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Just curios what car's are best with both speed and handling ? Specally for a newbie like me @ GT3.
Best Car with handling
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You know, when we were discussing the Escudo and cars I'd rather drive, the Impreza LM was exactly what I was thinking of. That or one of the Lancer Rally Cars. I'm also working on GT4 and doing a lot of damage with a very mildly tuned WRX STI. It's quite a rocket right out of the box.
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Nokiafan:
Try searching the thread titles only, on the GT3 board, for the words "best handling". It will probably turn up some existing threads. If you search "best car", you'll get 30 locked threads and 3 or so with answers.
Do not use race cars against non-racecars. Doing that will not teach you how to drive, though you will win the races. But using a Formula car in anything other than the Formula GT is bad, and using anything with a number on the door against street cars is bad too. Power and downforce will forgive any shortcomings you have as a driver... whereas lower power, lower grip cars will make you learn how to drive well.
Try searching the thread titles only, on the GT3 board, for the words "best handling". It will probably turn up some existing threads. If you search "best car", you'll get 30 locked threads and 3 or so with answers.
Do not use race cars against non-racecars. Doing that will not teach you how to drive, though you will win the races. But using a Formula car in anything other than the Formula GT is bad, and using anything with a number on the door against street cars is bad too. Power and downforce will forgive any shortcomings you have as a driver... whereas lower power, lower grip cars will make you learn how to drive well.
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I'd have to disagree. The F686/M may be the fastest when used to its fullest potential, but that is more due to its raw power than its handling ability. Its large jump in power at around 8k RPM makes it quite a handful unless you shortshift it in turns and downshift on straights. I'd say that the V10 cars have superior handling, even if they are slower overall.
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There's too many answers to this thread. It's already giving me a headache! I wanna sit here and type a list but it would take the rest of the afternoon and it's too nice outside 
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Well it all really depends on suspension set up, and ratio set up, I made mine to shift perfectly, at almost exactly 12000RPM, to never loose any RPM while turning. 👍 I do notice that if you drive it against a V10 car with stock settings, the V10 ones win by a landslide. The F686/M needs ratios, because it even has a bit of turbo lag in the 6th gear.
You are right though, the V10, F090/S and F094/S or H are the V10 ones and the rest are Turbo V6's, as the F688/S has almost no turbo lag, and can handle almost as well as the V10 ones, but it has a longer wheelbase, so slightly less steering potential without suspension tuning.F090/S = Beginners best friend, 725HP, burns out only in 1st gear, longest tire life, and still has the potential to beat a F686/M on the Formula GT Championship.
F686/M = Professionals best friend, it hit the fastest time on the drag strip, after constant tuning, I constantly tuned the V10 ones and they pretty much came up to a tie. 👍 I have to admit that the F094/S and H beat the F686/M in the 0-60MPH time.
BTW he did ask for a car good for speed and handling.
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They're talking about only the Formula GT cars, not other street-based cars. If you're in the PAL version, you only get 2 kinds, whereas NTSC gets about 6.
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I put over a 1,000 miles on my F090/S before putting in the garage to sit. I always felt it was underpowered, yes, but it was the most well balanced of the F1 cars. You could simply throw that dcar around turns without upsetting it...
CNG
I found that as long as you control the insatiable need of the F686/M to understeer when off the throttle (where the turbo lag causes problems in tight turns), it will reward you with better laptimes than both of the F094 cars. I once managed under a minute at SSR5...that was a good day. For comparison, the F090/S only managed a 1:07. I ran that run before aquiring the rest of the F1 cars, so maybe I should try again... I noticed the F688/S felt a lot slower, though that may have been because there was less lag.
I know, I was just commenting.CNGBTW he did ask for a car good for speed and handling.
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Well I didn't know which Subaru Impreza to get. So I got the Impreza Sedan Wry Sti and put all turbo kit 3 on it along with all the other upgrades. I've been testing it out in run and settings using the midfield raceway. My best lap time so far is 131.423 so far. I know I can do better, I just need to practice some more on the track. I tried out the 100lap superspeedway. I wished I would of chosen a better car. I picked the cheat machine with 4x hp boost on it. It was hitting the wall all the time. I did the race in 40min or so and lapped the car about 35 times..
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All Impreza's and Lancers drive the same IMO, but the RS model is the best lancer in performance, and the 22B Impreza is the best in performance for the Impreza, and its a COUPE! 
The F688/S won the Super Speedway race in the Formula GT Championship, with a gaping lead, and that was the A.I. driving, when I was watching the preview race. 👍 So it seems well balanced to me.
The F688/S won the Super Speedway race in the Formula GT Championship, with a gaping lead, and that was the A.I. driving, when I was watching the preview race. 👍 So it seems well balanced to me.
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If an F1 car can't win the Superspeedway Enduro by a titanic margin, then you need to put down the controller and go back to Mario Kart. Honestly, if you can do anything other than go head-on into the pit wall and burn rubber against it for half an hour, you should win the Superspeedway Enduro in any F1 car. That doesn't make it "well balanced".The F688/S won the Super Speedway Endurance, with a gaping lead, and that was the A.I. driving, when I was watching the preview race. 👍 So it seems well balanced to me.
Hence the term "preview race" no other race uses F1 cars on previews. 
Orion
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The longer wheelbase, the perfect powerband, balanced handling, 550Kg (like all F1's on GT3), best looks (well O.K. looks have nothing to do with it), Burns out only in 1st gear also, and doesn't understeer/oversteer too much. It is JUST RIGHT. 👍 All you got to do is remove the toe angles to 0 and lower the bound value to around 4. All F1's ride low, so sometimes you might have to raise them, for tracks like Seattle. The ride height is at the lowest value in the game, 45mm. That is what I call well balanced. You might want to raise the LSD for deceleration though, like most MR's they oversteer on deceleration and cornering.
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Take off the stage 3 turbo and learn how to drive it first. Work on the suspension and the handling will come. Once you get it handling, then you add the power. When I'm learning tuning, I like to look at settings submitted at gtvault.com first. Write a few down and try them out to find out what works for your driving style. Eventually you'll want to learn the ins and outs of tuning. For this I recommend Scaff's tuning guides.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=74244&highlight=scaff%27s+tuning
While written for GT4, much is applicable to GT3
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From I learned every car is different. I tried out the F090/S (stocked and not given a hp boost) on the midfield track and did a 1:10 lap time. I was up against the viper and that and I still beat them easily. I've gotten used to that track and I find myself getting better at it. Now to toke the impreza back on it but this time in a actual race.I wanna get used to the car on the track before I play any settings.However I might tinker with the toe in and out a little and see if that has any postive effect. I also see now where brute power is not a good thing on these tracks. It's a waste and it's to hard to slow down and it cost you valuable time. I noticed a big difference on the track with the F090/S with over 2000hp vs the F090/S that had not been played around with. However I find it goes through its tires in a hurry. I can't get more then 10 lap out of the super speed way endurance before I have no choice to pit as the tires are red and the car isn't handling the same anymore.
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The Mitsubishi 3000GT fully tuned can handle well for a 1.6 ton car.
Spring rate: 7.0mm front|11.0mm rear
Ride height: Front = 10 clicks lower than rear
Bound: 3 front|4 rear
Rebound: 6 front|8 rear
Camber: 3.0 front|1.5 rear
Stabilizers: 4 front|5 rear
Stock transmission and LSD. No TCS or ASM. It only needs gearbox for the test course.
Spring rate: 7.0mm front|11.0mm rear
Ride height: Front = 10 clicks lower than rear
Bound: 3 front|4 rear
Rebound: 6 front|8 rear
Camber: 3.0 front|1.5 rear
Stabilizers: 4 front|5 rear
Stock transmission and LSD. No TCS or ASM. It only needs gearbox for the test course.
