Gran Turismo 7 January 2025 Update Prediction & Discussion Thread

[jonoholland29]

Recently - we’ve been getting more than 3 cars so I think there could be 3 unknown cars coming, most likely something that’s been on the back burner and gap filling like the last 5 car updates (HiAce, Jimny SC, 430Scud).

Maybe the 599, Merc 500E, another 911!

 

[sonnyboychris]

I’m hoping for implementation of Fanatec’s FullForce feedback protocol. We’ve been waiting long enough, considering Fanatec are an ‘Official Partner’.

Evidence? The DD Extreme launch press release, on Gran-Turismo.com no less, stated “FullForce support will be added to Gran Turismo 7 in a future update.”

If start putting this on the Update Prediction threat each month, eventually I must be right.
It’s been 11 months since launch, come on PD!

I'm hoping for this as well.

• I'd like to see PSSR improvements for PSVR2 users.
• Hoping that PSVR2 users will get a timing chart.
• Hopefully an overhaul to the HUD is coming soon with tire temps.
• Maybe PD will gives us a bit more variability in Sophy races. An additional level of difficulty would be nice and/or an increased number of laps.

 

[km666]

Possibly some more wheels.

The Sierra is an obvious group A engine swap omission at the moment.

I've ever hopeful the distance thing on custom races will be eventually fixed.

 

[Celso9]

Hear me out...... More Endurance races... Rolex 24 is in 2 weeks. Would be the perfect time to drive that brand new Ioniq 5 N

 

[Famine]

So.

Thus far we've had... 95 cars across 25 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.

However, every time we've had an update with five cars following an update with three cars, we've had another five- or six-car update. This has happened twice - 1.26-1.29 (3, 5, 5) and 1.46-1.49 (3, 5, 6) - with 1.52-1.54 being a three-car and a five-car update. That means another five-plus-car update would be within established patterns.


The mean type/origin/newness of the cars has been:
Road Car: 2.8
Race Car: 0.8
Tuned Car: 0.2

Asia: 1.7
Europe: 1.6
Americas: 0.5

Brand Central: 2.3
Legends: 0.8
UCD Only: 0.7

All-New-to-GT: 2.6
Returning (including variants): 1.2


As a fun fact on American cars, we've seen a pattern of their presence in updates of 0, 0, 0, 1 four times. 1.54 brought us the fourth repeat of that pattern, with the "American" Escort RS Cosworth, and actually the second instance of them being back-to-back: 00010001 occurred in 1.23-1.34 and 1.42-1.54. We've only seen three occasions where two successive updates have added American cars...

We can therefore expect a four-car update to be three road/one race, two Asia/Europe, two Brand Central and one each in UCD/LCD, and three new-to-series and one returnee.


If "1.55" brings the Hyundai IONIQ 5N and Gran Turismo F3500-A, and we assume a four-car update, that leaves us with two European road cars: one Legends, one UCD-only; one other all-new car, and one returnee.

So... let's say...

BMW M1 1979 (Road, Europe, Legends, All-New)
Gran Turismo F3500-A (Race, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Hyundai IONIQ 5N (Road, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Peugeot 406 Coupe '98 or Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe '68 (Road, Europe, UCD, Returning)

Because why not.

 

[jrbabbitt]

So... let's say...

BMW M1 1979 (Road, Europe, Legends, All-New)
Gran Turismo F3500-A (Race, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Hyundai IONIQ 5N (Road, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Peugeot 406 Coupe '98 or Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe '68 (Road, Europe, UCD, Returning)

Oh my, oh my, oh how I wish this will come to be.
(Especially the M1)

 

[Mert160]

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N 2024
Gran Turismo F3500-A
Ford VGT

 

[Famine]

Oh my, oh my, oh how I wish this will come to be.
(Especially the M1)

I just picked the M1 because it's the highest-voted European road car I could see as a potential Legends car in our Suggestions forum

 

[wagnerFAM98]

Peugeot 406 Coupe '98

Now that's one risky but hot take. French cars from the 90s looks like something PD has completely forgotten over the years.

If you filter by country and check for France in your collection list, there's one massive gap that goes from 1986 straight up to 2000 and then all the way to 2010. Not only 90s, but also 2000s French cars in general are missing. The Clio V6 surely lives in isolation there.

Of course this could change, and I hope it does, but like I said, it's a risky take.

 

[Sugivaz]

So.

Thus far we've had... 95 cars across 25 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.

However, every time we've had an update with five cars following an update with three cars, we've had another five- or six-car update. This has happened twice - 1.26-1.29 (3, 5, 5) and 1.46-1.49 (3, 5, 6) - with 1.52-1.54 being a three-car and a five-car update. That means another five-plus-car update would be within established patterns.


The mean type/origin/newness of the cars has been:
Road Car: 2.8
Race Car: 0.8
Tuned Car: 0.2

Asia: 1.7
Europe: 1.6
Americas: 0.5

Brand Central: 2.3
Legends: 0.8
UCD Only: 0.7

All-New-to-GT: 2.6
Returning (including variants): 1.2


As a fun fact on American cars, we've seen a pattern of their presence in updates of 0, 0, 0, 1 four times. 1.54 brought us the fourth repeat of that pattern, with the "American" Escort RS Cosworth, and actually the second instance of them being back-to-back: 00010001 occurred in 1.23-1.34 and 1.42-1.54. We've only seen three occasions where two successive updates have added American cars...

We can therefore expect a four-car update to be three road/one race, two Asia/Europe, two Brand Central and one each in UCD/LCD, and three new-to-series and one returnee.


If "1.55" brings the Hyundai IONIQ 5N and Gran Turismo F3500-A, and we assume a four-car update, that leaves us with two European road cars: one Legends, one UCD-only; one other all-new car, and one returnee.

So... let's say...

BMW M1 1979 (Road, Europe, Legends, All-New)
Gran Turismo F3500-A (Race, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Hyundai IONIQ 5N (Road, Asia, Brand Central, All-New)
Peugeot 406 Coupe '98 or Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Coupe '68 (Road, Europe, UCD, Returning)

Because why not.

Why Vw Karman?😂😂

 

[05XR8]

Just going by 2024 updates, I don't know if it's too soon for PD to add another highly requested car in this website from the "Sorted by Likes" Car Suggestions.

We just got the Escort. Four months before that we got the E36. Four months before that we got the TS020(Race Car). Though the TS020 Road Car is 21 of 35 on the first page. Four months before that was the last update of 2023 and didn't have any top 35 Suggested cars in that update.
The 10th highly Liked car is the BMW M1 1979. 9th is the Koenigsegg Agera S 2013. 8th is the McLaren 12C GT3 2013.

If 2024 was just an outlier in terms of the selection and spacing of those additions so be it. If that four month interval continues into this year, we'll see.
The 22nd and 23rd cars being the Peugeot 208 Pikes Peak and Lancia 037 Rally Car, respectively. It could be either of those in addition to whatever else may be added in the next update.

Anyway, I would predict a Japanese car from Asia in this update. Just based on the Hyundai and FT3500-A being in Asia Brand Central. That lead me to the only highly suggested Japanese car left in the top 35, the aforementioned TS020 Road Car 1998. Again, it would be too soon based on how cars were added last year, but it's what I'll go with.

Might not be too risky as a famous Peugeot is in the top page of the Suggestions list. The brand got lots of attention in GT Sport with the race cars being a bit over powered in many Sport Mode events. It’s died down in GT7, but at least the Gr.3 cars got an alternate liveries(like many other Gr.3 cars).

I do like the idea of the M1, but I’m boarderline dreaming that one. It would be so right to finally get the first M badged car into the franchise. Nice way to start the new year of updates.

 

[gambleboyen]

Why Vw Karman?😂😂

Because why not.

 

[Nakano219]

For those who haven't seen, it's been confirmed no car in the update is from the datamine.

With that new information, I'm going to change my prediction to the two World Finals cars plus a road and race car. Because predicting both is more fun!

The race car: A bit ago I made a post outlining how PD's race car additions look. TL;DR - it's basically like a Hall of Fame, they pick cars that won stuff rather than full grids of a series/year. On that logic, any relatively recent Le Mans winner (Peugeot 905, V12 LMR, R8 LMP900, Speed 8, 499P) I think is a viable pick, but I will instead go with the 1998 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V Rally Car. It ticks all the boxes for a GT7 race car add - it won WRC, it's a old GT favourite, they've added '90s rally cars already so licensing is possible, and it "fills a gap" in that it's slightly weird to have the Impreza but not the Evo.

The road car: Given we already have a 2010+ car in the Ioniq, I think picking something pre-2010 as a second road car is wise. In this case I'm sticking to to my old reliable guess of the Mine's R34 GT-R from the movie credits. I refuse to believe they didn't scan it, and since October the R34 is now the only Skyline/GT-R that hasn't had some DLC love (Kenmeri, R30 Super Silhouette, R31 GTS-R, R32 Nismo, 400R, R35 T-spec).