I understand the cars are based on real cars with their names slightly tweaked, but it can be confusing for new players (like me) when the name of the car they see on the leader boards can't be found in game. I don't see a reason for using the real car names imo.

it used to be the real car names up untill about 3 months ago

oh, so in game they had the real car names too but probs changed for copyright. Gotcha. In that case the leaderboard car names should also be updated for consistency.