Gran Turismo 7 Update Arrives Next Week, With Three New Cars

[HarVee]

I can't really see the Unimog having much practical use outside of the Sunday cups and maybe the pickup truck races. I'm not saying it's a bad addition, just one with not a very practical usage is all.

Wouldn't surprise if the extra menu this time around is one about collecting the three pickups (Raptor, Tundra and now the Unimog).

 

[BlinkerFluid]

Kinda pumped for the unimog it will pair well with the Willy’s. I just hope they give it an AMG or Bugatti engine swap. Maybe they will add a eiger norwand track variant with it.

 

[Pilot625]

Kinda pumped for the unimog it will pair well with the Willy’s. I just hope they give it an AMG or Bugatti engine swap. Maybe they will add a eiger norwand track variant with it.

Pairing would make for some pretty cool scapes

 

[Pilot625]

What's a "mom car"?

Why do you even play this game if you think cars are boring?

Some of the cars in the game are not great. “Mom” cars are probably not in the jargon of your country. Slang for station wagons, hatchbacks, SUVs. Mom’s frequently use them for running for groceries and carting their kids around in with baby seats. The number of “mom” cars to updated race cars have been a bit lopsided in the eyes of many. We have three weekly races. They are always GR4 and GR3 cars. It would be nice if the cars were of the last couple years since we have to choose from them so frequently.

There is nothing wrong with the mom cars, however, 2 years in people are itching for some of the newer race cars. We got the fake F1 car from the 90s. It’s nice but still fake. Maybe a licensing problem? I doubt it given there are actual F1 replicas in the game.

Additionally, I think people are also wanting purpose built famous tracks. For the life of me, I cannot understand why Silverstone isn’t in the game since it was a feature of blockbuster Gran Turismo movie. There were also other tracks featured in the movie that aren’t in the game and the last track, after the cinema release, was the imagined Eiger track instead of a real life rendition.

I think if you just got into the game then all the fuss is baseless. If you are a day one consumer and love the franchise its getting stale and frustrating to the point that a pay for DLC would be preferable to free updates of everyday “mom” cars.

(Mods: I don’t know how to do the multi quotes)

 

[ScottPuss20]

I unironically like the Unimog a bunch now after reading it's story and driving the 2014 version in Forza Horizon 5. The truck might weigh 7 tonnes but driving it at 125KM/H on dirt tracks is a load of fun. Not sure how the older version will fare in GT7 but I'm excited to try it out because I haven't driven anything of the sort before. Gran Turismo likes to celebrate automotive heroes and the Unimog is definitely one of them due to it's versatility and more than 70 years of production. It's used to fight fires, carry building supplies, tow cars, rescue people, transport military troops, plow the fields and tow bails of hay around a farm. It can also be used as a recovery vehicle on the race track. Without the Unimog, a lot of motorsport would not be able to take place. All that from a machine first introduced in 1948. I'm happy that GT is giving it some love.

 

[HarVee]

Some of the cars in the game are not great. “Mom” cars are probably not in the jargon of your country. Slang for station wagons, hatchbacks, SUVs. Mom’s frequently use them for running for groceries and carting their kids around in with baby seats. The number of “mom” cars to updated race cars have been a bit lopsided in the eyes of many. We have three weekly races. They are always GR4 and GR3 cars. It would be nice if the cars were of the last couple years since we have to choose from them so frequently.

There is nothing wrong with the mom cars, however, 2 years in people are itching for some of the newer race cars. We got the fake F1 car from the 90s. It’s nice but still fake. Maybe a licensing problem? I doubt it given there are actual F1 replicas in the game.

Additionally, I think people are also wanting purpose built famous tracks. For the life of me, I cannot understand why Silverstone isn’t in the game since it was a feature of blockbuster Gran Turismo movie. There were also other tracks featured in the movie that aren’t in the game and the last track, after the cinema release, was the imagined Eiger track instead of a real life rendition.

I think if you just got into the game then all the fuss is baseless. If you are a day one consumer and love the franchise its getting stale and frustrating to the point that a pay for DLC would be preferable to free updates of everyday “mom” cars.

(Mods: I don’t know how to do the multi quotes)

If the game is getting stale and frustrating, then perhaps it's time to take a break from it for a while? You're not forced to play GT7 obviously.

I'd rather have the road cars, or "mom" cars as it's being apparently called now, over the latest race car simply because race cars don't interest me in any way whatsoever, and from what I can gather from reading reddit and X, it seems that is a common sentiment within the GT player base. There really only seems to be the sport mode people advocating for more modern race cars.

As for paid DLC, it seems often that people forget PD tried that with GT5 and that it wasn't a huge success and only ended up dividing the player base.

 

[equalitus]

But what interesting cars are there from the last 5 years?

Some racing cars from WEC of the different classes. Does updated [sports cars] models count? There's diminishing returns of the fun to be had by adding cars from 1-3 years ago, & costs more stupid license money, but GT7 mostly has enough old cars. It's also a challenge in GT7 timeframe that many of us are 'old' & played earlier GT games & like to see some of them in GT7 or equivalent cars. But that's not gonna be much newer the 7-10 years ago.