Just like the Acuras and Skylines - you just know the car is off in proportions.
The 1997 Civic Type R has to be one of the cleanest, most simplistic and fun car of all times. The rear end is a dead giveaway of everything wrong with this model that is shared between FH5 and FM 2023.
Requesting to just discard this model already and fully rescan and remodel this wonderful driving machine. You can find the linked post explaining the inaccuracies here.
Despite being a lot better than the FM1 EM1 Civic Si, the EK9 still deserves a remodel to finally not look very much subpar compared to the newest of models.
As the owner of a '00 EK9 Type R, I’d prefer them to add the facelift 98-00 variant and nail the interior of the car in the process. The current model of the car isn’t that bad in my opinion.
You should have posted in-game comparisons to the real life car. I mean, I know the inaccuracies it has, being that I’m a Honda enthusiast of 24 years. I just think they’d get those extra little details they could possibly miss.
I hate when im in cockpit in the FM EK9, and I’m looking around and see the top of the door panels where the window goes up and down in, is super thin. It’s like cardboard thin from the inside door panel, the window in the center, to the outside edge. It’s definitely thicker in real life.
Then the black in the center of the seats, from the butt part to the back. In real life, they’re all red Recaros.
Headlight housing should be like a gunmetal chrome, but in-game, they’re just chrome.
Even the DC2 has the same cardboard thin door panels
I also hope they redo the design of the EK9. Also, as someone who previously owned a late-model EK9(1998), I would like to see that model recreated. The headlights and grille are completely different, so a body kit would be needed to faithfully recreate them. I’ll pretend I didn’t notice the difference in the interior.
I made a GIF comparison of the Civic Type R EK9 between in-game and real life.
Not much of a difference actually, but barely. I guess it still needs a remodel anyway. It may look decent but some parts and dimensions are a bit misshaped, and the Ride height is too low. So it’s less deformed to be exact.
And here is GT7’s Civic EK9 model for the most accurate example. Looks way more better.
It’s much less bad than I thought, I wish all Xbox 360 models were as close. And the inaccuracies that are there could be amended without scanning the car, though the low quality (lights, wheels, panel gaps) would remain then…
The EK9 early model (1997) and EK9 late model (1998) look similar but are completely different. These images are extremely interesting.
There are no images, but the early model audio is 1 DIN and the late model audio is 2 DIN.
Not that bad actually, most fm4 models are pretty good. I’m not sure it needs a full rescan, some tweaking here and there and adding a bit more detail should do.
A full rescan would go a long way, it’d significantly improve model quality on top of shapes and proportions.
