Japanese Cars

[Zacarrus]

Will there be any Japanese cars such as the Toyota Supra, Nissan Skyline, Nissan 300zx, Mazda RX-7, Mitsubishi EVO, Mitsubishi 3000GT and Honda NSX?

Most of these sportscars are from the 90s, but it would be nice to see these legendary sportscars implemented into this amazing looking game.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by yusupov:

this may be a non-english thing, but "sports car" & "racing car" are very different things...they may've been (surely was, somewhere) race-spec supra's, but the toyota supra, & honda nsx, are famous as STREET cars, not track cars.

The OP is referring to the original SuperGT series from back in the 90's called JGTC. Those cars where the stars of that series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7gQzwfjF0

[yusupov]

Originally posted by Space_Owl:

Originally posted by feprice:

My Japanese race car list is the Mazda 787B.

In that case you are kinda screwed. The only place I've seen that car on PC is in a mod for AC. (Not counting arcade stuff like GRID). Not many games include this car and honestly I don't know why cuz It is fantastic. Let's hope PCars does in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooS_T4boOQ

as you just pointed out, it was in grid. i dont think the license is prohibitive (afaik), theres no reason it couldnt be included. maybe with suzuka :)

[yusupov]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Originally posted by yusupov:

this may be a non-english thing, but "sports car" & "racing car" are very different things...they may've been (surely was, somewhere) race-spec supra's, but the toyota supra, & honda nsx, are famous as STREET cars, not track cars.

The OP is referring to the original SuperGT series from back in the 90's called JGTC. Those cars where the stars of that series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW7gQzwfjF0

ah ok, figured but i wasnt sure if all of them were in that or not. as said, could do without that myself, would prefer the road cars tbh.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by yusupov:

ah ok, figured but i wasnt sure if all of them were in that or not. as said, could do without that myself, would prefer the road cars tbh.

I'm a little partial to JGTC myself. I helped test the original JGTC mod done many years ago for Sports Car GT (yes, I'm that old).

I wouldn't mind seeing some of those in Project CARS, but I personally would prefer something outside the box like a Can-Am DLC. I've never really seen a production quality product for the old Can-Am cars. I think that would be a blast and something not that common in the sim realm.

[feprice]

Originally posted by Space_Owl:

Originally posted by feprice:

My Japanese race car list is the Mazda 787B.

In that case you are kinda screwed. The only place I've seen that car on PC is in a mod for AC. (Not counting arcade stuff like GRID). Not many games include this car and honestly I don't know why cuz It is fantastic. Let's hope PCars does in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooS_T4boOQ

I don't know about screwed - one car more or less isn't going to make or break pCARS. The car appeared on the WMD>pCARS wish lists at least a couple of times years ago and I haven't heard much about it since. So I realize it's a pretty iffy proposition.

I've never seen it anywhere other than GRID either, but it's in several races at six venues including Spa and LeMans (Circuit de la Sarthe, 1968) in the game. The 787B in the game competes with the Nissan R390 GT-1 at la Sathe (4 laps IIRC); it gets races against Prototype, LMP1 and LMP2 cars in Global races. Codies list the 787B and the Ford Doran JE4 as Prototypes.

Only three of the Mazdas were built and they raced for only two years, but they won the 24 Hours of le Mans in 1991. There is a nice write-up at Wiki.

GRID is an arcade game, but a lot of fun, and I would like to see the Mazda 787B in a sim, this one in particular. Not holding my breath, but there it is.

[SpectralShade]

Originally posted by yusupov:

this may be a non-english thing, but "sports car" & "racing car" are very different things...they may've been (surely was, somewhere) race-spec supra's, but the toyota supra, & honda nsx, are famous as STREET cars, not track cars.

that doesn't mean they wouldn't be enjoyable in pCARS; i love the nsx in rfactor2. but i really couldnt care less about a race variant, as it neuters what makes the car special.

mostly though, i do expect pCARS to focus more on race cars, i recommend assetto corsa if street cars are more your thing. most if not all of those cars (in massively varyinig quality) are already modded, & in the future i expect all of them to be modded to a decent quality.

Toyota Celica 6th generation was successfully used as a race car in Group A car in the world rally championship before it got banned after its first run (which it won) due to "one very cleverly engineered device" turbocharger fixing.

Omitting these cars seem... lackluster, to me.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by SpectralShade:

Omitting these cars seem... lackluster, to me.

Nothing is "omitted". Nothing can be used without a license agreement and if these manufacturers either:

A. Don't allow licensing
B. Request too much money for a license

Then there is not much SMS can do. This isn't a big budget title like GT or Forza so they can only license what is available and what can be afforded.

[feprice]

Rather than being "omitted," it might be better to say that "Manufacturer X failed to make a license available."