Able to switch from right to left hand drive?

[CoolColJ]

from an interview

IL: In the full version of GT5, do you think there will be any more distinction between U.S-specification and JDM-specification of Japanese-brand car, because for instance now if you choose to race a WRX STI, then you have a right-hand-drive car with the 2.0-liter engine that's offered in Japan (which arguably performs better), but would there ever be an option to choose a left-hand-drive model with the 2.5-liter engine that's used here?

Yamauchi: It's always a possibility that we'll do something like that, but ever since we made the transition to the PS3-based Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and beyond, one car takes so long to make. If we have a right-hand-drive and a left-hand-drive model, it might take 3 or 4 months to create each one. We just have to weigh our priorities of what we can do and can't do.

 

[speedfreak69]

So it's a no go. Oh well...

 

[WolfRacer543]

from an interview

Well thats a shame, though I feel either Yamauchi is mispredicting the time it'd take, or PD use some pretty crappy 3D modelling software. Or maybe they are going to the extreme of actually varying the inertia and CG position when changing the steering configuration.

 

[ralph89]

Just leave them as it is, I want to drive different types of cars. I never been to japan and never driven a RHD, so it's a good thing to have both in their own respective countries. It's enjoying how they did it in prologue, so I'm good with that. But hey such a feature like this is still welcome.