It seems to me that the models of cars look better without shine. The form reads much clearer and it's easier to notice the effects of blue light from the sky and reflected light from the ground. Those really count in realism. The transitions of value and color are by far finer and that's important feature of realism.

Now the reflection realization is too rough to make it so pronounced imo.

It would be cool to have an opportunity to tune the degree of "Shine" (a slider).

Open LFS\cfg.txt
Search for line "Car Shine"
Edit the value to whatever you like (0.0 = no shine, 1.0 = full shine)

Nevertheless, a slider in the menu might be a nice addition.

AndroidXP, hey, thanks for the tip Never occured to me to dig up for it in lfs files. Concidering shine is controlled through cfg it's probably easy to add it into the game menu.

BTW, turned out shine control is discrete (on|off)