Running a day early than we’d been expecting, the September 2025 update for Gran Turismo 7 is now available to all players following the server maintenance period.
The update, dubbed 1.63, is quite a bit weightier than usual, perhaps reflecting the additional vehicle content that it brings. On PlayStation 5 it comes in at 1.541GB, while the PlayStation 4 version is even chunkier at 2.252GB, so you’re going to need a little longer than usual to get it downloaded.
Along with the update we have the final full patch notes, so read on to find out everything you need to know about update 1.63!
We’d already been able to guess what the five — yes five — new cars were from the silhouettes posted over the weekend, and that was further refined with the pre-update teaser yesterday. Now we have final confirmation of the cars’ availability and pricing:
As with all of the Vision Gran Turismo cars, the Opel Corsa slots in at the 1,000,000cr value, making it not only by far the most expensive car in the update but four times costlier than all of the others put together.
Three of the remaining four are, like the VGT, available in Brand Central and the Mazda is perhaps surprisingly the next priciest, coming in at 120,000cr. It’s a lot of money for an MX-5 variant — even the Roadster Touring Car is cheaper — but then again it is the most powerful factory MX-5 ever made.
Meanwhile the 276hp Hyundai Elantra N is a surprisingly reasonable 36,000cr, although it is going to be a little tricky to find races for it as one of the very few Asian road cars in the game that is — obviously — not eligible for the various Japanese events. It does appear as a cover car for one of the new races, but it’s going to need some tweaking to be remotely competitive.
Finally for the new cars there’s the Toyota RAV4 Adventure at just 33,000cr. It’s only just shaded by its older sibling, with the FJ40V appearing as one of Legends Cars’ least expensive offerings as it requires just 44,100cr — although this price may change in future updates in line with the dynamic pricing found here, the latest update to which has also occurred today.
In total then the 1.63 update will cost you just 1,233,100cr to pick up all of the new cars, putting it in at the 20th most-expensive update yet. Notably, the combined cost for all of the updates has now crept past 100m credits at 100,300,670cr by initial values.
This month’s update brings more new races than usual, with five in total. For the most part, each is intended for one of the new vehicles, although the Land Cruiser doesn’t get its own event this time round.
Sadly, and for the second month in a row, there’s no expansion for GT Sophy, leaving 17 locations (five of which are dirt or oval courses) without the ability to race against this advanced AI. There’s also neither a Bonus Menu Book nor even an Extra Menu Book, the latter of which now seems to be coming once every other update.
The best-paying race is the one not associated to one of the new vehicles, coming in the World Touring Car 700. It’s a ten-lapper at Alsace Village, worth 250,000cr for victory.
Next on the list is the Vision Gran Turismo Trophy, unsurprisingly featuring the new Opel as its star car. This actually references the car’s first ever race, in the Invitational Race at the recent GT World Series Berlin, though over a slightly longer distance: it’s five laps of the Nurburgring GP circuit, with 100,000cr on offer for the win.
Pushing it close for value is a new round of the Race of Turbo Sportscars. Unexpectedly, given the 700PP cap, it features the new Elantra N as its cover car and comprises five laps of the Watkins Glen Short Course for a 95,000cr winner’s prize.
Finally we have two lower-value events, with the 12R featuring on the thumbnail for the two-lap race of Suzuka in the Japanese FR Challenge for 40,000cr, and 20,000cr coming in the Sunday Cup’s two-lap race of Sardegna Road Track C Reverse featuring the RAV4.
We’ve got another big engine swap month, with another ten ways to upgrade the power unit of a variety of cars. All ten this month feature existing engines, and five apply to cars that already have a swap available to them, bringing the total to 220 swaps across 197 of the game’s 548(ish) cars.
Unusually, one of the new cars is available with an engine swap immediately. That’s the Land Cruiser, which can receive V8 power from the Roadster Shop Rampage Camaro’s LS7 and we can’t imagine that’s going to be at all subtle.
A couple of the game’s road-legal track-day toys also get new V8 power units this month, as both the BAC Mono and KTM X-Bow can now use the Suzuki Vision GT Gr.3’s V8. In fact there’s a lot of V8s going around, as the Dodge Challenger Demon’s lump finds new homes in the classic R/T ’70 and both the GR Corolla and GR Yaris.
It’s probably a surprise that the S15 Silvia Spec R Aero hasn’t had the option for the GT-R’s VR38DETT to date, which this update corrects, but it’s still not the most madcap of the remaining engine swaps.
In fact we’re not sure which is: the Volkswagen GTI Vision GT Gr.3 engine for the Polo GTI; the Alfa Romeo Giulia’s Ferrari-derived V6 for the Toyota 86 GT; or the Audi Quattro Pikes Peak engine for, of all things, the Citroen BX. There’s certainly a lot of extra power floating about this time.
You can buy engines directly from GT Auto if you are Collector Level 50, although some of them may be quite expensive. Engines are also available as prizes in some Roulette Tickets — including Six-Star (Engine) tickets — at any level, and can be swapped in your garage for free.
After last month’s Tokyo-focused Scapes update, this month heads to almost the opposite side of the planet with a selection of 17 new locations in Bolivia.
There’s a variety of spots from the capital La Paz to terrain shots that include mountains, desert, and salt flats. Grab a classic off-roader like the new Land Cruiser and you can stage yourself an old Top Gear episode…
Elsewhere in the patch notes this month, we have a change to the motor deployment and recharge of the Corvette CX.R Vision GT, which makes it a bit more useful in longer races. There’s also a fix for the Daily Races bug which caused slipstream to be displayed as disabled.
Along with price updates in the Hagerty Legends dealer, some new character conversations in GT Cafe, “various other issues”, some text localization, that’s it for the patch notes this month. There may be more details not listed — such as the temporary unavailability of any details or tuning for the 12R — which the GTPlanet community will be uncovering over the coming days in a dedicated Undocumented Changes thread.
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