Licensed cars also help turn the game into a marketing tool. That’s literally what Gran Turismo is these days, what with all the GT concept cars (plus Kaz being a car guy who literally wanted to make something that would become relevant to the industry).

Jason Cammisa explained it quite well in the Hagerty video on the Ferrari Roma. It’s all about managing an image to create a “mistique.” It’s something that the company leaned into heavily under Luca di Montezemolo, turning Ferrari’s from “a car into a dream.”

There’s a difference in perception of race vs road cars. This is why Ferrari used cheat at comparison tests (or outright refuse to participate) to guarantee that their cars came up on top.

Gran Turismo is also more realistic because you can break track limits and whether the stewards will notice is a coinflip, just like in real life Formula 1.

I assume it’s meant to be close to real life, but with a lot of adjustments here and there for whatever purposes. Like, I’m guessing that getting F1/Senna fans playing to get the MP4/4 in the Hagerty shop is worth enough of a playerbase bump than the F1.

That bit about the roof never being allowed to be damaged reminds of that clip of one well known vtuber, known for her bad driving, flipping a GT3 Hurracan at Monza and stopping the entire race in ACC. What would have been a serious wreck IRL becomes hilarious in game, especially as the race being red flagged and the…

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The Acuras were the only turbo cars that had both finish on the lead lap though. You’d think that Porsche, with more testing time, would have the more reliable package.

While many people were expecting more from the Porsches (including outright winning), it shouldn’t be surprising that the Acuras did well. With how much more limited and similar the cars are, engine and reliability were going to be the main differentiators in the class. Even with their limited involvement, HRC in…

Not all. Some of these billionaires and heads of state do prefer rolling around in something very military looking. This is why vehicles like this, or the (a $300,000 armored Ford) exist.

Firefox is better anyway (and will be more so when Google nerfs adblockers with Manifest v3).

Probably covered under Marlboro, which is a travesty because a number of specific Marlboro liveries deserve their own entries.

Wait until they hear about endurance racing where drivers have been known to pee in their seats, which is interesting because each car has 3 drivers who swap seats over the course of a race.

For Hydrogen, I would have said go with Initial H, but that ends up sounding like a porn parody.

Jeddah is actually a great track and last year’s race proved it. What’s controversial about it has always been the host country’s human rights record, not its qualities as a race track.

Depending on your definition of Civic, Honda did just reveal one that would outperform a Le Mans hypercar, let alone a GT3, on a track.

It’s most likely that these are people with access to the documents in the first place (e.g. maintenance crew for the tanks or planes). They’re supposed to have signed documents saying they know they can’t share them, but somehow decided that winning a forum was was more important than not breaching their contracts…

Maybe he should buy Linus’ gold Xbox controller next.

Just put the hybrid system from the MX30 into a Miata with a roof and call it a day. Well, maybe give the electric motors more power, but other than that, I’d be fine with the rotary being used as a range-extender.

If you look at the past 120 years, the company has always evolved, never stood still