For being a Game geared toward all cars (european, japanese, domestic) it's a fairly realistic game although the version we got was the japanese version with all the crap japanese cars. I got my PS1 last year just because i played GT2 at a friends house and loved it so much. I got the analog/digital controller in my PS1 box, so the cars were real easy and realistic to control. It's too bad that you can't add superchargers to the domestics (which is a VERY popular performance add on) but the power levels get almost as close with the "tune-up". I only play as the domestics and a few euro cars, with one or two imports (mostly musclecars and all RWD cars). It's too bad they can't have an "american version" with alot more diversity/car detail-tuning within the manufacturers. Oh well, i'll still wait till the price of PS2 goes down to get GT3 in a year if i'm lucky.
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'84 Mustang 5.0 LX
My car