For a while now, I have quietly found a lot of the cars I found here to be very... lackluster, and I think I've found out why: my former testing track (Infineon) for some reason causes terminal understeer in all cars that enter it: The Bluebird practically drove itself (Just recently found out that's it's actually a frightening little French murderess), and the FR Celica, the NSX-R, the Trueno Shigeno, all just understeered to no end. I never bothered selling the Trueno, and just recently decided to dust it off to see if handbraking would help its understeer issue, and ran off to Suzuka with it. Before I could even get comfortable enough to use the emergency brake, I noticed that it actually loved to oversteer on entry and regain grip just before the exit (Swell, by the way!), way different from the behaviour on Infineon. I'm not promising full-on reviews, but I may say a few good things about some cars that I've quietly disliked in the past. Come to think of it, I should take the Le Mans somewhere else too. Maybe it's not as useless as I think in technical courses.
While I'm on the subject of quietness, there's one test that I usually perform on the tuned cars here, in the dark and privacy of the night: the 'worse tires' test, in which I basically just find out the worst tires I can equip on cars and still have them...work. The MR2 works brilliantly (as expected of a brilliant, lowish power, lightweight tune) as a drifter on N Tires, as do others, but one car ecspecially stood out in this test: The Bluebird.
On R Tires, I had to be really careful about weight transfer and gentle driving, but when equipped with S Tires, the car hardly slows down at all, and calms down considerably to become very pleasing, indeed. It even works as a remarkably rapid drifter on N Tires, if you're used to using the brakes and feint motion in unison. It's just the car's featherweightedness helping it out, but the result is awesome: A very, very fast car works wonderfully, controllably, and is quite balanced, even on N3's. By comparison, that Nismo Skyline I tried out earlier fell apart around S1/S2 Territory, undoubtedly a function of tankish weight, but the weakness remains: I can't detune it for normal racing.
Whatever, just some thoughts I had. I can't wait to be able to play GT4 again tomorrow!
