User blog comment:ShinnyShin/The Problems with Elite Cars/@comment-25051390-20170218211126/@comment-27980511-20170305191450

Also, the only Credits cars in those Updates are pretty useless in most situations, because they get rekt pretty easily by the Tokens/Elite cars.

I've never seen such an aggressive push for Elite cars, especially not until this Lunar New Year Update. The bugs just guarantee your chances of NOT winning the car, and then there's the problems with the cars' Conditions on top of that.

You can't really profit much from these cars, and in Ticket races you have a lot more to lose when your car's performance degrades.

If a car's made available as an Enduro / R&D / TLE prize, then it shouldn't be also an Elite car! That pretty much kills any efforts you may have put in to get the car in the first place!