There's two options for a starter car. The only Licence/Mission prize car that is usable is the DeLorean, so we can get the IB License and then complete The Pass missions. Or we could buy from the UCD. I'm starting with the DeLorean in this route, so we do the licences and missions and pick up our prize car. Importantly, the DeLorean can beat the easy Capri Rally, meaning thanks to the RSC credits are no issue and we can buy any car we need to from now on.
The beginner hall is completely winnable with vehicles available from the start, except for Sports Truck Race which is completely unwinnable:
- The Sunday Cup is won by the DeLorean.
- The FF Challenge is won by the '97 Civic Type R from the Late '90s UCD
- The FR Challenge is won by the '69 Corvette C3, from the Chevrolet LCD
- The 4WD Challenge is won by an Evo III/IV/V from the UCD
- The MR Challenge is won by the '92 NSX Type R from the Early '90s UCD
- The K-Car Cup is won by the '91 Cappuccino from the Early '90s UCD
- Spider & Roadster is won by the '89 MX-5 from the Mazda LCD. This will need a lot of tuning. I'm ruling that regional variants of cars are fair game, otheriwse this would only work in NTSC-J.
There's no new prize cars that are usable, and even if you want to quibble that the A112 Abarth is just a model year change, it isn't useful.
Next, we complete the Normal Swiss Alps Rally using our Evo, which gives us the ST205 Celica Rally Car. This can beat every dirt and snow Special Conditions race, including the Hard Yosemite Rally I, which rewards us with the Escudo.
Let's see what we can do in the professional hall now:
- The Clubman Cup, Tuning Car Grand Prix, and Race of Turbo Sportscars can be Escudo'd
- The Race of NA Sports is won by the 787B, buyable in the Mazda LCD.
- Boxer Spirit can be won by a heavily tuned 22B-STi (from the Late '90s UCD). Not sure there's a better option for this, it's difficult to beat the RUFs.
- World Classic Car Series, in NTSC-U and PAL, is beaten by the 2J (from the Chaparral LCD). The C3 Corvette from earlier can also manage this if you manipulate the opposition to not have the AC Cars 427.
- World Compact is won by tuning our Cappuccino.
- GTWC, as well as the Extreme hall, is locked behind not being able to win the Sports Truck race.
While we're thinking about it, we can use the 787B to win all the tarmac Special Conditions races.
So we've beaten all of Licences, Driving Missions, Special Conditions, and all of the Beginner and Professional halls that are possible. The Extreme hall is unavailable. This should give us comfortably more than 25% completion, so let's turn our attention to the Endurance hall:
- Roadster 4 hours: Tune the '89 MX-5 a bit
Every other race in this hall gets 787B'd. You get the R92CP by doing the Fuji 1000km which IMO is slightly better than the Mazda in GT4 so if you want to swap, do that race first.
Let's now look at what we can do in the regional championships. Starting with the Japanese hall:
- Japan Championship, JGTC and '90s Challenge are R92CP food
- '80s Festival is 787B
- Japanese Compacts is our tuned Cappuccino that beat the World Compacts
- '70s Classics can be achieved using the Kenmeri Skyline ('80s UCD)
That was simple. Now the American hall:
- Stars and Stripes is tough, there aren't many American road cars that survive exactly the same through to GT7 without model year or trim changes. I think the Shelby Cobra 427 (buyable from dealership) might be the best bet.
- The 2J wins the other events
And the European hall:
- La Festa Italiano: Only the Stratos and Delta work here, and will need tuning. Both are buyable from dealerships. We need to do this first as we require its prize car for another event.
- British Lightweight Series: I don't think there's anything eligible and available at present.
- Schwarzwald B: Also not doable (the SLR in GT7 is a later model)
- Pan Euro: Tune an XJ220 (buyable in the Jaguar LCD)
- British GT Series: XJ220
- DTM: You have to use the 155. Which is the prize car from La Festa, which is why we do that first.
- Tous France Championnat: Use the V6 Clio or the Renault R5, both buyable from dealerships.
- Europe Classic Car League: I think you have to use the E-type (prize for British GT). The 300SL is eligible but we can't get it as it's the prize for a SL one-make we don't have a car for. Avoid the 427 as ever!
- Euro Hot Hatch League: The same two Renaults as Tout France are your only options here.
- 1000 miles!: Can be done with a few cars, a fresh car we haven't used yet is the Hakosuka Skyline (prize for Japanese '70s). Avoid the 427 again!
- Schwarzwald A: Your only option is the 2003 Audi TT (buyable in Audi dealership)
So with everything but the one-makes done, we can't do the Sports Truck Race, the GTWC and Extreme hall (because we can't do the truck race, they'd be mostly beatable otherwise), and two European events. For the one-makes, because this post is long enough already, I'll just list the ones we can do:
- Vette Vette Vette: '69 C3 Stingray
- Camaro Meeting: Z28 '69 Camaro (buyable from Chevrolet LCD)
- Shelby Cobra Cup: 427
- Tourist Trophy: '03 TT we used in Schwarzwald A
- Legends of the Silver Arrow: CLK-LM (prize from DTM)
- Clio Trophy: V6 Clio, needs heavy tuning
- Blackpool Racers: Tuscan (buyable from dealership)
- Copen Race: Copen Active Top (buyable)
- Type R Meeting: '97 Civic Type R
- Civic Race: '97 Civic Type R
- Club RE: RX-7 Spirit R (buyable)
- NR-A Roadster Cup: '89 MX-5
- Evolution Meeting: The Evo we bought for 4WD Challenge back at the start
- Race of the Red R Emblem: One of the 3 V-spec Skyline GT-Rs. R32 Nismo isn't in GT4, surprisingly.
- Silvia Sisters: Silvia S14 K's Aero
- Club "Z": 300ZX TwinTurbo 2seater, buyable (the '71 240ZG is also eligible but is only available as the prize car for this very event)
- Stars of Pleiades: 22B-STi
- Suzuki K-Car Cup: '91 Cappuccino
