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Upgrade standard cars (better looking,
None of the Standard cars look any better than they did when the game first released. The ones that were glitched (but not all of them, and only one type of glitch) were fixed.
some have good cockpit, tyre choice...)
They did do these things in response to requests, though the actual implementation left quite a bit to be desired.
update sounds for almost every cars,
They updated the sounds for maybe two dozen cars, and it wasn't updating them so much as swapping samples around (in some cases making them worse).
upgrade course maker with more features, a UCD with the rare cars, helmets, choose day/night, rain on track offline.
How are any of those things different from when the game first released? And who sat down and made a request for helmets?
possibility to save race during endurance races.
They did do this, and people are thankful for it regardless of whether it should have been there or not.