--OkeyDokey-- said:
The X1 and the GT by Citroen were made exclusively for Gran Turismo 5, so yes, it's a collaboration. Unless you think Citroen and RBR just did it out generosity. You realise the cars you mentioned aren't even in GT5, right? The CR-Z is. I think you're the stupid one. |
Exclusively for GT? Regardless, that doesn't mean they had any part in designing the car. It's pretty complicated stuff (understatement of the decade?), and just beause they agreed to do it doesn't mean the played any role in it. I'm not saying I don't think the GT and the X1 aren't fantastic ideas, but trying to pretend Polyphony did anything more than put the cars in game is ridiculous. It was Citroen and Red Bull that spent countless hours designing the cars. FYI, RB isn't making the X1 just for GT5. They're doing it to create conversation about the increasingly restrictive rules in F1. They create excitement and discussion about a "no limits" race car and force the issue with FIA. That, and it's a great design excercise for their new engineers whose only experience has been designing Formula SAE cars, which aren't exactly at the level of any of the realms within Red Bull compete.
The only reason the CR-Z is in the game is because Honda is trying to market it. This event does nothing for GT5. As I pointed out, the CR-Z is the antithesis of a car you'd want to race. Honda is trying to market this car to young people by making it seem "sporty." Their logic is that young people play games, and if we put the car in a racing game it will hide the fact that this car has no appeal from an ethusiasts perspective at all. Meanwhile, the inclusion of this car does nothing for GT because the only people interested in this car don't care about racing or peformance. The two demographics have no overlap.
@HexenLord: My point is that this event does nothing for GT5 and is a waste of resources (another car they have to design, they've got to get demos ready for NY, etc.).
@Nyanks: See "Honda is trying to market this car to young people by making it seem "sporty." Their logic is that young people play games, and if we put the car in a racing game it will hide the fact that this car has no appeal from an ethusiasts perspective at all. "
@JamaicameCRAZY: "Also the Gt franchise is not just about high end race cars, are you crazy? The game has had all types of cars cheap, muscle, high end, racing, f1, now carts. Thats part of its appeal i can race the car i own, my dad owned , my future car, my dream car, and my kids dream car. Its just nuts. Heck the weather trailer you'll see them show a volkswagon van race, how many of those types of races do you see on tv? GT is just about racing period. GT6 horse racing mark my words."
Reading comprehension is an amazing thing. Here's what I said halfway up the page:
"Gran Turismo is about RACING. It's about going as fast as you can. I don't really define any of the cars I listed as "sports cars." That wasn't the point The point was that Honda has gone the direction of economical and utilitarian, basically as far away from the sport of racing as they can. A FWD hybrid that's ridiculously heavy for its size and has 0 get up and go is the antithesis of the car anyone would want to drive in Gran Turismo, and anyone interested in the car isn't going to be looking at it for its performance."
A race car is a car designed with one thing in mind: the track.
A sports car is designed with racing in mind, and makes as few sacrifices for comfort and other normal things as possible.
None of the cars I listed are either of those things. They are, however, not the antithesis of what a person might want to race in. The group of people that like those cars and the group of people that like GT5 actually overlap. This is not the case with the CR-Z which is little more that an Insight coupe.
