If you’re anything like us, you’ll have spent much of this week poring over the finer details of everything coming out of PlayStation’s special Gran Turismo 7 State of Play. We certainly have, and you can find out everything we know to date in our Ultimate Guide to Gran Turismo 7.
However, one of the key things revealed during the event was an almost complete car list for day one — or at least it was if you were looking closely enough!
We’ve been hearing about GT7’s launch day car list for a little while, with the most recent figure being 428 cars — as shown in a Behind the Scenes video on an in-game screen. With State of Play divulging more than 400 cars from the list, we’re now at roughly 420 vehicles accounted for.
Of those, the overwhelming majority are coming straight from Gran Turismo Sport, which means 338 cars migrating over (although the Fittipaldi EF7 is curiously absent right now). Thus far we’ve learned the identities of another 84, including some that are entirely new to the series and some that make a return after being absent from Sport.
The All-New Cars
Just about 60% of the cars added to GT7 are brand-new to the series, with a mixture of derivatives of familiar models and some that have simply never been seen in a GT game in any form.
Perhaps the most obvious of these are the four new Vision Gran Turismo cars — with a fifth model we’ll touch on later. Lamborghini’s “Lambo V12” made its debut at the 2019 FIA World Finals in Monaco, but has had to wait more than two years to join the game, and it’ll land alongside Porsche’s new Vision GT car, an updated SV version of the Jaguar VGT and — very curiously — a Roadster version of the Jaguar too.
In fact Porsche has the most brand-new cars of any manufacturer, largely by virtue of never having been in GT before Sport. Included in its nine newcomers are two of its greatest ever road cars — the 911 GT1 Street Version, and the Carrera GT — along with classics like the 550 Spyder, 356 hardtop, and 917K race car.
There’s space for a couple of Pebble Beach Gran Turismo Award winners too. The Ferrari 500 Mondial won the competition in 2012, so it’s been waiting for a decade to appear, while the Mercedes Benz S Barker Tourer hits GT7 after just over four years. Oddly, another Pebble Beach car, the overall 2008 champion Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta, looks to be joining them, rather than the 2019 GT Award-winning 8C 2300 Zagato.
Along with the Ferrari 500 there’s a slew of new models from Maranello, including the F8 Tributo, F12berlinetta, and the classic Testarossa. The FXX K will also make its debut, upgrading on the FXX which appeared in GT6.
Among the most curious additions to our eyes are “touring car” variants of the Honda Civic EK Type R, the Nissan Silvia S15, and the Suzuki Swift. These ready-made racers are similar to the Mazda Roadster Touring Car, but look set to join the Gr.4 class.
It wouldn’t be a GT game without historic curios, and there’s some new ones coming in. They include the Willys MB — the classic World War II “jeep” — the special order Nissan Fairlady Z Z432, De Tomaso Mangusta, two versions of the 3.0 CSL (with the 3.0 and 3.2 engines), and the pocket rocket Abarth 695.
Classic race car enthusiasts might be sated by the Alpine A220 and the Mercedes W194 300SL, while those looking for track day toys need only settle on the UK section of Brand Central, where BAC and Radical both make their GT series debuts with the Mono and SR3 respectively.
If you like your classic GT games, then the addition of some more ordinary fare to tweak will come as good news. The Ford Focus RS Mk3, current-gen Honda Civic Type R, updated Subaru BRZ STI, Suzuki Swift Sport 2017, Mazda RX-8 Spirit R, and Mk5 Volkswagen Polo GTI all make their first GT appearances. There’s also a debut for the brand-new Nissan Z.
The Genesis brand is also set to make its debut as the standalong marque rather than the Hyundai sub-brand. After the initial announcement of three cars — a Gr.4, a Gr.3, and a Vision GT car — two have subsequently been confirmed, and they’ll be joined by a G70 road car. The brand’s Vision GT won’t make launch day.
- Abarth 695 1964
- Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Berlinetta 1937
- Alpine A220 1968
- Aston Martin DB5 1964
- Audi R8 GT3 LMS Evo 2019
- Autobianchi A112 Abarth 1985
- BAC Mono 2011
- BMW 3.0 CSL 1972
- BMW 3.0 CSL 1973
- BMW M3 1989
- De Tomaso Mangusta 1969
- Ferrari 308 GTB 1976
- Ferrari 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Coupe 1954
- Ferrari F8 Tributo 2020
- Ferrari F12berlinetta 2013
- Ferrari FXX K 2014
- Ferrari Testarossa 1991
- Ford Focus RS 2018
- Ford GT LM GTE 2018
- Ford Mustang Boss 429 1969
- Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R 2016
- Genesis G70 AWD 3.3 Performance 2022
- Genesis G70 GR4
- Genesis X GR3
- Honda Civic (EK9) Type R Touring Car 1997
- Honda Civic (FK8) Type R 2020
- Jaguar Vision GT Roadster 2022
- Jaguar Vision GT SV 2021
- Jeep Willys MB 1945
- Lamborghini “Lambo V12” Vision GT 2019
- Mazda RX-8 Spirit R 2012
- Mazda RX-Vision Concept 2016
- Mercedes 300SL W194 1952
- Mercedes AMG C63S Coupe 2015
- Mercedes AMG GT R 2017
- Mercedes AMG GT Black Series 2020
- Mercedes S Barker Tourer 1929
- Nissan Fairlady Z (S30) Z432 1970
- Nissan Silvia S15 Touring Car Gr.4
- Nissan Z Performance 2023
- Porsche 356 A/1500 GS Carrera 1956
- Porsche 911 964 Carrera RS 1992
- Porsche 911 993 Carrera RS 1995
- Porsche 911 996 GT1 Strassenversion 1997
- Porsche 917K 1970
- Porsche 917 Living Legend 2013
- Porsche Carrera GT 2003
- Porsche Spyder Type 550/1500 RS 1955
- Porsche Vision Gran Turismo
- Radical SR3 SL 2011
- Subaru BRZ STI Sport 2018
- Suzuki Swift Sport 2017
- Suzuki Swift Sport Touring Car 2017
- Volkswagen Polo GTI 2014
- Wicked Fabrication GT 51 2016
The Returning New Cars
Just over 30 vehicles are coming back from previous GT games having skipped out Gran Turismo Sport, and they do include some old favorites and versatile rides.
We obviously can’t start anywhere else but the Castrol Tom’s Supra. It’s an iconic car from the series, strangely absent from Sport, considering that it’s a racing car, but thankfully back for GT7 — along with the Alfa Romeo 155 Touring Car and Nissan Pennzoil GT-R.
These classic racers will be joined, or rather rejoined, by the Mercedes CLK-LM, the BMW-branded McLaren F1 GTR, the GT4 cover car version of the Ford GT LM Race Car, the flying fridge Chaparral 2J, and a rallying great in the shape of the Peugeot 205 T16 Evolution.
Tuner favorite Amuse returns with the tweaked 350Z from previous titles joining the S2000 GT1 which was curiously under the GT brand in Sport. There’s also the return of the Shuichi Shigeno Edition Sprinter Trueno, which packs considerably more firepower than its ordinary AE86 sibling.
We know the watching meme fans won’t have missed the reappearance of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V, and it’ll be joined by the Evo VI with which you could complete pretty much half of Gran Turismo 6.
There’s plenty of regular cars in there too, with the VW Scirocco R, Nissan 370Z, and Nissan Silvia S15 and SilEighty returning. And of course no GT game would be complete without different model years of similar cars, so a younger Civic EK Type R and an older Integra Type R are welcome returnees too!
- Alfa Romeo 155 2.5 V6 TI 1993
- Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione 2008
- Amuse NISMO 380RS SuperLeggera 2008
- BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car 1997
- Chaparral 2J 1970
- Chevrolet Corvette (C3) Stingray L46 350 1969
- Chevrolet Corvette (C4) ZR-1 1990
- Chevrolet Corvette (C6) ZR1 2009
- DMC Delorean DMC-12 2004
- Ferrari F430 2006
- Ford GT LM Race Car Spec II
- Honda Civic (EK9) Type R 1997
- Honda Integra DC2 Type R 1995
- Honda NSX Type R 2002
- Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 2009
- Mercedes 300 SL Coupe 1954
- Mercedes CLK LM 1998
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V GSR 1998
- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI Tommi Makinen Edition 1999
- Nissan 370Z 2008
- Nissan Fairlady Z (S30) 240ZG 1971
- Nissan SilEighty 1998
- Nissan Silvia S13 Qs 1988
- Nissan Silvia S15 Spec R Aero 2002
- Nissan Skyline KPGC10 GT-R 1971
- Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R GT500 1999
- Peugeot 205 T16 Evolution II Rally Car 1986
- Plymouth Superbird 1970
- Renault 5 Turbo 1981
- Toyota Aqua S 2011
- Toyota Celica GT-Four (ST205) 1995
- Toyota Prius G 2009
- Toyota Sprinter Trueno Shuichi Shigeno Edition 2000
- Toyota Supra GT500 1997
- Volkswagen Scirocco R 2010
There’s likely still a handful of cars yet to be revealed before Gran Turismo 7 launches on March 4, on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, so keep an eye on GTPlanet for all the latest!
