I know what you mean and am totally with you. For too long now, this series has been severely lacking for anyone who likes in in car view, be it full cockpit, bonnet view or full screen bonnet height view from the car, and this omission is unforgivable as that is a lot of people's preference and how they prefer to play driving games, not everyone want to feel they are para-sailing behind the car they are controlling, but want to feel like they are 'IN' it...
If this game doesn't have at least one of the views i listed above, then i won't be buying their product, it really is as simple as that for me, and i know doing a cockpit view might have it's complications, how hard can it be is to put a full screen or bonnet view in, seriously, no-one likes being forced to use an out of car view when they don't want to use that view, choice is always best.
