I wonder if Gran Turismo 5 will have damage modeling. Originally, the guy from PD said that they were considering it, but that it would add considerable length to the development time, as they would have to render each damaged panel of the car separately, and it was already taking a single programmer 180 days to model one undamaged car.
However, just a month after this Kotaku reported that the game would definitely have damage modeling. So far, they're the only website to have reported this, and it would totally suck if something got mixed up in translation, and the game wasn't really going to have damage.
Of course, PD has said that they could add damage in via updates, and there has been speculation that they'll do this for GT5: Prologue, and that GT5 in it's finished form will come with damage.







