Red Bull X2010.
Or, if you prefer searing precedent pains, Nike One 2022.
It's not a standard though - also, standards never originally had a silhouette interior.
It does have the most realistic interior of any car in any game ever, mind.
Nor are any of the PD-fantasy LM cars that have formed a staple of the game since the very first one. Mid-engined CR-X del Sol LM, anyone?
I'm really not trying to pick a fight or anything, but it seems that with your last point you are just continuing to reinforce the point that there is no reason not to give this car a cockpit. If we are to have any other less-than-real cars in the future(which I hope they don't do away with) they are going to have to tackle the question eventually.
I am also well aware that the standard interiors are new and that probably helps explain why this one didn't get one since initially there were no "placeholder" cockpits, and a lot of fans seem to get rather incensed at the thought of replacing nothing with something inaccurate. It does makes it seem all the more odd now, but then again, they probably didn't want to make it the only premium with a standard-style interior, or else just didn't consider it at the time.
It's not any particular concern to me anyway as I have exactly zero interest in the car. I'll probably eventually own it just for completion's sake, but that's about it - especially since it has no cockpit which is how I drive. Hell, it might even seem like the right decision to me if I was one of the apparently many worshipers of the GT-R in all of its unappealing forms. This was after all a car that signaled new direction in its development so it's rather special to the biggest fans of the breed. It just seems silly that there is one super special car that doesn't get to be driven from the interior.
I did like the bit about it having the most realistic interior ever, very true.
One other thing; is there some connection between the X2010 and remote-control-driving that I have missed somewhere? Something in it's description I don't remember perhaps? I do think I recall hearing that some F1 engineers had toyed with the "in a perfect world" type idea of getting rid of the drivers entirely, but the X2010 does have one. I just don't get the apparent relationship drawn between A: directly driving a car that defies the limits of human endurance and would likely require special training and equipment to survive and B: driving a car with no visibility and no on-board controls by some sort of remote control.
My point with the remote control was simply that if we say that the lack of an interior view was solely for accuracy, then it begs the question that how can it be accurate to consider it even driveable - which also brings up the issue with the various LM concepts you mentioned as well as some other concept cars which never actually existed in a useable form. I'm all for their inclusion, but in future games, they are going to have to have some sort of interior view.
Wow, I'm suddenly glad I usually post from the PS3... all of my posts would be novels otherwise. I'll stop now, I promise.
rologue before? If I remembered correct, the Proto has a cockpit view. I may be wrong.
