I'm not making this up by the way, this is how awful the developers are with this game

Would it seriously kill a developer just to give me what I want right from the start?

There are only two reasons I can think of for this decision: 1) The developer got sick of complaints of idiots buying useless, golf-cart-like cars with their initial credits, that they decided to force you to buy a car that will guarantee the ability to win your first few races, and 2)Honda dished out a bunch of money to make it happen

it's not too much of a loss, but man would I be mad if I spent $59.99 when this game first came out, really terrible developer.