Each car has it's own handling characteristics, top end and acceleration. You can now customize your car with choice of colors, spoiler settings, gear ratios, brake bias, and auto or manual transmission. There is also a Showcase mode that enables you to view car info, videos, pictures and a brief history of the cars manufacturer. Okay, so you jump into your purple, suped to max McLaren F1 and take to the track. In here I am treated to a wonderful inside the car view complete with a functional dashboard.
Control now seems much better as well.
After playing around for awhile I realize it's actually the problem of the road textures that prevent this illusion. At times they almost seem to be keeping up with my car instead of providing that feeling of forward momentum. This is something that I could never quite get over with this game. It didn't ruin it for me, but I was disappointed all the same. After spending a great deal of time with this title, I started to appreciate the challenge that was offered to me though.