Having played Elite: Dangerous and both expansions: ground vehicles are still extremely awesome on an empty, lifeless planet. Especially when that planet has super low gravity and is pockmarked with big ass craters to take sweet jumps off of.

But I mean, they’re not really empty. There is shit to find. You can even get a skill to scan for the random shit. Little outposts ran by random (sometimes hostile) factions. Caves. Anomalies. Etc. Sometimes really far apart. A car or being able to fly along the surface in your ship would be fucking nice.