Okay - tried a few sessions with the Test Drive Cruze on Get Real.
My results: Car is a bit 'twitchier' than the real thing, this could be down to a couple of things:
a) I have not got the Force FeedBack dialed in just right yet (changed it 3 times during testing and it's better) or
b) They made the 'sim' too hard, thinking that makes it more realistic, when it doesn't or
c) G-Force feedback is lacking so you can't accurately tell where the grip is at.
The real car (1600 Turbo) is solidly planted and has a chassis that eats corners, that's why it won the WTCC when Chevrolet ran the team. The sim model just suddenly lets go on a corner and suffers from various kinds of oversteer that I never saw on the real one and which it refused to 'drive out of' like the real FWD cars do.
Honestly, it feels like the Race 07 car drives more like the real one than the R3E does, for me, at the moment.
I'm all for advancement in Sims, and I'm happy to buy new ones. I have Asetto Corsa, which has its own issues with FFB, and I realise that Race 07 is 7 years old and can't last forever and that this should be its successor, but I shouldn't feel like I'm fighting a car I actually know how to drive, should I?
I want to see R3E be a success - I wouldn't bother criticising it otherwise. I'm just not like that. I criticise things, discuss things and argue about things when I actually care. If I don't care about something, I ignore it.
If you are willing to listen,
@Jay Ekkel , I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is, but I've never been a 'fanboy'. I criticise, I suggest, I aim for advancements, I push the sim to be closer to reality. I'll never be a 'yes man' - that's just not me.