I find it interesting how many people will buy Live For Speed, a work-in-progress game with one or two real tracks, one or two real cars, and a handful of fantasy cars and a few fantasy tracks more for around $47 US, and yet complain that Prologue was way too much for a "demo."
Or will buy a game like Forza with DLC you have to buy, and can more than double the cost of the game, and grouch that GT5 was a ripoff.
And then there are the iRacing crowd who will pay... Lord knows how much to get all the content and race for a year - a game you basically rent.
I think too many of us are spoiled when they think the Standard cars are beneath them and won't even try them. There are too many awesome rides you guys are missing out. It's hard not to run the racing Lambo every race in Arcade Mode. Or the M3 GTR, or... heck, there are hundreds of them. And I know cockpit view is the new black in racing games, but what did you do before that was common? Not play racers? Sure...
I'm not sure what the per unit cost of everything would be in GT5, but just on cars alone, the price with my $100 Special Edition is less than ten cents a car. Now THAT is a DLC model I could go for.

And I wouldn't dump any of them, even the dinky K cars or wimpy classics, not one Skyline or Miata or Subie.
Sure, I wish GT5 had GT4's content and wealth of races to go with the mass of cars, but like I said, I'd spend that $100 again.