I hate to be a cynic, but I suspect much of what you're asking for will be in the PS4 version of the game. If I'm in their shoes and I'm scanning a bunch of cars, I do it for the next gen graphics engine. That way, when you roll out GT7 on the PS4, there is new and exciting eye candy for everyone to "ohh" and "ahh" about. Just my suspicion.
not really true. If you scan a car at any given time (year) you use the tech available to you at that time. If they are scanning any car right now, they are using the best possible tech, rest assured. They are even innovating new ways of producing digital versions of real things (cars, tracks etc.).
Then, you scale down the wireframes to fit the platform you care developing it for. They could scan car "X" right now and put it into GT6 with one level of quality, and scale it down less or not at all, for GT7 on the PS4.
It saves a lot of work, and the only reason there are standard cars in GT5 with lower quality models is because the scanning methods back in GT4 days weren't nearly as good as today's. They would have needed to scan the cars again to make them premium, and faced with the monumental task, had to face the decision of "do we not include them or include them like this just polished a little?"
I for one am glad that the standards have been in GT5 because that is hundreds of cars we would not have had.
It's the "more of less" approach rather than the "Less of more". The way people tend to view the standards is with a baffled reaction like "why did they make them look this bad for a new generation game?" But they just gave you extra cars at the price of the premiums they had to develop for GT5. A huge bonus that has largely been misunderstood IMO.
Now, I'm really glad to hear that the standards in GT6 will look a lot better and that many of them have been made fully premie.
Again, fans asked for all cars to be premium, but that is a really short-sighted request because all they ahve to do to answer the request is to remove the standards leaving you with fewwer cars.
With that said, I would ahve been upset if the standards didn't look a lot better in GT6 (we have yet to see screenies of these, so maybe they aren't that good? IDK)