Talk:Jimmie Johnson Championship/@comment-27123099-20170320201129/@comment-27123099-20170321162425

I suspect it will surely be more expensive than Danica's car purely because the Daytona 500 event was a Special Event and this one is an LTS. In my experience, especially recently, the LTS's cost more GC (in addition to being more time-consuming and mind-numbing).

When I looked at the past, recent LTS's, I looked primarily at the percentage of upgrades required for each vehicle to win each LTS. This allows a direct comparison which does not include cost. This is done for the simple reason that almost every car in this game has a different upgrade cost and many of them are based on what the PR value of the car is and what the car costs initially, as well as when it was released. So, if you want to compare them, you have to do it in a way that treats them all equally, a percentage allows that.

When I did my comparison, I found that by and large, the LTS's required 75-80% of the upgrades for a given vehicle to be applied in order to reach the required PR. Since this seems to be fairly constant (with a few outliers), I went with that as my estimate.

A direct price comparison cannot be made with the two R3 cars because both have significantly cheaper upgrade trees than this car. To fully upgrade the R3 Huracan, it costs 543GC. To fully upgrade the R3 Mustang GT350, it costs "just" 399GC. Jimmy Johnson's Chevrolet SS, on the other hand, costs 761GC to fully upgrade. So, one would naturally expect to pay more when upgrading, even when applying the same percentage of upgrades to each car.

On the other hand, the LaFerrari and McLaren F1 GTR LTS's were more expensive because both have more expensive upgrade trees than the R3 cars and the Chevrolet SS. To fully upgrade the McLaren F1 GTR, it costs 986GC. To fully upgrade the LaFerrari, it costs an astounding 2,075GC!!! So, just as you'd expect the R3 cars to be cheaper to upgrade than the Chevrolet SS, one would expect the F1 GTR and LaFerrari to be more expensive to upgrade to the same percentage.

As I said above, we'll see what minimum PR rating FM decides to stick on this LTS, but I'm fully expecting it to require about 20-23 upgrades on the Chevrolet SS. If it ends up being cheaper than that, that's great. But at least I'm confident that what I've estimated falls in line with other recent LTS's. We'll just have to wait and see.