Does a car need carbon ceramic brakes, a high powered engine, slick tyres, a robust aero kit, weigh less than 1000kg etc. to be a race car? No.
Race cars are just cars, albeit cars built/tuned to race, some are more highly tuned and high performance than others.
Of course, if the idea is to take some road cars and be able to tune them to Gr.3 or Gr.4 levels etc. then they should be competetive within those groups when tuned to that level. But I imagine you'll be able to tune cars to varying levels of performance rather than just, it's race modded, it's therefore Gr.4 class.
They don't need to completely change the interiors in order to acheive the effect of turning your production car into a car that can complete in Gr.4. It would help to have those options, certainly for immersion and customisation, but it's not essential.
If some cars competing in Gr.3 or 4 have standard interiors to the road cars that won't ruin the game. It'd be better to have the option to see the stripped out interiors etc. but it's not essential to allow the car to compete.
This. It’s about tuning. Same as in GT4. There is a tuning Championship. We don’t know where our tuned cars will compete. We only know Kaz says we can add rolll cages and body kits to create the same effect of racing modification.
Its a PP system this time, instead of Gr.N. From the OP pics, the NSX is customised and is still 473, Not Gr.4. Again, we don’t know how far we’ll tune, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have the same immersion as if we tuned our real cars with a roll bar for track racing regulations.
Well, a stock road car can be a race car then. So PD doesn't even need to bother giving us mods to turn road cars into actual race cars, right?
So, are we having a serious discussion with some kind of basis on "what" is a race car, or on what anyone "believes" is a race car? What has the debate been about after all? Turning a road car into a race car that fits any of the existing categories (Gr.1 to 4) or a classeless race car? Sure, the lack a proper racing interior is not game breaker, but after the complains of "lack of immersion" caused by some VGTs taking part in Gr.3 and Gr.1 races, I assume it will be the same, plus PD will end up being accused of being lazy for not doing anything to those interiors.
What I'd like to know, is what people actualy want. People are somehow hopeful that they can turn every road car into a full race car, which I doubt will be the case.
My examples of the road cars with cages. Why can you not see that those cars are a step away from competition cars? They’re Actually race cars for the street. What is your concern? You might be misunderstanding something. I’m not sure.
If I can do this,
which we could do for every road car. I tuned every part that can’t be seen, it just needs a roll cage, to look like this
You’re going to read about complaints, whether we get all the tuning options or not. Just because you can’t see all parts being available, doesn’t mean they Won’t be available.
edit: You do know PD have Nostalgic car events. Whether the cars can beat a Beetle or GT40, they still have a category to race in. Plus, we have had FIA Nations races with such cars.
The Mini is pretty much race car based. It has the roll cage and front skid plates, to replicate a rally car(which we got in GT2). The new/old Mini 1.3, didn’t have such parts.
Besides, we can race nearly every car versus a Gr.1, in Custom Race. Just the Gr.X cars can’t be used for multi-class in GT Sport.
Theres also another point. Outsourcing.
In an interview, one of the designer/renderer/programmer said she worked on the interior(I think the S660 or Tundra). If PD have outsourcing for interiors and roll cages, I’m sure all cars could have them.
there are supposedly 420+ cars. If most or all car coming from GT Sport, we have about half that 338 as Road cars and half as race cars. Minus the cars I mentioned above and minus some VGT cars. Add whatever new road cars to race cars( Mustang Shelby GT350, Ford GT GTE LM) who’s to say those road cars won’t have roll cage options. Sure, it’s possible all cars may not get roll cage options, but they just might. The outsourcing crew might be able to get it done.
I just find it weird that the widebody option has been compared to RM in previous games, and labeled as the "new RM". Then I find it weird that suddenly, people start believing that widebodies will be available to almost every road car, and that every road car can get a similar treatment to what RMs did in GT5, turning road cars into full race cars.
