I beleive the upgrading system in GT, though a little pricey in some regards, and limited in some respects (like the SR20 motors, and general lack of engine overbore-ability), I consider such issues a niggly, and overall, the tuning system is well balanced.
For whatever the data and system that made up the final tuning 'statistics', it probably represents a well balanced, real world cross section of the kind of results similar to what the average high end tuner will go to on most production cars.
600 HP Volvo 240 estates, on a worldwide scale, are at the very extreme end of the tuning scale. I'm sure if one really tried, one could fit a jet engine into the confines the big wagon, give it wings, and make it a true flying brick. There is no limit to imagination, but in reality, for a game that is trying to model so many other elements, it buck has to stop somewhere.
It might come as a disapointment to some, but to me, it's more of a reality check, and keeps the game focused on being a driving simulator, for realistic cars, that don't go into the realm of a billionaire revheads wet dream, or some nut who's spent far too much on his car and could have bought something like an Enzo with the same amount of cash.
If one were to do up a Ford Ka with engine blocks, parts and ancillaries from their Heavy Vehicles division catalogue, though possible to do, the result would be considered extreme......would it not?
I'm also certain it would be a pig of a thing to drive too. But then I'm sure some of you would complain that it should be easier to handle the car...... yeah...... in the process of doing this, you compromise the GT series from realistic, to unrealistic.
Asking PD to model all the mods possible to every car in game, is like asking them to model the human behaivour. What you might want is not an arcade mode, but a mode, where you simply punch in the power and weight for any given 3D car model.......
Because such a feature would be open to obuse, and likely ruin the challenge of the game, it'd be handy if this mode didn't impact on the game in the slightest, nor ruin the concept of Arcade mode, running the cars in their near stock form. I'd recommend the new mode to be called BSA mode. A standing for arcade. I'll let you guess BS for yourselves.
Should such extreme 'possibilities' in regard to car mods to be modelled into the game in it's current format? I don't think so. Let the morons at EA do something with that, they might think it's cool, but if the bread and butter of a driving sim (the physics and realism) isn't up to scratch, I sure as hell won't buy it.
Just my 2 cents.
