Hi,

I have suggestions to introduce separate default driver view for each car.

Because for one group of cars I would default view in car, for another group of cars I would to set custom view.

In your case, you can set custom views to all cars but set the views as if they were default in-car views in the cars you want.

I would also have available a custom view for first group of cars (view in car), if I do as you say I losing access to additional camera.
Besides, in custom view option like "movie view with animation" is not available. This can be a problem for people that use it.

So this is not a good solution.

Go to the car you want's text file [in lfs/script] and put /view=custom.

I think that works.

EDIT: Yes it does.

Weird because for me it does not work.
How you checked it in game via "console" or script file?

My example BF1.lfs file:

The echo command returns the string but the view is not switched to a custom.

No I didn't actually try it haha - I just got it from the scripting thingy here http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Script_Guide

So it looks like a bug because the view command from script file is overwritten by setting of the game.