Gran Turismo has a long history of including slower cars than you would find in the typical racing game.
Every main line game in the series (I'm not talking about GT Sport) has including a variety of decidedly un-sporty cars like tiny Japanese Kei cars, family sedans and mini-vans.
A fairly common criticism levied against the franchise's claims of hundreds of cars that a lot of them are cars are stuff no one cares about driving.
And some of the cars are a bit too slow to be fun on any track bigger than Tsukuba, I'm glad that the majority of them are including.
This includes the often maligned starter car of Gran Turismo 6:
The Honda Fit
After Gran Turismo 6’s opening tutorial where you drive a Renault Sport Clio RS the game forces you to purchase a Honda Fit.
The Clio is a 200 horsepower hot hatch, which would be a pretty typical starter car for most racing games. Something quick, but not so fast that a new player would get overwhelmed.
The Fit is a pretty standard 118 horsepower grocery getter.
It was too slow for most players tastes and many players sold it to buy something else as soon as possible.
I stuck with it because the Fit is a blast to drive.
It's a car that you can drive at 10/10ths pretty much all the time without getting into any trouble.
You're not going spin out when you enter a corner too fast or get back in the gas too early.
I liked driving the Fit enough that I stuck with it even as I was gifted other more desirable alternatives. I even bought some performance upgrades to make it competitive when it began to be outclassed opponents driving cars that actually looked at home on the track.
I bought my Fit a nice set of rims too to really make it my own.
Eventually the Fit wasn't fast enough for the opponents I was facing and I had to move on to real sports cars and eventually purpose built race cars .
But while racing an 800 horsepower Mazda 787 at 200 miles per hour may be the highlight of the game to others, those late game races that require skilled thumbs and tense focus can't match the early game thrills of clipping a curb and getting my Fit up on two wheels at 65 mile per hour.
