30 Cars from each make.

[TokoTurismo]

well, then you can say that japanese cars are overrepresented in the rm and tc selection, but the fact remains that they are simply upgrades of the base model so they don't count towards marque representation.

If you want to count time spent on each marque (which i'm not, clearly some premiums have had more love from pd than others), then it's not right either to count rm and tc as unique cars as they are much faster to model than a brand new car. Most rm's are just the base car with some fancy aero parts and a sticker + a new interior. They didn't do those from scratch. Not saying that they shouldn't be counted, but they should be counted towards other rm's and tc's.

I'm not saying it's wrong to want more cars from europe, australia, korea or usa, but it's not right to claim that the representation of japanese cars is disproportionate, because it's not. Not in any measurable way.

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[C_Raccoon23]

Well, then you can say that Japanese cars are overrepresented in the RM and TC selection, but the fact remains that they are simply upgrades of the base model so they don't count towards marque representation.

If you want to count time spent on each marque (which I'm not, clearly some premiums have had more love from PD than others), then it's not right either to count RM and TC as unique cars as they are much faster to model than a brand new car. Most RM's are just the base car with some fancy aero parts and a sticker + a new interior. They didn't do those from scratch. Not saying that they shouldn't be counted, but they should be counted towards other RM's and TC's.

I'm not saying it's wrong to want more cars from Europe, Australia, Korea or USA, but it's not right to claim that the representation of Japanese cars is disproportionate, because it's not. Not in any measurable way.

If they are not unique cars, then why in the GT5 official car list on the GT website, RMs are counted as separate cars?

http://www.gran-turismo.com/local/jp/data1/products/gt5/carlist_en.html

 

[Exorcet]

US doesn't have much of its former glory left. There are more Japanese cars made in the US than US cars made there. (2008 Japanese marques produced 3,5 million cars in the USA while US marques produced 1,5 million.). On a global level, Japanese marques produced 5 times as many cars as US marques.

Production doesn't matter. Consider this extreme example. Nation A makes only 1 car, sells 50,000 per year. Nation B make 10 different cars, but only sells 5 of each. Nation 1 has a much larger production, but far less variety. Nation B should be a bigger part of GT.

Even if we count variation, the variety within the Japanese industry is greater than any other's

Do you have anything to back this up? I'd be surprised to see Japan out do the US given the US manufactures are much older, if I recall.