Why do I play LFS? Idk, cause I'm used to it? I enjoy it (drifting, racing and the opportunity to relax and cruise), has good (not perfect) physics and dynamics, and runs nicely with a fully loaded field.
GPL still has it for me, until LFS gets more tracks/cars/features
I hope you don't just mean girls with a drivers license....
Although I do have to agree with you, I also has this guilty crush on women who can drive better than me.
The main reason I started here was because I couldn't afford to start Rallying for real. I now, however, can afford it but still play LFS (well, Rallying for 6 hrs straight can be VERY expensive).
I have ticked "For the physics" but that's really the reason I stay, when I started we had S1 which while it wasn't a bad game (certainly was better than many games I have seen), the physics weren't (at the time) much special. What really got me to stay in the early days was the fact that Scavier (contrary to peoples opinions in this thread) were putting out updates as quickly as the team at EA Games when I was QA testing for them, and EA have a few more Developers on their team than Scavier do.
That and when the updates did come out, they worked, which was a VERY nice change from working as a QA Tester.
I found one of the earlier S1 patches as a free demo on PC Gamer (I think. This was about 4 years ago), and loved it. Soon after, got my S1, and a year later had to go for S2
The reason i chose LFS is because it was highly recommended by a few people i know from ovalbangerchat.co.uk mainly for the reason that other things such as need for speed, you can barrel roll for 50 yards or hit something at approximately stupid mph and not lose so much as a wing mirror. I like realism, and LFS has it. Thats it for me.
Why did I choose LFS? Well... i was bored of cracking . Nah... seriously? ... ok... well... that was serious....
... oh and i wanted to try online game finally... and ... Bob's mythical tweak supposed to be released around the time I bought LFS :P... well.. it wasn't, and I still don't regreat buying LFS ^^. Great sim ... ohhh... and I love the physics, i've learned a lot about cars thx to LFS(diffs, gears, suspension etc etc etc). I've been playing LFS since... early S1 version i suppose... cracking it all the time... omg... yeah... I was a sinner .
I like the fact that you can drive side by side with 31 other cars, so the multiplayer abilities are the key, obviously with the good physics (albeit it has serious bugs, with lag or wind).
Also here in my country there is a big Argentinian community, lfsla.net so its nice to race and see each other in real events.