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GT Sport has stopped receving significant updates around February 2020, so it's been 25 months until GT7 release.Or you could look backwards.
Being super generous, between the final content update for GT Sport in July 2021 and the launch of GT7 in March 2022 - and let's call that 8 months to be extra-kind to the "stockpiling" argument - PD produced an additional 90 cars. That's 86 (424-338) plus four additional cars that make up for the four lost from GT Sport (Hamilton AMG VGT, Mercedes W08 & Color Variation, Fittipaldi EF7).
That is a rather improbable (given the 60 cars/year capacity statement) more than 11 cars a month, albeit that was produced in the busiest single period of content production in the run up to the launch of a new game.
However, the final car added to GT Sport was not part of a regular content update, but as a standalone. It - the Toyota GR86 - was launched in-game to coincide with the real launch of the real car, as what we presume was a special promotion with the longest-standing partner.
We have to look back much further - before the Toyota GR Yaris in November 2020, the Mazda RX-Vision GT3 in May 2020, and the Toyota GR Supra in April 2020 - to find the final regular content update of three cars in February 2020. As that was late-month, it was almost exactly two years before GT7 arrived.
That gives us a value, with PD modelling cars only for GT7 and not producing them for GT Sport any more, of... 3.75 cars a month.
Now... maybe PD really is holding back three quarters of a car each month from GT7 for GT8, but outstripping the current production rate by nine cars a year in the busy content production window for an all-new game makes the stockpiling argument seem... weaker than it already was.
In 2021 we got only two Toyotas, as well as it's was obvious that GT7 have been in deep development, since GTS got only 2 cars in span of February '20-July '21 Making it 1.5 years.
Looking at the bigger picture, currently GT7 has 503 cars and with all the updates GTS has 338 cars, making it around 165 cars added in span of 4 years and several months.
One could simply only hope what GT8 might become.