According to this link which references an interview by Kaz with Famitsu, some standard model cars will be upgraded to premium in future updates. I don't know what "some" would equate to in numbers, but there are around 800 standard model cars in GT5. What cars would you want to get the premium treatment? I would like some of the race cars and Le Mans prototypes to get upgraded. Good news all around, some of the standard cars really stand out (not in a good way).

No one is even going to drive all those cars, who cares that most of them do not have cockpit views. Just pick one that has one and go race the same lap for an hour. That game is so boring. 

At the very least I'm glad it sounds like they'll keep supporting the game post-release. Maybe I'll pick it up in a month or two.

I want a premium Berlinette. I spent so much time driving that car, and it looks ugly as hell.

This was one of my biggest gripes with the game - hopefully they will follow through. Too bad they can't patch the main reason I got rid of it... the grind.

" This was one of my biggest gripes with the game - hopefully they will follow through.

Bugatti Veyron 
 
That is all.

I've been spending so much time behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi GTO that I wouldn't mind if it were given the premium treatment.

I can't help but feel if premium upgrades were cheap DLC and the money made covered the development costs involved it would be a great way for them to be able to justify the cost of expanding their premium car modeling team. Sure there are not a lot of cars which would attract large enough downloads, the Veyron is a good example. But people buy all sorts of useless crap these days, it has to be better value for money than buying a costume for sackboy etc.

And when GT6 comes along there would be a lot more premium cars without taking too much development time away from improving the game.

they should just outsource some chinese design house that pays works $1 a day to remodel all the standerd cars for GT6.      sure they all might not be as good as the models PD make but just lable them "standerd" again.        
 
 
It will never happen since PD want to do everything in house but hey once they redo the veyron Ill be happy.    

Is this going to be free, or are they going to be charging for this? 

To be honest, I'm mildly surprised that the Bugatti Veyron isn't premium. It is one of the cars I assumed was guaranteed to receive the 'premium' treatment right off the bat. Apparently not. I don't own Gran Turismo 5 myself, but I'd imagine they will try to make one premium model fit multiple cars to the best possible degree - several Skyline R34 variants which are much the same could probably use the same premium model, if slightly enhanced or tweaked.

" @ProfessorEss:

I can't help but feel if premium upgrades were cheap DLC and the money made covered the development costs involved it would be a great way for them to be able to justify the cost of expanding their premium car modeling team. Sure there are not a lot of cars which would attract large enough downloads, the Veyron is a good example. But people buy all sorts of useless crap these days, it has to be better value for money than buying a costume for sackboy etc.

And when GT6 comes along there would be a lot more premium cars without taking too much development time away from improving the game.

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" To be honest, I'm mildly surprised that the Bugatti Veyron isn't premium. It is one of the cars I assumed was guaranteed to receive the 'premium' treatment right off the bat. Apparently not. I don't own Gran Turismo 5 myself, but I'd imagine they will try to make one premium model fit multiple cars to the best possible degree - several Skyline R34 variants which are much the same could probably use the same premium model, if slightly enhanced or tweaked. "

" To be honest, I'm mildly surprised that the Bugatti Veyron isn't premium. It is one of the cars I assumed was guaranteed to receive the 'premium' treatment right off the bat. Apparently not. I don't own Gran Turismo 5 myself, but I'd imagine they will try to make one premium model fit multiple cars to the best possible degree - several Skyline R34 variants which are much the same could probably use the same premium model, if slightly enhanced or tweaked. "

i want every game to be premium. they are graphicly better in some parts. i don't care about cock pit view, i enjoy seeing my entire car when i race. the current premium is 200 but that still is a lot of cars. i don't think anyone is going to have all of those cars.