#Stories

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deft nymph
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Ferrari - For Midnight Club LA Redux, Rockstar included German Tuning Brand, Gamballa. Mostly known for their Porsche builds. There were 3 cars from the tuners, all 3 of which were loophole cars in their own way. A 911 Loophole, a Cayenne Loophole and a- AN F355??? That's right, Rockstar somehow found a way to include a Licensed Ferrari without actually licensing Ferrari themselves. Unsurprisingly with Ferrari's infamous stinginess when it comes to racing game licenses, it's no surprise that this has never happened again

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BMW or McLaren? - In the early days of McLaren as an automotive marquee, they were quite the tricky manufacturer to get until the late 2000's-early 2010's. This led to most game developers having to resort to licensing McLaren through other means, usually through their German Partners in crime with Mercedes for the SLR McLaren & more infamously in this scenario, the F1 GTR Longtail. From 1997, the F1 GTR was entered into the FIA GT1 Championship as the BMW McLaren F1 GTR competing under BMW Motorsport.
This is why even to this day with GT7 in particular, the McLaren F1 GTR Longtail is licensed under BMW and not McLaren.

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Lamborghini - in the lead up to Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, Lamborghini's ambitions to bring the Diablo to GT1 Competition and even having a shot at Le Mans went to shit, they sold off the rights to Lamborghini's Japanese Owners Club. This gave Kaz the perfect opportunity to bring in the Diablo when he wasn't supposed to. And so the Japanese Versions of GT3 offered the Diablo GTR GT1 as a JLOC though the car would disappear for GT4. That was until GT5 & GT6 in which the car returned this time as an actual licensed Lamborghini.