Gran Turismo 7’s 1.53 Update is Coming Next Week

[wowbaggerBR]

A quick numbers race about the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196. If Tthe car is 20,000,000 Cr., you’d need 400,000,000 Cr. To replicate the twenty cars on a 1954 Formula One grid. If players can swing that in the next couple weeks while cars are on sale, the races that can be replicated that year are:

• Grand Prix Belgium/Spa-Francorchamps(36 Laps)
• Grand Prix Germany/Nurburgring(22 Laps)
• Grand Prix Italy/Monza(80 Laps)

Happy collecting!

Not really. A F1 grid from 1954 wasn't made of 20 Mercedes.

The sweet symphony of the W196’s straight-eight.

Fangio’s W196R sold ten years ago for $29.6 million.
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Also, this W196 Streamliner, driven by Fangio and Moss is going to be auctioned soon and is estimated to sell for $70 million.
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I think it’s safe to say the car will cost 20 million credits. The W196 is motorsport and F1 royalty.

Too bad it won't sound anything like that in game.

Awesome car to have though.

 

[jrbabbitt]

If an update contained five cars I wanted, chances are that nobody else would be that interested in it. But then it's not about me. Or you.

Not being contrary to you, just adding my view to this. In actuality, it is about us, each and every one of us. I personally want older GP cars and newer Gr.1 cars, others want more up to date Gr.3 cars, and some want older street cars. We are all different and like different things. So I believe this "is" about us..
To quote a well known Rolling Stones song...
" You can't always get what you want,
but if you try sometime,
you get what you need."

 

[Famine]

In actuality, it is about us, each and every one of us.

It's not, for the reasons you point out.

We're all different. What floats your boat may not float mine and vice versa. That being the case, it's not possible to have a five-car update that makes us both happy if we want different things from it.

But that shouldn't stop either of us from recognising that what is in the update might have cultural significance - either in the wider automotive world or just in terms of "Gran Turismo"ness - outside our own preferences.

When someone says, of an update containing one of the greatest F1 cars ever, a highly community-requested car, and the prelude to the third arm of the much,hyped second hypercar holy trinity, that it's evidence PD is saving nice/cool cars for something else, they are clearly speaking for themselves and what they regard as nice/cool only and not paying attention to what's relevant to the wider community.

 

[Rossell2]

I have my own desires on what cars I want to see but ultimately I take what I get and most of the time I'm quite happy with it.

 

[Majorlazer]

Good varied selection. The Jimny is meh, only because we already have one but other than that, solid choice of cars. The W196 is wetting my lips, doubley so because the 20mn price-tag is causing my tears to pour down.

 

[syntex123]

I have my own desires on what cars I want to see but ultimately I take what I get and most of the time I'm quite happy with it.

Same. And besides, I make my own Gr.4 & 3 cars with street cars and consider those GT RM modifications when they're done. Just need visible weight reduction, ability to swap steering wheels and seats and add a MoTeC display and/or custom gauges like in GT6, and it'd be complete. One could wish that happens in GT8..

Good varied selection. The Jimny is meh, only because we already have one but other than that, solid choice of cars. The W196 is wetting my lips, doubley so because the 20mn price-tag is causing my tears to pour down.

If I could choose between this Jimny and the Jimny we already have, I'd probably choose the one we will be getting. The wide body option for the kei is an abomination. I want proper wide fenders, not a flat, plastic wannabe "I mAdE mY oWn BoDyKiT, I" option.

 

[Skython]

I was slightly split when they included the Jimny as I like the kei car version but I also thought it would be nice to have the wide 1.5L variant because they're the ones I see on the road. People go on about "dupes" but I honestly don't mind. The dupes aren't really dupes in my mind because there are significant differences. I guess it's just the expectation of new cars each month that bothers people.

Regarding the Mercedes W196, whenever PD adds a classic race car like this I fear how they're going to handle the physics as they're inconsistent with how they treat these older cars. The old 50s sports racers tend to be quite enjoyable so I hope they treat the W196 similar, with comfort tires as default and a decent over the limit driving dynamic. It seems to be when we get to the 1960s that they get confused and give a 330 P4 racing tires and it's kinda undrivable with anything less as they've designed its physics to work on racing tires. And then the Alpine A220 has comfort softs, which suggests to me that the only reason the 330 P4 has race tires is because that's what it had when it was included back in GT5...

Escort Cosworth is really neat, will go really well with the Delta Integrale and Celica GT-Four. The two Porsches aren't really my cup of tea but I'm sure they're someone's.