Talk:Gran Turismo 5/Car List/@comment-190.152.191.160-20120714000413/@comment-294719-20120714013225

PD has repeatedly approached Porsche, but they've constantly been turned down due to their licensing agreement with EA, and now Microsoft. RUF is as close as PD has been able to come to having Porsches in GT. As for only one Bugatti, you can be sure that PD wanted to have more Bugattis in the game, but was unable to get the licenses for them. And it's a well-known fact that many Japanese car makers pay PD to put certain cars in the game - Nissan did it for both GT4 and GT5, and possibly GTs 1-3 as well, and Toyota probably did the same for some of its models which were included in the game too. In fact, the recent DLC pack which introduced the Scion FR-S is known to have been paid for by Toyota (who owns Scion). So that's why there are so many Japanese cars and so few European cars in the game. :)