"stock" cars

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Originally posted by Frmr97GXE
yeah, but I have never heared anyone use the term "stock" when referring to full-on race cars, hence the confusion.
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Exactly why I said, "if you guys can handle it."

:D

It is a problem since the nature of a race car is to be a fully modified road car... hence the trouble.

However, I figured that it wouldn't hurt too much and that eventually you would all get what I was trying to say.

No problems though, hopefully no offense either. ;)

btw, I also love the lotus elise and s2000 in their stock forms. 👍
 
Originally posted by GameBoyFX
Mustangs...BAH! :lol:
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The SVT Mustang is one of the most cost-effective stock cars in the game. Cheap and quick from the dealer, it takes mild upgrades well. The chassis isn't up to much more than 500 hp, though.
 
Originally posted by GameBoyFX
well, its just in simulation mode i only drive so manny cars for all the races, the rest are for show, like hey, check out how manny cars i have :trouble: ! and what not, also i just dont like having a stock car, knowing it could always go faster and its not doing all it could do, :irked: upgradeing allows for moer to be done to the car to. like messing with some things in the wrong way, and trying to drive it :lol: when i did that to my mini, when the computer was raceing it he was ramming into tones of walls :banghead: so, really, i dont see a reason to keep stock, if i wanted to just drive around slowly, ill take off the N/A tune ups or the turbo upgrades, because a lighter car with super soft wheels will drive easyer then a stock car annyday.
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You completely missed the point of driving a car completely stock, the idea is so you have more weight, worse suspension and stock power. If you only want to drive a car when it's tuned your missing out a large portion of GT3's fun factor and in many sereis using a stock car will add to the challenge. But I suppose you don't wan't any challenge you just want your cars to be easy to drive.
 
well put.

The idea of driving a Stock car is for the feel of its 'natural' state. The challenge of understeers from an unupgraded chassi and suspension. Feel its raw power, before it was touched.

I suppose the only thing that could be changed, is tires, but i like to keep the car new.

I buy/win it, change oil, wash it, disable the TCS and ASM and ride the hell out of it :)
 
I dont see how im missing out on annything when keeping my cars stock, i mean really, if you had the choice in Reality, if someone gave you a choice to have a stock miata, or a totally hoped up one, what would you chose? :odd:

and live4speed,

If i want a challenge, ill just drive a slower car, (fully upgraded of course) i only see the simulation portion of the game as the money makeing part, the big fun for me is raceing agenst my friends, and as u know, in the arcade there are stock cars for you to race! so i see no point in (as i said b4) not upgradeing my cars.
 
I'd take the Full tuned-up Miata of course. Then sell it for a top price, and get a Ferrari 360, and drive the hell out of it ;)


We can go all day long about this. There is a big difference between Stock Cars and 'tunedup' cars. First off, as a car lover, any 'tuned-up' cars will be powerfull, have great HP and have a max torque. But Stock Cars have that 'Raw' factor... that X factor, that makes it so wonderful to drive.

Take any car, upgrade the hell out of it, and you can pull pretty much the same kind of performances out of it. Especially Top speed and Drag.

But take a good or bad stock car, and you quickly see the difference between Race frames and 'weak' or 'normal' frames. Some cars have a fighting spirit, a feeling of freedom, which they lose when you upgrade them. Their sound, handling, charisma.

But of course, that's just my opinion.
 
Originally posted by GameBoyFX
I dont see how im missing out on annything when keeping my cars stock, i mean really, if you had the choice in Reality, if someone gave you a choice to have a stock miata, or a totally hoped up one, what would you chose? :odd:

and live4speed,

If i want a challenge, ill just drive a slower car, (fully upgraded of course) i only see the simulation portion of the game as the money makeing part, the big fun for me is raceing agenst my friends, and as u know, in the arcade there are stock cars for you to race! so i see no point in (as i said b4) not upgradeing my cars.
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First off theres a big difference between real life and having fun in a vidio game. Don't get me wrong I'm only expressing my opinion as you are yours we jsut disagree on this matter. As for the challenge, it's more of a challenge to drive a stock car over a tuned one, thats what I was reffering to, you have to fight more to keep control and it's a refreshing experience after hours of brack turn accelerate, brake turn accelerate that you get in most tuned cars and even the ones that are a bit twitchey are still easier to drive fast than a stock one.
 
Do you guys think the Dodge Viper Concept is a "stock" car? I don't, but we're allowed to use it in the Polyphony Digital Cup Race, which I just finished to earn the F094/S in the shortest time possible (42 days). Notice it has semi-racing parts installed, and racing tires, which are allowed in the PD Cup, but you can only buy racing parts, and not sport or semi-racing parts.
 
Thats not the shortest time possible to win an F1 car, you only need to buy the MX5 win the relevant license and win the MX5 endurance and if your lucky you'll get it first time and in the shortest posible time. Other road cars come with some semi racing style parts installed too, but the GTS-R concept is a concept of a race car so I don't think that should be allowed in the PD cup.
 

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