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GTASA Jester
Although FWD is lame-o IRL, this car was ridiculously manipulative because of all the traction it had. Front tapering was also good to launch some higher cars.

Gran Turismo 1:
Mitsubishi GTO '95 MR
Pretty much every LM variant. The imagination and meta they tried to create without having exotic car licenses was something of its time for me. Things like Maximum Tune, Initial D and stuff made more sense to me. I think the franchise has grown well, but nothing can recapture what they did here in a very limited and unheard of space.

Ridge Racer Type 4:
Assoluto Bisonte in the RTS livery (title car). Not a fast car but the aesthetic and cinematic portrayal really did something for me as far as envisioning Italian sports cars in silver. The livery kinda became memorable in that right.

From then on, much of the vehicle-based games I've played were in the Gran Turismo series. It sorta became a wash for the most part because that game became a sandbox to use cars as tools moreso than pick a favorite for the most part.

Standouts:

Gran Turismo 5:
Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 the Toscana special event was pretty much as "Need For Speed" esque as the game would get.

The Ferrari F40 is my favorite car of all time, but for some reason I just can't come to wanting to mess with it too much. In Gran Turismo 7, it's as good as it's ever been, but I think it's a "meet your heroes" problem and I don't want to see it fall in my lap time charts.