Tilting trikes?

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Okay, I want to make it perfectly clear that this isn't a plea for the addition of new vehicles and I just assume any responses not be either.

Is there anyone out there with any insight into Gran Turismo's physics engine that can comment on it being able to support three-wheelers--or even four-wheelers for that matter--capable of altering camber/castor and perhaps even its chassis orientation in relation to the driving surface based on steering input?
We've got the two X-Bow variants that show spring compression under load, and it isn't a stretch (at least for me and my professed lack of insight in the matter) to think this might be in the same wheelhouse.
 
I think it would be too much of a stretch to make them work with the current physics engine. While the basic forces at work are the same, the way they're acting whilst moving changes when you start leaning the wheels like a motorbike or tilting/moving the cockpit and actively altering the centre of gravity.

Visually it would be possible but to make them work properly you'd have to rewrite the physics model or create a unique set of parameters for the car. This would cost a lot of time and money for a fairly niche market, if one was to be included I suspect it would be simply a re-skinned open wheel car.

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