A couple of replies.
#1, agreed, there's a piece of black licorice in every bag and the 1978 King Cobra pictured sure fits that bill. I'm not much of a fan of those years, but I have seen some sweet looking custom jobs.
#2, The Can-Am series. I've heard of it, I've probably watched some of their racing on tv, but other than that I can't say much. As for the Trans-Am series, they run on road courses and street courses, so that seemed like a logical fit for Gran Turismo to me. Add to that the lineup of cars racing in the series, which was won by a Jaguar last season. The game already has Mustangs, Corvettes and Camaros, Vipers, even the Panoz Esperante. I'm not sure if GT4 has the Jaguar XKR or not and I'm not sure what a QVale Mangusto is, but they run in the Trans-Am series as well. Porsche and Audi both have history in the series, as well as the Mercury Capri that has a lot of fans on this board. A sister series to the Toyota Atlantic and Formula BMW series', I just feel that it would be a more logical decision to add a racing series like this to go along with the JGTC cars than to have 40 different Skylines, not to mention the Evo's. They could probably add the Can-Am series as well and still have at least 20 Skylines.
I like to race. The best thing about GT3 to me is the Formula Series. It's the most competitive racing in the game. You have to think about pit stategy and tire wear and you have to run good consistent laps. To me, 3 laps is a qualifying run, 5 laps is getting to know the track a little better and seeing how the gearing fits, 10 laps is a good practice run. Yesterday, I ran the 27 lap race at Grand Valley and the 33 lap race at Laguna Seca twice each. I just like those races. I like the JGTC group as well and they seem very similar to the Trans-Am cars. I can imagine these cars running Tokyo and SSR11, or the new NY track, but I can't drive them and I think that's a shame when most of the cars are already in the game, just in a different form. I believe it wouldn't take much changing to the game to include this. I know this topic isn't about what I want to see in the game and I'm sorry for being off topic, but I lost track of what this thread was about after about 10 pages.