Get Your Car in Gran Turismo via the 2011 GT Awards

Jordan Greer · · 171 Comments

Each year at SEMA in Las Vegas, Sony hosts the “Gran Turismo Awards” – a competition with one very important judge (Kazunori Yamauchi), who selects a car on display at the show for inclusion in a GT game.

The Awards have brought some interesting color and variety to car lists over the years, including Art Morrison’s 1960 Corvette and the late JR Rocha’s heavily-customized Infiniti G37, and it’s now time to add another car to GT’s roster.  If you’re presenting a car at SEMA 2011 (or know someone who is), fill out the official entry form and Kazunori will come calling. The winner will be revealed at the Awards party on November 3, 2011.

For the rest of us wondering when we’ll get to virtually thrash the eventual winner, Sony’s entry form offers some conflicting clues. The form’s main page claims the winner will be included in a “future edition of Gran Turismo“, while the official rules clearly state “the winner’s vehicle will be digitally recreated and will appear in Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 system.” As usual, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Good luck to all entrants, and thanks to all of you who sent this in!

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Comments (171)

  3. vin

    Honestly,you can call me crazy but I’m dying for a 1st gen DSM. But not just any. John Shepherd’s 91′ 7 second AWD Talon. Not a whole lot of people know what it’s like to drive a 1,000+whp AWD DSM. I myself do and it’s unlike anything else. I own and have owned all kinds of different performance cars. I have to say that the entire experiance that you get all together when driving one of these cars tuned to 1,000whp or more is awe inspiring and just leaves you at a loss for words. Sure,there are plenty of cars that are “faster” but it’s not just that. It’s just not possible to describe to someone who does’nt know. I grew up around true hot rods and muscle cars. Yet I’m still a big fan of the turbo AWD cars and I don’t think I’ll be turning back anytime soon.
    That or something that NRE (Nelson Racing Engines) built. I like the 1,500whp street driven Twin turbo big block RX-7. That would be fun around the ring! Plus they are sure to be at SEMA.

  4. RADracing

    A Porsche can’t win and even if iy did there would be a licensing issue with EA still. Just add more Ruf’s & in premium please with option to race mod & livery.

  6. fzstforce

    Why don’t they make the BMW E39 or an Opel Vxr Nurburgring Astra. That would be a head turner because it would be a beauitful replacement for the old dtm Astra.

  10. Bigbillwrx

    Holden VL Calais Turbo, Series 2, 1988 Model, the car is a machine, comes factory standard with a 3 Litre RB 30 Nissan skyline turbo engine.. This will be awesome to have this car in the game..

  19. SKOT Free

    GT5 really should have car pack DLC’s addressing different catagories like Concepts,Movie Cars, D1 drift,etc. If i did one for movie/TV show cars I’d go:

    Back to the Future delorean(With Flux Capacitor!)

    Kitt from Knightrider

    Dukes of Hazard Charger(w 01 and confederate flag)

    Automans car(Look up Automan on wiki)

    Buckaroo Banzai Jet Car

    Smokey and the Bandit Firebird

    Starski and Hutch Torino

    The Love Bug(Herbie) VW bug

    Got any more guys?

  21. Shmogt

    I’m gonna enter Pee Wee’s bike from Pee Wee’s big adventure so everyone get excited to see a bicycle come to a GT series.

  29. DJSal

    I once saw at a car show (don’t remember what) a Honda De sol with transparent hood and glow-in-the-dark mirrors and spoiler. I’m not a huge fan of the De Sol, but that was the coolest tuned car ever…I hope that guy enters the show lol

    2. TJC_69

      New content will probably be racesuits etc ( Seb Vettel , Stig & probably other racing drivers from around the world. )
      New features will probably be more live online race seasonals etc.
      No tweet from Kaz with cars & tracks mentioned , nothing interesting is coming.

      GT6 Prologue car news also.

      That is all.

  31. Stephanos82

    To vortex: don’t be so cocky and sure that i’ll do better than Kaz! I bet u anything that if you post ur ideas of how u would make the perfect gt5 half the community would probably disagree with you ! I personally love gt5, don’t give a damn about standard cars. If i could have more realistic physics, it’d be even happier! Physics > pixelated shadows or reflections of trees on my exhaust..

    1. TJC_69

      That’s not Physics , that’s graphics.

      Physics is the movement of the car(s) in relation to the track and / or it’s surroundings.

      +1 for enhanced graphics though.

    2. xXKingJoshXx

      He said “Physics > pixelated shadows or reflections…” not “Physics are pixelated shadows or reflections…” lol

  33. Jacques

    I would personally love to see a replica Delorean DMC-12 from Back to the Future! Imagine sitting inside it. Plus after you hit 88mph who knows what will happen.

  35. zman1350

    I liked the aufi, S 2000, and G37 ( although I wouldn’t want a ps3 and a tv in my G37 racecar) hopefully someone gets a Porsche in or please no cars that are like old I want something that looks original or looks radical with body kits but thats just me. I just want a car that a boy would dream about

  37. Vortex

    I wish I was in kaz his shoes… I would make gt5 so much better. Too bad there is no way for the regular guy to just make a game on the level of gt5…

  40. MrHemi

    How about ANY new cars? When the next GT gets released they’ll finally have ’10 cars in there, but 3,498 versions of one car! Kaz needs to stop doing this car show shenanigans and focus on the product!

  41. justin

    Ford Sierra rs 500.. Opel Manta 400 and the Ascona 400. And the audi Quattro rally car..why is that not on the game? Pug 205 and delta are cool but audi looks sicj

  42. YouKnowItMakesSense

    Alot of cars SHOULD be in this game,but there is one era that is not really truly represented in the game and that era is the 1980’s and if there are a car or should i say car’s that dominated in that decade they should be the following.

    The BMW E30 M5 touring car and FORD’S sierra RS500 touring car.

    Both these cars should be in the game,surely?

    1. funrun

      The E30 is an M3, but ya there are still a bunch of cars that simply can not fall through the cracks of inclusion for GT6.
      I have full confidence in PD that they’ve heard a lot of the “wants” and are doing everything to bring as absolute masterpiece for PS4.

  48. bmxmitch

    Hopefully noone shows up with some sort of Kubelwagen or Schwimmwagen…..Kazunori surely chooses this one then.. :P

  49. Mazerati

    Just remember that the car will be in “another” GT, not 5, so even if the winner was a car you really like, don’t expect to be driving it until at least the arrival of GT6.

  52. Rayline

    Let’s keep some perspective, fellas. We paid 60 bucks for a game that regularily gets tweaked and added to. I don’t recall any dlc for ‘altered beast’ on sega genesis

    1. TJC_69

      DLC as a concept for gaming companies to use as an add on tool wasn’t even invented then.
      Therefore your comment is invalid sadly.

    2. Simon

      Altered Beast was finished though. Like most games were back in those days. Now games companies release half finished games and then patch them at a later date. What is sadder is that consumers just accept it as the norm these days.

    3. TJC_69

      Welcome to the future of gaming unfortunately ……
      This particular trend will get worse & worse , & has been doing so for a while now.

    5. TJC_69

      Yes Rayline , i’m serious lol. I got your point , ( PD tweaks the game & gives us new content for 60 bucks , that’s such good value etc……Right ? )

      Then you compared GT5 to a game that was released in an era before DLC was even thought of. Whether you liked the game as much as GT5 or not , there’s no comparison that can be made there as GT5 is still an unfinished product unlike the previous game you mentioned.

      A better comparison would maybe be Uncharted 2 ? I.E – A game from this generation that didn’t require DLC as it was a complete product , was relevant to the current generation , and was good value for money.

      Maybe you missed my point perhaps ? Lol

  53. Shad0w

    How about they cut all this crap and focus on gt5 alone, and NOTHING ELSE. Think about it if you have a big late school project are you going to keep the professor (all of us) waiting for it as you parade around going out every night??? NO!!!!! And they should make up some fake aftermarket company for porsches. Real cars, fictional companies…….. I’m sick of these fools AND EA!!!!! NFS SUXXXXXXX

    1. Gtp-505

      Yeah those tight eyed radio-active rich greedy back stabing midget faggets, you don’t see forza doing this….. And I h8 forza.

    2. Erik

      You know, that is true. But only if you have an army of employees in your own studio that writes that big late school project for you.

  56. Rayline

    My car will win. I have an 87 Honda Prelude with a crown shaped air freshener on the dash and I painted my stock calipers red. I also chromed the windshield

  57. alexlam24

    I have a good feeling my mother’s 2011 Acura MDX will make it into SEMA. Its got a 3.7 liter V6, 300 HP engine plus SH-AWD for superior handling!

    1. Infiniteracing

      I do believe that car is a one of a kind. It is probably in somebodies garage somewhere and they would maybe sell it to you if your ballin like that. Or you could go buy a stock G37 and try to customize it like that yourself.

    2. Gt5 guy

      I really wonder why it has a company name then and I’ve seen a white one of those in real life so I don’t think they are one of a kind

  60. HPUnleashed

    It’s way to hard to pick just one… Maybe the 2011 Shelby Mustang? Oh, no wait! The Gumpert Apollo!

    I don’t know, honestly, I’ll be happy with any new premium cars we get!

  68. Mac K

    You guys don’t seem to get it, they’re not just putting some random car in, its just going to be like all the other years, Kaz is going to pick one car he likes at SEMA and it will win the Gran Turismo award, then it will be put into Gran Turismo.. The title is a bit deceiving though..

    2. Will

      Well, according to that math, 4 GT games would come out in 12 years, meaning 1 game per 3 years, which is a major improvement… :D

    4. Murcie

      More like it’s an American interpretation of a British sports car.

      And unfortunately the original is better than the cover.

  76. eunos_cosmo

    After briefly looking through what might/will appear at SEMA 2011, I think I’d really like to see one of the custom tuned Ford Raptor’s gain entry into the GT series. I think that would be a lot of fun, especially on the rally surfaces. There are quite a few Dakar cars already on GT5, sadly none of them are premium.

    2. neema_t

      If Ruf can be featured, I’m sure a custom Porsche could be… The other SEMA winners haven’t been the ‘Ford’ Trans Cammer, High Performance ‘Infiniti’ G37 nor the Art Morrison ‘Chevrolet’ Corvette, so surely we could have, say, a Techart GT Street or whatever. Technically they’re just as much a Porsche as Ruf are. Not that I’m holding out any hope, plus I don’t really care, but there’s probably nothing stopping PD from including a ‘Porsche’ if it won the SEMA prize.

    3. Duck

      RUF is one of the few tuners with a manifacturer license. That’t why they are in GT series avoiding Porsche EA exclusive.

    4. Gerlich

      EA has a deal with Porsche, they will not come to PD, you’ll have to do with RUF, sorry, would love to drive the Carrea GT my self :(

    8. strikey182

      Or their…
      Renault Avantime
      Renault Espace convertible
      Oliver
      MGF Limo
      Merc Cottage
      Fiat Coupe Police (comeplete with spikes)
      The list could go on, but these would be the best in my opinion :D

  82. Big Ron

    Every car, Kaz has chosen from the Sema didn´t match my taste in any way. Every car was absolute ugly customized and the original character of the car was destroyed.

    The only nearly acceptable one was the Trans Cammer. But the hood and missing bumper/ splitter was a no go.

    1. sumbrownkid

      Well he’s not exactly selecting cars to match your tastes…

      I think you’re missing the point of SEMA cars anyway.

    2. Dme

      well thats SEMA. That show is meant to showcase the extravagant, and new and wildest customization parts/ tuning shops, all attempting to one up each other from last year.

    4. OwensRacing

      Went to SEMA several years back. Thinking it was the first year too. Required credentials as an employee of a performance shop. my buddies ran Auto Improvements and got me in. What a blast. First time to Vegas and got to attend an incredible show. 1997-1999 somewhere in there when we went.

  85. wrxowner

    a really nice fox body(87-93) mustang would be sweet, its never been in a game. ive owned several. Stock there crap but theres a huge amount of aftermarket support for them.

    4. OwensRacing

      I’d love a Fox body in a drag pack.

      As well there was a SN95 Bob Bourdant* Racing school in a previous GT. That car could easily be added as standard and make me happy. They was pre mod motor version. Pushrod FTW.

  89. Robez

    “The winner will be revealed at the Awards party on November 3, 2011.”

    November 3rd 2011, sounds like a release date … :D

    7. 07_HSV_GTS

      Screw that idea, Someone make a 2007 Walkinshaw GTS and send it to the show!!! That car would win something, and needs to be in the GT5.

    10. Scott

      Hell yeah! When you screw up you just go faster than 88mph and go back to just before your mistake…….

      hmmmm… does every car in forza have a flux capacitor hidden under the bonnet?

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