Its player character creator adds pronoun selection alongside prosthetic limbs, voice options, hairstyles, and clothing purchasable with credits, framed by Playground Games as enhancing a 'more diverse cast of selectable characters.' The studio publicly commits to equity, diversity, and inclusion across gender reassignment, sexual orientation, and other categories, and highlighted its sign language feature as a representation element for deaf players. These amount to incidental modern customization and corporate DEI language rather than narrative drivers.

No romance systems, queer relationships, or identity-focused plots exist; the premise remains car-focused entertainment with cultural partnerships for Mexican artists and musicians. X posts occasionally label the pronouns or diversity 'woke,' but Metacritic (92 critic, generally favorable user) and OpenCritic show no major critic-audience gap or review-bombing tied to ideology. The elements stay peripheral to the racing core.