Well I have owned a MKIV R32 for almost two years, and was pleasantly surprised as I noticed that it was in the game. Then I was a little dissappointed to see that it is a standard car, but well what can you do.
Another really weird and not so good thing is the way that used cars are "found" in GT5. I checked the thing after every race that I did for new cars, only looking for two models. The R32 and the Countach 25th anniversary.
Yesterday I finally found the R32 and of course I bought it.
first impressions. Sound is absolutely horrible. The MKIV R32 has a very distinct ehxaust note, which for me is like 50% of the fun of the car.
In GT5 it doesn´t sound like that at all. Well, ok. The looks are allright-ish, it´s a standard car. If you look a little closer you can see the low poly-count. Lets just say its not really foto mode material.
Well so how did it drive? I was actually really surprised to see that it didn´t drive like the real thing at all. Acceleration etc. was close enough, but there is tons and tons of oversteer under braking and even lift off oversteer at very moderate speeds (under 100 km/h).
Now before the experts come here and mention that I never drove the car in real life like I would in a game, that is bogus. I have driven a lot of laps on the nordschleife with my car, and pretty regularly drove at the limit. The car was extremely stable, the only way you would get oversteer is when using the handbrake or really drasticall flick the car into a corner (like a scandinavian flick). You wouldn´t have a hint of oversteer under "normal" conditions.
I read some other thread that mentioned that the brake-balance in GT5 is set to 50/50 by default, so that maybe the cause of that. But then I do not understand why someone would ruin a good physics engine by entering false data. And brake-balance values are not exactly hard to research. I don´t get.
Then there was the big shock that there weren´t any turbo or superchargers available for this car. This is very weird since both of these are very often seen on MKIV R32 (BUT GT5 lets me buy chiptuning for oldtimers....)
Lastly I could tune the golf "only" to about 308 kw which is about 418 hp. On the Döttinger Höhe (the long straight on the nordschleife) the car struggled to reach 280, while my real live R32 with about 290 hp topped out at 270 allready (measured with gps NOT the speedometer).
So this was pretty dissapointing, and I am sorry for the long rant, but it had to be said.
. I'd love to see mine/dad's (father son project) '66 Chevelle in the series at some point as well.
