*1 A-spec points* Best car for ____ Race

Seeing as there are lots of questions like "which is the best car for ____ race" I thought I'd make a list for this.

BEGINNER HALL:
Sunday Cup : **
FF Challenge : Honda Integra Touring Car
FR Challenge : Any JGTC Skyline/Supra/Fairlady Z, Gillet Vertigo Race Car
4WD Challenge : Suzuki Escudo,Mine’s Skyline GTR, Audi Le Mans Quattro
MR Challenge : Nissan R89C/R92CP,Toyota GT-ONE etc.(Most LMP/Group C Cars)
Light Weight K Cup : Honds S800 Race Car, Honda Beat(modded)
Spider & Roadster : Nissan Fairlady Z Roadster,Mercedes Benz Sl65 AMG,Opel Speedster,Lotus Elise 111R
Sport Truck Race : Any Tuned Sports Truck

PROFESSIONAL HALL:
Clubman Cup : **
Tuning Car Grand Prix : *
Race of NA Sports : AMG Mercedes Benz CLK GTR
Race of Turbo Sports :Minolta Toyota 88-cv
Boxer Spirit : Any Impreza Rally Car/Ruf CTR2(See posts 8/9)
World Classic Car Series : Buick Special
World Compact Car Race : See Here
Supercar Festival : Mercedes Benz SLR
Gran Turismo World Championship :*

EXTREME HALL:
Gran Turismo All Stars : *
Dream Car Championship : *
Polyphony Digital Cup : **
Like The Wind : Toyota GTONE/Nissan R92CP/Toyota Minolta 88-CV
Formula GT World : POLYPHONY Formula Gran Turismo
Real Circuit Tours : *
Premium Sports Lounge : FORD GT/SLR (Modded)

ENDURANCE HALL:
Grand Valley 300km : *
Laguna Seca 200 Miles : *
Roadster 4 Hours Endurance : MAZDA MX-5 1800RS
Tokyo R246 300km : *
Super Speedway 150 Miles : *
Nurburgring 24 Hours Endurance : *
Nurburgring 4 Hours Endurance : **
Suzuka 1000km : *
Motegi 8 Hours Endurance : **
Tsukuba 9 Hours Endurance : **
Sarthe Circuit 24 Hours I : POLYPHONY Formula Gran Turismo
Sarthe Circuit 24 Hours II : *(FGT requires slight tuning)
Fuji 1000km :*
Infineon World Sport Car Trophy : *
El Captain 200 Miles : **
New York 200 Miles : **

JAPANESE HALL:
Japanese Championship : Minolta Toyota, Nissan R89C/R92CP etc.
Japanese GT Championship : POLYPHONY Formula Gran Turismo
Japanese 70's Classic : Toyota 7 Race Car
Japanese 80's Festival : Minolta Toyota, Nissan R89C
Japanese 90's Challenge : Nissan R92CP,Nissan R390 Race Car etc.
Japanese Compact Car Cup : Nissan mm.r cup car/Spoon Fit Race Car

EUROPEAN HALL:
European Championship : Audi R8
British GT Cup : Bentley Speed 8
British Light Weight Car Race : Lotus Motorsports Elise/Bentley Speed 8
German Touring Car Championship : ABT Audi TT-R touring car
Italian Festival agani Zonda C12S 7.3/Cizeta V16T/Fiat Panda:idea:
French Championship : Renualt Clio V6(tuned)
European Classic Car Championship : Ac Cars 427
European Hot Hatch Car Championship : Renault Clio V6
1000 Miles : Buick Special
Schwarzwald League A :
Schwarzwald League B : Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren /BMW M5?

AMERICAN HALL:
American Championship : Panoz GTR-1
Stars and Stripes :Ford GT
American Muscle Car Championship : Ford GT
Classic Muscle Car Championship : Buick Special

SPECIAL CONDITION HALL :

Any Fully Tuned rally Car (with the possible exception of the Bluebird,74' Lancer and Stratos) should be able to dominate here.Only exception is in Tsukuba Wet,where you race against LMP/Group C cars at Hard level.Use the FGT for that race

One Make Races

Some races have been left out as you can only enter one kind of car,in such cases,whack on the largest turbo you can get and equip racing slicks

DAIHATSU:
Copen Race : Daihatsu Copen Detachable Top

HONDA:
Type R Meeting : Honda NSX Type R
CIVIC Race : Gathers Drider CIVIC Race Car

HYUNDAI:
Hyundai Sport Festival : Hyundai Accent rally Car

ISUZU:
Isuzu Classic Sport : ISUZU 117 Coupe '68

MAZDA:
'RE' Club : MAZDA RX-7 Race Car
Roadster Cup : MAZDA MX-5 1800RS
RX-8 Cup : MAZDA RX-8 LM Race Car

MITSUBISHI:
Evolution Meeting : MITSUBISHI Lancer Super Rally Car '03
Mirage Cup : MITSUBISHI Mirage '97

NISSAN:
Race of Red Emblem : Any JGTC Skyline
March Brothers : NISSAN mm-R Cup Car '01
Silvia Sisters : \HKS Silvia
'Z' Club : Motul pitwork Z

SUBARU:
Race of Pleiades :Any SUBARU IMPREZA Rally Car/Touring car

SUZUKI:
Suzuki K Cup : SUZUKI Cappuccino
Suzuki Concept Car : SUZUKI GSX-R/4 '01

TOYOTA:
ALTEZZA Race : TOYOTA ALTEZZA Touring Car '01
Vitz Race : TOYOTA Vitz RS Turbo


CHEVROLET:
Corvette Festival : CHEVROLET Corvette C5R
Camaro Meeting : CHEVROLET Camaro LM Race car

SHELBY:
Shelby Cobra Cup : Shelby Cobra


ALFA ROMEO:
GTA Cup : ALFA ROMEO 147 GTA

ALPINE:
Renault Alpine Cup : ANy tuned Alpine,both are very similar

ASTON MARTIN:
Aston Martin Festival : ASTON MARTIN V12 vanquish

AUDI:
Tourist Trophy : ABT Audi TT-R touring car
A3 Cup : AUDI A3 3.2 quattro

BMW:
BMW 1 Series Trophy : BMW 120d
'M' Club : BMW M3 GTR Race Car

LOTUS:
Elise Cup : LOTUS Motorsports Elise
Lotus Classic Cup : LOTUS Elan S1/Europa

MERCEDES-BENZ:
Legend of Silver Arrow : MERCEDES-BENZ CLK Touring Car /CLK GTR/Sauber C9?
SL Challenge : MERCEDES-BENZ SL65 AMG

MG:
MG Festival : Any tuned MG

MINI:
Mini.Mini Battle : Mini Cooper S

OPEL:
Speedster Cup : FULLY MODIFIED OPEL SPEEDSTER (NON TURBO) on R4s

PEUGEOT:
206 Cup : 206 rally car

RENAULT:
Clio Trophy :Renault Clio Race Car
Megane Cup : New Renault Megane

TVR:
Blackpool Racer : TVR Cerbera Speed 12

VOLKSWAGEN:
Beetle Cup : Beetle Cup Car
Lupo Cup : Lupo GTi Cup Car
GTI Cup : Lupo GTi Cup car


*Any car from the following list should be able to win with Stage 4 Turbo(Fastest at the top)

Formula Gran Turismo
Toyota Minolta 88-CV
Audi R8
Nisaan R92CP
Sauber C9
Mazda 787B

**Any car from the list above except the FGT(Requires Sports Tires)

Please don't ask where to buy or win the cars listed above

cough hack *overkill* cough.

Parnelli Bone

cough hack *overkill* cough.

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I know,those guys want the best car to win,so i give it to them 💡

Best Car for Sunday Cup: Nissan Be-1.

Parnelli Bone

Best Car for Sunday Cup: Nissan Be-1.

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I thought the Pao was better,guess i was wrong

Pao is good, too!

It seems incredibly wasteful to go about achieving a LMP just to do the Clubman Cup. Like trying to put your underwear on over your pants. Maybe it's just me...

Parnelli Bone

Pao is good, too!

It seems incredibly wasteful to go about achieving a LMP just to do the Clubman Cup. Like trying to put your underwear on over your pants. Maybe it's just me...

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I know,i'm just being really mean to those noobz who are after overkill and not competition.

Light Weight K Cup : Honds S800 Race Car, Diahatsu Copen(modded)
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For the Kei Cup, if it's a modded car, the tuned Honda Beat will um, "beat" the Copen (more horsepower at 143 BHP max, and lighter weight).


(It's also a veritable little giant killer in the Compact cups for instance, but *shhh*, don't tell anyone - it'll run rings around much bigger cars on twisty tracks like Hong Kong!)


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Boxer Spirit : Any Impreza Rally Car
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For Max Overkill, the Ruf CTR2 (944 BHP tuned and 4WD) would own all Imprezas.


Toyota 7 Race car will dominate in Japanese Compacts, but you'd have to win it first. Same for the Suzuki GSX/R. Also TommiKaira ZZ-S.
Best cheap 'always-available' starter (and sleeper) cars here would be the Mirage Cyborg, Honda CRX '90 and the Del Sol SiR, followed by the Miatas and the Fairlady 2000 (SR311) '68 which can also compete in the World Classics once tuned. Always a keeper, that.

RaidoGT

Light Weight K Cup : Honds S800 Race Car, Diahatsu Copen(modded)
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For the Kei Cup, if it's a modded car, the tuned Honda Beat will um, "beat" the Copen (more horsepower at 143 BHP max, and lighter weight).


(It's also a veritable little giant killer in the Compact cups for instance, but *shhh*, don't tell anyone - it'll run rings around much bigger cars on twisty tracks like Hong Kong!)


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Boxer Spirit : Any Impreza Rally Car
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For Max Overkill, the Ruf CTR2 (944 BHP tuned and 4WD) would own all Imprezas.


Toyota 7 Race car will dominate in Japanese Compacts, but you'd have to win it first. Same for the Suzuki GSX/R. Also TommiKaira ZZ-S.
Best cheap 'always-available' starter (and sleeper) cars here would be the Mirage Cyborg, Honda CRX '90 and the Del Sol SiR, followed by the Miatas and the Fairlady 2000 (SR311) '68 which can also compete in the World Classics once tuned. Always a keeper, that.

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Ok,i'd add the Honda Beat.The first time i played GT4,i used the fully tuned Ruf CTR2 and didn't really liked the handling too much,but i'd add it in anyways.

Parnelli Bone

Pao is good, too!

It seems incredibly wasteful to go about achieving a LMP just to do the Clubman Cup. Like trying to put your underwear on over your pants. Maybe it's just me...

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Thought i'd add,I had a Mazda 787B in my garage when i did the Sunday Cup

The most hilarious overkill I've found is in the Nissan Z-race series. You can enter in a Motul Pitwork-Z!

Like the Wind:

Tommykaira ZZII > Everything

GeeTeeR

Thought i'd add,I had a Mazda 787B in my garage when i did the Sunday Cup

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Weren't you like...totally bored with the overkill? It's like a 5th-degree black belt showing up to a kindergarten brawl!

RaidoGT

Boxer Spirit : Any Impreza Rally Car
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For Max Overkill, the Ruf CTR2 (944 BHP tuned and 4WD) would own all Imprezas.

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I just used the Bread Van.

Parnelli Bone

Weren't you like...totally bored with the overkill? It's like a 5th-degree black belt showing up to a kindergarten brawl!

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I got all licenses,started making money in Capri and DTM,and forgot all about the sunday cup

Going for 1 A-Spec point races is like pretending to be handicapped at the Special Olympics.

driftking18594

Going for 1 A-Spec point races is like pretending to be handicapped at the Special Olympics.

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I am not the only one that remembers the south park episode...


But yeah what's the point in a 1 point race (no pun intended)

I'd say the point was rather than the racing, simply to find out what the most powerful car would be for a certain event (hence, Max Overkill).

Of course, you don't have to actually *use* it. But suppose one day you get a bit peeved after the 2348th time the oh-so intelligently programmed AI puts up a 'hare' which runs away 10 secs from the entire field in one single lap... in such cases, knowledge is power

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Roadster 4 Hours Endurance : Any Tuned Mazda MX-5
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Wouldn't the TVR Griffith outclass it here? Or the AC/Shelby Cobra? (Miata gets up to only about 370 BHP tuned max, I think.)

RaidoGT

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Roadster 4 Hours Endurance : Any Tuned Mazda MX-5
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Wouldn't the TVR Griffith outclass it here? Or the AC/Shelby Cobra? (Miata gets up to only about 370 BHP tuned max, I think.)

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That endurance is MX5/Miata only i'm afraid. And i think the best roadster for the spider/roadster cup is probably the VX220/Speedster or Elise 111R. Tuned to the max these can easily beat those two. Or you could go with the Merc SL65 AMG, thats also good.

Apokalipse

I am not the only one that remembers the south park episode...


But yeah what's the point in a 1 point race (no pun intended)

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The point is that while close races are fun, every now and then it's fun to laugh at the AI cars as they become specks in your rear view mirror.

yaywalter

The point is that while close races are fun, every now and then it's fun to laugh at the AI cars as they become specks in your rear view mirror.

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Had enough of that in GT2. Any race in the Escudo, the entire pack is behind you by the first corner. The only exception is the 2 pikes peak challenge races, in which you race against other Escudos...

When I first read the title of this thread I thought to myself, what's the point? I still think that, there are thousands of combinations you could come up with and what does 1 point matter to anybody? No offence intended, i'm sure it will be useful for somebody, but think if you did every single race in the entire game for 1 point how boring would that be?

There is no real point to A-spec points anyway, strictly speaking. Some races award less than 9 points but are nevertheless just as hard or even harder than some 200-point races (been in such situations lots of times by now, there just is no real correlation between difficulty and points levels).

I guess the point - if there was one - is to find out what the car is that the AI would fear most if you showed up in it for a certain event ...and to know which vehicle to use if you'd get thrashed in some races no matter what you'd try.

Other than that, it would indeed usually be way too easy - but as said, this list would be about stats knowledge, basically, rather than racing. Knowing about it isn't the same as *using* it, after all.



PS. "CIVIC Race : Gathers Drider CIVIC Race Car" - I doubt this is quite the best Civic available (the '04 Type R can have more BHP and its P/W ratio is slightly better).

anybody got a overkill car for the NA tuning race?McMerc SLR?

GeeTeeR

anybody got a overkill car for the NA tuning race?McMerc SLR?

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I don't think that'll work, for, if I recall correctly, the SLR is supercharged, and I'm not too sure if you can enter a supercharged car in the NA Tuning race.

GeeTeeR

anybody got a overkill car for the NA tuning race?McMerc SLR?

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I find the Zonda 7.3 is better. But arn't there some tuner cars, or some race cars that can do better? (I might be mistaken, but race cars equipped with sports tyres can compete?)

Parnelli Bone

Pao is good, too!

It seems incredibly wasteful to go about achieving a LMP just to do the Clubman Cup. Like trying to put your underwear on over your pants. Maybe it's just me...

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Or going to Britain to buy a Top Gear magazine

Seismica

I find the Zonda 7.3 is better. But arn't there some tuner cars, or some race cars that can do better? (I might be mistaken, but race cars equipped with sprots tyres can compete?)

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Ah yes,i had that silly impression that all race cars were turbocharged.I found the perfect car just scrolling through my garage,the AMG Mercedes Benz CLK GTR!!!

GeeTeeR

Ah yes,i had that silly impression that all race cars were turbocharged.I found the perfect car just scrolling through my garage,the AMG Mercedes Benz CLK GTR!!!

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The Polyphony 01 car is NA tuned

Sadly its R3 tyres only...