GT5 to Team with Honda in MASSIVE New York Times Square Event! It Begins...

[JamaicameCRAZY]

tarheel91 said:

 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.

@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.

First, i dont try to insult your intellegence so i would appreciate it if you would show the same repect.

"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? "

How is this not a response to this?

"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."

Now i dont give a crap about what direction Honda has been going towards with their cars as of late. The Cr-z might not be the ideal car for racing but does that mean people dont want to race it no. You speak in absolutes when practicaly nothing is. Who's to say there isnt a Cr-z loving gt fan out there? You might not like or want the car but someone might.

You seem to have a typical racing game mentalitly that only true racing cars should be in a racing game and that everyday cars should just butt out. Any car can be a race car, thats what GT does thats why its the best (my opinion).