I know that mant things have been spoken about this issue but ant time I drive or watch how was the race, I always wish to see for example a Mercedes SLR, Lamborghini Mucielago, Ferrrari F430, Aston Martin DB9, Corvette C5 or C6 something like this.
This has been talked over sooooo many times. I suggest you look in the improvements section of this forum to read through the various reasons for and against.
I suspect this thread will be locked anyway as it won't lead anywhere new.
With car licencing comes restrictions and other issues. Look at the Play Station GT series of games. No damage in GT3/4 because the car manufacturers did not want their cars bashed up in virtual world.
There are all sorts of isues that surface when you licence cars that need to be taken into account.
I once tried to ask Ariel about this, but my email never got answered, and then I got sidetracked and forgot to chase it. I'll have another go (unofficially of course).
I think its cool that they arent real cars to be honest. You can use your imagination, for example the FZ... some people liken it to a Carrera, some to a Ferrari sommat or other. same again with the UF. Oh happy days
The cars, present in Lfs, covers a wide array of racing cars. The whole idea about Lfs, is the online racing part and the human counterparts out there. It is not about the cars, like the wannabe simulators, people are used too !?
For me, the cars and tracks in Lfs, are just as real, as the cars and tracks IRL. The big difference is : I have driven all the cars in lfs, on every track there (Nearly !) The IRL tracks and cars, I have only seen on mý television.
Following my thinking, the Lfs cars and tracks "are more real" than IRL cars/tracks, to me !?
Let the devs finish their task, and then ask for thingies like that. Maby the possibillity will be present in the S3 final version !? - Who knows where this sim ends up !
The Hawk is NOT a Stratos, it is cheap replica, and as such I could never condone it's inclusion in anything, real or sim based
But if Eric is a Stratos fan (who knows) I can send photos, measurements etc as and when Or Old F3 cars.
I'll try pestering Ariel again then... might take a while though, and even if I get them to say yes there's no guarantee WHATSOEVER that the devs themselves will be interested. All I MIGHT be able to do is get Ariel and Scawen/Victor/Eric talking with a common interest.
Somehow related to this topic, rFactor somehow got Panoz Esperante (damn ugly car btw). Dunno did they pay something or what, probably same kind of win-win deal like LFS has with MRT & RAC.