Group C cars issue

[Thunderbolt101]

Hey everyone.
First and beforehand I searched for this and I got nothing.

Why do the group c cars and prototypes in general always have more power when you acquire them than when they are in the showroom?
Like in the showrooms they all have lower power figures than when you buy them.
Am I missing something? Maybe I need to pay more attention to what I do in game? No? Yes?

 

[kemikakadet]

Quite often there'll be different bhp figures listed in the showroom, the garage, the car selection screen in the garage, the pre-race screen and the tuning menu. It's not uncommon to have all 5 places list 5 different bhp figures. I'm not sure why though to be honest.

Another common cause is the Oil, although this is generally the oposite of the problem you described. If the oil needs changing, the car will show a lower bhp figure than it does in the showroom.

 

[Seismica]

1) The advertised values aren't always entirely accurate, even in real life (Example, 276bhp on Japanese sports cars. Though I'm not entirely sure why this would affect race cars)

2) The oil can affect bhp, so the actual bhp of the car will be lower than from stock (Though this would only affect used cars not brand new cars, unless you change the oil, which increase bhp above the actual car's amount)

3) Engine wear can affect bhp, but again this only applies to used cars with a lot of miles on the clock.

I've always thought of it as strange myself, and I don't know why they did this for every car.

 

[Thunderbolt101]

No, the power that is annouced in the showrooms (which is the closest to the actual real world car power) is x and then I buy that car and without doing any race or changing the oil or upgrading the turbo, the power annouced in the garage is y (being y higher than x by a significant value).
For instance, the Jaguar XJR-9 has seven hundred and something horsepower (at least that's the number you see in the showroom), but then in my garage the car shows nine hundred and something horsepowers.

It doesn't affect me that much honestly. I like to think that the cars are set up for qualifying runs since in the group c days you'd see some cars reaching 900 hp or even more for those runs. I'm just curious.

 

[SHAUN09]

This is common with all Le Mans cars. Nissan R390 race car has 641hp in the showroom, but 800hp in the garage. I don't pay much atention to it though

 

[mafia_boy]

It's the same with road cars too. Go buy a Ford Mustang SVT Cobra R and notice how it's nowhere near what it's stated power and torque figures are, even after an oil change.

 

[Bram Turismo]

This is common with all Le Mans cars. Nissan R390 race car has 641hp in the showroom, but 800hp in the garage. I don't pay much atention to it though

I'm wondering whether the power figures shown in the showroom are the official figures for that car. I never liked that PD suddenly upgraded the newer LMP cars with around 100-150 hp. Perhaps so that their grid rotations wouldn't be all messed up since the newer LMP cars would be down on power so much compared to the Group C cars.

Another thing to note is that in GT4, although I'm not sure this was also the case in GT3, your engine "brakes in". Just like in real life, you need to put some mileage on the engine before it reaches a power peak. I found that on some occasions doing a few laps around a given track increases the power by around 50 hp (including an oil change).

 

[Greycap]

Another thing to note is that in GT4, although I'm not sure this was also the case in GT3, your engine "brakes in". Just like in real life, you need to put some mileage on the engine before it reaches a power peak. I found that on some occasions doing a few laps around a given track increases the power by around 50 hp (including an oil change).

Err, no. GT3 modelled it, not on prize cars though as they were already broken in, but GT4 doesn't. The only increase in the power of a new unmodified car comes just from the oil change in this game.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Err, no. GT3 modelled it, not on prize cars though as they were already broken in, but GT4 doesn't. The only increase in the power of a new unmodified car comes just from the oil change in this game.

Really? I'd swear power increases after running a given distance. Oh well, thanks for the correction.