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:
A classic car calls for classic company, a drive to remember. #imaginEBugatti pic.twitter.com/PsS0pcK3Mf
— Bugatti (@Bugatti) August 18, 2015
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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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…
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.
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.
Add the Type 51 and some 50s/60s/70s F1 cars.
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.
The should add that Type 51 is what they should do.
This sounds exciting whatever becomes of it. Just can’t deal with the waiting. It’ll probably be released next year!
I hope we get the Bugatti Chiron prototype like we did with the corvette c7.
give me the EB110 AND ED110SS and i’ll be content along with the course creator
I second this motion!
+1000000000000000000000
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!
They leave a thank you note at your door!
Never say never, dude. If that happened, we would at least owe you a rootbeer. ;D
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
Really looking forward to this!
Big Deal! A VGT with limited view again. GT6 is stale news, same status no big changes. Empty promises.
Do you know why they have standard interiors? Because if you did, you wouldn’t say that.
“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.
What he said!
That’s not banter…
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!
Ok, I didn’t see that coming.
:D
Imagine that Bugatti in Gran Turismo :)
‘Gatti VGT.
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.
Hate this..just say what it is!!!!
Time playing is fun, waiting to play not so fun.
GT7 hype train soon starts off its station? :D
Bugatti Type 51 in GT7 maybe? If so, gimme gimme gimme!
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.
Well crap! I dont have a free button on my G27 to program for the crank starter! :-)
Why is there no like button in the article comments?
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…..
Let’s hope it’s some of both! I am SO hungry for some next gen Gran Turismo action…
All I want now is a Kazunori wearing googles suit.
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 :)
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 :)
everobody says that they have something big to announce, otherwise no one would watch.
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.
I think a mix!
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
Maybe the Bugatti Chiron launch connects to GT7 launch? something simillar to Forza with new Ford GT??
How about that type 51 that he is driving? Tired of fantasy cars. Time for some real production cars!
Even if they did a vision car for the game, I would love to have type 51 instead.
Exactly. I like how the old cars have such different characteristics that the new ones don’t, and won’t ever, have