Gran Turismo 7 "February" 2025 Update Prediction & Discussion Thread

[Famine]

Fine then...

Please use this thread to make your predictions for, and discuss, Gran Turismo 7's next update.

We're calling it the February 2025 update because... why not? While Kazunori Yamauchi has stated that the updates aren't monthly by design we have grown to expect it. February seems likely, ahead of the game's third anniversary, and it'll probably be called 1.56.

As a quick fun note, there have been 99 cars added to the game to date. I wonder what car #100 will be - something special, perhaps?

Notes:

• DON'T POST WISHLISTS
  There are no second chances on this because we've wasted too much time with people who want to divert threads from their purpose and we've gone out of our way to give them enough other places to get it out of their system...
  
  Apropos of that, wishlists go in the Car & Track Wishlist Thread which we made specifically for that purpose:
  
  
  

  The Gran Turismo Car & Track Wishlist Thread...

  It seems that making wishlists is a particularly popular hobby for many of you :D No matter what the thread may be, someone, somehow, seems to shoehorn a list of cars and/or tracks that they'd like in the game into it - and we have more than one thread that's basically a wishlist with extra...

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• Predictions are guesses with evidence. Given that the entire past history of free Gran Turismo game updates (with one exception) has given us the expectation of the number of cars (single digits) and tracks (one or zero), if you're posting ridiculously long lists of cars and multiple tracks then that's a wishlist. See the first rule. So are lists of brands (multiple) which have never been in the game series before or which have been cut and are showing no signs of returning (coughs Lotus *coughs).
• bUt We DoN't HaVe AnY eViDeNcE. Sure you do. There's been, like, 27 content updates now. That shows you what volume of content you can expect and what type of content PD is focusing on. Lately it's also been filling in generational gaps of certain model lines and there's quite a few left, but there's been a few surprises in the past, some well-placed cars from our Suggestions forum (hey look, another place to express your car/track wishes!), and some 4K-era upgrades to cars from previous games.
• Go

 

[Dragonwhisky]

I predict, if there is a technically pedantic February 2025 update, the brutally practical will call it a March 2025 update.

 

[Darla Starch]

• contentious oddball pick
• sports car or two
• return to the series
• race car, likely not of the GT3/GT4/LMH variety to rustle some jimmies

About the baseline we can expect. Therefore, um...

• 1992 Toyota Sera
• 1995 Ferrari F355
• 2020 Shelby GT500
• PD Oval Racer thing (or a 2010ish NASCAR expy)

 

[MatskiMonk]

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[Famine]

Note: above gif does not in fact imply willingness to pay for any update, ever.

 

[Seikenfreak]

I'm very surprised by the apparent enthusiasm for Pikes Peak around here. Wouldn't it just function like a time trial course? Or is it because it was supposedly scanned and thus a more realistic fantasy?

If that's the case, where's my Isle of Man course? lol

 

[RACECAR]

Fine then...

 

[GTP_reddevil]

I’m going for 6 cars this time which may be far-fetched but at this point based on the hype of the next update, who knows:

• Porsche 911 Turbo S ‘93 - datamine car and PD will certainly love to keep the theme of Porsche cars going strong.
• Ferrari 812 Superfast ‘19 - datamine and considering how requested this one is, maybe the time is now.
• Pagani Zonda Cinque ‘09 - I feel PD would want an older Zonda and considering the reasonable amount of 2000’s supercars, this would fit in nicely.
• Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (C5) ‘04 - previous premium car and would finally complete the generations of Corvette.
• Hyundai i30N ‘19 - the relationship with Hyundai is something they’ll want to keep strong and I feel this hot hatch is definitely in the works and perhaps it could be soon.
• Toyota Minolta 88C-V ‘89 - if the relationship with Toyota is strong then why not, I do see this car appearing either in GT7 or GT8 and it will be another car in the Group C category which in my opinion needs more cars.

Despite the hype, I cannot foresee a track appearing next but hopefully I’m wrong in that regard.

 

[Seikenfreak]

Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (C5) ‘04 - previous premium car and would finally complete the generations of Corvette.

..but..but.. they don't have the C6 Z06 😢 Just the absurd ZR-1

 

[CTznOfTime]

Honestly I don't know how anyone can make any predictions without anything to go by...

There isn't a single clue...

At this point, anyone's guess is as good as $0 or anyone's else's....

Anything goes, as long as it doesn't resemble a wishlist, so the wildest of guess is ok, just dont say M5 or PikesPeak or the usual moaning...right Famine...?


Edit:
Feb is a short month ..
Valentine's day will occupy most of us for that quarter of the population who has a significant others...
Winner of this thread is the one predicting the closest outcome?

So I will find out in March ?

 

[Gtsport28]

a French car if we stick to the February update!!
2022 Citroën ds and 2023 Renault 4L!! yes but which one?? 🤔🤔

 

[Famine]

Honestly I don't know how anyone can make any predictions without anything to go by...

There isn't a single clue...

Uh-huh.

bUt We DoN't HaVe AnY eViDeNcE. Sure you do. There's been, like, 27 content updates now. That shows you what volume of content you can expect and what type of content PD is focusing on. Lately it's also been filling in generational gaps of certain model lines and there's quite a few left, but there's been a few surprises in the past, some well-placed cars from our Suggestions forum (hey look, another place to express your car/track wishes!), and some 4K-era upgrades to cars from previous games.

As a quick summary of those content updates:

Thus far we've had... 99 cars across 26 content updates. That's a mean value of 3.8 cars per update. Most updates (15) have just three cars, so we can expect 3-4 cars.

The mean type/origin/newness of the cars has been:

Road Car: 2.8
Race Car: 0.8
Tuned Car: 0.2

Asia: 1.8
Europe: 1.6
Americas: 0.5

Brand Central: 2.3
Legends: 0.8
UCD Only: 0.7

All-New-to-GT: 2.7
Returning (including variants): 1.1

In terms of patterns, we've only ever seen three region-exclusive updates - 1.13, 1.52, 1.55 - and all Asia-only. There's never been two successive ones, but there were two in the last three... Only one was more than three cars, and that was 1.55.

The American-car pattern continued with 1.55. An update with any American car has been followed by three updates with none on four occasions. 1.53 had one American car, 1.55 had none - so two more updates to go!

On car counts, every update with four cars has been followed by one with three cars (1.25-1.26, 1.32-1.33, 1.36-1.38). 1.55 had four cars... However, we've also had one previous run of six updates of more than three cars with just one three-car update (1.25-1.32, with 1.26 having three) and we're five updates into a similar run (1.48-1.55, with 1.52 having three)


We can likely expect 3-4 cars. If it's four, it's probably going to be an Asia/Europe mix - two each - with two in BC and one each in Legends and UCD-only, three all-new and one returning, and three road cars with one race car.

Given my notes in the quote above... let's say:

• BMW M1 '79 - Europe, Road, Legends, All-New (and high on our Suggestions forum list)
• Hyundai i30N '24 - Asia, Road, Brand Central, All-New (and continued Hyundaing, also it's recently been included in ACEvo)
• Nissan Pulsar GTi-R '90 - Asia, Road, UCD, Returning (and high on our Suggestions forum list)
• Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak '13 - Europe, Race, Brand Central, All-New (and high on our Suggestions forum list, as well as continued Pikes Peak noises without actually adding Pikes Peak yet)

Edit: Oh yeah, average update prices have been 9.25m per update, or 919,845cr per car. That's badly skewed by the only two eight-figure updates; without those you'd be looking at 5.86m and 644,971cr per car. Those four cars would probably set you back 450k for the rally car, 600k for the M1, and probably 80k combined for the other two at a cheapish 1.1m combined.

 

[GTboyz]

hype of the next update

Wait what? What hype?

 

[jrbabbitt]

Note: above gif does not in fact imply willingness to pay for any update, ever.

Love the legal disclaimer...

 

[GlamFM]

Wait what? What hype?

Jordan seems to know about the next update and has said it’s one with a lot to talk about.

 

[Arkseven]

If the #100 car is so especial, I predict that the next update will feature only one car