Secondly, nobody is taking them away from you entirely, you'll still be able to drive them in earlier games if you so choose. In the games where they belong. Meanwhile on the PS4 you could be driving some new (3D model wise) vehicles and enjoy those. If you had 500 great models would you really lose enjoyment because a handful are missing?
Oh yeah. And it should make sense if you consider that not everyone loves the totality of automotive history, to the point that they get a wiggle out of taking that first steam powered Mercedes around the Nurb. Or trying to.
I'm not a big fan of classic cars, say from 1970 on down, or muscle cars, though I do like that Mustang and Corvette. But the rest, I just don't have the love for. Mario Andretti's
first love is nice for historic inclusion, okay for me to toot around in - once. But I don't feel any desire to race it. Muscle cars to me are bouncy, floundering behemoths, kind of like racing a bed. Did some races in GT4, had my fling, done with them. And you must know that I'm not the only one that feels this way.
So to me, about a third or so of GT5's and 6's car list is, as you put it, turds. So...
this means the Premium car list we have now is hardly ideal to me. It is better than Forza 5's list, which is rather thick with these cars and had me groaning at their car choices, especially with DLC you MUST PAY for. Maybe they'll let you buy cars singly, but I bet that gets expensive, if not more so than buying the whole DLC set. And then there's the matter of that whacked down track list, which has me groaning in memory of the days of tracks raced to death in Forza 2.
And "handful missing"?? Hardly. If my hoped for racing league representation comes to GT7/Prologue, and we get that Race Mod and Livery Editor, a TON of cars appropriate to a number of leagues just won't be there. Everything from Honda Civics and Ford Focus good for BTCC to TVR T350C and a slew of Aston Martins and Jaguars, suitable for FIA GT2 racing and more. Yes, a few HUNDRED cars would be sorely missed.
Now, no one knows what PD is up to. Maybe they're slaving away at their workstations, Premium-izing a whole fleet of Standard cars like they did the tracks, and making Premiums of the choice rides. Maybe Kaz has discreetly hired a few dozen modelers, because they need tracks too. It could happen, because SONY has a certain amount of cash they can invest in lucrative studio prospects, like Polyphony. Or maybe they're taking your route and discarding entire car lots of Standards - gee, and how about those tracks, would you like an axe taken to the track list too?
But we won't know anything, likely till GT7/Prologue is close to release, because of the unfortunate cold war with that Dark Empire.
Hopefully this clears things up, because losing fifty percent or more of a car list is hardly a win-win proposition.
thankfully we did get the premium model in GT6
