I don't have to.
See, I have a memory, and I recall all the fuss last fall when the news came out that there would be Premium Cars with fully modeled interiors, and Standard Cars adapted from GT4 which didn't include them. Kazunori mentioned it in a few interviews. We argued about that quite a lot. Some of us posted about the car models in GT PSP which weren't quite up to Prologue/GT5 standards, but still looked amazing, and assumed this was the Standard Car level. Some of us insisted that it was interior damage which wasn't modeled, not full dashes and such, surely. And we definitely wouldn't be seeing two levels of graphics. I was even in on that aspect.
And what was so funny is that when the dust had settled, Kaz would give another interview and the flap would start all over again. Some even suggested he not say anything more on the subject because it was driving us crazy.
Someone even dug up the text for one of those interviews from last year in which it was stated this very thing.
So, no. You're either not remembering or making stuff up.
Not me. And I know some of you will think I've lost it, but I want Standard and Premium Cars in the same race.
I will have to say that it seems odd that some of you seem really upset that we aren't as upset about this situation as you are. I think you're wasting your energy, but maybe this will be therapeutic for you. After you go through the catharsis of ranting for a week, maybe you'll calm down enough to think things through rationally. Why not have 800 additional Standard Cars, and even Standard Tracks? When has more, even if it isn't to the same standard "more," been a bad thing?
I want this. If you don't, oh well. I'll have plenty of fun racing around in that GT2 Corvette, and all those other Standard Cars.