Are These The Worst Prize Cars in Gran Turismo?

Prize cars in Gran Turismo are awesome. But a lot of the time they also kind of completely suck. Please, allow me to explain...

Music (in order):

Car Wash - Isamu Ohira - (Gran Turismo 2)
An Endless Journey - Isamu Ohira (Gran Turismo 3)
Take Your Dream On (GT Mode Course Selection Theme 5) - Isamu Ohira (Gran Turismo 4)
Pearl Blue Soul - Hiroshi Okubo (Ridge Racer Type 4)
Estrada Nova - Low Dogs (Sega Rally 2)
City (Main Menu) - aM (Gran Turismo PSP)
Moon Over The Castle (Long Version) - Synthetic (Gran Turismo 4)

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0:00 Introduction
1:31 GT3’s Redundant and ‘Special Colour’ Prize Cars
4:07 GT4’s One-Make and Least Useful Prize Cars
7:09 GT5’s Slowest Prize Cars
7:51 GT7’s ‘Human Comedy’ Prize Cars
9:27 GT1’s ‘Special Colour’ Prize Car Origins
10:45 GT2’s Tuned Prize Cars and Japanese Bias
15:06 Randomized Prize Cars (Roulettes and Prize Tickets)
20:19 The Worst Prize Car in Gran Turismo History is…
20:48 When You Don’t Get Any Prize Car
24:00 Alternative Prizes (GT HiFi)

[hlavco]

The worst prize cars are:
-Cars that you could simply purchase at the dealer, without a special color or anything.
-Cars that can't be sold for credits.

[trbd]

I like how in GT4 the prize car is something you'd need to enter the next event and then suddenly it hit you with the episode 1 of automobile

[spnge]

Nothing will ever be worse than winning the Caterham R500 for winning the Formula GT in GT5.

[ffan]

In GT5, the B-Spec NR-A roadster cup, which is a 10 lap MX5 race at Tsukuba, has the Mazda Furai as a price car. It's an extremely light 509 hp concept car based on a LMP2 chassis. If tuned, it can be competitive against Group C and LMP cars. An insane reward for an amateur league lvl 6 race.

[FizzieWebb]

I feel like a lot of the redundancy for prize cars could have been quashed by making it so that certain events act as gateways into a new tier of license events.
Like "Hey, you just got the Int. A License, here are some events where we will loan you a car to use, and winning will grant you that car, so that we can make sure you have something that can compete in at least one event at this level."

[sleepracer]

You missed the coolest part about the AE86 won from the Hard-tuned Car Speed Contest in Gran Turismo, the wheels! Back in GT1 you couldn't change the wheels either, so winning a panda trueno with the initial d wheels on it is very cool, since the car couldn't be bought with those wheels elsewhere.

[attilakalman]

It's so strange... In hungarian the word "vicc" pronounced exactly the same as "vitz" also means joke. I always thought it was a coincidence.

[discordmodder]

I didnt care for GT HI-FI as a kid. As an adult coming back to the game however and unlocking HI-FI: my mind was blown. Incredible

[bigmooseplays]

On GT7, I went a week with just 3k-10k rewards on all lf my tickets. Then suddenly I got the Nismo LMP1 and Audi R18 TDI within an hour of each other 💀

[boomkittyFX]

what sucks about the special color cars in gt4 is that you literally dont unlock the color for arcade mode like the cars themselves, like come on, i won that gold aston, let me use it without glitches

[LJW]

My takeaway is that Gran Turismo RNG is more convoluted than YuGiOh Forbidden Memories

[TeaKanji]

Well-presented as always, nicely done. Something that might have been worth mentioning is how GT3's prize cars come with fully broken-in engines, giving them a 3% power boost over the dealership variants (which needs to be driven for 300km for the engine to fully break in). This makes it a viable opening strat to buy an AE86, enter Sunday Cup, get the prize car, then sell the one you bought and tune the prize car instead. Considering how tight GT3's early game is, the small power boost can make a difference in difficult events like 80's Car Cup. A nice little detail that encourages the player to use prize cars, on top of the special colours they often come in. It still feels bad to spend credits tuning an Elise for Elise Trophy only to get a stock one in return though, yeah.

[The_Blackshield]

I always loved getting the black Castrol Supra, it was so much cooler than the white version. And I think if memory serves, there were two subtle differences in them, in that one had green detailing and the other had blue but I might be wrong; it's been twenty or so years!

[noggin]

I think there's a bellcurve here where the useless, but cool prize cars for some of the really hard accomplishment actually make a ton of sense for things nearing the end of the game. The most useful cars should come somewhere in the middle of a run where people get them while they still need them, and they're also attainable for casual players. Think about it; for one, if you're that good, or that far along in the game, it is basically impossible for the developers to guess what it is you actually need still (if anything) since it's going to be highly player dependent unless they simply prevent you from obtaining cars that are needed for the late game events through any other means, so giving out the fun stuff that's unobtainable otherwise keeps everyone at least a little happy, but more importantly 2: they don't want to anger a bunch of people by rendering some of the most useful and fun cars in the game unobtainable for people who aren't that good or aren't willing to invest a massive amount of time into the game. Imagine how infuriating it would be to need to gold the S licenses in GT4 or get the last one lap magic in order to get the Formula Gran Turismo. That would just put a massive, potentially insurmountable roadblock in the way of many average players, it makes no sense.

[FarmYardGaming]

I've been binge watching your stuff AGAIN and it's been enough to make me want to dive into Gran Turismo properly now. My PS2 has been sitting in dust until I can get it working, but I want to experience this for myself

[gtmode]

Worst experience I had was winning Pontiac Tempest GTO after winning 24hrs Lemans in GT5. It was like a kick in the d***! 😂

[antjeeismann]

I remember how hard the Suzuki swift races in gt4 are where you win the Suzuki Car that is powered by a bike engine.

At that point in my playthrough i was saving up on Credits... therefore my swift was barely tuned.

[julianhunter]

So ive been stuck in bed sick as a dog these last few days watching YouTube and happened across this channel. Been getting really nostalgic about good ol GT, so much so that i was compelled to drag out my g29 and try to fix it. Got it cheap off gumtree years ago but it never untill now! The ps3-ps4 toggle switch on top is to blame and is like the 'Achilles heal' of g29's. Its a really common issue with them. Since fixing it, I've fired up gtsport for first time in years and been happily punting around my favourite tracks to get up to speed again! I'll never play GT with a controller again! Thanks roflwaffle for the inspiration and great content. Keep it up man 🤘

[rubenthekid]

17:43 I love the fact that this only happened To a spanish player, as a spanish, I gotta say, my country is quite good at gran turismo

[EvlQuadratic]

A similar prize car sin in GT4 was the Suzuki one-make race when the only obtainable Suzuki up to that race is the swift and have to beat the much more superior Suzuki concept roadster, so you had to specifically tune the swift and pull out all the tricks to win - just to win that roadster, which isn’t that valuable given the crazy amount of Japanese cars you earn and buy that are better value.

Also, not a prize car but having the caterham be purchasable but not usable in any events is very lame.