I can't remember Turn 10 ever doing something like this... Wouldn't that make this
new nonsense, then?
I can, Forza Motorsport 5 basically had dlc cars taken straight from FM4. The only difference here is that they're new-to-series cars, not taken from a past game.
Also, the reason why we're still getting these outdated assets like the 190E and the Countach is very simple. Sometimes, inaccurate modeling is done on purpose, because T10 didn't secure the license at the time, yet the cars were modeled anyway (usually via photo references) as filler and a Performance Index entry, according to someone on the forza.net forums. Copyright ownership is very much precise and very complex.
It might sound like nonsense but it's kinda what this is. That's the reason the Silvia S15, R32, Ferrari 575M and F355 look terrible because they were all designed in the FM2 era and those models were likely made before the license was acquired. You see this a lot with various games (ATS has a couple of new AI cars that look awkwardly modeled) and many create models not in a 1:1 representation of the car model.
I'm sorry, but your comment honestly doesn't make sense and definitely doesn't work. The cars look the way they were because they were originally modelled to a standard back when FM2 came out. and then Turn 10 later just wanted to be lazy and not start from scratch, they just essentially took the same old models before plastering new textures and assets over them.
Also, how do you think licensing works? Why would they be able to acquire a license and not be allowed to use new models under that license? They're getting a license to use the car, not specific to how it's represented in the game.
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Another thing, I remember a few times getting corrected on what I said regards to car models being essentially the old models ported to new car models. So, I want to now address that comment a bit more clearly than before.
When I said Turn 10 was using their old models fancied up again for FM8, I didn't mean it like that they just took the FM2 car models, smoothed them out, and then plopped them into the new game. No, I know they did more than that, but what they did lead to a bad result.
What Turn 10 did with reusing their old models is taking the original X360 car model, then proceeding to update the surface textures to meet new-gen standards. and they placed better detailed and higher poly assets onto the original X360 car model in place. Probably did this to save time and effort and this might have worked on a lot of their car models as their base was already good, but some models like the Toyota MR2 SW20, BMW M3 e30, Nissan Skyline R32, and Subaru 22B unfortunately had a bad base.
What was done was akin to restoring an old car, but had a bad frame with some things out of wack and then never got that fixed hoping noone would notice. and as I said before; lead to a terrible result. They had several games to correct this issue and they're still not doing it.
