Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28168845-20160603081704/@comment-26388545-20160603170349

Hey Roadfighter90, there are many things to consider.

Some people spend actual money on the game, buying a lot of gold. Those people could have more cars than you'd expect for their driver level. Some people will never spend money on this game. I'm in the middle. Whenever the 80% off 1019 gold offer comes up, I jump on it! It usually costs me about $25 Canadian. I have had it offered twice. $25 Canadian gets me into a good movie with popcorn and a drink for 2 hours... or I can buy a car or a BUNCH of upgrades that I can enjoy as often as I like.

Some people have had certain glitches in their favor. Some had unlimitted ads for a while and earned thousands of gold just watching ads.

Some have had large compensation benefits from FM for glitches. I have received over 2,000 gold in total for various glitches over the past 15 months. Some of these glitches took a total of 9 months to fix, while not being able to race certain series for 6 months.

Like Elpreciado, I also missed some cars when I first started playing as I didn't understand how important the Limited Time special events were. In some cases I just couldn't afford the $R upgrdes on the special cars. When "The 500" came out to win the Aston Martin Vantage GTE, I couldn't even afford one stage 1 upgrade! How could I spend $129,100 on one upgrade, when the BMW Z4 Coupe car is $50,320 after 20% discount? Also, I didn't know about bot slowing. Maybe I could have one the car without upgrades... I'll never know. Bot slowing can go a long way! I have since bought all the cars I missed, VERY begrudgingly. I never miss a special event/series now!

It sounds like you are on a good path there by not spending a bunch of gold on upgrades with every car. You are also farming the best races. Hire the agent every time to get double fame, it's worth it in the long run!