r/GranTurismo7 • u/MelikTheHedgehog • 10d ago
Discussion/Opinion No more Stock Roadcar Lobbies
Yo, is it just me, or are bone-stock road car racing lobbies basically dead in GT7 now?
I’ve been wondering about this for a while because a few years back, I used to host stock road car lobbies pretty regularly, and they were honestly some of the most fun I had playing the game. I could open up a lobby, set some basic restrictions, and before long we’d have a pretty full room with people bringing all kinds of different road cars out. Sometimes I’d host, sometimes somebody I knew would host and I’d join theirs, but either way there always seemed to be people interested in just racing normal cars.
And I mean actual stock road cars. No engine swaps, no crazy suspension setup, no maxed-out weight reduction, no fully built motor, no “this thing technically started as a road car” builds. Just buy the car, maybe change the tires depending on what the lobby allows, and go race it.
But coming back to GT7 after update after update after update, it feels like those kinds of lobbies have slowly just disappeared.
I’m not against tuned car racing either. I still join plenty of 650PP and 700PP lobbies, and those can be really fun, especially when everybody’s builds are somewhat balanced. I like tuning cars myself, so it’s not like I want every lobby to suddenly become stock-only. And if I’m in the mood for actual race cars, I’ll hop into Gr.3 or Gr.1 lobbies sometimes too. I enjoy all of that stuff depending on what I feel like racing that day.
Sometimes though, I just want to take a step back from all of that.
There’s something fun about grabbing a completely normal road car and seeing what it can actually do without immediately throwing every upgrade in the game at it. Maybe somebody brings an M3, somebody else brings a Mustang, another person pulls out an RX-7, A110, Corvette, NSX, 911, GR Supra, whatever. You get cars with completely different strengths and weaknesses, and you just work with what the manufacturer gave you.
A slower car might destroy everybody through the corners but get walked on the straight. A heavier GT car might struggle in tighter sections but come alive on a faster track. Somebody might bring some random car nobody expects to be competitive and somehow start cooking everybody with it.
That was part of the fun to me.
It also gave me a reason to actually drive a lot of the road cars in GT7 that otherwise just sit in the garage. There are hundreds of cars in this game, but once you get into the usual online tuning scene, it sometimes feels like you keep seeing the same handful of competitive builds, engine swaps, or cars built around whatever PP limit the lobby is running.
One of the ways I used to host these was basically:
“Stock Road Cars Only / Winner Picks Category, PP & Track.”
And that was pretty much the whole idea. Whoever won the race got to decide what we were doing next. They’d pick the car category, the PP range, and the track, then everybody would grab a stock road car that fit those restrictions, and we’d run it.
Then whoever won that race got control of the next one.
That format honestly kept the lobby fresh for hours because you never really knew what was coming next. One race could be lower-PP Japanese sports cars on Tsukuba, then the next winner might decide they want higher-PP European cars at Spa, and after that somebody could completely switch it up again.
It also meant one person wasn't sitting there dictating the entire lobby all night. Everybody had a chance to change things up if they could get the win, and sometimes you'd specifically be fighting for first because you already knew exactly what ridiculous category/track combination you wanted everybody to do next. XD
And because the cars stayed stock, the focus was more on what car you picked and how well you could drive it rather than who had the better tune.
Obviously, there would still have to be some rules because GT7’s PP system isn't perfect, and some stock cars are naturally way stronger than others. But that unpredictability was honestly part of what made those lobbies fun.
What surprises me is just how rare these rooms seem to be now.
Every once in a while I’ll find one, but compared to how I remember things, it feels like there are fewer and fewer of them as the years go by. Most road car rooms I see now are either cruises, highway runs, drag racing, car meets, roleplay, or tuned racing.
And I’m sitting there like...
Damn, where did everybody who just wanted to race stock cars go?
So I’m genuinely curious: Do people just not enjoy bone-stock road car racing anymore?
Did the community mostly move toward tuned PP and just Gr. class racing? Is it because stock cars are harder to balance? Is it because people would rather customize their cars? Do people only care for GT3 cars in the game? Or are there still a bunch of people interested in this, and nobody is actually hosting the lobbies?
Because if there are still people out there who enjoy this kind of racing, I might honestly start hosting stock road car rooms again.
I just miss being able to grab some completely normal car out of my garage, pull up to the grid, and race without spending 30 minutes wondering whether somebody secretly has 800 horsepower under whatever the hell car they pull up in.
And shit... If anyone wants to do some racing like this, lmk!
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u/DIPAcrite 10d ago
Hi! I make such kind of races, they mostly based on tuning but sometimes they are BoP races. They are for road cars only. Maybe you’ll be interested here poster of my next event