Category:Cars

All default cars available in Live for Speed

Cars are selected in the car selection screen after going to Garage from the game lobby screen. Cars can be controlled by real players or by the AI drivers.

There is a total of 20 cars in LFS (most require an S1/S2 license). Most can be loosely divided into different classes to keep racing fair and fun. There are 4 real licensed cars, the rest are fictional.

For S3 users, there is a vehicle mods system in place, where you can create your own cars in LFS.

Cars in LFS are often referred by their 3-character short names. For example, the XF GTI is abbreviated as XFG. These short names are used in car skin and setup filenames, reported via the InSim protocol. They can also be seen in the session results table in game, on the setups page or league listings.

Demo cars

The demo cars are available to everyone for free. It consists of one front-wheel drive hatchback, one rear-wheel drive car and one single-seater.

XF GTI and XR GT

S1 cars

A drag race with S1 cars

S2 cars

GTR cars

S3 cars

Car mods

There are no additional official cars available for S3 license holders. However, there is a vehicle mods system which allows anyone to create their own car and use it in LFS.

Car classes

• STD class - A lightweight old-schoold FWD, a FWD hot hatch and a RWD sportcoupe with approximately 125 bhp/ton. The XF GTI and XR GT match each other well in terms of racing pace, and are heavily used in Fragmaster's GTi Thursday races. Sometimes those two cars are reffered to as GTI cars.
• TBO class - Turbo-aspirated sportcoupés with approximately 205 bhp/ton. One FWD, one RWD, and one AWD. As a class, used for example in league TBO Challenge.
• LRF class - Much like the TBO-class, but a bit faster. All cars are rear-wheel-driven. The featured cars are very different in terms of horsepower and weight. All are in the range of 250-310 bhp/ton. Some favour acceleration and handling while others top speed.
• FWD GTR class - They have approximately 300 bhp/ton, and due to their high power-to-weight ratio and front-wheel-drive, temperature of the front tyres are usually harder to keep under control.
• GTR class - These racecars are similar to the Japanese Super GT (formerly JGTC) GT500 class. They have approximately 453 bhp/ton.
• Single-seaters - Single seaters: four formula cars of different power, and the lightweight kart-like MRT.
• Unclassified cars - These cars are mainly for racing against each other with the same car, as they don't fit in any of the other classes available in LFS.

Car steering wheel lock angles

900°

All of these cars use the full 900 degrees of rotation:
XFG, XRG, XRT, RB4, FXO, LX4, LX6, RAC, UF1, FZ5

540°

These cars use a reduced lock of just 1.5 turns lock to lock:
XRR, FXR, FZR, UFR, XFR

450°

These cars use 1.25 turns lock to lock:
FBM, FOX, FO8

400°

BF1

270°

The only car to use less than one full turn, requiring a flick of 0.75 turns lock to lock:
MRT

Real & fictional cars

LFS currently features 4 licensed real cars:

• McGill Racing Team MRT5 (MRT)
• Raceabout '03 (RAC)
• BMW Sauber F1.06 (BF1)
• Formula BMW FB02 (FBM)

As for the fantasy cars, the following is NOT an "official" list nor a "based on" list, just observations of what the cars may look like by several forum members.

• UF 1000 - Daihatsu Trevis, Mini
• XF GTI - Citroen AX GTi (general design, size), Fiat Punto Mk1 (interiors and taillights)
• XR GT - Mitsubishi Starion GX (general design, naturally aspirated engine), Mitsubishi 3000GT (interiors)
• XR GT Turbo - Mitsubishi Starion GSR Widebody
• LX4 - Lotus Seven replica, its high-revving 1.3 I4 resembles the Suzuki motorbike engine found on the Westfield Megabusa.
• LX6 - Lotus 7, Caterham Super Seven, Westfield Sport 2.0
• RB4 GT - Toyota Celica GT4 (Mk6) (general design), Toyota Supra Mk4 (front/rear)
• FXO Turbo - Opel Astra G/Coupé (general design), Honda Civic Si Mk3/Mk4 (front and rear styling)
• FZ50 - Porsche 911/996 Mk1 GT3 (general design), Ferrari 550 (styling)
• Formula V8 - Formula 3000
• Formula XR - Formula Renault 2000

XF GTR, UF GTR, FXO GTR, XR GTR, FZ50 GTR are GTR versions of the road cars, the latter three resembling cars racing in the now defunct JGTC.

See also

• Basic Setup Guide
• Advanced Setup Guide
• Telemetry
• Vehicle Mods