Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20181202103151/@comment-35553674-20181203133851

Speedster007 wrote: Comparatively speaking, even low PR cars rival the cost of faster ones that were introduced in previous years. The ATOM V8 costs slightly more than the Skyline R33, but the performance gap is comical...

Yes, and look at the R33 & R34 - two almost identical cars:

Car       Purchase cost     FU cost                      Servicing  R33      120g                    R$174,1K + 163g         R$832 (1 hour 15 minutes) R34      R$35,6K              R$52,3K + 3g               R$460 (9 minutes) This difference in costs is I think the best example of the inflation that has occured between 2013 and 2018

Speedster007 wrote: Only new players wouln't notice these traps. Honestly, I'm not even sure how newcomers keep up.

Luckily for newcomers FM hasn't (to my knowledge) increased the costs of previously released cars (yet !) but due to the high costs of newer cars newcomers are unlikely ever to become members of the 100% club.