I said it was irrelevant because noting the differences between Lancer Evo models was irrelevant to the conversation about the differences (or lack thereof) between Skylines. I took it out because it was phrased in a more confrontational way then I intended, but the point still stands. Find me something that states the differences between a 1995, 1996 and 1997 Skyline GT-R; or a 1995, 1996 and 1997 Skyline GT-R V-Spec. Find me something that tells me that, yes, there is something unique about each one; and no, they aren't just the exact same car with the the model year changed even in real life.
Because if you can do that than your mention of the Lancer Evo models being different would then be relevant. But if you can't, it would not. The Evo models have clear and obvious differences from year to year and between trim levels. The Skylines, other than the R32 models, generally do not.
I'm talking about GT6 as well. This is the GT6 forum after all.
I see nothing to suggest that anything to do with GT5's development was the result of the duplicates when most of them are pushing at least 8 years old now since PD did anything with them in terms of specs. That is plenty of time to at least make them accurate in terms of specifications, and it wasn't done. What seems far more likely to me is that either PD just didn't care at modeling those differences like they did back in the GT1/GT2 days, at which point I see no reason to assume that they will suddenly start caring if they pad the roster of GT6 as well; or that in real life there are no differences between them either so them being the same in the game (or, worse, fabricated differences to justify their inclusion) will never not be pointless because they aren't different cars. Your first response said this:
Prove that. You are saying that people take issue with the cars because they are Japanese, and they wouldn't care if the year duplicates were American or European or whatever.
But it seems to me from what I've seen in this thread that people are complaining about the European duplicates (Lutecia Renault/RenaultSport), and people are complaining about the American duplicates (Ford GT) right alongside the Japanese ones. It seems to me that people who take issue with it are against PD inflating their car count in a misleading way on principle regardless of which cars they are doing it with.