So I was driving the fox at South City Town and went full speed into a wall. Ok, car totaled right? Nope, I check suspension and no damage. Car drives as if brand new. How can doing 200 KPH straight into a wall not possible end my race?

oh you've been here for 2.5 years and you still dont know ? :doh:

Quote from chanoman315 :

oh you've been here for 2.5 years and you still dont know ? :doh:

I've owned the game for 2.5 years. Just started really playing it about a month ago.

Quote from jarmenia :

How can doing 200 KPH straight into a wall not possible end my race?

Must be your magical skills.

The damage model is essentially an unfinished stand-in for now.

Browse the forums and you should find plenty of threads like this, in all of them there will be replies like mine saying that the damage model was a tempory thing to prevent people doing Gran Turismo style overtaking moves (basically just bumping people out of the way full speed into a turn).