Hey,
is there any possibility to change the imperial system of some cars (for instance most of the Porsches) from imperial to metric? I can’t understand why a German car has imperial units. Just annoying. The Japanese cars have their wheel on the right side, too. There is no reason to use a unit system which mainly one country uses in cars manufactured by an European company.
I know how to change the HUD, but I would really like to drive without HUD and dash only.
Best regards
It’s not possible, sorry.
As the cars are manufactured in both LHD and RHD with either KM or MPH according to market there isn’t a right or wrong. It’s likely that the car is based on whichever version was used to model.
Indeed, Turn 10 is a USA based company, they model most cars in their US versions I assume. I understand it’s cheaper for them to grab a car in the US and model it instead of having to travel to Europe to measure/record the data. But I fully sympathize with the OP, I feel the same sentiment as well. Porsches with dashes in mph feels wrong to me as well. Lacking the VW Golf Mk1 in the game but having that US Rabbit spin-off instead isn’t fun either. We also don’t have the Alfa Romeo 75 either, instead we have the US Milano version. And the list like that goes on and on and on.
Turn 10 is way too much USA focused, you can see that with the tracks in the game too, I think about 50% of the tracks are from the US as well while some iconic tracks like Suzuka, Interlagos or Imola are completely missing from the game (PS - I like VIR a lot though but purely looking at the track itself :p). Back to the cars, I wish for cars that origin from the US they keep the US versions, for Asian cars keep the Asian version and for European cars they should definitely keep the European versions as well.
I played GT5 and GT6 before FH2 and FM6 and there you have the same thing with Polyphony Digital. They are a Japanese developer company so their game is heavily focussed on Japanese cars and tracks. And Assetto Corsa is a heavily Italian based game, just look at the sheer amount of Alfa’s and Italian tracks there.
It would be really nice if a racing sim dev would be more neutral and look at cars and tracks from a global point of view and not from the country they happen to live in. SMS does a pretty decent job with that with Project CARS though.
Turn 10 laser scans most if not all the cars and tracks in the game. Being based in the United States, the cars available to them will 9 times out of 10 be the American version of a car. Its not really practical to have to travel to another country to scan something thats available in their own state. As far as tracks, once again more practical to scan things in America. The Japanese tracks have licensing issues, namely the price they are asking. As for the comparison with Project Cars, forza laser scans while pcars does it the old fashioned way, which enables them to make any track they want without leaving their office. I hope they continue to build the track list but i personally feel turn 10 should either not be so strict with the whole laser scanning thing because in reality why laser scan tracks for a game that’s not a simulator, or they should start making more fictional tracks. If laser scanning is a hindrance to adding tracks to the game id rather them not do it at all.
It does make sense to have RHD cars in Imperial as they could have been scanned in the UK like a lot of the small city cars in FM4 were all UK spec. I don’t see why they couldn’t make it optional as they always screw up with the Top Gear cars, the Liana, Cee’d and Astra all showed KMH when it should have been MPH, don’t understand how from scanning and photos that error made it in.
I do think they should allow custom units for each measurement as Metric users are forced to use KW instead of PS. In the UK we tend to use Yards or Metres, same with weight, where we use Kg and temp in Degrees C but pressures in PSI.
We also tend to use Yards over feet for greater distance and Stone and Tons over lbs for heavy items. GT4 allowed individual changes so I would rather see the HUD changes as the actual model doesn’t bother me as most are illegible. The main thing I don’t like about having the US spec cars is those awful 70s/80s bumpers and those ugly side marker lights and with the Porches, they look like they have hemeroids with the US spec number plate.
Cars in japan have their steering wheel on the right.