Car Culture

It’s an age-old question in motoring and motorsport: which is faster, a fast car driven by a slow driver or a slow car driven by a fast one?

As we’ve seen over the years, GTPlanet’s members are a bunch of car enthusiasts at heart. Whether they own something fast or expensive or not, they do love their cars — and a large proportion have had that enthusiasm cultivated by Gran Turismo.

Nissan is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its in-house tuning, motorsports, and performance arm “NISMO”, with a special exhibition in Japan over the next month.

A fleet of legendary vehicles from Gran Turismo’s history have joined a special exhibition of “Supercars of the 90s”, including an extremely rare appearance of the Toyota GT-One road car outside its native Germany.

If you’re heading to Monterey Car Week later this summer, and have deep pockets, you’ll have the opportunity to bring all your Gran Turismo 2 fantasies to life with an extraordinary collection of cars from the short-lived Vector brand coming up for auction through RM Sotheby’s.

The Gran Turismo series has made icons out of many cars, but one that’s gone relatively under the radar is the original game’s GTO LM Edition — until now.

Eagle-eyed racing game fans may have spotted an unusual vehicle popping up in the background of Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV series, with a very firm connection to the Gran Turismo series.

Asia’s first ever private racetrack resort, the Magarigawa Club, is open for business and it looks rather like it’s sprung to life right out of a Gran Turismo title.

Shortly after the Gran Turismo movie has its premiere in August, you’ll be able to buy one of the film’s main “hero” cars which has the very unusual provenance of being driven by both Jann Mardenborough and Jann Mardenborough…

New onboard 4K video of the famous Toyota GT-One Le Mans race car has emerged, with the car driven in anger for more than 20 years after it last raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Ferrari’s Vision Gran Turismo, a concept car unique to Gran Turismo 7, has been recognized by the Red Dot design awards — becoming the first fictional car to earn a “Best of the Best” award in the process.

A Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Paul Walker in Fast & Furious — the fourth film in the saga — is heading across the auction block in a special online event from Bonhams beginning April 28.

One of the most spectacular and certainly rarest vehicles ever made is heading to auction in May, with the only original TVR Cerbera Speed 12 getting ready to find a new home through Silverstone Auctions.