I've been playing around with the demo now for two days, trying to like it (maybe it is because in the beginning i was really impressed with GTR, both the demo and the initial german release) but somehow LFS has spoilt it for me:
I hear lots of people praising the GFX in GTL but to me, apart from the shader effects which are nice, it is plain disappointing! I know Dijon seems to be a bit boring but the candy-like and dull layout in the demo are no competition to the tracks in LFS. The cars look and sound great but driving them is another story. I was anticipating some fun with those cars but probably this is not my type of game. Next to this it is even more cpu/gpu hungry as GTR is. All in all a disappointment I would say.
I hope the ISI guys have done a better job with rFactor (that title really looks promising!).
Just my $0.02
Jan.