Just downloaded the demo, time to give it a go....
5 minutes later
...I won't be buying this game or playing the demo again. Even on the hardest mode with all the assists turned off it feels awful. Brakes are better than an F1 car and you have endless amounts of grip. Gravel stops you dead even when you fly into it full speed, the damage looks great but I flew into a wall at 100mph, bent the chassis, and could still drive the car pefectly. Then I did it again and finally put my car out of the race...oh no wait, I can choose to do that section of road again using a replay voucher thingy. Graphics are good, damage is good, everything else is utter shit. Yes I can tell that in 5 minutes, because after 3 minutes I hated the feel of the game so much I just decided to crash my car and look at the damage. Think DIRT with worse handling and the same graphics/damage.