Were you guys aware that when entering photomode, it swaps the Player's entire car model out for a higher poly, better textured version, while leaving the competitors (driving the same cars) with the low poly, low textured versions?
I just noticed that while messing around in the Toyota event, I was shocked to say the least. Makes me curious to see what else is changes outside of gameplay... maybe the skyboxes get swapped out as well.
Blue is obviously the high detail 'player' model which is swapped in only in photomode, with transparent widows, and more detailed lines. Look at the wheels!, even those get swapped out from the AI cars. Red is 'ai' model which seems to be a step up from gameplay model but not the highest quality model. It's really quite baffling that they couldn't get all the cars to be high quality.