The Worst Car in GT4

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Razo
The Ford SVT F150 Lightning surely has to win the award for 'Most Pontless Vehicle'. You get a pick up, throw a huge V8 in the thing and sell it as a sports car. So basically, you have a car that's only fast in a straight line, and only slightly more practical than a 2-seater roadster. When there's better, similarly priced cars such as the Honda S2000 that'll sure as hell corner better, what's the point?


Actually, I raced with the Ford SVT F150 Lightning on the 8 hour Endurance race and it did quite well, I mean I could control it well, it never went all the way off the track and could easily out run the S2000's in the race. So there is nothing wrong with it, maybe you should give it a chance and not say so many bad things about a car after racing it one time. Any car can be bad to people, but most never give those cars a second chance which is understandable but maybe if you give a car you hate to drive another chance you may be pleased with the results.
 
was that the Motegi endurance? The only reason it can outrun the S2000s is because there are a lot of straights and gentle curves. Take it to Tsubaka, you will get slaughtered by the S2000.
 
AmericanRacer
omg another one that doesnt know what hes talking about.. to caught up in your foreign krap are ya? there aint a honda out there that can beat a GT
stock.

:rolleyes: Sorry, but this set off a massive 'ORLY?' in my mind.

My personal times around Launa Seca (oil change, S2 tyres):
'02 NSX Type-R : 1'37.348

'05 Ford GT : 1'38.762

Besides, he has a point, the GT does fishtail under heavy braking.
 
It's not because of the straights, the SVT kinda lacked the speed down through the straights. It was the turns I pulled away in, over all it gripped alot better than the S2000's and 350z's. I mean they could outrun it but not out grip it and I used Sport hard tires.
 
jammyozzy
:rolleyes: Sorry, but this set off a massive 'ORLY?' in my mind.

My personal times around Launa Seca (oil change, S2 tyres):
'02 NSX Type-R : 1'37.348

'05 Ford GT : 1'38.762

Besides, he has a point, the GT does fishtail under heavy braking.


But is that really enough to make it the absolute suckiest car in the game? Its still gonna beat a beatle or a or accord or sumtin.. and maybe you guys just arn't setting it up right? sorry for dissing Japanese cars.. i was just shocked to see Sallen S7 and GT in this thread.. there are soem really cool Japanese cars out there.. someday i want to own a Nissan Skyline. there so cool
 
It's not only a thing of "the quicker, the better". It's also about what you expect of a car. I really liked the Ford GT in Prologue, cause it was very fast and still good to drive. In GT4, the brakes are just useless, being way too soft, and jamming when you turn them up. That was a huge disappointment for me, cause it makes the GT40 pretty much undriveable.

Same is with the Saleen S7. I really like this car in real life. It looks great and goes really well (I suppose). But in GT4, where I met it first for the license test on SSR5, it understeered like it had no front wheels at all. It took me 20 trials to get used to that alone.

And it's things like that, that spoil the fun with some cars in GT4. You expect it to be perfect, but you discover that they are far from that.
Now with the crappy cars, it's the other way around. You think they're slow and boring, you drive them, and you notice that they actually are kind of fun to drive and not that slow.

Anyway, there are cars I like and cars I don't like in GT4, but I can't pick a worst one. First, I haven't driven them all, and second, there is no car as bad that would justify a "worst" for me.

Regards
the Interceptor
 
the Interceptor
In GT4, the brakes are just useless, being way too soft, and jamming when you turn them up. That was a huge disappointment for me, cause it makes the GT40 pretty much undriveable.

The GT40 is undriveable in real-life, the brakes are rubbish, it was made in the late 60's though, so what do you expect. However the GT40's redeeming feature was that it could do 200mph in 1968!! And that it had possibly one of the finest turn-ins this side of the 1994 McLaren F1, but above all that driving the Ford GT40 puts a smile on your face, it is one of the most entertaing and enjoyable cars you could ever wish to drive. This is one car PD has got spot on because that is exactly what it is like in the game. I wish though that the noise was more like a real westlake engine!!!

Worst car in the game? Hmm... tough one, the 905 is one of the most dis-appointing, not really the worst though... I go with the Fiat Panda 1990 i.e, it was a bad car new, it's italian so falls apart after a week, the warranty is about as much use as a chocolate fire guard, and it is a Panda, therefore the steering is not directly connected to the wheels.

I shall explain how Fiat Panda steering works...

"You twirl the wheel as fast as possible nd two whisks attached to the end of the column stir up a sort of box full of yogurt. When the yogurt is spinning fast enough, centrifugal force rotates the box and the wheels turn"

PD you replicated this perfectly. The worst car in GT4 is the 1990 Fiat Panda
 
Uh oh major fault of mine, I was actually talking about the Ford GT, the current supercar. Sorry! :dunce:

I actually like the GT40. Yes, it doesn't brake very well, but it sounds just great and has a rough '60s charme that makes it really nice. :dopey:

I didn't correct my statement in my first post, as it would make your post confusing to people. But like I said, I meant the Ford GT.

Regards
the Interceptor
 
For $1,000,000 the Gillet Vertigo has to be considered "most disappointing". I was hoping I could sell it back to the dealership for $1,100,000 since I added some modifications to it, but since I had actually driven it off the lot they didn't agree. I just expected much more from this car. If I were you I wouldn't bother. The Minolta Nissan race car is 100 times better (no, 1000 times better).
 
VyPeR
I must say the TVR Speed 12 is the worst handling car for me. It was tough to use in GT3, but in GT4 it much tougher to control. I'll never use this car again.
I have to agree with this one.

I reckon it's the worst good car in the game. It's a pile of crap, I thought that it was going to be good because it's a British car lol.
 
M3 GTR Race Car
It's not because of the straights, the SVT kinda lacked the speed down through the straights. It was the turns I pulled away in, over all it gripped alot better than the S2000's and 350z's. I mean they could outrun it but not out grip it and I used Sport hard tires.
Um ok, your saying that a big ugly American pick up truck has better handling then a S2000, wich has better handling then most things you can buy today. hhhmmmm.. that's a enteresting one.
 
MAZDASPEED_RX7
The NIKE 2022 for me. This is because of thrree reasons:
-you win it twice
-you can't race with it
-it is no real
and even if this thing has 8 gears it has no top speed (may be i am wrong, i didn't spend a lot of time driving it)

Yes. Have some reputation points on me.
 
I just got pwnt by Famine. See sig...

Oh yeah, I just did a photo update with tthe Fiat Panda! It's a good little car when tuned right!
 
lol from reading this thread i cant help to make this post:

alot of the people here seem to think the cars, especially race cars like the minolta 88-CV, are supposed to have glue in place of tires or handle like they are running on rails. Have u ever raced a REAL car on a REAL track? if u have u wouldnt complain about such trivial things that are a given.... especially considering that GT4's physics are more forgiving than in real life. Not even Jeremy from top gear can replicate lap times from GT4 in real life (1'41 in game on Laguna Seca - Best in REAL life: 1'58) using the SAME car ('05 nsx). so that should tell u something ;)

Just my 2 cents.. not to piss anyone off. :)

my worst car nomination hmm..... i think it'd have to be the TVR Speed 12.... burns out all the way to 5th gear, twitchy cornering behaviour, and overall the car just feels sloppy to me.
 
teedot
lol from reading this thread i cant help to make this post:

alot of the people here seem to think the cars, especially race cars like the minolta 88-CV, are supposed to have glue in place of tires or handle like they are running on rails. Have u ever raced a REAL car on a REAL track? if u have u wouldnt complain about such trivial things that are a given.... especially considering that GT4's physics are more forgiving than in real life. Not even Jeremy from top gear can replicate lap times from GT4 in real life (1'41 in game on Laguna Seca - Best in REAL life: 1'58) using the SAME car ('05 nsx). so that should tell u something ;)

Just my 2 cents.. not to piss anyone off. :)

my worst car nomination hmm..... i think it'd have to be the TVR Speed 12.... burns out all the way to 5th gear, twitchy cornering behaviour, and overall the car just feels sloppy to me.

agreed, but i wouldn't say the best real life time in the nsx is 1"58'. should be less than that, at least a second or two for someone really familiar with the track.
 
jammyozzy
Besides, he has a point, the GT does fishtail under heavy braking.

I didn't know the GT had brakes. :grumpy:

And on my end, I love to hate the Speed 12. The seemingly bargain-basement (for a supercar) price is a red flag. It contains more suck-per-Cr. than any supercar.
 
teedot
lol from reading this thread i cant help to make this post:

alot of the people here seem to think the cars, especially race cars like the minolta 88-CV, are supposed to have glue in place of tires or handle like they are running on rails. Have u ever raced a REAL car on a REAL track? if u have u wouldnt complain about such trivial things that are a given.... especially considering that GT4's physics are more forgiving than in real life. Not even Jeremy from top gear can replicate lap times from GT4 in real life (1'41 in game on Laguna Seca - Best in REAL life: 1'58) using the SAME car ('05 nsx). so that should tell u something ;)

Just my 2 cents.. not to piss anyone off. :)

my worst car nomination hmm..... i think it'd have to be the TVR Speed 12.... burns out all the way to 5th gear, twitchy cornering behaviour, and overall the car just feels sloppy to me.

Well mabe you need to listen to what he said, LIKE, there are the small factors when you race a car in a video game compared to real life. Like your not afraid of a wheel coming off during the video game, or you crashing into the wall, of coarse not, cause you don't gethurt, but those things are in your head aile you race in real life, and it makes you more careful, and you don't push your self. And another thing he said, was that if you took a profesional drive lets say a Japanese JGTC driver, and he said that this car IS cabable of going around Laguna Seca in 1.41 but it is that part of your brain wile you race, is that you have FEAR in real life, but in a video game you don't, and most profesional drivers don't have nearly as much fear, and far more expeirence, makes them more cabable of doing faster lap times, compared to the video game. So don't say it's the physics, its the fear thats in your head, if Jeremy didn't have that fear in his head wile he was driving the NSX around Laguna Seca could he have done it? possibally, maybe not, but he doesn't have the experience and most likely the racing line that Japanese racers have wile they drive there JGTC Supra's, Skylines, NSX's, and 300ZX's they don't have fear, So i guess the keyword here is your mind and fear that play tricks on your driving style in real life.
 
MY Top 3 choices for worst car in GT4

1.Gillet Vertigo:censored: 🤬 🤬
2.Diahatsu Midget (both models):irked: :irked: :irked:
3.Fiat 500f, r, and l:censored: :banghead: :irked:

Those cars really drive like crap because they are slow and they have bad, and I mean BAAD handling
 
AmericanRacer
omg another one that doesnt know what hes talking about.. to caught up in your foreign krap are ya? there aint a honda out there that can beat a GT
stock.


I've got an RS4, RX7 and a G35 that will eat Steve Saleen's disaster it's lunch. The thing stock, with no driving nannys, (driving aids) plows and understeers like a 10 year old on the bunny slope. But yea It's quite American to go fast in a strait line. I'll bet your a NASCAR fan too.

(Your use of "to" in that clause is suposed to be "too".)
 
MRslider
I've got an RS4, RX7 and a G35 that will eat Steve Saleen's disaster it's lunch. The thing stock, with no driving nannys, (driving aids) plows and understeers like a 10 year old on the bunny slope. But yea It's quite American to go fast in a strait line. I'll bet your a NASCAR fan too.

(Your use of "to" in that clause is suposed to be "too".)
PWN3D, heh any person with American_Racer as a name has to love NASCAR, NASCAR is really a South US thing, but it is here in Northern Cali.
 
teedot
lol from reading this thread i cant help to make this post:

alot of the people here seem to think the cars, especially race cars like the minolta 88-CV, are supposed to have glue in place of tires or handle like they are running on rails. Have u ever raced a REAL car on a REAL track? if u have u wouldnt complain about such trivial things that are a given.... especially considering that GT4's physics are more forgiving than in real life. Not even Jeremy from top gear can replicate lap times from GT4 in real life (1'41 in game on Laguna Seca - Best in REAL life: 1'58) using the SAME car ('05 nsx). so that should tell u something ;)

Just my 2 cents.. not to piss anyone off. :)

my worst car nomination hmm..... i think it'd have to be the TVR Speed 12.... burns out all the way to 5th gear, twitchy cornering behaviour, and overall the car just feels sloppy to me.

That Top Gear thing was bull. He used sport tires and the D-PAD!

Every car can be driven well as long as it is being driven with the correct style. The HKS Silvia is a drift car and does not turn real well like the other cars that have (d1gp) after their name. Some mentioned the Cizeta. I love that car. Even the slow shifts...I left stock clutch and flywheel in just because it feels/sounds so nice.

I haven't run into much trouble getting most of the cars I drive to drive well...even FFs. But I hate the FF driving style...no Fun.

...burns out through 5th? Sweet.
 
Master_Yoda
Well mabe you need to listen to what he said, LIKE, there are the small factors when you race a car in a video game compared to real life. Like your not afraid of a wheel coming off during the video game, or you crashing into the wall, of coarse not, cause you don't gethurt, but those things are in your head aile you race in real life, and it makes you more careful, and you don't push your self. And another thing he said, was that if you took a profesional drive lets say a Japanese JGTC driver, and he said that this car IS cabable of going around Laguna Seca in 1.41 but it is that part of your brain wile you race, is that you have FEAR in real life, but in a video game you don't, and most profesional drivers don't have nearly as much fear, and far more expeirence, makes them more cabable of doing faster lap times, compared to the video game. So don't say it's the physics, its the fear thats in your head, if Jeremy didn't have that fear in his head wile he was driving the NSX around Laguna Seca could he have done it? possibally, maybe not, but he doesn't have the experience and most likely the racing line that Japanese racers have wile they drive there JGTC Supra's, Skylines, NSX's, and 300ZX's they don't have fear, So i guess the keyword here is your mind and fear that play tricks on your driving style in real life.

And GT4 thinks soft tyres are melted to the race track, there is no way a Group C LM car sticks to the road that well, I have driven a Sauber C291. Trust me, its not held on the track by glue!!!
 
Corvette
The Range Rover Stormer is not a very good car (or truck). Sure it has 350hp but it is so heavy and it rolls so much that a stock civic a more performance

if you say that you play with lm cars too much....
the rover have a different way to drive...
When you starting turning the curve push the brake in short spaces thoroughly and from the bumper view it seems that it is giving jumps...

i coud beat the street rallies with that SUV (not a car or truck)
 
teedot
l.... especially considering that GT4's physics are more forgiving than in real life. Not even Jeremy from top gear can replicate lap times from GT4 in real life (1'41 in game on Laguna Seca - Best in REAL life: 1'58) using the SAME car ('05 nsx). so that should tell u something ;).

1 - Mr Clarkson probably didn't factor in he weighs 200lbs or so, and the GT4 NSX runs dry weight;

2 - presumably the real NSX was on normal road tyres, not S2s as defaulted in GT4

3 - There really IS a factor of fear - the corkscrew in real life is much scarier than the one on your 42" Plasma screen, plus you don't fall out of your seat when you drop;

4 - Jeremy Clarkson isn't a very fast driver anyway. his head also overheats from his terrible haircut.
 

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