As you know car racing started out as an illegal activity along with the birth of industrialized car production. I hoping for that same feel of progression from street to track much like the first granturismo. You buy a car, used, mod it a little and started racing. And you could mod the hell out of it too, adding forced induction to almost anything. So by the time you raced 'professionally', your used car has become a proper racing car. That is one aspect they should've kept.
What they could add instead of the awful 'rally' part is a dedicated formula career track even if it didn't have f1. We the players are fully aware that this is a Japanese game. So in short, wo derful graphics but lacking character and feel.