Gran Turismo News and Information

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Hey GT fans! We’re excited to announce all of the new content coming to Gran Turismo 5
next week, including our second round of DLC. Next week you’ll be able
to download Car Pack 2 for $3.99 and add some fantastic new rides to
your garage. Car Pack 2 includes the 2011 Mini Cooper S, 2010 Volkswagen
Golf VI R, 2010 Volkswagen Scirocco R, and the new and improved 2012
Nissan GT-R Black edition R35.

There’s more good news, because as a special gift anyone who purchased
anything from the first batch of DLC will get unlock the Gran Turismo
Racing Kart 125 SP and five New Car Refresh cards in the game for free.
The refresh cards will take any car back to being ‘as good as new’ while
maintaining any modifications or paint jobs you have given your motors.
To take advantage of this offer, you’ll need to install the new
downloadable update hitting next week.

The free downloadable update coming next week will also add several
new enhancements to GT5 as well as correcting some reported issues. A
few examples of the benefits of update 2.02 include:

• Users can now change wheels on Standard cars
  
• The settings sheets will include a new ‘copy’ feature
  
• In GT Auto, players will be able to see how the oil changes,
  aerodynamic parts, engine overhauls, and racing modifications will
  affect performance points and engine power, before and after their
  application
  
• Free coupons have been added that allow you to wash cars, change
  oil, overhaul your engine, or refresh the car body in GT Auto (10
  coupons will be distributed for free to each of those who have
  downloaded the 2.02 update)
  
• Pressing the Square button in the car coupon selection screen of the
  Car Delivery will now allow you to exchange all car coupons at once,
  rather than doing one at a time
  
• In screens where the [Garage] and [Driver List] buttons are
  displayed in the A/B Spec events, Special Events, and Seasonal Events,
  pressing the Square button will now show the [Garage], and pressing the
  Triangle button will bring up the drivers list
  
• In My Lounge, the room settings will feature a new ‘Max. number of participants’ setting
  
• In the event selection screen of seasonal events, there are now
  ☆(star) marks that show the number of Gold Trophies attained in each
  event
  
• Improved racing sound effects
  
• Elements of the steering assist controls (used when using certain controllers on Racing Karts) have been tweaked
  

As an additional gift to players this holiday season, everyone who
downloads the 2.02 update will also receive the stunning Toyota FT-86
2012 to add to their in-game collection.

One more note: Those who purchased the course and/or vehicle DLC that
was released in October will be able to download Family Upgrade unlocks
for free from the store. This means that if you bought the Racing Car
Pack, Course Pack, or the ‘Complete Pack’ that contained both of these,
by downloading the free Family Upgrade items, the content will now be
accessible to more than just the user account that purchased the
content. Family members or friends using the same PS3
can all use the courses and cars. Note that the upgrade doesn’t apply
to the Racing Gear Pack or Special Paint Pack, and starting next week,
new purchases will not have the restriction in place.

And don’t forget, there’s only one week left to compete in the special GT5 Time Trial Challenge and unlock a special edition Nissan GT-R for your garage. We hope you enjoy the free game updates, new cars and new batch of DLC. Drive safe!

Revengel wrote:So...I'm curious about reviews of the 86 from the locals. Not that this is something I was waiting for with baited breath (that would be the Ferrari 288 GTO '84 if they ever do that) but I'm actually curious as to what folks think.



I like driving in lower PP cars; I feel the subtle changes in speed, course & suspension mean more (especially the line you take!) than in higher powered cars.

clacksman wrote:I wondered where/how you got the '11 concept.

Also, Rev:
Stock 86 GT has not enough rear spring to deal with bankings/compressions (Cape Ring/Trial Mountain etc). On a flat track it's okay. Buy a suspension and increase rear spring for acceptable handling in bankings/compressions.

clacksman wrote:Here's the US version of the NSX vid

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/d6188.html

Cool superbanked track and some sort of night road and some sort of harbour road seen, but we've seen more road in these promo vids that we don't have yet.

Apparently you can get this free thru GTTV or the PS Store.

timneyb wrote:I wonder if they model that 4 wheel independent kers systeme properly, considering how badly the Prius TC is modeled. I did not lose any gas in the enduro I ran with it.

HWKII wrote:According to the diagramming in the video, the motor driving one wheel is even capable of recharging the battery while that wheel has it's rotation retarded by virtue of being on the inside of a corner

clacksman wrote:

HWKII wrote:According to the diagramming in the video, the motor driving one wheel is even capable of recharging the battery while that wheel has it's rotation retarded by virtue of being on the inside of a corner

You overthought that. On hybrid/electric cars, any deceleration is somewhere you can get energy from. What they're doing is slowing the inside wheel and speeding up the outside wheel to aid turning.
Furthermore Honda has been doing torque splitting via active diffs on street cars since the 90s (google Prelude SH), it's neat to see them take it another step beyond that and the more recent SH-AWD (various Acuras) and apply it like this.