This one's pretty simple honestly. I spent a whole bunch of hours recreating, or reinterpreting, on the new Supra GT500 the iconic Esso Toyota TS020 GT-One livery from the year 1998 when it ran for the first time in the GT1 category.
The GT1 car with this livery first appeared in the series in Gran Turismo 2, which is where the car made its only appearance. The rest of the times the GT-One appeared, it was in its LMGTP guise from 1999, with a different livery.
I really love Toyota's red and white brush-stroke or tiger-stripe designs. From the GT-One to several of their Formula 1 entries. I wish this livery was embraced more by the brand, maybe for the GR010 at some point? But for now I guess I'll just have to make it myself in the GT7 livery editor.
I recreated this scheme once before in GT Sport with the TS030, but between the two this version is much more faithful to the original I think. Although I wasn't able to find every period-correct sponsor so I had to take some artistic license with them. It's more of a semi-replica or a homage than a true 1:1 recreation in that sense.
Personally I skipped on using Michelin branding on the tires because there aren't any strictly white ones in the game, and the blue ones didn't look good. So the tires are brandless. Also since there aren't any Speedline rims in the game like the TS020 has, I went with the black Spoon Sports rims because they looked nice.
Fun fact, the livery is usable in Sport Mode. That’s why the number plates are placed where they are, so they get covered by the mandatory ones.
Either way I hope you guys like it and the design is available to download, as well as being fully open to editing yourself.
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