Who notice the difference with car's HP in UCD and in garage?

[foxfai]

I recently notice this, when a car for sale in UCD that has 788 HP, when I bought it and look in the garage, it has 908 HP.... why?

 

[jeep2008]

Which car are you talking about?

 

[alexleighton]

The dealers in the game tend to lie about hp values of cars.. I have no idea why, but take any of the stats you read in the dealer as being false.

Did you do any oil changes or anything first?

 

[freedomweasel]

Sometimes it's to reflect how the cars were actually sold, as they're often underrated for legal/tax/insurance reasons.

In any event it's pretty annoying.

 

[AlexmanDK]

Used car dealerships always lie further question could be why there is a 1 hp difference between list view and when clicking the car in details?

 

[foxfai]

It think it was the R39 Nissan racer (there is 2 with similar model name).

Did you do any oil changes or anything first?

Nope. Bought the car, didn't sit in it. Then went to garage and it has an extra 100hp.

 

[ahwaijai]

The dealers in the game tend to lie about hp values of cars.. I have no idea why, but take any of the stats you read in the dealer as being false.

Did you do any oil changes or anything first?

I am dissappointed at Justin...

 

[brambos]

I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up a Skyline GT-R R34 and it turns out to have ~330hp after oil change rather than the usual 280hp Japanese cars tend to have.

I'm not much of a Skyline expert (but they're hard to avoid in GT) so I must have picked the right one at random

 

[sumbrownkid]

My theory is that those dealer numbers are the horsepower figures during qualifying runs. After you buy them, you get the full unrestricted power.

Then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

 

[BTBAM]

I was pleasantly surprised when I picked up a Skyline GT-R R34 and it turns out to have ~330hp after oil change rather than the usual 280hp Japanese cars tend to have.

I'm not much of a Skyline expert (but they're hard to avoid in GT) so I must have picked the right one at random

This must be your first GT game then?

 

[Stephen220378]

This happened to me yesterday when I bought a Nissan R390 Race Car, the dealership said over 600bhp (I can't remember exactly), when I took it to the tuning shop it said it had over 820bhp. The only thing I did was give it an oil change beforehand and I doubt an oil change added 200bhp.

 

[LeiZaK]

I am dissappointed at Justin...

lol... The first week or so I was playing the game I was wondering who the hell Justin was

 

[Kwicko]

Yeah, I don't remember what car I bought yesterday (I've slept since then, and forgot to tattoo it backwards on my chest... ), but I bought it at 585hp, and when I opened it in my garage, it was magically at 811hp. And that was BEFORE I changed the oil!

 

[FlourescentBlak]

Same here about Justin. Then it dawned on me and I felt like such an e jot. I think Justin and Zombie Jeff are equally as funny.

I think the car your talking about could be the toyota GT1, mine said 587 hp then was at like 800 or 900.

 

[brambos]

This must be your first GT game then?

no, not exactly.

I've played GT2, GT3, GT:concept '02, GT4 and GT5, GTSP.
I'm just not very interested in Japanese cars. All I know is that they used to have this self-imposed horsepower limit of 280 until recently...

 

[F1Addict]

Only thing i've noticed that sometimes in my garage its says a car has 564HP, but when i go to settings in a race it says 565HP.. Its no biggie though.

 

[freedomweasel]

no, not exactly.

I've played GT2, GT3, GT:concept '02, GT4 and GT5, GTSP.
I'm just not very interested in Japanese cars. All I know is that they used to have this self-imposed horsepower limit of 280 until recently...

My understanding is that it was an "agreement" to limit the cars to 279hp. In most cases the agreement got as far as the spec sheet.

 

[Stune]

My understanding is that it was an "agreement" to limit the cars to 279hp. In most cases the agreement got as far as the spec sheet.

Quite right. I think in many cases the car was advertised as bellow 280hp but i think it was the case with some of the skylines that with some minor tweaks on a laptop it could be upgraded to 320ish. I think the case was that could be considered as an aftermarket upgrade, making it ok. In otherwords many Japanease cars were designed to have a little over 300hp but just downtuned to stay in line with this agreement

 

[iNiff]

My understanding is that it was an "agreement" to limit the cars to 279hp. In most cases the agreement got as far as the spec sheet.

Yeah, definitely spec sheet. More of a marketing agreement to avoid a power war. By the end it was more of a joke then anything, they may as well not advertise power output as it became completely irrelevant. A spec sheet with "276hp" on it was as useful as "---" is in GT.

 

[wutangben]

i played online against a buddy yesterday, and over the course of a couple hours or so, the hp on my basically stock (oil change + tires) loctite mugen nsx went from 493 to 496 to 495 to 498...

didn't make any changes, not really sure how/why....

 

[Stephen220378]

i played online against a buddy yesterday, and over the course of a couple hours or so, the hp on my basically stock (oil change + tires) loctite mugen nsx went from 493 to 496 to 495 to 498...

didn't make any changes, not really sure how/why....

Strange, this usually only happens with new cars, unless the mileage was really low when you bought it.