I don't like the hypercar/Gr.x/Gr1 style stuff
Honestly, I also prefer more "normal" cars. The McLaren is definitely cool, same as the Lamborghini, but personally, their design doesn't really captivate me.
I personally don't think that the no-interior ones should be allowed - supply your CAD for the whole thing or piss off - because it breaks the consistency of the vehicle list, but these are largely the oldest ones now.
This is definitely a valid point, something that should almost be taken for granted. Even though I actually like the Peugeot VGT aesthetically, because to me it recalls the brand's older concept cars, but as soon as I bought it and realized it had no interior, I sold it right away… unfortunately. I was really curious to see what the interior looked like, and when I found out I couldn’t even sit inside, it started bothering me just to look at it—the same goes for the Subaru.
Each one represents a collaboration between PD and a manufacturer that isn't simply a replication of something that already exists - which is what concept cars in the game were going back to the Copperhead - and I quite like that. With that said, I don't mind other concept cars being included either, but I do perceive them as being two different things.
Like you said earlier about EVs, it’s the brand that decides what to create—not PD limiting their creativity. That applies to both the engines and the design choices, and you’re absolutely right. Like you, I was fascinated when they first introduced the Vision project, mainly because I had memories of the older concept cars. A lot of the new ones really just reflect the current design language of the brands. Take Jaguar, for example—I don’t like their modern concepts at all, and that includes their Vision car. But with some of them, I still have mixed feelings… like the Genesis VGT. I actually think it’s beautiful, but with 870 hp it’s just insane. For me, that kind of **** ruins the car, it feels like driving a rocket. Compared to it, the Bugatti Veyron feels slow, and that’s simply wrong. I understand that some people might like it exactly as it is, but personally, I think with a few adjustments it could’ve been much better.
That’s exactly how I feel.. Not so much because GT aspires to be a sim, but because it just doesn’t feel realistic, and that really bothers me. Maybe it’s Genesis’ fault, maybe it’s GT’s, but one thing is certain: it’s a great car only for showroom purposes, especially in the game.
You missed the point of my post by a country mile.
The way you word things often makes very little sense. It's like trying to read a Japanese instruction manual translated into Welsh.
I agree with SOME of your premise, in the sense that I don't utilize many of the VGT's. The Bvlgari, Subaru, BMW, McLaren, and a few others are quite entertaining, and quite dynamic to drive. The Bvlgari is particularly surprising. Many of the others just don't do much for me. Most of the styling elements of the available VGT's are too far down the "space ship" route for my taste. I like cars, and I like space ships. I do NOT need them to be combined. My biggest gripe with a lot of the VGT's is the lack of customization (especially the EV's). I'm not against them existing in the game, as I'm sure there are enough users out there who are enjoying them, to facilitate their inclusion in GT7. However, I'm a tuner at heart. I like to fettle with my cars to get the most out of them. When you take that away some of my interest goes with it (sometimes). The same can be said for the vehicles with CVT's. You just can't do much with them, other than race them against each other. At the end of the day I'm a Gran Turismo fan (Been playing since GT1 when I was 17 years young...lol) so I am still trying to utilize them. I'm currently making a custom race with the CVT equipped vehicles to try and get some use out of them. We'll see how that pans out in the end.
I'm honestly sorry about that, you absolutely did the right, because I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.
To be fair, translating my thoughts directly from Italian into English the way I naturally think them is really difficult… who knows how many times I've written things that ended up sounding like complete ********.
That said, I totally agree with everything you said. (It’s a point of view that’s quite similar to mine—maybe not exactly the same, but it still comes from someone who, like me even though I was younger, has been playing Gran Turismo since the very beginning. Hearing thoughts from other players who started with the first game really opens my mind to how much more potential GT still has to become even better… but that’s another conversation)
The Bvlgari VGT, like you said, is in my opinion one of the best cars to drive among the VGTs. It genuinely feels like driving a real car, not some imaginary car from the future. And in my opinion, if some of these cars were properly contextualized in specific events, we might actually find some pleasant surprises—like the Suzuki VGT Road Car, for example.