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The news from the Gran Turismo World Finals in Fukuoka continues to roll in. Alongside the major milestones and future venue announcements, Polyphony Digital and Hyundai have pulled back the curtain on the next confirmed addition to the Gran Turismo 7 car roster: the Hyundai Elantra N TCR.

With the Manufacturers Cup portion of the 2025 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals already concluded — and Team Porsche taking a landmark victory — it’s now the turn of the Nations Cup to round out the season.

During an interview at the Gran Turismo World Series 2025 World Finals here in Fukuoka, Japan, series producer Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that Gran Turismo 7 is currently maintaining an active user base of over two million monthly players—and perhaps more impressively, that number is still growing.

Porsche has become the very first non-Japanese brand to take the Gran Turismo World Series Manufacturers Cup title, in the first World Final to be held in Japan.

After a year of competition, comprising a short online qualifier season and three preliminary rounds at live events around the world, the 2025 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals are now here — starting with the Manufacturers Cup.

The latest update for Project Motor Racing is now available, bringing some tweaks and community requested features ahead of the festive season.

The Gran Turismo World Series World Final is almost upon us, with this year’s showpiece event coming from one of the game’s two home towns: Fukuoka.

Our penultimate Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial for 2025 is now available, offering players a chance to rack up some quick cash with a spin around a short track.

A new set of the refreshed Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges is becoming available, starting at midnight Friday morning in your local time zone, and this week’s event list brings one of the new challenges introduced in the Spec III update.

Renowned friction component manufacturer AP Racing has launched a global competition, seeking the best liveries created in Gran Turismo 7 featuring its recently added in-game decals.

A legendary name is returning to the sim racing sphere, as MicroProse has announced a renewal of its partnership with Geoff Crammond to relaunch their original collaborations on Steam.

The official Forza website has confirmed what we all-but knew already in its year-end round-up for the franchise: Forza Motorsport is just about dead, with no more updates planned for the title.

Project Motor Racing has had a rather rocky start in life, launching to muted reviews, but the Straight4 Studios team behind the title has now announced what it hopes is a path to redemption with a “roadmap” for development over the coming months.

After marking the annual, year-end festivities with special bonuses in 2023 and 2024, Gran Turismo 7 will once again be awarding players with little gifts for playing over the next not-quite-three weeks.

There’s a bit of a strange look to this week’s Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, with two races featuring specific car lists, a tie-in with this weekend’s Gran Turismo World Series final with a big credit boost, a tuning event, an oval race, and one which looks shockingly pay-to-win.

The refreshed Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges are back, beginning on midnight Friday morning in your local time zone, with a familiar feel thanks to this week’s standard event in the special slot.

For a brief spell over the next few hours, Gran Turismo 7 Online Time Trial enthusiasts will have four events — twice the usual amount — running simultaneously, with some enhanced rewards in two.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Polyphony Digital has pushed out a second update in exactly a week for Gran Turismo 7, with 1.66 bringing a small list of changes that attend to a handful of issues.

A quiet change to Gran Turismo 7, instituted in the recent 1.65/Spec III update, has made the game the dirtiest it has ever been — and we don’t mean in the Daily Races.

While the month of December began with quite a bang with new content releases for Assetto Corsa EVO, Gran Turismo 7, and RaceRoom Racing Experience, it has quickly turned into a sour note for Straight4 Studios and Three Fields Entertainment.