The gameplay overall became more "Arcade" and the replacement of qualifying laps with random grid positions together with the omission of penalties for bad driving made the game much more playable for the casual gamer.
Curiously, unlike the first two titles in the TOCA series, World Touring Cars was not released in a Microsoft Windows version.
For the North American market, the game was released as Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing, with the cover art featuring NASCAR drivers Jason Jarrett and Justin Labonte.
In the media, once again the franchise was compared to the Gran Turismo series and TOCA was warmly received by much of the specialist press, most notably scoring 10 out of 10 in Official UK PlayStation Magazine.
[10] The detailed and smooth graphics were of particular praise, and it had "an ideal mix of driving, crashing and career progression".