My review of the Toyota Prius Touring Car.

[Odorousbag]

Recently I had the "pleasure" of doing the prius only single make race. I could use any prius I wanted and I noticed something, I could use the touring car. I was like well where do I sign up. I bought the car without hesitation thinking "hehehe easy money". The car was meh when I brought the power down. The problem in my opinion is the fact the car has only two gears, Forward and backwards. The car handles better than a prius so thats a plus. The car looks better then the average Prius so thats another plus. But driving the car. When I hear touring car I expect a car thats going to challenge me, grit my teeth and travel fast. All I felt like I was doing was racing the other soccer mom's on the track to picking up my kids first. My first thought "Ok I brought the power the down. Maybe if I go to time trial and bring the power back up to 100% (before it was hat 49%) I would get more of a race car feel. I got in and the only difference is that when I hit 5k rpm the car engine would rev really loud like "I can't take this anymore". Also at 200hp and a top speed of 130mph I could honestly doubt that this could keep up with the renaults and the fords on the track these days. It is a good concept though, a hybrid that can hang with the likes of the WTCC or the STCC I would love to see it. If the car had a 6-speed tranny than I think it might compete. Or hell just maybe some more power.

 

[andy0a]

The Electric Vehicles and the Hybrids in the game are modeled really bad by PD. The EV cars like Tesla and Fisker are supposed to have a readily available torque as with most high powered EV and that torque and rpm keeps on rising at a steady but powerful rate until it hits the max. In GT6 its modeled as if you were launching from 7th or 6th gear, extremely slow acceleration when in fact its supposed be an instantaneous put down of power. (AMG Electric Drive outruns the SLS AMG)

 

[JackC8]

I think I got that in some DLC pack for GT5. Started some race with it, got left behind like I was sitting still, got to the first corner and plowed straight through it, exited the race and never touched it again.

 

[ClydeYellow]

The Electric Vehicles and the Hybrids in the game are modeled really bad by PD. The EV cars like Tesla and Fisker are supposed to have a readily available torque as with most high powered EV and that torque and rpm keeps on rising at a steady but powerful rate until it hits the max. In GT6 its modeled as if you were launching from 7th or 6th gear, extremely slow acceleration when in fact its supposed be an instantaneous put down of power. (AMG Electric Drive outruns the SLS AMG)

I have to disagree: my Karma's a torque monster. Torque's enough to spin the car with TCS on if you're not careful. Sometimes I do the modern muscle race in the Karma just for the fun of leaving a V8-powered "muscle car" choking in the smoke of my tires.