Rent A Car

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You know in GT3 there were series that you had to have a certain car for (i.e Evolution Cup) well ive just had a thought, how about the ability to rent the required car for the series, im sure its not just me who would like this feature, also somehow it could be incorperated as a test a car, in GT3 i have many a time baught a good looking car i.e Skyline- only to find out that it wont go around corners so how about a Try Before You Buy.
 
Yeah I dunno about renting a car just to do one series but I do like the thing about testing a car before you buy as you can go test drive most cars in showrooms so why not in the game?
 
ya, Test Driving a car would be great, even if they restricted you on something, like you have to drive it on a specific course or something
 
There is a test drive option, save the game, buy the car drive it around. If it sucks then just reload....easy. If it was implemented i wouldnt complain though ;)
 
still, sometimes you want to test a car you can't actually afford, like at the beginning of the game when your trying to decide what car to save for
 
Nah. If they did do it, you should only be allowed to test drve cars you could afford. A definate NO NO on the rent a car thing. You could either: A. Rent it for the whole game and only pay 3 grand a day, but the winnings would pay much more than that, or B. buy it and then win. I think all of us would want A., and that's like cheating. So no.
 
they should have it somewhat like PGR2 but instead when your in the car shop and stuff when you pick a car and its color and stuff it has an option that says test drive and it takes you out to the Test Course (gt track) and you play with it there if you like it you buy it. That way it dosent interffere with the challenge of the main game
 
👎 @ renting a car. Just buy the thing.
👍 @ test driving, which we've discussed before as a possible option.
 
test driving has been discussed before... and is a great idea... but to make it right, you can only test drive the car if you have enough Cr to buy it.

Renting... not necessary.
 
I think I would be a great idea to try before you buy........and also only under the restriction that you have enough money to buy the car.....this way you could realistically shop around and try different cars...... 👍
 
Why rent.............

If you can't afford the full price of the car
If you don't want to take the impact of depreciation

Upgrade the rental........

Put parts on and take parts off that you own, or that you also rented........They could automatically come of when you return the car......

and welcome to GTplanet 👍
 
Have to renting sounded like good idea at the starrt of the thread but i think that uprgrading would be a waste of Cr and a bit of a rubbish idea in the end. Test driving on the other hand doesnt seem like a bad idea. As far as the price restrictions go id like to see that you can test cars within +10% or something of your price range to see if its worth doin a couple of extra races for. If you could test anycar i think it would spoil the game if you could go to Ruf or something to thrash an RGT round the track for kicks when you can only afford a VW bug. You couldn't do it in life so not in GT. Race hard, earn money(Cr :sly: )!
 
Adding a little try before you buy on a small test circuit would be nice, not that I'd use it though. At the end of the day I'd rather the game was out a week sooner than this mode being added or that they added other features I'd rather have in the game. Especially considering you can do this via reloading..
 
(Hypothetically) If you said you wished to try a car before you buy it on a test track by thrashing it about and revving hard, do you really think the showroom would let you? Perhaps if their was a kind of trackday by the manufacturer that you had to pay to get into and test their range, now that would be cool.
 
Most serious drivers will have enough credits to just buy a car for a series. And what happens when you rent a car and want to put upgrades on it, is that wasted money when you are done using it?
 
You know, I'm going to disagree that this is a worthless topic and here's why. Though I still don't have a driver's license, if I raced in SCCA, I'd love to strap into one of those Spec Racer Fords, or whatever they are called. I would like some kind of sportscar-style racing because I don't want to live a racing life with stock cars as my focus like most other American racing stars. As I "investigated" from the SCCA's website, you can actually rent race cars to be used for racing competition. So to say that you can't rent a car for some number of races or days is pretty much pathetic. If you want the most competitive stuff at a less-than-stellar budget, you'd want to rent rides. And if you can't do that, then at least have a chance to get a used car and modify it to the best of your ability.

To add in a catch, let's say you can only do this in the Beginner races, some Amateur races, but definitely NOT in the Professional races. I don't think Ukyo Katayama would want to rent a Toyota GT-One to beat the Audis at Le Mans. I don't think Sam Hornish would want to borrow the McLaren-Mercedes F1 car of the late 1990s to take on 2004 technology. And I don't think Colin McRae would want to borrow a 1994 Toyota Celica WRC to edge out the Imprezas and 307s of today (hell, Colin needs a ride SOMEWHERE. He's a hell of a rally star that recently re-upped his deal to race next year's Paris-Dakar rally). So, those are my views, and it's nice to answer your thread in the most honest way I can. Take care, alright?
 
I do agree with you JohnBM01 on the begginer renting thing. THis just reminds me of the Shelby 350H The car you could only rent at hertz.
 
Test Driving would be great. Like in PGR2, you had that chance. Would be great to test drive a Viper GTS before you could buy it. Even if it is on a test track. (Not the long one in GT3) LIke a 51sec to 2min long track depending on the car.
 
yea testin a car b4 u buy it would be a great idea, cuz id always get a car that i thought would be nice in the game and then i find out it isnt near what i wanted(tho ya could just hit reset, true, but itd be simpler to just run the thing a few laps around a decent-size test track) 👍
...but renting a car? i dont kno i guess they could implement it and it wouldnt hurt but mostly itd just be a waste of time to get all that set up.... 👎
 
The test drive thing would be good and quite implimentable (probably on a track like midfield) but I don't think that the rent a car thing could be done without adding an extra month to the release date.
 
I can see renting a car being more benificial than having a testing ability. As stated by many others, it's certainly not difficult to load a saved game if the purchased vehicle isn't up to expectations, but you can't do that with an event where you are forced to race with a certain vehicle. I'd prefer to rent the thing, win the race, then throw away the pile of junk. I can recall several events which required the purchase of less than desirable (to me) cars in order to enter an event.

On the other hand, how many of us ever actually have such a CR issue that we can't afford to blow cash here or there? Don't we end up finishing the game with millions to spare? I think the rental would be more useful than the test, and I believe NEITHER of them are really needed.
 
ya rent-a-car mode might be fun to play around with after your pretty much bored with the game and have beaten just about everything, though besides that i can't really see too much use in it unless it was extremely cheap...

...but i still think a testing ability would be worth its weight in time taken to implement....
 

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