What car can you simply not drive well in GT3?

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Driving GT3 has given up a particular car for me that I just really really struggle with (apart from the Zonda), namely the Lotus Elise in its various forms.

I don't know why, might be my brake in a straight line and then turn style, but I find these cars oversteering monsters, breaking into uncontrollable rear end slides at the slightest hint of kerb, unfavourable camber, or if I even think of the brake while entering a corner.

Does anyone else have similar experience with any of the cars in GT3?
 
i know exactly what you mean, i love the lotus(real life) but the car in gt3 just did nothing for me, but i did not give up and once you master the little b*$tard it's not a bad little motor...
as for the pagani the road version is cr*p but i just won the race version and i love that one....
then there is the speed 12, in the wet without traction control, oh my god, it is almost impossible to do a sensible lap? :eek:
 
Originally posted by HUDSONJONES
i know exactly what you mean, i love the lotus(real life) but the car in gt3 just did nothing for me, but i did not give up and once you master the little b*$tard it's not a bad little motor...
as for the pagani the road version is cr*p but i just won the race version and i love that one....
then there is the speed 12, in the wet without traction control, oh my god, it is almost impossible to do a sensible lap? :eek:
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I've got the Motorsport Elise set up with full ASM and part TCS to run the professional series. I might buy one once I've got 100% just to cruise around with in the easier races.

I said exactly the same thing about the Pagani road and race cars. The race car was one of the GTP qualifier cars and apart from the weight, not a bad little car at all!

I've yet to win a Speed 12 but I did love that car in GT2 - you stepped on the throttle and it sounded like the world was coming to an end!
 
I absolutely can't drive a full tuned FTO...it's an understeering b*-atch!
But I love to drive the Motorsport Elise (I love all MR's and FR's in the contrary to GT1 where all I did was drive FF's and 4WD's). Maybe you should try a fully tuned Elise 190 :) bless...
 
Well as I progress through the game, I realize how much better each car is than the previous. So now ... anything less than the F094/s is pretty much worthless to me (:

DOWN WITH THE ZONDA!

~LoudMusic
 
well the mx-5 miata was a pain to drive for me. I managed to win the 80's sports car cup in it somehow but I did struggle driving it.(soooo much understeer it was ridiculous) Now i got the Evolution VI GSR T.M.E which i'm finding easy going
 
Thing I found with the zonda race car (during team gtp race especially) is that it just doesnt sound like a race car at all - It needs to growl at you on the start line for you to really punish it !!!!!!!!! jw :D :D :D
 
Vat man , you've hit the nail on the head there - The speed 12 sounds like a REAL monster, its begging for a thrashing round almost any circuit !!! jw :D :D :D
 
Originally posted by jaw1
Vat man , you've hit the nail on the head there - The speed 12 sounds like a REAL monster, its begging for a thrashing round almost any circuit !!! jw :D :D :D
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This from a Speed 12 fanatic (:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by jaw1
Vat man , you've hit the nail on the head there - The speed 12 sounds like a REAL monster, its begging for a thrashing round almost any circuit !!! jw :D :D :D
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I'm not sure how to shift my speed12 though...i believe mine goes 100mph in 1st :) so it seems although :D
 
Originally posted by y2rich
well the mx-5 miata was a pain to drive for me. I managed to win the 80's sports car cup in it somehow but I did struggle driving it.(soooo much understeer it was ridiculous) Now i got the Evolution VI GSR T.M.E which i'm finding easy going
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I was actually referring to GT3, but I know what you mean - in GT and GT2 the Miata was a shocker - much better in GT3
 
PINK VITZ !!!!! :mad:
It makes me want to throw up all ower myself.
- And it's hard getting a good lap when your head is down a toilet bowl...

:smilewink
 
RWD Skyline- it looks cool, pretty fast, but I hate when I'm driving it and the turbo boost just drops before the red line. I mean, some cars it drops, but there's not much of a difference. But this Skyline, you're going full power, and then the car just doesn't want to go any faster! It forces you to shift early all the time, and I'm one that finds the red line to be the shifting point.

My TT Supra is 1081 HP, and is very hard to turn at low speeds, but it is so much fun to put it in 3rd, and slam the gas and it just rockets away.

I also hate to drive the Del Sol, as it is slow, and the sound gets really annoing. Same with the Spoon Civic R, wich red lines at 14,000RPM or so.

I like driving the RX-7, and the Miata LS, and the eversofast Integra R.

I always tune the cars so that in second, so that they have minimal spinage, and maximum gripage, which is a very thin line.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
I always tune the cars so that in second, so that they have minimal spinage, and maximum gripage, which is a very thin line.
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Spinage - You made a word!
Gripage - I think 'Grip' would have done

I guess what you're getting at is that the car is very manoeuvrable at the expense of stability - right?
 
I know that I wasn't useing correct grammar, but I didn't care.

And yes, you're right about what I meant, right at the limit of grip.

I'm just POed cause I got school tomarrow, and I want to stay on break. :(

It's so nice just staying home, watching SpeedVision, getting on here, speedvision, here, lunch while watching speedvision, here.....dinner, here....speedvision, sleep, wakeup, here.....it's an ongoing cycle of happyness:D, but then there's tomarrow, where it all goes bad. :o
 
Originally posted by MazKid
I know that I wasn't useing correct grammar, but I didn't care.

And yes, you're right about what I meant, right at the limit of grip.

I'm just POed cause I got school tomarrow, and I want to stay on break. :(
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I'm back at work already - I feel your pain, brother.... :(
 
Yea, school is just so boring for me, I know most of the stuff already. I wish I would work instead of going to school, at least I would get paid for working.

Think of it this way: I'm in school for 78 days or so, each day is 7 Hrs long, so, $5 an HR, I could make about $2,730 each school year. But no, I get nothing but knowlage I will never really use.

Back to topic: I also hate driving cars with a limited red line, like the BMW, I'm going fast and I'm about to shift, and hit the limiter. Oh well.
 
Have to agree with u vat,the elise is kind of a let down IMHO.For a car of it's size it should have a lot more grip round corners.I prefer cars that handle like they're on rails round corners like the clio.
 
Originally posted by Tailslide
Have to agree with u vat,the elise is kind of a let down IMHO.For a car of it's size it should have a lot more grip round corners.I prefer cars that handle like they're on rails round corners like the clio.
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Aww nah. See the thing with the Elise is that while it's sliding, it's still travelling really quickly, but I haven't had any problems kerb-riding with it, so perhaps my suspension is more compliant than yours. ;)
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


Aww nah. See the thing with the Elise is that while it's sliding, it's still travelling really quickly, but I haven't had any problems kerb-riding with it, so perhaps my suspension is more compliant than yours. ;)
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What sort of set-up do you have on the Elise Motor Sport? I can not for the life of me tune the oversteer out of it - I can mask it, but it rears its ugly head during a race when I brake heavily while turning at some point.

The irony of struggling to drive a car with the same name as my partner is causing considerably stress to me, I must admit...
 
Well as a relative newbie to GT3 I have to say that the Altezza or Mercedes have to be the worst cars. They just won't hold the road especially the Rome circuit! :(
 
Try running the Clio sports race car fully setup,tis scary the amount of grip that lil car has.Or even better the Toyota GT-1 :eek: I won it yesterday,though i keep bottoming the car out,especially round the test track :(
 
The Zonda with extra power is very hard to drive indeed! I had nightmare about it after i played the ROME tracks on PRO!
But Zonda Racecar is a really good! 4/5 possible.
 
I hate several cars' handling :

1- The Cobra
2- The Log On Skids (oops I meant Zonda)
3- The Nissan GTR (any liverage or tune type)

I love my Supra (Castrol Tom's) and F090 (Polyphony 001)
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


Aww nah. See the thing with the Elise is that while it's sliding, it's still travelling really quickly, but I haven't had any problems kerb-riding with it, so perhaps my suspension is more compliant than yours. ;)
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Okay - as per another thread I decided to drag the Elise out tonight and have a fiddle with the diff, specifically the Diff Acceleration and the Diff Deceleration - BIG difference. Still a little twitchy, but MUCH happier under power and braking - to the point that in the second Elise pro series I went from just staying in front of the 190s to winning by half a lap (after the other two Motorsports pitted).

The diffs are fantastic! I feel like I just discovered something!
 
I haven't mucked around with those setting yet vat,bit after reading your comments i think i will give em a whirl,cheers mate :)
 

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