![]() ![]() Gran Turismo mastermind Kazunori Yamauchi and the Polyphony team have once again shown their class, and their deep affection for automotive lore, by including it.Īnd yes, I’d probably have the Porsche, too. But it’s also just ineffably cool, and cool in a way racing cars can never be. The DS is undoubtedly a car of historic importance - the aerodynamic body by Flaminio Bertoni was shocking at the time, and hugely influential, predicting at least the next half-century of automotive design. (It’s at this point that I should confess that my maternal grandfather, a lifelong Citroën loyalist, owned two of these things, so I’m a bit biased. Have you ever seen a more elegant-looking automobile? Photo: Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images ![]() Polyphony Digital has opted for a late model, the 1970 DS 21 Pallas, with its sharklike covered headlamp units. Image: Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Entertainment Frankly, this car - which, bear in mind made its debut in 1955 - still looks like it’s from the future now. It’s a French sedan, known for its employment of quirky technologies like hydropneumatic suspension and directional headlights, and for looking like it was from the future. And the five new cars are two versions of the Italdesign Exeneo (a Vision Gran Turismo concept car) the 1965 Honda RA272, a classic Grand Prix machine the iconic 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS, perhaps the most desirable 911 ever made and. It returns to the series for the first time since 2013’s Gran Turismo 6. The classic track is Grand Valley, one of the most technical and demanding of the original, Polyphony-designed Gran Turismo tracks. You can pit yourself against Sophy - either one-on-one in identical machinery, or in other race settings that might give you a fighting chance - in a special time-limited mode between now and the end of March. Gran Turismo 7 is the granddaddy of racing games in more ways than one Aging gracefully, Polyphony’s racing series has never seemed more like itself By Oli Welsh oliwelsh Mar 2, 2022, 6:01am. ![]() The “revolutionary superhuman AI racing agent” Gran Turismo Sophy, developed by Sony’s AI labs and first revealed a year ago, is engineered not only to be unbeatably fast but to race against others aggressively while still respecting racing etiquette. PSVR 2 support isn’t the only remarkable bit of tech being added to Polyphony Digital’s game in the latest update. I've never seen anything quite like this in a game.- John Linneman February 21, 2023 It's bright to the point where it closely resembles reality in a similar situation. One small detail that literally caught my eye - the HDR glare of headlights in your mirrors during night races. ![]()
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