If Blackbox received more time to develop Carbon it could've been more that whats supposed to be.
Setting, story, and the whole crew / territory system are very interesting, as they offer every time a new way to play through (unlike MW05)

Also the very early Autosculpt tools weren't enjoyable, especially speaking about livery customisation, where most of the time full body vinyls saved my day.

First of all the progression, which was always different depending on the car class you chose at the beginning and you couldn't get any wished tier 2 car without finishing 3/4 of the game.
Not to mention the small race rewards and some almost impossible reward cards.

Generally the game is really good, however i couldn't really enjoy it in its pure vanilla state, due to following reasons:

Like damn it got the best out of two worlds, too bad Fender won't release something like that again in foreseeable future.