It’s been a great year for Ferrari considering that 2022 gave us the Purosangue not the SUV and the 499P Le Mans endurance hypercar. The year isn’t over yet as the Prancing Horse has one more debut planned. However, this new model will only exist in cyberspace, for PlayStation owners. Come Sunday, the Vision Gran Turismo concept will be unlocked during the GT World Series finale. In the meantime, this 15 second teaser is enough.
The LED strip is as wide as the one on the 499P, so we’re curious to see if the GT7 digital vehicle will be the oddball version of the race car destined to compete in next year’s WEC. Ferrari VGT has been around for a long time considering that this VGT car has been around since November 2013 when Mercedes-AMG introduced its spectacular concept. Nine years later, Maranello is finally getting in on the fun.
Separately from the Ferrari teaser, Gran Turismo producer Kazunori Yamauchi is tagging along Twitter announced that 25th-Birthday update is coming later this week. The CEO of game studio Polyphony Digital has refrained from elaborating, but he did share images of the three new cars that will be joining the GT7. The boxy one in the upper left corner appears to be a Ford Sierra RS Cosworth.
Your guess is as good as ours of the other two, but the bottom one is probably the Nissan Silvia S14. The top right car appears to be a more modern model, possibly a BMW M2 or some sort of Maserati. Either way, Gran Turismo 7’s garage will be expanded once again. Hopefully, the update will also come with additional tracks as many players have complained about the absence of certain circuits.
The GT7 will face stiff competition from spring 2023 when the next title in the Forza Motorsport franchise is slated to land. We are promised a more realistic experience because the game’s physics simulation has been upgraded 48 times. All tracks will feature weather and time changes, along with a more advanced car damage system and implemented tire and fuel management. This overhaul should narrow the gap between FM and GT in terms of realism.
