The Race Cars of Gran Turismo 2

[submaniac93]

Dammit. I've been trying to go to this website yesterday when I was trying to find the car but for whatever reason I can't access it :X "Too may redirects" my butt. I can't even load the front page.

Edit: but I can access it in an incognito page... suspicious.

Edit2: indeed there's some of that red in there. Only missing thing is that the whole side must be yellow. I wanna find the correct white/Yellow though!

EDIT3: Well here it is... in all it's non-photographed glory. At least now we know who drove it.
I've looked some more, aparently, by 1996, the car had changed to a red top/white sides scheme. So yeah. The Yellow has no photo afaik. That's sad.

 

[tankuroded]

Based from a Super Taikyu official program flyer, it appars that the 1996 Prelude RM is a real car as well:

The Toyo Group Prelude competed from 1997 until 1999, when it become the Argo Labo car in '99.

 

[submaniac93]

I am saving this for later reskinning~
Great find! I wish there were more photos of super taikyu models. I have a feeling there are a bunch more models that were inspired by that.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

Welp, sorry for the bump. I just wanted to know, what cars from VW are these MK.4 Golf Racing Mods based on?


I'm trying to make replicas of them in Forza Motorsport, but I can't complete it since some of the decals are hard to make out.

 

[submaniac93]

As far as I know, the Golf 4 hasn't been engaged in many things. There's the 2.0L Kit Car version, and i don't think ay of the official liveries looked like those.
Here's what I got from around the 1999 era.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

This FC Mazda RX-7 looks quite similar to the racing mods used on the 1990 RX-7 GT-X and Cabriolet.
http://re-xtreme-extra.blogspot.com/2010/02/tsuchiya-and-fc.html

 

[submaniac93]

If Keiichi Tsuchiya drove it, then it's very likely that's the inspiration. Nice find!

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

The racing modification of the R30 Nissan Skyline Turbo RSX.

 

[submaniac93]

I got you beaten right here with the actual R30 RM right there
Nissan Skyline RS Turbo - Wada/Suzuki JTCC 1986

And the AE86 Levin while we're at it.

Comparison:

 

[Gerarghini]

Pikes Peak mobiles are up. Took a while making the logos because there's barely any information from Pikes Peak past 2000.

 

[tankuroded]

This Mustang Gr.4 color scheme looks familiar...

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

The Alfa Romeo 156 Racing Modification found, the Group N Touring Car.

 

[tankuroded]

 

[LeGeNd-1]

Really cool video, great work for compiling all these 👍 I didn't know about the RX7 15th Anniversary Edition until now. Such a good looking car

BTW, livery is pronounced lee-very, not lie-very.

 

[submaniac93]

I posted some additional stuff in the comments if you're curious

 

[FRR35H]

Great video!
Towards the end though when you were talking about the Castrol livery on the Lancer Evo that the RM RX7 used, you mentioned it was also on a RL Civic but infact the image was of a Lancer/Mirage coupe.

 

[submaniac93]

Lol @FRR35H tankuroded isn't Mattj155 but FMecha (correct me if i'm wrong, I do get people confused if they have different names on websites)

Bue yeah Matt did mistake it but it's alright, may people including him commented on the video ad it's no big deal anyways ^^

 

[FRR35H]

OH! WOOPS! LOL.
Anyways, great video regardless. I wonder if we will get a GT2 version . I didn't realise just how many of those liveries were based on actual cars.

 

[submaniac93]

If Matt does a GT2 version he'll have a lot to speak about haha

 

[05XR8]

The Alfa Romeo 156 Racing Modification found, the Group N Touring Car.

Another of my favorite touring cars.

 

[GuardsmanBlue]

I don't know if this has been posted/pointed out before:but i found out that Demio RM is real!



EDIT:sorry for linking but i have problem with pictures attached (didn't worked for me at now).

If this has been discovered before:i'm sorry for repost.

Greetings!

 

[submaniac93]

I did find those before but I don't think I posted them on GTP. Sadly the website that hosted the original images is gone since a few months ago (was a geocities website) and i didn't get to re-download the images after my hard drive on which all of my collected images died q.q

 

[DrAE86]

... uuuuuuuuuuhmm ... lads! I don't know if anyone realized it, but the RM of the Accord is COMPLETELY wrong. The model you show is the Japanese version, but the European one is completely different.

Here some photos of the European Type R

And here the Japanese version.

There IS the European version in GT2 however, but I cannot remember of you can race modify it or not.

 

[submaniac93]

Both are in the game. The JDM has a BTCC inspired livery and the EUDM has a fictional RM with a DTM spoiler.

Also you're thinking wrong as GT2's RM is based on the previous generation Accord in 1997-98, not the Type-R from '99

EDIT: unless you really just wanted to point out that GT2 was wrong, in which case, GT2 is wrong on a lot of things heh

This

And not this

 

[DrAE86]

In one point you're completely right, GT2 is wrong in SO many places.

But as far as I know the rebadged Rover 600 wasn't in this game. But the looks of this paint looks astonishing, no matter what.
... not to mention Peter Kox ...

I must say the paint on the later model looks good as well, simple but effective.

 

[Railgun]

Even if this is a little bit off-topic, Im going to post it here.
A livery based on the cerumo CmdaOne toyota supra that I made for the NFS Shift 2

And another destroying a bentley and a Mp4 in a straight

 

[tankuroded]

The red/white scheme for the Viper GTS RM is actually period correct for GT2, although not for GT1; it ran at 1999 ALMS season.

 

[tankuroded]

The Alfa GTV Cup car, the base for Alfa GTV RM:

And a Tuscan Challenge car. This very model appears to be the base for the RM that was used in PAL/US version of GT1 and carried over to GT2:

The rear is also almost identical.

 

[tankuroded]

More mystery solved: The Sunny VZ-R Sedan RM is based on the car used at 1995 Macau GP, driven by Masahiro Hasemi.

 

[submaniac93]

Hasemi huh. I'm guessing it's the same Hasemi as the Hasemi Motorsport team that ran most well-known JGTC cars heh