I picked up GT5 when it came out at the end of 2010, played it for about a month, then shelfed it til yesterday and figured "why not see if there's a community discussing the handful of issues I'm having with the game!" Thanks everyone for info about the damage, and to lewis_hamilton thanks for the heads-up on the A-spec info! I can't be the only one at least a little preturbed that only a handful of cars in the game get the super-awesome destruction they were marketing out the ass before release. I mean if you want anything more than a smudge you have to use a premium car, so that narrows it down to about 20% of the entire selection (as far as I understand there are about 1000 cars in the game, 800 standard and 200 premium), and only a handful of those get the most detailed level of destruction. So, just like GT3 and 4, I can happily smash into whatever/whoever I want with virtually no consequence - that's what I assumed the damage/wrecking mechanic would be, an incentive to drive properly.
This, like the lack of cockpit view for the majority of the cars (but wait! Thanks to a recent update you can have an all-black cardboard cutout cockpit! Thanks PD.), gives the game a highly unfinished feel, to me anyway. I paid top-dollar for this title and was expecting all the features they were marketing at the time. Why aren't more people pissed about this?
man 60 bucks isint to hard to come by... 3 mowed lawns.. "top dollar" 
