Bugatti Drops More Gran Turismo Hints

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If there’s one thing you can rely on with PR, it’s that if the first attempt to engage your audience is too subtle the second one won’t be. So when a small image of seven virtual pit crew members wearing Gran Turismo overalls doesn’t quite get the job done, a video of Gran Turismo’s creator Kazunori Yamauchi being driven about in a classic Bugatti Type 51 should smash the point home:

The overt involvement of Yamauchi certainly helps along rumours that Bugatti is intending some more significant link with Gran Turismo than the two Veyrons available in GT6, but as things stand your guess is as good as ours when it comes to what the product of that will be. Will it be the Bugatti Chiron, set to succeed the Veyron next year, an unknown Vision GT car or one or more cars from the brand’s past – or a mixture thereof? We hope to find out soon!

Thanks to DarthMosco for the tip!

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Comments (45)

  1. GTHEAD87

    GT6 has fallen into the pits of hell. They should have just saved it for the PS4 instead of wasting time and money on it. Yeah it’s a good game but jesus christ, There have been three Forza games since GT6 was released! All which have had regular updates and all look fantastic. PD pretty much one last chance or they are totally screwed. They are prehistoric ‘dreamers’ who have fallen behind. Not been on this site in months cause I know nothing new for GT6 will be here, and I was right…

  2. Griffith500

    Genuinely interested to see what comes of this, but I dislike that it seems to be “well timed”, once again. That inevitable return to thunder-stealing. Just make the damned things and don’t insult our intelligence.

  3. FosterG

    I am geeked over that 488, OOPs wrong game. I’m sorry, gonna take more than this for me PD. Somehow I think that everything we want is coming in GT7.

  4. Keithdoom

    Sweet short vid. He’s a true auto enthusiast.
    While I’m here. Kaz, may you add a ’13 VW GTI Drivers Edition (manual) to GT6-7? I would love to see my car in the game. Big fan. Thanks.

  5. ccaranna

    This sounds exciting whatever becomes of it. Just can’t deal with the waiting. It’ll probably be released next year!

  6. Andyc709292

    By no means am I getting an inB4 here, but something like 2 years ago I emailed Bugatti marketing pointing out the benefits of marketing a brand via the gaming industry. I cited the number of GT players, the age distribution of the gaming community in general, the global nature of that penetration and overall just how good it is to put your brand onto the back of something so successful.

    Acid test here for this will be if we see a new track, much like Goodwood, called Prescott hill climb. It’s the UK Bugatti owners club hill climb track. If I recall I droned on about how the inclusion of car & track would firmly cement their brand in the eyes their target market.

    I’d love to think that helped a bit, but I suspect probably not!

  7. DCybertron

    give me both the Chiron and the Type 51 … Just give me more 30s – 40s cars in general and I’d be a happy man

    1. The Chosen One

      “Big Deal! A VGT with limited view again. GT6 is stale news, same status no big changes. Empty promises.”
      Stop bantering, we don’t need blokes like you downing the mood.

  8. Whodoyouthink

    Whatever it is, it better be incredibly good, enough to make up for the fact that PD simply gave us different year models of the same Veyron, instead of, for example, modeling the Super Sport (I think this is wanted the most, even though the standard veyron can be modded to similar specs), or even the Vitesse or Grand Sport!

  9. GT5 Level 41

    It’s probably got the handeling of a mix between Leno’s Tank Car and Andretti’s Hudson. It’s cool none the less. I’d love a solid representation of the entire Bugatti lineage.

  10. AudiMan2011

    I’ll stick with my theory of a dual launch of the rumoured Veyron successor ‘Chiron’ in a similar vein to how GT5 gave us the C7 Corvette prototype.

  11. oli440

    And now, let us observe the Kaz…. in his natural habitat. This is either going to be a super cool Vision Gran Turismo car… or…. (I’m hoping) hints towards a Gran Turismo 7 announcement. Let the hype train leave the station…..

  12. Kobhalt

    When… Sound like promotional for GT7 for me…

    Bugatti would not promote that much for a Vision car, especially with the same type of video for the next Veyron…

    I gess we can start the hype(cars)train for GT7 :)

    1. Eager Snake

      Sony said they have GREAT things to announce, both in Paris and in San Francisco.
      Maybe is a long shot, but it could be possible, besides, if you take into account how slow the development times are at PD, it could be it.
      Whatever it is, I’m not as excited as I’ve been for the last, almost, 2 years. I’m sure I’ll be excited with 7 or with the CM, but until that, sorry PD, but Metal Gear is with me again :)

    2. Tenacious D

      Everybody says it, but one company generally delivers. And SONY always has a killer library. If GT7 is a part of that this next year remains to be seen, but I can guarantee that the world is waiting for what PS4 has in store for next year.

  13. shmogt

    I’ll take anything new or old from them. The veyron is cool, but they have so many awesome cars that I would also like to drive. Really hoping they unveil the Chiron in GT6. Finally we will have something to rub in Forza’s face lol

    1. Benny44

      Exactly. I like how the old cars have such different characteristics that the new ones don’t, and won’t ever, have

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