Obviously nothing compares to real driving, but with sims improving and more people buying Pods and G25 wheels, it's getting there...sort of.

Lol !

actually you can or atleast few years ago you could cause it was an open curcuit for everyone. there were events few times a month where by paying a fee you could race on this track with your car or motorcycle. many tracks have simillar events but this is the most famous track that have those events.

i know that....

It's epic fun to drive around in a mini cooper in Gran Turismo, it's slow as hell but it's nice how it dives in to every turn so smoothly. :D

i agree with you, is boooooooooooooring play with those cars, BUT there a people who enjoy it. btw they do that for have more cars and more choise.

I love the standard production cars in racing games! They give you a stronger connection to reality. Also the differences become greater so it makes sence to level up and upgrade, try to win races to advance to better cars and so on. It's like if I play an RPG or RTS, I want to start out as a weak peasant or with a village and slowly build up and get stronger. 

Also standard cars work as a reference point so that you get a good sense of how fast and powerful the race cars actually are.

What Slimebeast said

what do you mean by standard production cars?

i hate racing games where you have to win 50 races with shitty cars just to earn enought cash to buy or unlock car that is worse than the worst car in every other racing game in their whole rooster.

even worse when cars just doesn't feel like they are actually moving fast. i hated Juiced and Flatout games were even the fastest cars were so slow - those games didn't have any feel of speed at all.

At least everything from Toyota Yaris and Renault Clio to BMW M3 and Mercedes CLK. I don't know exactly where to draw the upper limit on what's 'standard production cars' though, because I guess most Porsches and stuff are too.