YMMV / Car Battler Joe

• Default Setting Syndrome: To build a car, you need three parts of the same class. It is very likely for players to spend most of the game unable to find a full set of parts, so when they finally get a car for free after the tournament arc it is already outclassed by their plain Panther car and they will be unwilling to change.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The player can upgrade and degrade a car's three parts. Apparently, maxing out everything actually reduces performance and a specific combination of levels is needed, but there is no practical way to measure it in-game.