Acura NSX Concept Featured in New Gran Turismo Video

Jordan Greer · · 191 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzaynkoC04k

If you thought all of the surprises for Gran Turismo fans were over this week, think again! Polyphony Digital has just released another brand-new trailer featuring the Acura NSX Concept, which has just debuted at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

As most will recall, the NSX was also featured in a video from the show last year, which revealed Special Stage Route X to players for the very first time. This video, too, reveals what appears to be several suspiciously impressive new landscapes and locations…

There is still no information, however, as to if or when the NSX Concept will be available to players in Gran Turismo 5.

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Comments (191)

  2. The Prodigy

    SOMETHIG BIG IS COMING

    WE JUST DONT KNOW WHEN

    IM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

    THX PD FOR BRINGING BACK SO OF MY FAVORITE COURSES

  4. AngelPlayStar

    I think that the NSX and all the new tracks are almost Ready … PD don’t need to wait 2 or more years to update everything on GT6 … it is coming on GT5 soon.

  6. Crispy9001

    Very interesting this Sport Hybrid-All Wheel Drive technology. Maybe its hard for GT developers to encode it just for one particular car, or there’s development hell for the car, which is why this has gone on for a year.

    1. sangdude82

      I think that Honda will sell the new NSX as Acura to appeal to the car buyers in the higher market. Mostly from USA & Europe with a 6 digit price tag.

  9. MGTTTTT

    That is not GT5 code producing these images. Anyone who has played alot of GT5 knows that these videos are superior to what GT5 looks like. We are looking at NEW GT6 code here and NEW tracks for GT6. Well done Polyphony Digital these trailers look absolutely stunning !!!!

    2. swynder

      Yes, fordskydog, we don´t even have a teaser trailer, why should PD give us more detailed info on the things that were going to be in the game?

  10. BHalpen

    When can I have this car. Looks better inside and outside than Vette. Why was another video made again… without adding the NSX to GT5?

    1. Dekropttiv

      I guess cause the prototype isn’t final yet. If look from the previous video to this video you’ll notice they now have the interior as last video didn’t. And the rims have been changed. My guess is they want to wait until its final or save it for GT6.

    1. HarVee

      Yeah, too bad some companies choose to present their products in games where criminal activities are just. (ahem, Porsche)

  14. xero0083

    You can release all the trailers you want there’s one small problem with your enthusiasm hear? There’s no car in the game!! (this is the 2nd trailer) YARN!!!

  16. aronh17

    Could be starting off the 2013 year right. Or maybe subtle hints of GT6. I think GT6 would be the appropriate place for all of the old tracks revamped, adding in more day/night and weather tracks and premiums. They need a selling point for their next game, not a bad idea.

    1. SavageEvil

      What would show off GT6 would be a quick video that shows 30+ GT5 premium cars on one course, that would be a great lead into GT6. Anyway who knows about these tracks and I doubt that GT6 will make PS4/Orbis debut, so perhaps there is one more update in store for GT5 but since GT channel was closed at the end of last year can only spell slow times for GT5 and ramp up for GT6. So the only way I see GT6 coming out anywhere near PS4 release is everything that we see now are all part of GT6, all the found things by Sorg are all a part of GT6 and GT5 is like a huge GT6 prologue. All the added courses, cars, missing tuning options these things can most certainly be part of a completely revised engine just for GT6. Kaz has said that GT5 is the ground work for GT6 so one can only hope that they attack the problems in GT5 and pound them out for GT6.

    2. aronh17

      I don’t know if it will be PS4. If it is then it will be very similar graphics, more polygons and high AA, shadows and AF. They would do another engine revamp for Gran Turismo 7. I’m not worried if it’s on PS3, it already looks beautiful so more tracks, premiums and features are greatly welcomed. But with next-gens highly likely to be debuting this year, I don’t doubt that GT6 will be a PS4 launch title. That will be good for Sony and Polophony. Now I know a lot of people won’t make the switch yet but a bundle could guarantee probably a million sales. I see games still being developed for current consoles for about 3-5 more years after next gens come out. It’s highly likely also that Call of Duty will have some PS3/Xbox 360 ports because so many people will not switch yet. It would be counter-productive for mass AAA titles Like Battlefield and Call of Duty and the like to not port down to current gen. Next-gen is really exciting, I’m so ready for DirectX 11 lighting, native 1080p @ 60FPS and so on.

    4. aronh17

      I could see a Vita port, idk if GT6 would be ported to PS3 after being released on PS4 if it does. GT5 is their benchmark for PS3. They’ve pushed the graphics, physics and special effects to the max. Lights beaming and coloring smoke and dirt, dynamic smoke and not to mention the game runs like native 1280×1080 when your PS3 is set to 1080p with 2xMSAA which is outstanding. No need for GT6 on PS3 if it’s on PS4 to my opinion. Anybody that’s a big fan of the series will most likely switch to PS4 for GT6 anyways to me. I think I would, but I’m still going to wait it out until all the bugs are ironed out and maybe until a slim release.

    5. iLex

      If GT6 is released on PS4 there will be no port for PS3. Sony uses ‘PS only’ games to sell their consoles. Making a port for PS3 would mean more people would stick to their PS3s, which is of course not what Sony wants.

    6. fordskydog

      Daytona Road Course in weather/day night cycle, please. I hve wanted to run Rolex 24hr there since i saw it. Other tracks that host long day/night races areset up that way. Daytona deserves it too, I think.a

    7. Amac500

      +1,000,000 for the Rolex 24, I also want proper run off in turn 1 and us to run the GT bus stop, not the motorcycle one that isn’t even there anymore!

  17. HuskyGT

    I’m not entirely sure that’s Seattle Circuit, but it could be. Apricot Hill is highly unlikely since there is a lot of tracks that have a similar scenery.

    Remember that we’ve seen El Capitan before and it never got into the game.

  18. Escort mk1 yum

    私たちMK1の護衛をお願いし、それが車のレジェンドだし、それはこのゲームにする必要！

    1. tube chaser

      私は同意します。しかし、これは欲しい物のリストではありません。

      Hehe just teasing ^^

  19. TorqueHappenS08

    1:09 Seattle

    1:52 Tokyo japan Ginza (at night)

    and i saw apricot hill, Dont know what the other track is though.

  20. HuskyGT

    Must be a new Concept Car pack. The Corvette and the NSX. Hopefully there will be new tracks which is what I care for the most.

    3. HuskyGT

      Well, it’s more like a pre-production model. Probably the real production model will look and work exactly the same.

  21. stupidstormy36

    I’ve been wondering what ever happened to the NSX Concept. I was even talking about it recently. The only locales that were not in GT5 but are in this video are Seattle and what I believe is Apricot Hill Raceway (the chicane before the final corner normal). I’m not sure of the locale at 1:50 though. Seems new to me. Both tracks have been in previous GT games, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up for new DLC regarding tracks just yet. But then again, it is something to keep the hopes alive!

  22. Hentis

    Ok for starters the video, music and car all goes together and brilliant.
    Good to see Seattle and Apricot Hill. I swear I either saw Red Rock Valley or Mid point race way as well.

    Now for my main gripe….. Aimed at all the whiners about why the car hasn’t been released yet.
    One minor thing you have overlooked.
    Yes Yamauchi San and PD have created the car and shown it working in a GT set of environments. But they may currently not have the permission by Honda/Acura to release it YET!

  25. BaTsBR

    I bet this car is for show only, and we will never be able to drive it.
    Only believe it when I see the dlc in Playstation Store.

  28. leeson

    SEATTLE!!!! F*** YEAH!!!! My favorite course of all time. I am so excited to see Seattle. I once said I would give my left nut to have Seattle in GT5, and I am not one to go back on my word. I will wrap it in a gift box and send it to PD.

    1. xxDingerxx

      Exactly what PD have always wanted…

      Somebody’s testicle kicking around the office (if you sent your right nut as well, at least than can use them as marbles)

  29. 2012GT325

    As always, great video and music by the talented team at PD, but I have to say that this car won’t be as exciting to drive as a non-hybrid car in GT5. I haven’t driven a lot of hybrids in real life, but from what I’ve read about them and driven the ones in GT5, they are NOT the most exciting cars to drive.

    Also, do guys agree that the C7 Prototype was a very bad handling car? The suspension was soft and gears wear oddly spaced. The “production” C7, hopefully, will handle better than that prototype when we get to drive it later today.

    1. Rich S

      I thought the “masked” car handled well, not perfect but better than the other corvettes in the game. I even got it down under 6:50 on racing softs on the ring, and the top TT times on sports tires are very quick for a low powered car with no wings/spoilers/etc.

    2. HuskyGT

      This C7 Corvette is technically a prototype still. But hopefully it will handle better since it’s closer to the production model.

  38. Amac500

    Okay, at this point it is going to be ridiculous of they don’t add the new NSX to GT5. Ya can’t keep waving it in front of our face like a carrot PD, if ya show it in GT5 pit it in GT5! The NSX and Willow Springs we hopefully get.

    2. SavageEvil

      Well they can’t give you the NSX unless Honda says they can give it away, it’s all promo unless it it comes to the game like the C7 and GTR did.

    3. researchALLwars

      whats ridiculous is telling us that we will be getting some sort of DLC “every two months or so..” – comparing that statement with reality is a bit of a sore subject.

      Polyphony Digital. MAN I wish they would get it together.

  41. BHalpen

    WOW, So what on earth would they be releasing another NSX video for a year later… If we will only get Seatle. I want this car, stop promoting it in videos already and let us drive it!

    2. Amac500

      I hope they add Seattle, we don’t have an American street course yet and if it can’t be Long Beach, St. Pete, or the brand new reconfiguration of my home track at Belle Isle Park, then Seattle is it, lol

    3. JeremiahTB

      I’ll second Belle Isle. I’m getting married at the Scott Fountain this summer and seeing that in GT would be crazy cool.

    4. sangdude82

      @ Amac500

      I want to have an American street course or two as well. It would be nice if PD can add CBD of Chicago & New York.

    5. Amac500

      The fountain is a great icon at Belle Isle, and with the General Motors head quarters in the back drop, maybe Cheverolet would like it in the game, they sponsor the race there. But again, I’m super biased towards that track because its my home track.

      If the designed a Chicago one on the water it would be sweet, or a good New York one. The main thing to me about street courses in the game is that they have to be realistic. Right now Monaco, already being a real world track, and Tokyo are the only realistic street courses in the game. You know, just a good normal stereotypical street course like you would see an Indycar running or something, like Tokyo, you could see it there. If they can make a nice layout like that in any American city like a New York or a Chicago or a Detroit or Miami or perhaps revamp Seattle a bit or add it as is. GT5 only has 3 locations in this side of the pond right now. There are 5 locations in Japan alone as well as being where a few of the Special Routes are located. Then there are I believe 8 locations in Europe. In all of America, the US, Canada, Centeral America, and South America, there are just 3 locations, all in the US.

      If they want to do the easy thing they should put Edmonton City Center Airport in the game. They reconfigured that layout 2 years ago and it is now a really, REALLY cool track layout, not just an average boring airport. However the race got pulled of the schedule for this year because the promoters were garbage and got in a fight so there was nobody to put on the race. By the way, these are the same promoters who did the Montreal NASCAR Nationwide race and tried to leverage NASCAR by saying “send a Sprint Cup race here to or no Nationwide race”, so no Narionwide race in Montreal no more. Yup, those crappy promoters. So we have a really cool airport circuit that is a fun and challenging circuit to drive, we don’t need any rights from a series any more, and being an airport with almost no scenery it would be a much quicker and easier scan for PD to put in the game. That’s just what I think :)

    2. schumi26

      No Harvee, the lighted tree in Special Stage route 5 are in the chicane, here, in video, the light tree are in a straight line with big white wall

    3. HarVee

      I did a lap around SSR5 and it seems you are right, so I withdraw my previous statement. The only other track currently within the game that has a barrier like that and is at night time is SSR7, but I don’t remember seeing any trees like that one that course.

    4. SavageEvil

      At 1:49 that looks like Times Square to me, at 1:50 you can see in the reflections on the cars rear what seems to be Times Square, could be wrong though, but I know that that course is definitely not in the game anywhere. Wonder if it’s downtown Shibuya or something?

    6. SavageEvil

      That is Seattle, you can see the overhead tracks in the background and the video flows into the left handed uphill section and cuts.

  61. infamousphil

    Can’t get the video to.play on my phone ;( but Seattle’s jumps make my back and kidneys ache just thinking about it. Cain’t get enough street circuits. Hype or what PD?

    1. SavageEvil

      You are dead on those courses, I’m going through the video and naming all the courses, before the 38 second mark no idea what that tunnel is, 38-41 not exactly sure but that could be Nurburgring(too short a sequence for me to guess accurately). Now let’s see here at the 45 second mark we have Spa, then at 50 seconds we have Nurburgring, then back to Spa then at 52 sec Monza, at 56 sec we have what looks like London(not sure as I barely drive that course myself) at 58 sec looks like London or Spain and at the 1:00 mark we have Cote de Azur quickly jumping back to Monza then at 1:04 back to the Nur, at 1:06 we have Grand Valley Speedway, and 1:08 we have SEATTLE! Then 1:11 we are back at Grand Valley, from 1:14-1:26 we have what looks like APRICOT HILL RACEWAY! At 1:27 we are back to Spain, followed by London, then comes the photo mode set piece Bern, then at 1:49 we have this night course which I think may be NYC(at 1:50 you can see reflections in the rear bumper and it looks like Times Square) at 1:53-1:56 looks like a transition between Route 11? into Route 5, could all just be Route 5 but I don’t remember a wall with lit trees like that on Route 5, this is followed by a jump to Route X at 1:57 and stays on there until 2:10 where it hurls back to Nurburgring, 2:14 Eiger Norwand and at 2:20 it heads over to Cape Ring then video ends with NSX on some rock which apparently is no logical way for a car to get up there driving(Photo mode perhaps but I doubt it, might just be something just for the Auto Show crowd, kind of like those Jeep commercials).
      Well this is the best I could do just watching the video I could not really get accurate enough with some of the shots as they were really nondescript.
      So really there might be three unseen courses in GT5 Seattle, Apricot and what may be Route 11. Then there is that mysterious night course with lots of lighting, Times Square NYC?!? Who knows, but I guess we can only ask Kaz what are actual courses and what are just there for presentation purposes.

  70. huejass

    Can’t wait for new update, not looking forward to faulty download. Looking forward to posts about it this afternoon, and for the C7 tire smoke on the Ring tonight.
    Looks like Santa is bringing me a new PlayStation on GT6.

  72. xlsound

    what a great video,and awesome acura nsx concept, PD is really bombing us with some nice adictions to the game and i believe more bombing news are still to come, i think we must thank them, it’s the only company giving us updates, fixing the issues, giving us exclusive stuff that no other racing game as, simply suporting the game and not like some other companys that don’t even try to fix their games. Thumbs up for PD.

  73. JeremiahTB

    I live in the Detroit area and no one here calls it the Detroit Auto Show. It’s the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Being the Grand Daddy of all auto shows, it’s bigger than just Detroit.

  81. jus1029

    Seattle Circuit? Nostalgia!
    Tokyo @ Night? Perfect photo travel spot!
    Pipeline? I smell Top Gear!
    Grand Canyon? Nostalgia Part 2!

  87. Whodoyouthink

    Is this new NSX even out yet? I remember seeing the funny commercial last year during the Super Bowl and all, but I haven’t heard about it being released!

    1. GT5 Level 41

      Yep. I lived in Seattle for 10 years. Very familiar landmarks. The double stacked highway, the original west coast skyscraper, I could go on. It’s Seattle alright.

  91. BkS

    I just thought, could the track logos that were shown on the GT website, now be finally getting released to end GT5 with a bang?

    Oh I hope this is the case.

  92. Yui-san

    1:07 and 1:09 is the Seattle circuit from GT3 and 4
    1:49 looks like Times Square or Ginza
    2:05 looks like some new tunnel

  93. BkS

    PLEASE GIVE US THAT PHOTOMODE LOCATION!!!! :( Such an awesome teaser, I’d love that massive tunnel track. Looks awesome for long-exposure photography.

  99. HKSBro92

    Jeez what’s with the song? Felt like a Dark Knight trailer lol but anyways this is cool. We finally get a view of the interior!

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