CSR2 Tuner Cars: Ringbrothers vs Liberty Walk, Ranked

CSR2 is full of cars wearing someone else’s name as well as the manufacturer’s: Ringbrothers restomods, Liberty Walk widebodies, Rocket Bunny kits, Vorsteiner carbon and more. They look like the most extreme versions of each car. On our world records sheet, some of them are. Others are among the slowest cars in the game.

Builder by builder in Tier 5

Builder	Tier 5 records	Best rank	Typical rank	In top 100
Ringbrothers	9	9	62	5
Roadster Shop	2	43	58	2
Ruffian	4	22	96	2
Weaver Customs	8	152	417	0
Label Motorsports	3	291	569	0
RWB	7	365	606	0
Liberty Walk	22	287	661	0
Vorsteiner	6	628	792	0

Out of 890 timed Tier 5 cars at the time of writing. “Typical” is the median record. Liberty Walk includes its LB Works and LB Silhouette cars.

The split is stark. The American restomod builders, Ringbrothers, Roadster Shop and Ruffian, have half or more of their cars in the top 100. The famous body-kit names, Liberty Walk, RWB and Vorsteiner, have none.

Ringbrothers: the deepest builder in CSR2

Ringbrothers builds classic American cars with modern running gear, and in CSR2 they’re a force:

• Chevrolet Loadmaster ‘ENYO’: 9th
• Plymouth Barracuda ‘Infected’: 30th
• Chevrolet Chevelle ‘Recoil’: 39th
• Ford Mustang Mach 1 ‘Patriarc’: 44th
• Buick Grand National ‘INVADR’: 62nd

Behind them come the Charger ‘CAPTIV’ (127th), the Charger ‘Tusk’ (169th) and two Camaros, ‘Uncle Sam’ (235th) and ‘Valkyrja’ (273rd). Even the slowest Ringbrothers car is in the top third of the tier.

The single fastest custom build is a one-off, though: Classic Car Studio’s Dodge Charger R/T ‘Double Down’, 6th in Tier 5. One-off American builds fill the top 100: Ryans Rod & Kustom’s Firebird ‘Mullet Missile’ (26th), Blazin Rodz’s Chevelle ‘Doughboy’ (51st), American Legends’ Chevelle ‘Phoenix’ (53rd) and more. Our muscle cars ranking covers them.

Other restomods do well too. The Camaro ‘DuSold Designs’ is 24th, Roadster Shop’s Grand National 43rd and Camaro ‘Road Rage’ 73rd, and Eddie’s Rod & Custom Corvette C2 is the best Corvette in the game, as our Corvette ranking shows.

Liberty Walk: strong in Tier 4, weak in Tier 5

Liberty Walk has more records than any other builder on our sheet, 45 across Tiers 3, 4 and 5, and how good they are depends on the tier.

In Tier 4, the best are genuinely quick: the LB Works Countach is 14th of 232 and the LB Works NSX-R 21st. In Tier 5, it’s a different story. The best of 22 records is the LB Silhouette GR Supra at 287th, and the widebody supercars sit near the bottom: the LB Aventador around 654th, the LB Huracán 794th and the Liberty Walk 650S 807th.

If you love the look, they’re fine cars to collect. If you’re building to win Tier 5 races, there are much better choices.

Rocket Bunny: best in the lower tiers

Rocket Bunny cars follow the same pattern, only more so. In Tier 2, the Rocket Bunny MX-5 Miata is 4th of 32 and the Golf GTI 12th. In Tier 4, the RX-7 at Elite Customs Level 50 is 19th, with the Rocket Bunny NSX at 22nd and the RX-8 at 28th. In Tier 5, the best is the Camaro Z28 at 321st.

Does the tuner version beat the standard car?

Usually, yes. Here are the cleanest comparisons on our sheet: the same car, in the same tier, as five-star gold-star records (several purple-star tuner cars are special editions, so gold is the fairer match):

Tuner car	Standard car	Ranks
Audi ABT RS6-R	Audi RS6 Avant	58th vs 100th (Tier 4)
Audi ABT RS7-R	Audi RS 7 Sportback	60th vs 98th (Tier 4)
Lotus Emira Vorsteiner	Lotus Emira	84th vs 120th (Tier 4)
McLaren Vorsteiner 720S	McLaren 720S	651st vs 686th (Tier 5)

So the tuner version is often the quicker pick. But the gains are modest, and a tuned car can still be a slow car: the Vorsteiner 720S beats the standard 720S yet sits in the bottom third of Tier 5. The 720S that wins races is the one at Elite Customs Level 35, 113th. The builder’s name tells you less than the record does.

Which tuner cars are worth building?

• For Tier 5: a restomod: Classic Car Studio’s ‘Double Down’ Charger, or a Ringbrothers car such as the Loadmaster ‘ENYO’ or the Barracuda ‘Infected’.
• For Tier 4: the LB Works Countach or LB Works NSX-R, or the ABT RS6-R.
• For Tier 2: the Rocket Bunny MX-5 Miata.
• For the look rather than the times: the Liberty Walk supercars and RWB Porsches.

Ken Block’s cars are covered separately in our Hoonigan cars ranking, and the Fast & Furious builds, many wearing Veilside kits, in our Fast & Furious cars ranking. Every car linked above is in our car collection.