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Why?I fully understand that you would rather them be categorized and sorted better than they are currently, I get that and I approve. When I say that you're accepting PD's line of thinking, I'm implying that we don't need that many versions of practically the same car. And no, I don't think we actually need a right hand drive and left hand drive of the basically the same car.
See, I'm all about choice and I'm happy that gamers in the USA and Europe get to choose LHD cars while gamers in the UK, Australia and Japan get to choose RHD cars. It adds to the personal feel of the game.
But more than that, the history of Gran Turismo has been one of mixing the expensive and high end sports and racecars with the every day - to get to drive your own car. My own car isn't a LHD Miata, RHD Eunos or LHD MX-5 - it's a RHD MX-5 and that's what I get to drive. Better yet, I don't get the pleasure of driving my own car at the expense of LHD Miata, RHD Eunos or LHD MX-5 owners - their cars are in too!
I'd even be right behind LHD/RHD swaps being in the game.
That's covered by my suggestion - but can you imagine the fury coming from owners' clubs that Gran Turismo allowed you to pick, brand new a RHD car that was never RHD or a LHD car that was never LHD? I imagine it'd probably come strongest from Ford Australia/Holden fans and various niche Japanese marque (say... Nissan R32 Skyline) forums.In that regard, PD could simply offer one car, and upon selection of that car offer the option to choose which side you want to drive, how hard could that possibly be?
Given GT's twin pursuits of realism and every day cars, it makes more sense to offer it on models that could be either (say, the European market and UK market MX-5) and preserve models where it was one or the other (say the Miata and the Eunos Roadster), while allowing LHD/RHD swaps in GT Auto.
Actually, I don't have an argument with the Corvette line-up, except there's not enough of them. But I'm like that with all the cars in the game.As for your Corvette analogy, your argument is that there's 16 different models but that's a less than the Miata and yet the Corvette dates back to 1953 so there's going to be more generations and models to choose from.
The point was that if you look at the car list and go "MX-5, Miata, Eunos Roadster, they're all the same and there's 35 of them" despite there being four generations and five engines there, the Corvette list must look awful same-y too.
Of course it isn't, but neither is the MX-5/Miata/Roadster list.
Works for me. Especially if I was a 2000 Corvette Z06 owner.The only real argument I have with the Corvette line-up is that they have two models of the C5 Z06, one 2000 model and one 2004 model, its the EXACT same car except that there was a 20hp increase from 2001 to 2002 model years and one is a standard and one is premium. That really doesn't justify needing an additional car model for a 20hp increase
I'd say contractual and legal. Which is pretty much the same thing.and why the Hell is one a standard and one a premium when the interior and exterior was completely unchanged between those years? Simply stupid.
Most people wouldn't drive either model. But for the guys who own the two different cars in real life, they'd really appreciate it. So I'd support that.Most people don't want a new model in game for a few hp increase or a new cupholder added.