Car Culture

The 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours endurance festival is only hours away from starting. This weekend a total of 60 entrants will try to reach the podium in one of the most gruelling motorsport events known to man. Needless to say, we won’t know the outcome until the very last second.

We’ve plucked this week’s Want from the ranks of the ideas that never quite made it. After all, nothing quite causes heated discussion like a good concept car.

It’s one of the strangest cars ever conceived, but this week’s Want will be rather familiar to Gran Turismo fans.

Barely a week seems to go by these days without a car manufacturer boasting about its Nürburgring lap time.

For this week’s Wednesday Want we’re looking at a brand that has never appeared in a Gran Turismo game before.

The hot hatchback has always been a popular car in Europe.

This week’s Want might be one of the oldest vehicles suggested so far. Unbelievably, the sleek bullet of a car you see above dates back to 1928 — and is powered by rockets.

For the second week in a row, we’ve picked an ultra-rare racing car from our Suggestions Forum.

Project Cars fans were given a treat back in March. Following the reveal of the McLaren 720S at the Geneva Motor Show, Slightly Mad Studios announced the British supercar would be coming to the next installment of the dev’s racing franchise.

Owners of the renowned R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R will be pleased to hear that Nissan has announced a initiative to help keep their rides on the road. Under the Heritage Parts Program Nissan will be producing authentic OE-spec parts specifically developed for its classic sports cars.

When it comes to extremely fast vans, the only name in Gran Turismo fans’ heads is the famous Renault Espace F1.

In the Wednesday Want section we do love a car that has been completely overshadowed by a more famous sibling, and the Peugeot 309 GTI might be the very tip of cars of this type.

Back in June 2015, GTPlanet interviewed Kazunori Yamauchi at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. During the chat, we asked him how cars are selected for inclusion in a Gran Turismo game and he gave the following answer:

Nismo holds annual festivals to celebrate Nissan’s history and presence in the world of motorsports, allowing people to meet famous drivers and get closer to the company’s most famous racing machines. At this year’s festival, Jann Mardenborough was given the opportunity to drive a lap around Fuji Speedway behind the wheel of the monstrous Group C Nissan R92CP.

A few weeks back, some of the fastest drivers in sim racing descended upon Las Vegas for a chance to win big money in the Visa Vegas eRace. While the race itself was a controversial event in the spotlight, it did afford us the light-hearted entertainment above.

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We’re just going to preface this with the obvious: we’re a little jealous. Okay, that’s that dealt with then.

It was 2002 when Ted and Sue Richardson decided to take an ordinary 1962 Buick Special and convert it from top to bottom into a spectacular 550 bhp machine. Today we recall what we love about this car as it appears on sale for $150,000 at the Barrett-Jackson Collection Showroom.

We’ve been witnessing strong progress in the development of artificial intelligence and its use in modern daily life. The automotive domain is no exception either, as proved by the increasingly-sophisticated cars populating roads each year.

They’re back! Jezza, Captain Slow, and Hamster have officially returned with The Grand Tour, fuelled by a venerable American e-commerce juggernaut. Amazon Prime subscribers in the US, United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany can enjoy the first episode — titled “The Holy Trinity” — right now.