A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges arrives this Friday, August 28, as your console clock ticks past midnight. As always, there’s five events on the slate, you’ve got seven days to work through them, and there’s bonus reward tickets on offer for checking them off.
Three years after the Gran Turismo movie hit theaters, one of its most recognizable costumes is up for grabs: the Nissan NISMO racing suit worn by Archie Madekwe as Jann Mardenborough, complete with a belt nameplate reading “J. Mardenborough”.
The online LEGO rumor mill (yes, that’s a real thing) has been buzzing for months about a brick-built recreation of the original PlayStation console, and the latest reported details include a hidden Gran Turismo diorama built into the set itself.
The debate around Gran Turismo 7’s new physics model has raged all week, but one notable endorsement has arrived from an unusual place: the top step of a Super GT podium.
British motoring magazine evo has published a wide-ranging interview with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, covering everything from the challenges of tire physics to Polyphony Digital’s relationship with Sony.
Gran Turismo 7’s 1.71 update landed just a few days ago, and while four new cars is a fairly modest haul, the changes underneath are anything but: this is the biggest shake-up to the game’s physics since update 1.49 back in 2024, with new behavior for tires, suspension, steering, and input devices.
The latest set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges is becoming available to players around the world, replacing the previous quintet as your console ticks past midnight into the morning of Friday, August 21.
With all three of the Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial events expiring all at the same time this morning, due to the game update that brought a raft of physics changes, we’ve got a rare, all-new line-up this week.
Almost two weeks after first being teased, the fifth update this calendar year for Gran Turismo 7 is now upon us and it brings some significant under-the-hood changes as we’d been somewhat expecting.
The Viewers Gift Campaign for Round 2 of the Gran Turismo World Series is up and running again, with entries working as of earlier today. Polyphony Digital suspended the campaign over the weekend after the entry system broke down at the start of the Tokyo broadcast, leaving players unable to register for the two free “Stealth Model” cars.
After an unexpectedly longer wait for more information, we’ve now got confirmation that the next content update for Gran Turismo 7 lands on Thursday, August 20, along with details on some of its contents.
Fanatec’s new Podium Pedals Formula are back in stock Wednesday, August 19, at 14:00 UTC (that’s 10:00 AM Eastern, 7:00 AM Pacific, or 4:00 PM CEST). If the first batch is any indication, you won’t have long to think it over: the initial production run sold out in roughly seven minutes.
The second Manufacturers Cup Exhibition Season of 2026 is on its way, with Polyphony Digital setting a four-round Gr.3 calendar that gets underway on Saturday, August 22 and runs through September 12.
A one-off Ferrari widely regarded as the first prototype for the legendary 250 GTO has been selected to win the Gran Turismo Trophy at the 2026 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, putting it in line for a potential future appearance in the Gran Turismo series.
For the second consecutive round of the Gran Turismo World Series, the popular “Stealth Model” car giveaway has proven too popular for its own good. Entries for the Viewers Gift Campaign broke down as the Round 2 broadcast from Tokyo got underway on Saturday, and this time Polyphony Digital has suspended the campaign entirely while it investigates.
The 2026 Gran Turismo World Series resumed on Saturday, with Round 2 broadcast from Polyphony Digital’s headquarters in Koto-ku, Tokyo. It was a different kind of event to the season opener in Milan: no theatre, no tickets, and no public crowd, with the only spectators being the Polyphony employees who make the game itself.
Gran Turismo World Series partner brand Mazda has sprung a little surprise at the Round 2 event in Tokyo, revealing an updated “Evo” model of the RX-Vision GT3 Concept car is coming to Gran Turismo 7 soon.
