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Gran Turismo 7 "February" 2025 Update Prediction & Discussion Thread
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The social media car featurettes from the last update have not yet started - they've posted about all the ancillary stuff (the Sophy tracks, the Group C Extra Menu, the Scape) but no cars as of yet.
If they don't start next week, don't expect silhouettes at the weekend.
If they don't start next week, don't expect silhouettes at the weekend.
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I think you take the term „legendary“ too serious, these cars don’t have to be all legendary (Alpine A220 or Maserati Merak for example), sure it’s part of it and many of them are, but it’s overall just for classic, more exclusive, rare and yes also iconic, legendary cars, but there’s not a clear line between this and the used car dealership. Cars like the Citroen DS or the Porsche 356 could also be in the UCD, while on the other hand an Alfa Romeo Giulia or many of the Porsche 911s from the 90s, Ferrari Testarossa could also fit in the LCD very well I would say.
But in the real world you also have often enough totally different cars at the same dealer like an old Beetle and then an old racer from the pre-war era or something.
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A couple of years ago, we got Grand Valley, maybe this time we will get Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and / or other circuits like Red Rock Valley. We shall See soon.
Hopefully they add FullForce so we can get impressions on how it stacks up against TRUEFORCE.
Wonder when they will finally show something regarding Pikes Peak but would prefer that to be in a new game announcement.
Hopefully they add FullForce so we can get impressions on how it stacks up against TRUEFORCE.
Wonder when they will finally show something regarding Pikes Peak but would prefer that to be in a new game announcement.
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So in 2023, February got a new track, and there was also a late March update, with 5 cars each. November 2023 a year and a half after release we got Spec 2. 2024 Feb/March saw 3 cars each and no track. I think it might be likely we get a Spec 3 with a bunch of new content to mark the 3rd year of the game
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Not for nothing, but you can create the Yellowbird in the game fairly easily. Drop the 959's engine into the 964 RS, make a few adjustments, and voila - Yellowbird.
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The Alpine A220 is hardly a racing legend, more of a deep cut from racing history with legendarily bad luck. It's an evolution of the 1-litre Alpine M63 prototype, which had a class victory at the '63 Nurburgring 1000km, then three DNFs, one fatal, at the 1963 Le Mans.
In 1964, the revised 1.1-litre M64 won its classes at Reims and Le Mans, and was the most efficient car there.
In 1965, one 1.3-litre M65, two M64s, one M63 and two Alpine A110s entered Le Mans and none finished.
For 1966, the M65 design evolved into the A210. With the surviving 1.3L cars finishing 9th, 11th, 12th and 13th overall, they were the fastest cars under 2L, and most efficient.
Alpine had great plans for 1967, and made an A211 with a new 3L V8 from Gordini. The engine didn't fit the old body, so the rear end was made much larger. In its first races it was found that this engine also didn't like running at high speed for hours, which is not ideal, so a field of A210s was sent to Le Mans instead. Class victories and efficiency awards for the little engines (though the only other 1.3L entry classified at the finish was an Austin-Healey Sprite).
In 1968, the A220 debuts with a new long-tailed and now RHD body that better suited the purpose, and its Gordini V8 was asked kindly not to explode. Four A220s were sent to Le Mans, one had an electrical failure, two more were let down by their brakes. The survivor that finished at the hands of Jean Vinatier and André de Cortanze did admirably, finishing 8th, but were 28 laps behind the two Porsches that dominated the 3L class. A very nice Matra-Simca with a 3L V12 was running a similar pace to the Alpines but had a puncture (and caught fire, apparently) in the 22nd hour, around the time of the third A220 retiring. A210s won the 1.3 and "1.15" litre classes, of which 1005cc Alpines were the only entrants. The humble A110s raced too, but didn't complete enough laps. Oh wow this post is getting long.
In the 1969 Le Mans, famously won by the Gulf blue and orange GT40 in an extremely close battle between Ickx and Herrmann... only one of the 14 cars that finished the gruelling challenge was an Alpine, an A210, winning the 1.15L class-of-its-own. Seven Alpines did not finish. Additionally, one customer A210 did not arrive.
Alpine left Le Mans for a while. After cutting the A220s tail off, the only successes I can find recorded are that it took second place at a race at what is now Circuit Paul Armagnac (Coupe de Nogaro 1968?) at driven again by Alpine rally driver Jean Vinatier, and 3rd at the Chamrousse hill climb. (Vinatier again? It's obscure.)
So yeah, TLDR, the A220 is a pretty car, and an interesting car, from a legendary era of motorsport, driven by legendary drivers. I suppose its historical context solidifies it in the Legend Car Dealership, even it isn't a winner.
Now I know the Howmet TX exists. Whoa.
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The event's website doesn't say anything about Gran Turismo, but there's a slight (and past) connection. At a similar event in previous years, Red Bull F1 cars raced near Meiji Jingu Gaien, on a road that forms part of the Tokyo Route 246 circuit from previous Gran Turismo games.
FLAT OUT IN TOKYO｜Red Bull Showrun x Powered by Honda
On April 2 (Wed), Honda and Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 machines will run through Tokyo.
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Not good enough, I want a REAL Yellowbird, not some replica I have to make with some mere tuning.
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