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I think it's long overdue that GT should finally have a significant (not saying huge) selection of vintage cars, not just classics from the fifties onwards (although always more than welcome) nor irrelevant oddities (in a driving game) from the 19th Century like GT4 offered, but a few key essential and iconic cars from the specific period between both World Wars where cars finally became interesting (at least from the perspective of inclusion in a videogame) and huge technological progress was made whilst still being so unlike anything build after WW2 that it'll offer a genuinely different (and challenging) experience currently not available.
They have slightly touched upon this subject though, GT4 had the Model-T which I hugely enjoyed despite not offering much in the performance department, it also offered the pre-war Auto-Union yet this was a straight line speed record car which could only be used on 2 tracks (one being the Nordschleife) and which didn't offer much enjoyment as it inherently wasn't build for cornering.
GT5 has ofcourse the WW2 period covered (which I welcomed by the way ) yet the only thing that might vaguely resemble a vintage car experience is the Tank Car (also carried over from GT4 but now enjoyable to drive with GT5's physics) yet saying that probably doesn't do justice to the experience offered by lot of widely varying vintage cars (a lot of which were light and nimble instead).
With Kaz being a Pebble Beach judge for a couple of years now he must have encountered them yet there still seems to be a reluctancy to fully embrace this period (not just by PD it has to be said) and give us the full spectrum regarding periods of car history at least.
The big question is, is this reluctancy justified or not, is it just a niche within a niche and the interest for these kind of vehicles only shared by a very small minority or could it prove to be a real eye-opener and one of the key distinguishing new aspects of GT6?
I mean, they've made a real leftfield decision to include 2 WW2 military vehicles which they could've foreseen weren't gonna be universally greeted with enthusiasm (apart from people like me but then again I support motorbikes and even 18-wheelers to be included as well, seriously), then why not make a more logical extension by including some road and race cars from the twenties and thirties?
This is not supposed to be wishlist (although some pictures and clips trying to illustrate your enthusiasm or try to enthuse others for this period in general and not just specific cars only isn't a problem) but more to see if my argument or wish is widely shared or whether this thread will sink Titanic-style.
One more thing, I'm not a specific fan of this period nor very knowledgeable about the cars in question, it just strikes me as odd to exclude this significant period from GT (and most other racing games) whilst they could offer so much fun.