Talk:Ford GT (2017) (Research & Development)/@comment-27403942-20190707200914

I’m about to finish Lab 2 easily with a tune of 4534 0000 (I had a free A upgrade). I read the answers to Androgeos’ good question. It seems doubtful this car will be useful for MP, and will probably not be useful in TLEs for players who have other top A-class cars. If that’s correct, it seems I wasted a free upgrade and using MTs and ATs on Pro upgrades would be further waste. I should have used this event for farming.

The only reason to pay to auto-pass the final AI is to acquire this car at a lower rank and use it in MP. The trouble with “winning” this car at 0504 3050 is even that tune will result in nearly a full rank. Maxing acceleration and handling only adds 10 rank points. Pro-ing suspension and exhaust probably also add only 10 rank points. GL has nearly eliminated MP tuning for new cars, with a few exceptions such as the Beast X.

Bottom line: GL wants players to use up significant resources on cars without knowing their true value. Given GL’s many recent changes in performance, ranks, and upgrade costs, it seems GL wants players to spend money/resources at least semi-blindly. GL is testing how often they can sell a pig in a poke.