Many people in this thread seem to be lumping in the majority of the details in the OP under "graphics" which imo is wrong.

I'll say this, developers can create a very realistic weather system that has absolutely no impact on the graphics but a huge impact on the gameplay. Not saying this is the case with Driveclub but i feel like some people are not understanding this.

Yeah I get what you mean but E3 is around the corner and I believe a lot of my questions will be answered there... 

What I'm hoping the most is what I'm gonna do in this game besides pushing on the gas pedal and going around. Is there a nitro boost, can I crash, would I get rewards when I make others crash, can I paint/tune my car, is there a story mode, are all the tracks on tarmac, are there things on the roads, are there multiple pathways, how the social part of the game will influence players etc...

edit: nevermind... was watching a gameplay vid and got answered to many questions... E3 will tell it all

I'm assuming you're joking?

If not, they can make more than one car at once.

And I quote:

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it sounds like it takes them 7 months to create a car one by one, or all 50 at once? Its not clear so I'm asking.

edit: I did some digging on my own, and I learned it took them 9 years to make Driveclub.

According to this article from Edge. http://www.edge-online.com/features/drive-club-the-evolution-racer-nine-years-in-the-making/#null

WOW

LOL. They haven't been actually working on Driveclub for 9 years! That time includes them thinking about the idea of Driveclub while they were making Motorstorm. They work on more than one car at a time. You honestly did believe that they take 7 months to build one car and then after they've built that one car they start building another?!

They've actually been working on the game for about three years.

Have to admit, that first one impressed me so much that this will be the first racing game I'll pick up in years. Of course I have ps+ so the price point is there anyway, but I honestly may have never downloaded before reading some of the stuff here.

All of this is bullshit.

What's important is how the OVERALL immersion works during the game.

As far as the demos go, Forza 5 still looks better than Driveclub.

Playing boring forest track, with tarnished green trees full of flat or barely tessellated leaves is not interesting.

You could have had a pointed, but then you compared it to the heavily downgraded Forza 5 and your bias became apparent. This game is trying to do stuff that hasn't been done yet, not everything about it, but a good portion of the stuff they mention sounds very intriguing.