Knowing this they changed the bodies to the unlicensed cars just enough to make it usable without license. Like Ferrari would get upset if they saw people wreck their cars, same with Toyota and Nissan. But yeah this game is as generic as it gets.
Still looks very rough around the edges, I'm hoping they are fully aware the difficulty was part of the appeal and don't make it too hand-holdy. It looks like this is meant to be a display of the driving physics more than anything else, and the refinement of the level path and difficulty curve will come later.
