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During the shooting of the track at night or something like that? It can happen, why not.
GT6 Easter Eggs and interesting finds
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Well it is PD were talking about... Lol I suppose anything is possible...
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Except for PD making promises heh.Well it is PD were talking about... Lol I suppose anything is possible...
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From Goodwood Motor Show :
It includes brands that were not available in GT6, such as DACIA and ROLLS-ROYCE
As well as SKODA
No idea what these cars are
but the leftmost one reminds me of this:
The middle and the leftmost ones look like Alfa Romeo 8C:
Advertisements of the Ford Focus ST
Does anybody know which brand's timeline is this?
Well this one is obvious :
Numerous photos of the BMWs with the motto of the M Series:
It includes brands that were not available in GT6, such as DACIA and ROLLS-ROYCE
As well as SKODA
No idea what these cars are
but the leftmost one reminds me of this:The middle and the leftmost ones look like Alfa Romeo 8C:
Advertisements of the Ford Focus ST
Does anybody know which brand's timeline is this?
Well this one is obvious :
Numerous photos of the BMWs with the motto of the M Series:
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I noticed more interesting stuff a few days ago. While just having fun with the photo travel thingy, I came to take a closer look at two of my cars, and I found something quite interesting.
Let's start out with car 1: The Ford GT LM Spec II Race Car.
Now, it's obviously a fictive car. That the Ford GT would later get a GT1 and GT3 version (in 2009!) is pure coincidence. But what's interesting is what you see on the roof, just above the side windows. Let me show you:
A bit unclear? Here's a smaller one, things often get more clear that way:
There's obviously a german and a brazilian flag. With a very little bit of imagination, you'll see that the names are Klaus Ludw** (with * replacing hardly readable letters) and Ricardo Sonta. Doesn't those names seem a bit familiar? Well, they should. Or at least it's darned close.
The second one is more a case of mistaken nationality, found on the Pagani Zonda LM Race Car. Like the GT, it's fictive, yet there has always been driver names on it.
The names obviously seem japanese, but with italian flags next to them. I tried my best at Google searching the names, but nothing came up.So, PD's imagination gone wild yet again?
Edit: The mystery of the Pagani Zonda LM Race Car has been solved. I have to give credit where credit is due, so I'll give this to @Mustangmiha, who came up with the solution before I did (I did go into details later, though
)
Let's start out with car 1: The Ford GT LM Spec II Race Car.
Now, it's obviously a fictive car. That the Ford GT would later get a GT1 and GT3 version (in 2009!) is pure coincidence. But what's interesting is what you see on the roof, just above the side windows. Let me show you:
A bit unclear? Here's a smaller one, things often get more clear that way:
There's obviously a german and a brazilian flag. With a very little bit of imagination, you'll see that the names are Klaus Ludw** (with * replacing hardly readable letters) and Ricardo Sonta. Doesn't those names seem a bit familiar? Well, they should. Or at least it's darned close.
The second one is more a case of mistaken nationality, found on the Pagani Zonda LM Race Car. Like the GT, it's fictive, yet there has always been driver names on it.
The names obviously seem japanese, but with italian flags next to them. I tried my best at Google searching the names, but nothing came up.
Edit: The mystery of the Pagani Zonda LM Race Car has been solved. I have to give credit where credit is due, so I'll give this to @Mustangmiha, who came up with the solution before I did (I did go into details later, though
)
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Probably develpoers' names and Italian flag because of car's country of origin. I guess PD loves details.
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Bonus trivia on the Pagani Zonda:
This appears to be correct. Explanation:
The car originated in Gran Turismo 3. So, why not take a look at the GT3 intro video, just to see a small amount of the people working on that game.
Pause when you're at 0:29. T(akahito) Tejima. You'll find Y(uji) Yasuhara just 5 seconds later.
Mystery solved 👍
..and a new can begin: why exactly these two guys? Were the others supposed to get their names on other cars? Are there other names on other cars? Next time on Mythbusters..
This appears to be correct. Explanation:
The car originated in Gran Turismo 3. So, why not take a look at the GT3 intro video, just to see a small amount of the people working on that game.
Pause when you're at 0:29. T(akahito) Tejima. You'll find Y(uji) Yasuhara just 5 seconds later.
Mystery solved 👍
..and a new can begin: why exactly these two guys? Were the others supposed to get their names on other cars? Are there other names on other cars? Next time on Mythbusters..
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My theory is that they helped design the car or that they came up with the idea for it.
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I can't say it's impossible that they were the ones to forward the idea of a Zonda LM (which, like the Ford GT, later received a real-life counterpart - a Zonda GTS-class racer entered the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans) to Kaz and had their names put on it as a reward.
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Perhaps there are more names on other GT cars?
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It's possible that there's some hidden ones on other "PD fictives" from GT3/4. I guess I've finally found a better reason to grind the X2014 Standard championship than getting all 20.000.000-cars.
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So, I wonder which are these cars, the last one looks like a Ford Focus sedan or Fusion/Mondeo, or even an Audi?
I know I may be the only one that cares about this, but am I the only one that spots "Whelen" on the lightbar? I find this interesting because you hardly ever see the Whelen name outside of the US and more interestinly, its on the light bar of a car that as far as I know, was never available in the US.
Those names would be of former Mercedes driver Klaus Ludwig and former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta (Misspelled as "Sonta"). Odd that they would have their names on that car. Would've thought that they didn't have permission to those names, like how they no longer have Johnny O'Connell and Ron Fellows on the roof of the Corvette C5-R or Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace on the roof of the Jaguar XJR-9.
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@dandroid13, the "should" links to the Wiki page on Zonta 👍
@RACECAR, that is another mystery. Perhaps next time @Jordan has a chance (he's the only mortal able to), assuming he doesn't have any better questions of course, he could ask Kaz and solve a GT mystery?
I finally understand the connection between GT Auto and Grand Theft Auto (the don of easter eggs)
@RACECAR, that is another mystery. Perhaps next time @Jordan has a chance (he's the only mortal able to), assuming he doesn't have any better questions of course, he could ask Kaz and solve a GT mystery?
I finally understand the connection between GT Auto and Grand Theft Auto (the don of easter eggs)
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Laws on on-tobacco ads, actually. And if the developer puts some tobacco names on the game, they have to change the ratings of the game to +18. Not so effective on market.
Actually, is Ricardo Zonta. He lives in my city and he is a very nice guy. Next time I get in touch with him I'll bring that up. He raced in GT1 series and, if I'm not mistaken, he was the first to win a race with a GT1 Lambo.
Nice find.
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That appears to be Klaus Ludwig, German racing driver.
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I know, I linked to the Wiki page in the post if you're not afraid of links.
I think you've confused posts and names in that post..
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I know, I linked to the Wiki page in the post if you're not afraid of links.
I think you've confused posts and names in that post..
Fixed!
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Whoops!
Anyways, great find, Mort!
This one goes for both:
S**t happens
Edit: Didn't see this before:
That would be amazing @wowbaggerBR
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Wow! It's easy to forget how good the F1 cars used to look! I always thought the Toyota (Ralfs) was one of the prettiest...
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Ricardo Zonta and Klaus Ludwing won FIA GT 1998 sharing a Mercedez CLK LM.
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Ricardo Zonta and Klaus Ludwing won FIA GT 1998 sharing a Mercedez CLK LM.
Wait a.. correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the CLK-LM in GT the '98 #2?
Someone post the X-Files theme, now's a good time for that.
I would say your "t" looks more like a "d". Compare it to the d and t in Ricardos name. Which comes closer? The i/e is hardly readable, though again it looks similar to the i in Ricardo.
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Great find mort! I think there is a link to fantasy cars getting names of those working, at one time or another, with PD:
Seb Vettel, X1
The two producers, Zonda
The Ford GT Conspiracy leads me to believe that the two of them were in PD HQ at one point. 👍
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I'll ask Ricardo about that as soon as possible.
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Cool 👍
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