5 Essential Free Touring Car Mods For Assetto Corsa

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BMW 320i STW-BTCC and Trabant 601 RS Cup. Image: Patrik Marek & TM-Modding
Touring car racing is a popular discipline within sim racing. The cars are relatable and interesting, but more importantly, the racing is fantastic. Here are five of the best touring car mods available for free here on OverTake.gg.

5. TGM Superturismo​

Are you a fan of door-to-door touring car racing? Welcome to Superturismo, Uruguay's top touring car championship featuring some of South America's greatest tin-top drivers.

Whilst the championship is relatively small outside of its home country, the Superturismo championship has been brought to the attention of the Assetto Corsa community by the mod creator @TG Modding. The Audi A1 and the VW Golf TSI are available currently, with other cars potentially on the way.

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VW Golf TSIs, Supertourismo

Their low power makes these cars fun and agile to drive as well as race door to door. They are very easy to drive and encourage you to push the grip limit. Whilst they are not as aerodynamically advanced as something like a modern TCR car, every entry is highly engineered to fit the rulebook. This mod shows this off very well with how competitive the two chassis are against each other.

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Audi A1 Superturismo. Image: TG Modding

4. Austin Mini Cooper S​

There are very few touring cars that are more iconic than the classic Austin Mini. Back when the British Touring Car Championship was called the British Saloon Car Championship, the Mini reigned supreme amongst the considerably larger Ford Falcons for several years. The Mini would go on to take three drivers to championship glory, namely Sir John Whitmore, John Love and Irishman Alec Poole.

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Austin Mini Cooper S exterior. Image: Pessio

This fantastic mod allows us all to be transported back to that time when the David vs Goliath fight was well and truly raging on between the tiny Mini and the big American cars. This mod has a fantastic feeling gearbox, smooth power delivery and some really good force feedback, especially when you are at the grip limit.

The Mini comes from mod creator, @Pessio, and is often seen as the benchmark for the model - and it is easy to see why. Download the Mini for free here on OverTake and give it a try for yourself. A great combination is a grid of these Minis at Brands Hatch with a 1970s skin applied, which is also available for free here on Overtake thanks to creator, Flow13800.

The possibilities of a versatile car like this are endless, the Mini was so successful in countless countries throughout the 1960s, 70s and even the 80s that you will undoubtedly have fun transporting yourself back to those times classic of touring car racing in whichever country you hail from.

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Austin Mini Cooper S interior. Image: Pessio

3. Trabant 601 RS Cup​

This mod represents the circuit version of the Trabant 601, a small car originating out of East Germany in the early 1960s. These cars are raced in the Trabant RS Cup, DDR Rennsport and Historic Cups across Germany and Central Europe. This specific mod details the car to the 2022 regulations for these championships.

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Trabant 601 RS Cup. Image: TM Modding

The Trabant 601 RS Cup is free to download thanks to TM Modding, otherwise known as 'Fuso' right here on OverTake. The car has so much potential for loud and engaging racing that despite it being a single-car download, it had to be put high up on this list alongside the Austin Mini. The video below is a tour around the car this mod was based on, David Wehlish's Jagermeister-inspired Trabant RS Cup car.


2. 1990s Supertourers​

The Super Touring era was the true golden age of touring car racing. There was plenty of money being thrown around and manufacturers were lining up to get a piece of the action. Three of the most famous cars in the history of Super Touring are from the BTCC: the Nissan Primera, the Volvo S40 and the BMW 320i.

BMW 320i​

The BMW 320i was the first project and the one where a lot of experimentation had been undertaken. Whilst still one of the best mods for a touring car fan, the BMW 320i is the weakest of the three having been brought out a year earlier than the Primera and the S40.

It is not all doom and gloom, the car still handles very nicely, although an adjusted setup to negate understeer is necessary to go competitively fast. The 320i mod description states 1998, but no BMW team factory or independent was competing in BTCC - they did in the German Super Tourenwagen Cup, however. The screenshot below shows Johnny Cecotto's BMW Team Schnitzer livery of that year.

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#9 BMW 320i BTCC. Image: Patrik Marek

Nissan Primera​

Perhaps the most famous cars to come out of the supertouring era, is the white Nissan Primera of the BTCC. The Primera by @Patrik Marek is free to download and relive this iconic era of touring car racing with. The liveries included a range across the P11 Primera's reign in the BTCC from the red Team Dynamics run car to the 1998 manufacturer title winner car.

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#23 & # 3 Nissan Primeras. Image: Patrik Marek

The Nissan is the most engaging to drive with little to no changes needed to the setup to set a fast lap. Just make sure you turn the volume all the way up to hear that incredible engine sing down the straights. There is no mod currently for the facelift version of the Primera or the previous iteration, the much less successful P10 Primera, but maybe one day, those two will make their debut.

Volvo S40​

The Volvo was somewhat of an underdog going into the 1998 championship. The previous entries by the Swedish manufacturerr had been the 850 estate which, whilst iconic, never had considerable success. The 850 saloon had been slightly more successful in 1996, but still not title-challenging.

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Volvo S40, #4 Rickard Rydell. Image: Patrik Marek

The S40 debuted in 1997 with retained Swedish driver Rickard Rydell at the wheel alongside Kelvin Burt and then Italian ex-Formula One driver, Gianni Morbidelli, for 1998.

The S40, Primera and the 320i have all been fantastic headliners for the Super Touring era on Assetto Corsa for several years. The mods first debuted in 2021, but the quality is like they came out yesterday. These cars are must-haves for anyone who loves this era of touring cars.

1. TCR 2024 - Hyundai Elantra N TCR & Cupra Leon Competición TCR​

TCR has taken over the world of touring cars and because of this, most countries around the world have some form of national TCR championship going into the 2025 racing season. These two new TCR cars were created by Overtake modder, Fuzo or TM-modding, and they are some of the best mods that are available on the site - a must-have for any touring car fan.


There are plenty of liveries available on OverTake as well as the wide range that comes with the mod. The Cupra is an evolution of the two previous versions which were very well received. The car has a fantastic soundtrack and modelled interior that really immerses you in the cockpit. Also, the car is a lot more direct and has a lighter feel to it than its partner, the Hyundai Elantra N TCR.

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The new 2024 Cupra Leon Competición

The Elantra is the longer of the two cars and the handling does reflect that. The turning radius as well as the agility is certainly not up to the Cupra, however, the car is faster in a straight line and requires a little more precision. The Elantra is a fantastic TCR car, but with it being a much newer chassis than the Cupra, the finesse will undoubtedly take a few more seasons of competition to dial it in perfectly.

Make no mistake, however: Both of these cars are crafted extremely well.

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#830 Hyundai Elantra, Oulton Park

What other touring cars do you enjoy, and which circuits do you love to race them on? Let us know in the comments below!
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And URD, but keep in your mind there are lots of paid (Patreon) content for AC, that are so bad it’s feels like being robbed by internet criminals.
That’s why I do hope if only mods are allowed from the official DLC EVO store, these are selected not only by license and copyright aspects but also on reaching a quality higher or the same level as AC-EVO. While not working mods due EVO game updates, being removed from the DLC store.

BTW, The last funny thing I noticed on a AC Discord, a guy who is selling his Quest2 adjustments for $75,- 🤣
There are sites if you know where to look that them awful patreon mods get posted to. I'm not saying that's right either but if it's a guy pumping out hundreds of low quality cars then I'm not paying £10 a month for patreon membership for one creator. Then you've got the others like the team that have ripped all the rf2 btcc cars into AC. They drive like absolute rubbish and use sounds from a naturally aspirated rally car with throttle bodies. Yet they have the cheek to charge up to £15 a month for their patreon page. Personally I've bought all the VRC and RSS stuff I've got which are the only paid mods I've ever really had interest in for AC. Super Tourers, f4 and gt1 cars the rest are all free mods. Oh and Cyril Cherry's super touring cars which I did join patreon for but only cost £1
 
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That's rather steep when compared to Raceroom's €8.47 for 5 DTM '92 cars with 25 liveries.
The recent DTM '95 pack is more expensive (€10.97 for 3 cars and 34 liveries), but like DTM '92 that's first-party content and includes the real-world brand and type names.
These first-party car packs has an obvious advantage of being in-game/on the same Steam page. They are going to sell like 10x more than a pack from an indy modder, with the effort spent on them being more or less the same.
 
Pessios cars, this Mini but also his Scorpion, Carpi (paid) and Alfa GTAm (free) are all superb, can't recommend them highly enough.

I only have vintage content in my AC install at the moment, but the TCL cars from Fuzo each look like pure art too.

Thanks for everyone making great mods for AC.
 
Pessios cars, this Mini but also his Scorpion, Carpi (paid) and Alfa GTAm (free) are all superb, can't recommend them highly enough.

I only have vintage content in my AC install at the moment, but the TCL cars from Fuzo each look like pure art too.

Thanks for everyone making great mods for AC.
Yeah every quality vintage car mod is a treasure.
 
Yeah every quality vintage car mod is a treasure.
And the lesser can be used as grid fillers to make an historical championship.

But if only the rumors are right and have a DLC system for all mods then I also hope for an “quality stamp” and not like we see here at Overtake, that review star system, while even bad made and unfinished mods get a 5star. 🥴
 
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This will probably be an unpopular opinion but...
I have played the 1990s btcc pack from some naughty Russians who used to ripoff others content. It's graphically basic, has no real interiors, I've no idea what car model they are using for the handling but......It was actually quite fun in a very arcadey sort of way.

I'm not recommending anyone get it but it did make me wish even more someone would still do an official 90s btcc game. Feel free to delete this post if it breaks any rules.
 
Patreon is rapidly changing the face of simracing where modding is concerned.
I silently knew the minute a few modders started using it, modding as we knew it was going away.
I'm seeing guys with $30month Patreons...not $2-3 month while making up in volume.
I have two...Peter Boese and Ilja...that's it.
Both offer something no one else offers at the moment.
 
it did make me wish even more someone would still do an official 90s btcc game.
Whats wrong with the BTCC '99 pack from VRC? I cannot imagine some official BTCC content of much better quality. If only reading "Fortix Mando" instead of "Ford Mondeo" all the time getting annoying to purists.
 
Patreon is rapidly changing the face of simracing where modding is concerned.
I silently knew the minute a few modders started using it, modding as we knew it was going away.
I'm seeing guys with $30month Patreons...not $2-3 month while making up in volume.
I have two...Peter Boese and Ilja...that's it.
Both offer something no one else offers at the moment.
Patreon paywalled mods are essentially the same as selling indy mods, just they are getting more money because subscription always brings more money that one time purchases. And they can use official car names and labels because they are technically not selling these mods. The the most fun thing, is when you are buying an "access to post" on Patreon shop (so you are not buying an unlicensed car model, LOL), and this post has a link to a car mod on sharemods.

Also, x4fab and Peter Boese are really far outliers from ordinary successful patreoners who have 500 bucks a month from 100 subscribers.
 
But if only the rumors are right and have a DLC system for all mods then I also hope for an “quality stamp” and not like we see here at Overtake, that review star system, while even bad made and unfinished mods get a 5star. 🥴
This is a one big advantage of paid mods, that you expect a certain amount of quality, and people will complain loudly if it is clearly unfinished. That does no happen with free mods, where users are expected to be thankful for free content. Just this leaves you with a burden to shovel through gigabytes of free mods searching for good stuff. For example, for every GT4 GUERILLA pack (that was updated to 1.0 final yesterday BTW), there are a hundred of amateur/junky/shady/stolen ones.

I've got this with rally cars for AC, there are no paid rally cars (ACRA ones are kinda joke and can be ignored). You can get all 3 WRC 24 cars of a very high quality. But you need to get the car models from a specific page of a Discord channel in Spanish (so no direct links possible because Discord, and good luck finding these cars in Discord history half a year later) and then get the sound banks (again, of exceptional quality) for these cars from a completely separate Patreon page. I would rather paid a tenner to get these WRC cars directly, and I don't care if they won't have "WRC", "Toyota" and "Ogier" labels.
 
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About DRM cars, there is a well known pack called "DRM Revival mod". Though these cars are Group 5 Gen 4 - perhaps should not be counted as touring. Still, despite being quite old (I think it was released in 17 or 18), these are probably the most detailed/polished Asetto cars I've ever seen. Things like gear change sounds, wiper movements, windshield sun glare, hot air from engine - I've seen some of these on other cars, but not all at once. And these cars has actually different physics. They also have funny names, like "Yamamoto Delicata" (Celica).
Real good pack there!
 
About ATCC, there are a few ATCC packs in "Assetto Mods" patreon. But all of them are behind patreon paywall - not included in the patreon shop section, so cannot say anything about it. I've only tried Holden Monaro from this modder (was included with paid rally stages) and I didn't like it, it was pretty rough and unpolished.
I've downloaded all of these mods and they are great. You can basically run the ATCC/V8 Supercars series from the early 80s right through to the mid 2000s. Good quality and solid liveries. Worth the investment.

Also good to see someone point out Touring Car racing does not just equal DTM and BTCC.
 
GT4 GUERILLA pack (that was updated to 1.0 final yesterday BTW)

Does the Guerilla pack still barely have any setup adjustments on the cars? I have to exclusively use Shaun Clarke's Ginetta G55 instead, because then I can twiddle the camber, suspension and whatnot.
 
there is a well known pack called "DRM Revival mod"

What I don't understand is why they're way more spin-happy than anything else aside from overpowered stools like the Camotos cross-kart. I have to caress both the accelerator and steering like they're nervous wrecks. If I turn just a bit too quickly, the car jumps into the bushes — even though I have any kind of oversteer cranked down to the minimum. It's nearly impossible to recover from loss of control with these cars.

In comparison, GTC60 and GTL Classics (aka GTR) from THRacing are nice and friendly if a little bouncy; and even the 60s-70s prototypes and WSC60 cars are pretty straightforward. 50s F1 cars aren't as jumpy as the DRM ones.
 
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As for touring cars, I wish someone put in a bit of love into mods of early-2000s DTM cars. I have a thing for them ever since playing TOCA Race Driver 2 back then. They apparently handle considerably differently from something like GT3, and they raced on pretty tight tracks like Adria despite the high power. However, among the AC mods only two are vaguely playable, and even then it's rather unclear if the very stiff suspension is as it should be, or an artifact of the implementation. I don't quite think a full-blown race car should feel like a kart.
 

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