Polyphony Digital is heavily embedded in the automotive industry, and it regularly collaborates with motoring brands to create concept cars of the future, playable within the Gran Turismo games. And here’s Porsche’s effort: a design lightly inspired by the existing all-electric Taycan, with quad-LED lights on the front.
No specifications for the concept car have been announced at this stage, but you’ll be able to drive it exclusively in Gran Turismo 7, of course. The body uses a mixture of carbon and titanium, so it should be nice and light. There’s also a pretty rad holographic display on the dashboard, with dials displaying battery capacity, speed, and so on.
If you’re interested in more of the specifics, Porsche has put together a 13-minute presentation introducing the concept car and some of the design decisions behind it:
This should be pretty fun to test drive in the game come 4th March. Are you a fan of these concept cars that Polyphony Digital designs alongside real-world manufacturers, or do you prefer to focus on vehicles that actually exist? Put your foot down in the comments section below.
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Because I can tell you as a former motoring correspondent, EVs may not burble like sucking doves, and they may not have that vroom vroom araaaaaagh araaaaaagh that you love,
But they have so much torque that they move off the lights faster than a Ferrari.
I'm still in two minds whether to get this or not. I haven't played a GT since 2, and I'm not really a sim guy, prefer arcade. But I'm really liking what I'm seeing so far.
@nessisonett watching motor racing is 50% sound to me, it's a dark future for sure.
I've always wanted to play one of these racing games but then I just get really bored playing them.
Y'all wrote it as porche in the first paragraph. Anyway that looks sick, I didn't know they regularly had these futuristic type cars in their games.
@nessisonett it's true. I have a hybrid now and after driving the Audi A5, Merc C220 and Golf GTD (not to forget my Toyota Yaris and Mini Metro) my supposedly worse Toyota Corolla GR Sport hybrid goes 0-40 in no time at all. Well quicker acceleration. It struggles after 50 mph but other than on the motorway when the A5 and C220 are way better, it my favourite car driving through Liverpool.
@Anke Always fascinated by different opinions. Yours seems to be the more common view. Personally I've never understood the fascination with loud, noisy machines as they literally give me a headache. The quieter the better in my book but realise that is an unpopular view with petrolheads.
@Cherip-the-Ripper Thanks, fixed.
@Cherip-the-Ripper Yeah has been a thing since GT6 with the Vision Gran Turismo initiative. I am sure we are going to see a couple of more cars. theres that Lambo they announced originally for GT Sport and Mercedes just showed of a vision car as well, wouldnt be surprised if that made it into GT7 as well
@themightyant I whole-heartedly agree with having nice quiet cars going past my window and around towns and cities but I need that noise when watching/listening to cars for pleasure.
It's a part of cars that it's going to be very hard for dinosaurs like me to do without.
@True_Jehuty oh dude that looks dope as well, I'll be keeping tabs on the next installment. Haven't played any since 3 as a kid sadly.
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