I remember when gt3 came out I rented a ps2 and the game from blockbuster for the night...After a lot of grinding I made it to the 150 lap race and at 6am I won the f1 car "90" from the prize carousel on the third try. Dropped it off on my way to work the next morning. Thanks for these videos, they bring back great memories!
18:54 Interestingly, Japanese automotive part supplier, Denso Corporation has also sponsored Toyota at the World Endurance Championship (or WEC) under the Toyota GR team beyond outside of Super GT and Super Formula in Japan.
I had a 2009 Prius for a few years, and I honestly loved that car. I regret selling it in all reality, it was just a damn good car. Who cares about how slow it was? I got 50mpg on my work commute, and I was damn pleased with it. When I first learned of the GT300 car, I fell in love. I can see myself getting a 4th gen or plug-in 5th gen as a new daily eventually; I just prefer how the Toyota hybrids drive. I replaced the 2nd gen prius with a 3rd gen Insight; it's faster, and it's not a bad car, but after driving another Toyota hybrid again I really want to go back... Either way, I love hybrids because of how exceptionally practical they are. Anyways, Hatsune Miku car next?
1600hours seems like a lot until I think about the fact that I have finished gt4 at least 15 times I think I have logged more hours on gt4 😅 I've also ran through gt and gt2 at least a dozen times each 😅 gt sport completely turned me off and I gave up and went back to gt4
Where do you get your information? SUPER GT seems like an super interesting series, but it nearly get any coverage in the Motorsport News here in Europe?
This is why Super GT / JGTC was so interesting, the biggest appeal for the series was the variety and freedom to create vastly different cars, and get some results in the process. From McLaren F1s to SC430s to Prius to even the amazing HSV, you could watch literally anything have a go at it. And they all looked cool. Best sounding Super GT ever has to go to the HSV, but you could make a case for Nob Taniguchi´s Z4 GT3 (another gorgeous car in the Hatsune Miku livery). Now, with the DTM joint deal they´ve got going on, it seems we will also lose that variety. It´s really sad.
I feel like what was said at 31:50 also applies to most racing games these days. People love boring cars that are then turned into something special. I think people are sick of GT3s because they're all expensive, and unobtainable to most, supercars that we're sick of seeing in movies and on RU-vid. apr's Prius and Corolla sadly proved that it's tough to make a competitive race car out of something that isn't a performance car, although it was interesting that it had good straight line performance. Maybe those low drag road cars do have their strengths.
Love these obscure JGTC/Super GT retrospectives! Personally, I find it sad that GT300 oddities auch as the Prius have been legislated out of existence in favour of the more ubiquitous "mass production" GT3 cars. But that's true of nearly all motorsport series now
Speaking of the Prius GT which races in GT300. I think it'll be a great video to cover some of the weird & awesome cars from GT300. GT500 always gets the spotlight but GT300 honestly has far more variety in uniqueness that gives Super GT as a whole its charm
Always had a soft spot for the Prius and the CRZ, bonkers cars that had no business being on track but did so and were damn cool doing it. I did read that when the whole class 1 touring car stuff was being worked on, a lot of the teams running GT3 machinery like the lambos wanted the Prius banned as it was hurting the image of these prestige european brands to be passed by a Prius out on track. Real shame to hear that the timing not lining up on the production of the 5th gen Prius robbed us of the continuation of Priuses? Prii? in superGT but neat to know they still race a hybrid even if it isn't a Prius
Thanks for the video, really glad I found this channel. In Ukraine Prius is most known as police car, so we can see this cars patrolling every day. But video vibe has made me think of Prius like race car, not police one:)
Missed opportunities: a 350k on Sonoma’s Stock Car layout in GT4, mimicking the Dodge/Save Mart 350 of NASCAR; and the Daytona 500 or Firecracker 400 in GT5/6. Also maybe the Rolex 24 at Daytona but it wouldn’t be the same without the Daytona Prototypes
SCCA GT-1 rules are basically: 1. You need the stock roof from a production car, (Yes, just cut it off and build a racecar underneath it.) 2. You need a pushrod V8 with a 4-barrel carburetor, and a maximum displacement of 390ci. 3. The roof and the engine need to be made by the same company. That third one is the fun part. Let's say you have a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Mitsubishi don't make a pushrod V8. (That I'm aware of? It wouldn't surprise me if they did at some point.) Well, you're in luck, because at the same time your Eclipse was being built, Chrysler was working with Mitsubishi. Which means you can pull the drivetrain out of an old Plymouth Duster, build a steel spaceframe racecar chassis, build a nice sleek fiberglass body, slap that Eclipse roof on top of it, and BOOM! As far as the SCCA is concerned, this unholy abomination you've created is - for all intents and purposes - a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. So a Prius - a car designed for maximum fuel efficiency - would actually be the PERFECT silhouette racer. And you know who has connections with Toyota? Chevrolet. Which means you could run any GM Small Block V8.
The Super GT Prius will always live in my head rent-free. You can never go wrong with the prospect of bringing what people dub as the most hated car for whichever their reason is to a racing series. It was amazing to see.
The Ugly Toyota Prius GT300 Class without the garbage Hybrid Engine instead swapped with a Monster Hybrid Engine from a Le Man Prototype LMP1 Car that everyone could only dream off.