These must be some of the worst project managers ever. How do you spend over 4 years on a game, promise 1000+ cars and then end up only properly doing 20% of them?
People on neogaf are saying the standard cars are literally PS2 GT4 models up-res'd for GT5 (a la GT HD). And lol @ GT4 decal from the GT5 standard cars video
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