Which cars improve your driving skills the most?

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Ace Furious
So seadog, What's the car for you??...that improves/tests your skills that is.

EDIT: Sorry about that, I guess you already said the Fiat 500. My bad!
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Ace, that car, on that race, will really teach you about lines, momentum and consistency. I still have a lot to learn as I still haven't won the blo*dy thing.
 
Whenever I find myself failing to control a car, especially one that oversteers, I get out my custom tuned Alpine A110. It's set up to slide out no matter what speed on Racing Softs, but it's amazingly stable when it slides, and is very easy to control and correct. I like using it when I'm practicing ready to use something like my Toyota GT-ONE without traction control.
 
My Giulia TZ2 gives me my ideal lines to go on. Le Mans cars help me with throttle control quite a bit. My 240ZG is sort of teaching me how to drift I think. :)
 
Lotus Elise 111R, really gets you learning those lines, and depending on track you have to really keep up the momentum; online last night on Rome was interesting as I have mine set to 145mph top speed, and I was hitting top speed on the main straight before the final corner (host started the race before I had chance to alter it >.<) and it was me and an S2000 GT1 Turbo up front, managed to somehow win by just under a second, but was pretty interesting :P.

I have an R8 4.2 which is an interesting drive too, set up for 500PP it can be hard to handle if you're not careful, the back end on that thing loves to drift out, and although it doesn't usually spin out, it looses a ton of time >.<
 
Really? No one's mentioned the PDI Go Kart. This car taught me so much early on, and to be honest it was my favorite car for quiet some time. Especially for its "cane to the knuckles" style of handling.

Another personal fave is the Shelby Cobra sporting comfort mediums. I won a one make 8 player online race on a kart race with this combo & no TCS last night. If you want to learn throttle control look no further (except the RUF, but that's a completely different animal)
 
I took the Yellowbird out completely stock last night, had some fun on the ring. I found myself being extra careful, but I did well. Don't remember the time, but I'll do it again tonight or tomorrow and find out.
 
Bonzo
I took the Yellowbird out completely stock last night, had some fun on the ring. I found myself being extra careful, but I did well. Don't remember the time, but I'll do it again tonight or tomorrow and find out.
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My best with the yellowbird on the ring is 7:43.xxx with sport hard tires, but I obtained this lap after 40-50 minutes of practice ;) this and the shelby 427 cobra are good and helps you to control oversteer, while Ferrari Enzo can be useful to learn how to deal with understeer. Obviously i'm talking about stock cars, because tuning alterates a lot the original behaviour of a car.
 
Bonzo
I took the Yellowbird out completely stock last night, had some fun on the ring. I found myself being extra careful, but I did well. Don't remember the time, but I'll do it again tonight or tomorrow and find out.
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You can't be careful with the Yellowbird, you have to drive it balls to the wall if you want it's full potential. ;)
 
Fiat Coupe for understeer and throttle control and the BMW 335i for some nice driving lines, and the Ruf CTR for Oversteer.
 
Crazed_Coupe
Well if you really want a challenge use a stock RUF CTR "Yellowbird" on a technical track.
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I remember that from GT3.... what was that circuit called.... one with every possible technical aspect to it....
 
My Ferrari F2007, if you can't feather your throttle on exiting corners, you spin out. If you can't handle understeer, lap times go down. I was always 5th-10th in online races, but after 3 months of racing F1 cars, I am usually Top 5 now. Oh, and the basic concept of too much downforce in power tracks ruin your speed.
 
YankeeRanger
whats up with teh yellowbird :S
dont' have it but the way you guys put it i'll nvr get it
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its probably the most uncontrollable car in GT5. Am surprised the guys at health and safety allowed it to be included in GT5. It almost killed my Bob.:scared:
 
isildur
its probably the most uncontrollable car in GT5. Am surprised the guys at health and safety allowed it to be included in GT5. It almost killed my Bob.:scared:
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It's also a trip to handle in real life as the videos say. :lol:
 
The jaguar xjr-9 in Nurburgring vs 15 escudos:)
 
Ace Furious
I use a DS3 and cant drive it more than about two miles on Nurburgring before I spin out of control. I've tried tuning it as well, but just can't seem to find that balance with it. Really makes me wonder what it feels like in real life!
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isildur
its probably the most uncontrollable car in GT5. Am surprised the guys at health and safety allowed it to be included in GT5. It almost killed my Bob.:scared:
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Well, the first porsche 911 was one of the most dangerous cars. Alot of pepole driving it died. Sad, but true. Yet Porsche is making it better each year. If you have the RGT (RR, '00 vs the '87 Yellowbird) you can see the tail is much more stable.
Off topic, I think I know why porsche made it RR first place. Think of the engine as a pin. You pin the front to the ground, tail swiping around it. Porsche thought "Oh, rear engine will have MUCH "downforce" on it, making it WAY more stable"... 👎
Anyways, on a G27, 787B with a beast tune, on Cape ring.
McLaren F1 Racecar on cape ring. Why cape ring? Has all you need. Top speed, tight, long, angle-full turns. All you need ^^
Also using it for drifting!
 
Dragonthing
Whenever I find myself failing to control a car, especially one that oversteers, I get out my custom tuned Alpine A110. It's set up to slide out no matter what speed on Racing Softs, but it's amazingly stable when it slides, and is very easy to control and correct. I like using it when I'm practicing ready to use something like my Toyota GT-ONE without traction control.
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Agreed,my berlinitee r/s does the same thing it likes to slide.the 911 is very dangerous,ridiculous power so is the Supra and the delta s4 has killed A LOT of people because it has turbo and a supercharger.....
 
Well, last night I went and bought the Suzuki Cappuccino, (as mentioned earlier in this thread), and gave it a shot totally stock with driving aids off on the Ring. At first I was like, "man this is going to be long and boring!", but hey, patience is a critical aspect of racing, and to my surprise after the second lap I was actually dedicated to beating the ghost for three more laps! The car at 60-some h.p. feels so lifeless on the long straights, but where the curves get tighter and more rhythmic it was really cool learning to get that car pushed to it's limits and it proved to be a valuable tool because just after that, I took my Sprinter Trueno out and smoked the previous record I had set with it. Wouldn't have even given the Cappuccino a chance if it weren't for this thread, so just wanted to say thanks! Keep posting, this is very interesting!:)
 
i find i like small low-power cars when trying to find a best line, lower speeds allow for more concentration on finding the line, the move up to bigger cars to learn to control the power (espesially with high power FR cars)👍
 
MrDrift98
Well, the first porsche 911 was one of the most dangerous cars. Alot of pepole driving it died. Sad, but true.
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Sad maybe. True? I don't think so.

In Germany more people died in Beetles, than 911s, BMW 2002 or Golf GTIs.

Even in the 60s they showed road safety programmes on telly, quite a hoot today. And the government introduced a general speed limit of 100 km/h on any road other than the Autobahn in the 70s to combat the ever growing deaths and injuries on the road.
 
Try the Ferrari 512 BB on comfort soft around any track.
 
The impreza from the expert seasonal. Its such a pig to turn you really learn the importance of "slow in, fast out."It was a PITA but driving that thing fast was a test of patience. I learned a lot from golding that
 
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