I mean that has licensed tracks and cars that you can modify in stupid fun ways? The last time I played Gran Tuismo was on a PS3 and I played it so much.
I have purchased a few games over the years, Project cars 1-3, Asetto corsa, Forza Horizon, The Crew 2… all of them were interesting in some ways, but I just miss grabbing a boring car and modding it to stupid power levels and racing it at Laguna seca for example.
Motor Town isn’t exactly what you want, it is more like GTA but just the car jobs.
The physics feel good though, like reallly good.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/
I haven’t even heard of this game, great suggestion.
Not to self advertise, but I run multi-player servers for Motor Town, as well as BeamNG (using the BeamMP mod), and other games. So if you want to learn/play with someone who knows the ropes, in a server that doesn’t expect you to immediately know everything, in a casual environment, that’s what I try to provide for these games :)
If interested I can drop server names
I may DM you when I get going. I’ve got a busy weekend coming up but I want to pick a game and get going.