Does anyone else find the Spoon S2000 Race Car boring to drive??

[kickin_on]

Been waiting a LONG time for this car and.... its disappointing.

I was expecting this crazy, on-edge, screaming, real handful, joy to drive.

It is not.

Unfortunately, whilst it will give you very very quick lap times, I find driving it to be more like driving a lazy slot-car. Its actually really boring to drive a car that handles like its LITERALLY on rails...

And then theres the engine! S2000 lovers should be turning in their graves. No ultra-high pitched scream as it works its way up towards 11,000rpm (or whatever it is). Just this really low drone that drops to the next gear just when you think your ears might wake up and enjoy something. Doesnt sound like an S2000 at all really, more like a fat, lazy old american big-block.

Ive only have given Stage 3 engine upgrade havent tuned it yet. It doesnt really need that much tuning to give really quick lap times, but has anyone tuned it to at least be a bit more involving to drive?

Awesome car, awesome looks, awesome lap times.... but boring as hell to drive

Input, anyone?

 

[snowylilmonster]

I have that car also and its rpm range made no sense to me so I only drove it one time and parked it. The only other s2000 that may have what your looking for is the s2000 LM race car. But then it really isnt on the edge either but it has the high rpms.

 

[Sohvakettu]

I was expecting this crazy, on-edge, screaming, real handful, joy to drive.

It's an endurance racer that has a class win in Nürburgring 24 hour race. They don't make crazy on edge cars for endurance races for obvious reasons.

 

[kickin_on]

It's an endurance racer that has a class win in Nürburgring 24 hour race. They don't make crazy on edge cars for endurance races for obvious reasons.

Ohhhh.... Well THAT explains it!

I really diddnt know that - definitely seems to make sense though. Thanks heaps! 👍

 

[Irish_59]

I agree

 

[Stotty]

A lot of the lower powered race cars are ruined by tyres that have too much grip...

c.300 bhp + race hards + downforce = way too much grip.

Try running it on sports softs.

 

[Highlandor]

Spoon S2000 race car has a fault with it's Rev Counter. Go to settings, check on the graph and performance tab where 'max' power is developed (somewhere around 11,000rpm).

Then take it out on track, go to bumpber cam view (so you can see a nice big rev counter infront of you) - check to see where the 'red line' is - it isn't 11,000rpm, it's somewhere around 8500rpm.

If you're shifting using the shift light or using an auto box, you are no-where ner the power band, you need to rev it to the limiter not the shift light.

It was like this a couple of months ago when I checked it out, not sure if it's been rectified in an update though.

Funnily enough, it's the SAME fault with the rev counter as in GT4 - food for thought.

As Stotty rightly says, these racecars with low BHP will feel better with lower grip tyres, or you can loosen the rear end via tuning / setup to make it feel alot more lively, then the fun begins

If possible, fit mid RPM turbo kits aswell, I use this on alot on racecars that rev highly, not a huge difference, but they don't bog down as much and it gives you more flexibility on different tracks.

Plus it gives you more torque per PP than N/A tuning or high RPM kits - unless you're running in races that allow power limiter use, but I don't. The series I race in doesn't allow the use of the power limiter so I find low and mid RPM kits very useful for some cars on some tracks.

If you're racing a fully tuned car 'detuned' via the limiter this won't apply.

 

[Mr. CoolFiat]

Spoon S2000 race car has a fault with it's Rev Counter. Go to settings, check on the graph and performance tab where 'max' power is developed (somewhere around 11,000rpm).

Then take it out on track, go to bumpber cam view (so you can see a nice big rev counter infront of you) - check to see where the 'red line' is - it isn't 11,000rpm, it's somewhere around 8500rpm.

If you're shifting using the shift light or using an auto box, you are no-where ner the power band, you need to rev it to the limiter not the shift light.

It was like this a couple of months ago when I checked it out, not sure if it's been rectified in an update though.

Funnily enough, it's the SAME fault with the rev counter as in GT4 - food for thought.

As Stotty rightly says, these racecars with low BHP will feel better with lower grip tyres, or you can loosen the rear end via tuning / setup to make it feel alot more lively, then the fun begins

If possible, fit mid RPM turbo kits aswell, I use this on alot on racecars that rev highly, not a huge difference, but they don't bog down as much and it gives you more flexibility on different tracks.

Plus it gives you more torque per PP than N/A tuning or high RPM kits - unless you're running in races that allow power limiter use, but I don't. The series I race in doesn't allow the use of the power limiter so I find low and mid RPM kits very useful for some cars on some tracks.

If you're racing a fully tuned car 'detuned' via the limiter this won't apply.

Endurance racers might have a low redline to let the drivers know when to shift to save the engine from excessive wear. It helps
ONTOPIC: I have both S2000 Race Cars and I have to admit they are the most annoying cars to listen to. What kind of 11000 RPM revving S2000 4 cylinder makes a donkey noise!?

 

[Highlandor]

Endurance racers might have a low redline to let the drivers know when to shift to save the engine from excessive wear. It helps

Why don't all the LM cars have this irregularity too then??

The Gathers Civic is an Endurance car, the rev counter on that doesn't change up 2500rpm's too early, it's only 500rpm past max power when the shift light comes on.

Most of the rev counters on cars in this game are telling you to shift too late, it doesn't seem strange in any way shape or form this car is telling you to shift 2500rpm too early??

You really think with all the faults and issues in the game Polyphony would think of that, for just one car??

 

[Sohvakettu]

ONTOPIC: I have both S2000 Race Cars

There is three S2000 race cars.

Opera S2000 was apparently used in japanese endurance races.

 

[GTP_roadrunner]

No

 

[NSX>GOD]

amuse s2000 is much better