I love the standard production cars in racing games! They give you a stronger connection to reality. Also the differences become greater so it makes sence to level up and upgrade, try to win races to advance to better cars and so on. It's like if I play an RPG or RTS, I want to start out as a weak peasant or with a village and slowly build up and get stronger.
Also standard cars work as a reference point so that you get a good sense of how fast and powerful the race cars actually are.







