The Worst Car in GT4

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I like it for the novelty value, and I seem to remember it being a nice all-around car... I should go drive it again...
 
I thought the HSR-II is interesting. Certainly not the "worst" car of GT4, or anywhere near to being worst. On the other hand, I haven't found any races it's competitive in yet. It's one of those cars that either blows away the entire field, or winds up getting blown away itself (kinda same dillema with the Saleen S7). But it's been awhile since I tried driving an HSR-II, maybe I should give it another go.
 
It has that cool look to it. And If I remeber right it wasnt that bad to drive.
 
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I hate that Mercedes 190 you have to use for license test IA-15, on the Nurburgring. It's just stable enough to lull you into a false sense of security, but just twitchy enough to slide you off the track when you're least expecting it.

Oh, and the 427 Cobra. They say a lot of people never survived the test drive, and I can see why. Gigantic amounts of horsepower coupled with horrible braking and poor cornering. Like a bottle rocket launched horizontally - goes wherever it pleases :)

And that Honda Step Van. Think it's about 15 hp. The big idiot here spent about 200 grand modifying it, thought it would be cute. Even put a wing on the back! Got it up to about 85 hp. I actually managed to get into 3rd place in one of those Japanese compact races, 'till I ran out of nitrous and everybody disappeared over the horizon in about 30 seconds :(
 
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Proto Motors Spirra, tuned.

Oh wait, thats not the worst car, its the hardest car to drive, B-spec lapped the ring 20 seconds faster than I did... :crazy:

Granted I did come off the track around 8 times... But how does my B-spec driver keep it so composed?

I took this thing to trial mountain, and after 5 attempts at trying to get past the bump on the first corner I quit, you havn't experienced snap oversteer until you have drove this thing. But it is damn fast when you don't make any mistakes, but this thing is worse than using a Stratos for an endurance race, you have to work so hard.

/Makes mental note to take this thing out on the Tokyo endurance
 
Giygas
That is exactly why i love that car.
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I love it too, On my Laguna Seca lap board this thing is running faster than my Mclaren F1 GTR race car, M3 GTR Race car, Corvette and Camaro race cars, all JGTC cars, Zonda race car etc etc.

Its amazing. It can't quite compete with the CLK GTR, R390 and Toyota GT-one (excluding C-class and LMP cars), but it is definetly one of the best cars in the game.

But running consistent laps in this thing... Is no easy task. Its one of the worst yet one of the best cars in the game. It doesn't know whether its coming or going. Kind of like its handling really... Lift off oversteer, more power you say? Here have some more oversteer.
 
Seismica
Oh wait, thats not the worst car, its the hardest car to drive, B-spec lapped the ring 20 seconds faster than I did... :crazy:

Granted I did come off the track around 8 times... But how does my B-spec driver keep it so composed?
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The Spirra is one of my favorites. You should give one of my tunes a go.
I loved this car so much I made a full race version and also a tamed daily driver version :sly:.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3004189&postcount=85

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3004203&postcount=86

I love the Spirra, its such a underrated and unrecognized car!
 
The worst car IMO: The Mercedes SLR McLaren in Mission 34... I don't know what they did to it, but it handles like it's filled in every crevice with lead...
 
ilovethescudo
The worst car IMO: The Mercedes SLR McLaren in Mission 34... I don't know what they did to it, but it handles like it's filled in every crevice with lead...
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But that's because during the mission, we're forced to drive it a lot harder than humanly possible, which means any flaws it has are being magnified thru our frustration with the DAMN MISSION. :mad: Driven normally in most of GT4 races, it's actually a little too capable. Quite an overkill-car imo.
 
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Giygas
I think they said something about using non sports tires in the description.
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So, it's either on N1's :nervous:, N2's or N3's?
 
Giygas
I think they said something about using non sports tires in the description.
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No. The general consensus is that the McLaren we drive in the mission has S2 tires with the TCS set to either 1 or 2. Plenty of us have practiced Mission 34 by buying an AMG McLaren, leaving it stock (S2 tires included), and doing laps around the 'Ring with TCS on a low setting.

The actual M34 car will still feel slightly different than the practice car, but certainly it's not on N tires. The levels of traction and grip would be noticeably less.
 
If you ever want to know what tires your car uses, just watch the replay, and the power, game mode, and tires will appear in the middle of the screen for a few seconds before fading. Watching a Mission 34 replay clearly shows "SM/SM" - the feeling of bad handling is a combination of the TCS, whatever the game's developers did to the suspension, and above all, how hard you're pushing it.
 
Ok, my bad. I could swear there was some sort of challenge with n tires.

Anybody like the Camaro SS from 2000? I had one of those and i must say that this car is Horrible!
 
Well, a majority of the missions and license tests that feature road cars use N2 tires. There are exceptions, like Mission 34, but the game's designers seemed intent on forcing people to drive more carefully when learning to drive because of the harder tires.
 
Giygas
Ok, my bad. I could swear there was some sort of challenge with n tires.

Anybody like the Camaro SS from 2000? I had one of those and i must say that this car is Horrible!
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I've been driving C4-era CAmaros since GT1. They've always been somewhat horrible with handling. They're not very good handling cars in real-life either (not including the newest generation).

GT and GT2, they'd under and oversteer to various degrees. In GT4 they mostly understeer, of course. :indiff:
 
It's not just the handling, but the power curve for this thing with the super charger is ridiculous. If I'm aiming to do a drag race, then i have to switch to manual and shift way before the red-line.

I think it's the worst American car I've ever driven. Nearly no resale value combined with no performance. I don't know if i will try the Z\28 anymore. it probably is a bit more rounded.

EDIT: The Z/28 is much much better than the SS! A good driver can easily chase down a BMW M5 when fully tuned, and it will beat a lot of other cars too. This is the only Camaro that gets my seal of approval( I have never driven the I-Roc, but i'm planning to)👍:)
 
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Giygas
It's not just the handling, but the power curve for this thing with the super charger is ridiculous. If I'm aiming to do a drag race, then i have to switch to manual and shift way before the red-line.

I think it's the worst American car I've ever driven. Nearly no resale value combined with no performance. I don't know if i will try the Z\28 anymore. it probably is a bit more rounded.
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Damn, well that's pretty harsh! Can't say I disagree, tho! :)
 
Giygas
It's not just the handling, but the power curve for this thing with the super charger is ridiculous. If I'm aiming to do a drag race, then i have to switch to manual and shift way before the red-line.

I think it's the worst American car I've ever driven. Nearly no resale value combined with no performance. I don't know if i will try the Z\28 anymore. it probably is a bit more rounded.
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2000 Camaro SS? Wonderful car. Really soft and sloppy, but capable of some very good lap times on street tires in stock trim.

A lot of cars have poor driveability if you tune them for a lot of power. Not the car's fault if it doesn't have the tires or suspension to deal with massive amounts of power... because it wasn't built to, in the first place.

One hopes that someday, someone will give us the option of wrinkle-wall slicks for the Camaro in GT.... :lol:
 
niky
2000 Camaro SS? Wonderful car. Really soft and sloppy, but capable of some very good lap times on street tires in stock trim.

A lot of cars have poor driveability if you tune them for a lot of power. Not the car's fault if it doesn't have the tires or suspension to deal with massive amounts of power... because it wasn't built to, in the first place.

One hopes that someday, someone will give us the option of wrinkle-wall slicks for the Camaro in GT.... :lol:
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Not building a Camaro to handle tons of power? That's like making a cruise ship that sinks like a rock:lol:
 
Giygas
Not building a Camaro to handle tons of power? That's like making a cruise ship that sinks like a rock:lol:
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Camaro meet Titanic. :lol:

(sidenote: I love how 9-second Camaro SSs always seem to be pictured with the front end in the air and the chassis twisting like a pretzel as they launch off the line... :lol: )
 
No offence but that Tank Car is an absolute heap. It has no power and and weight more than a blue whale. How cool it looks is it's only good point. My 2 cent's.

Cheers,Cougar23
 

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