The Driving Purists Club. No Mods, No Tweaks, Just Pure Driving.

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I'm a little bit of a purist in GT6. I was the same in GT5 with majority of cars. The most I do is put sport softs on a street car and nothing else, unless they had to be tuned for an online competition I'd keep them bone stock. There's so much talk in GTPlanet and the GT6 community about how some say car handling is bad, that they need ballast to get a car to handle well or suspension tweaks...

How many of you are the opposite of that standpoint, like me? Just buy a car from the dealership, leave it stock except for maybe a paint change, then you pick your track and just drive the wheels off the thing?

GTPlanet - how many of you members are the same? How many of you are the GT6 Driving Purists?
 
I love getting stock cars,going cockpit view and doing time trials with all displays and aids off,Just me the track and the beautifully detailed cars :) .
I still tune cars for racing and drift lobbies ect but finding the limits of stock cars is still my favorite
 
You call yourself a 'Purist' and upgrade to Sport Softs, an unnaturally grippy tyre? :p I spend more time just driving the car as it comes, apart from an oil change, refuse to let the free BHP go. If I'm not in an online race I'd usually go into the full-immersion mode with no ABS, No HUD, Cockpit view and usually downgraded tyres to Comforts etc. As you(Furi) know I'm not playing GT6 atm but when I was, I played through as much of the game as possible with the completely stock Honda Fit, then the completely stock Clio, and the X-Bow etc...

Granted, if I was preparing for an online race, practice in bonnet view, ABS onto 1 (in case of mistakes really, never found it to affect my speed as some people do, in fact I usually shave a couple of tenths with it off), and work on setups to reduce under/oversteer and tyre wear, which is also fun. Some of my GT5 setups, especially the IS-F, Volvo C30, GT-R and Integra were epic, and it's nice to fine-tune a balanced car, but that's a bigger effort, and so, I spend more time driving cars as stock. Also helps you to adapt to a cars characteristics, and learn more about the physics of the game.
 
I always drive a car bone stock - without the driver aids. (I bought the game to play it, not to let my PS3 do all that steering, braking for me.)

You have to give a car a go before you just bolt on some bits.

A few cars though are not great stock - The Muscle cars drive me bonkers how much grunt the engine has but the gearbox is set for One careful Lady owner style driving. That, literally, grinds my gears.

I am guilty of sticking on a sport/ semi race exhaust in the hope I get a Better engine note.

SS tyres are great for fast laps in faster sporty super cars, but comfort tyres will let you feel the car a bit better as the car shouldn't just be planted in every corner.
 
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What, every car? An overly sweeping statement and somewhat inaccurate given that some cars have almost no traction on stock tyres (FXX for example).
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Street cars yes,is the fxx a street car,no.I forgot to specify,my bad.
Just want to add,the fxx is fine on sport hards.
 
I love driving the cars the way they were intended to be driven. I feel that once you start adding mods it screws up the formula and mess getting a good feel for how these cars actually handle and move. Glad to know there are others. In the online rooms just about every car I have seen have had a hideous wing.
 
I love to drive the RUF CTR Yellowbird bone stock without assists on the Nuburgring. Very good car.

One of the last times I played GT5, I was in a stock NA Miata on the Nurburgring. There's something so satisfying about going through Schwedenkreuz (Or however it's spelled) at top speed without lifting off the throttle or hitting the brakes.
 
CallmeDan
I love to drive the RUF CTR Yellowbird bone stock without assists on the Nuburgring. Very good car.
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That was one of the few things I did when I drove at the Ring on GT5. Only replace the factory tyres with Comfort hards and I was good to go for an 8.30 lap. ;)

Does bring up another question though, :confused:

Why haven't I bought another Yellowbird and started doing this insanity lap again? 💡 :lol:
 
I love driving stock with the original tires and no assists as well...too bad trying to find an online room setup like that is practically impossible.
 
I would never limit myself to one kind of driving in the GT series. The beauty of it for me is you can take cars off the showroom floor, slap a coat of paint on them and take them to the track. Or you can throw a bunch of money on it and make it faster with the same stock setup. Or you can try your hand at tuning and squeezing every last bit of performance from a car. I like all 3 and bounce around from one to the other regularly. Lately I have no time to race so I've been tuning and running laps for @mike_gt3 's Nurburgring Lap Board, mostly in showroom stock cars. I'd be interested in a club if that's what this is about.
 
I often drive stock cars as well ( Diablo GT, Countach and X Bow Street are some of my fav ), alongside replicas :) Rarely I will use sports tire for stock cars though, maybe for non street cars like FXX, but I must buy that car first :lol: I think comfort soft works fine on most high powered cars except maybe Aston Martin V8 Vantage V600 ( that car seriously have issue with traction :lol: ).
I even use comfort soft on 600HP Ferrari 288GTO Wangan Midnight replica :lol:

Would love to do one make no tuning party race at Bathurst, say Countach LP400 on comfort medium, at Tsukuba using several generation of Evos and WRXs ( up to 2000 model year ) on CM tire or at Brands Hatch GP using Lancia Stratos on CH tire :) Just fun racing Best Motoring style.
 
Furinkazen
I'm a little bit of a purist in GT6. I was the same in GT5 with majority of cars. The most I do is put sport softs on a street car and nothing else, unless they had to be tuned for an online competition I'd keep them bone stock. There's so much talk in GTPlanet and the GT6 community about how some say car handling is bad, that they need ballast to get a car to handle well or suspension tweaks...

How many of you are the opposite of that standpoint, like me? Just buy a car from the dealership, leave it stock except for maybe a paint change, then you pick your track and just drive the wheels off the thing?

GTPlanet - how many of you members are the same? How many of you are the GT6 Driving Purists?
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I am the same. As someone once said drive the cars as the car builders intended them to be.Drive like they supposed to be in rea life.
 
Well, since I haven't done it yet in GT6, I just brought my '89 Miata to the Nurburgring. Shut off all assists and took off all parts. Man, I still get that exciting feeling going flat-out in corners not many other cars can. God this car is so good.

I truly think THIS is the car you should first buy, not a Honda Fit. The Miata is the perfect car for drivers of all skill levels. It's great for beginners and fun for experts who want to perfect their driving techniques and try new ones. I took a bunch of photos of the car on just one corner. I'm in love.
 
I always drive my cars stock on the tires they come with. I wouldn't want to miss the particularities of some cars that really give the car its character. I also started building a lap time data base on Laguna Seca for all my cars in stock condition.

I did use a tune for one seasonal event just to see the difference. My time was much better with the tune but the car didn't feel anywhere as interesting as it was. So what I will do in the future is leave my cars stock but set up race cars only for certain tracks (no mods though only set ups). As I see it they are meant to be set up for the best performance on a given track anyway.
 
For most of this save I have driven cars as they come from the Dealership, though I will occasionally upgrade the suspension if the car has too much roll for my liking (the Mitsubushi Evo prize car springs to mind as one that had excessive side to side roll).

To be honest, the most fun I have had in either GT5 or GT6 has been doing the weekly WRS Time Trials: Told what car to use, track, tyres, etc and then try and be as fast as possible (though I do struggle sometimes with cars such as the FXX!). I'm sure I could do this myself with different cars but comparing my lap times against others gives me more motivation and incentive.

Recently, I have been playing GT5 as well as GT6 and I have found that game much more rewarding by driving cars stock (in my previous save on that game, I would tune the car significantly and overpower the races)
 
I drive them stock to get a feel for them and then i tune as needed to get the performance and handling I want from the car. Personally I do not see anything pure about only driving a car as stock. This instead shows in lack of tuning ability. I also do not consider throwing a bunch of parts on a car tuning. While there are a lot of cars in the game that drive great with the stock setup there are also several that drive poorly and all of them are better with a little tweaking.

Generally I have been tuning my cars in increments of 50 pp most cars I will take about 50-100 pp above the stock value when i am done with it and many I will set at 3 different PP values
 
I run most of my cars on stock tires and with stock tuning, i only have about 10-20 track tuned cars, but they are tuned for a purpose, not to just mess up online lobbies.

I have to say i am a purist! I love stock cars, they are so much more fun!

My favourite so far has to be the 2013 dodge viper or the Aston V12 Vantage
 
Stock all the way for me. Have been the same since GT5 came out. Street cars gotta be on street tyres though, maybe Sports Hard at a push.
 
Furinkazen
I'm a little bit of a purist in GT6. I was the same in GT5 with majority of cars. The most I do is put sport softs on a street car and nothing else, unless they had to be tuned for an online competition I'd keep them bone stock. There's so much talk in GTPlanet and the GT6 community about how some say car handling is bad, that they need ballast to get a car to handle well or suspension tweaks...

How many of you are the opposite of that standpoint, like me? Just buy a car from the dealership, leave it stock except for maybe a paint change, then you pick your track and just drive the wheels off the thing?

GTPlanet - how many of you members are the same? How many of you are the GT6 Driving Purists?
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Driving the cars bone stock is the best way to play.
I used to tune all cars immediately but all this does is numbs the feel and makes every car handle basically the same.

Driving them as they were intended straight from the showroom is a thousand times better, all the nuances and characteristics of a car come through like its hardwired straight to your hands, heart and brain with a clear difference between each model.

You haven't played GranTurismo properly and "get it" if you don't use them from stock.

All the work done by PD getting the physics as correct as possible is undone once you plaster race mods and/or grippier tyres.

They are just a lot more fun and rewarding to drive too!
 

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