No apologies for bringing this thread up again.. it's a keeper. (Some great renders in the preceding pages, too) A few things.
1. I have new respect for the Nike car.
2. About not racing the special cars in GT4. My Dad (a 50-year old Gran Turismo fan) gets a kick out of thrashing the competition in GT3 with the bonus F1 cars, but I would throw it away if only to have a realistic perspective in the game of how those cars really drive, not like a low-slung Subaru with all the performance fields maxed out, which is essentially what the F094/s and co. are. Though no offence to those in charge, for I can still recall how ecstatic I was when it turned out that Senna's Lotus 99T was in my garage to drive at leisure (or not...) thru Monte Carlo.
But more credit than ever to whomever felt it was worth including in GT4 cars that should be felt just as they are! I'm sure a dumb arcade racer can be found elsewhere that will permit a Benz motor wagen to crash and bang through a field of Porsches and Lamborghinis.
3. I like the challenging concept of a 4WD with the front wheels so far apart. That car could only be a 4WD-- The rear wheel or front-wheel drive versions would be pointlessly wasted, am I wrong? And a regular 4WD is difficult to perform with anyways, without drifting around corners in the game.
Somebody said something about the (questionable?) sense of a car that takes an iron man to drive.. Okay, so there are not only points in the design of the Nike car recognisable to bike fans, but if you lust after F1 races and endurance series the notion of training to drive a car isn't completely foreign.
I apologise for the long-winded post, though. You guys rock.