damage control. lol

i havent even played with a standard car and im not planning to but they do look awful if thats how they look. as for environments.. i dont really look out for them much, but i do know some do look reaaallly good, others.. not as good.

You're a bit late. A number of the crappier images flying around the net appear to have been captured at standard definition or using poor capture equipment, or show compression artifacts. The 3rd shot for instance is likely an SD shot upscaled as the image res (of the original pic) is 1.7x that of 720x480 rather then proper 720 or 1080p.

Erm, why is my post damage control? I never cared for graphics in a game more than the gameplay part of it. In racing sims, physics is the major part of the gameplay. 

Really, throwing around such a generic and belittling comment such as that is uncalled for.

Only 1 track in the game disappointed me and that is Mountain trials.

The rest are fine and looks fantastic.

Premium cars are phenomenal, I don't think any racing game on console has  cars looking as detailed as the premium cars in GT5.

You level very fast in the special races like Kart/Nascar. I think this is by design so people have the option to level pretty fast if they want to.

Don't forget Shift is on PC as well. Shift doesn't look that hot on console.

Boring and funny.

Anybody else been drifting? Its so fun, especially in an AE86. First thing that popped up in the used car dealership. 86,000 miles lol. Good deal?

It was obvious that this was going to happen - even on this site, people were declaring it the undoubted GOTY and were wondering how any other game could top it. People should learn to not set their expectations quite so high :s