Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has taken to social media this morning to confirm the data of the next GT7 update as well as lifting the veil on the vehicle content it’ll bring.
We’ve been expecting the date ever since the update’s existence was revealed by Chevrolet mid-month. Polyphony Digital has tended towards distributing updates on the fourth Thursday of any given month across a lot of the game’s life. Accordingly it’ll arrive tomorrow, Thursday August 28, confirming the date hinted by a server maintenance notice for the same day.
The new social media post also presents us with the broader identities of the four cars, although there’s still some details that we’re expecting will be revealed later today. As you can spot, we were on the money with all four of our guesses from the “silhouette” post shared by Yamauchi on Friday:
Update is coming tomorrow.
明日、アップデート来ます。 #GT7 #GranTurismo #グランツーリスモ7 pic.twitter.com/hdXZEC9AsV
The front two cars were not hard to determine, given Chevrolet’s announcement almost two weeks ago, clearly presenting as the Corvette CX concept and its racing variant, the CX.R Vision Gran Turismo.
Chevrolet has been showing off concept cars from its various global studios across 2025, with the CX the third and final vehicle in the line. It’s also the only one to extend past the theoretical design phase, gaining a full-sized model and now a digital twin in Gran Turismo. In-game it’ll have a 2,000hp output, delivered by four individual in-wheel motors.
The CX, while not being a Vision GT car itself, also spawned one in the shape of the CX.R. This is more of a race-ready machine, with a combustion engine at its heart — a 900hp, 2-liter V8 — as well as electric motors that push total power up to the same 2,000hp level.
Although the shape of the sunroof gave the Avantime away, it’s only now confirmed by today’s image. It’s a car that should be familiar to GT fans from its appearance in GT4 (and subsequently the two sequels) and in a slipstream mission therein. However we won’t know which engine is under the nose — two-liter four or three-liter V6 petrol, or 2.2-liter diesel — until the car is fully revealed as there’s almost no visual differences between them.
Finally we have confirmation that the update will also bring a second variant of the Afeela 1. The “Sony car”, actually built by Honda under a shared “Sony Honda Mobility” brand called Afeela, started production tests earlier this year and while we can’t say for sure what this version will be in-game it looks like the final production form with the additional sensor clusters.
Ordinarily there’d be a teaser video for an update providing more information, some time around early afternoon on Wednesday by the UTC standard, so we likely have a few hours to wait to get more specifics on the latter two cars. However we can say that all four will be permanently available in the game’s Brand Central dealer, while the Avantime should also pop up in Used Cars from time to time.
There’s still plenty more information to come too — the focus at this stage is, as always, on the cars of the update — so watch this space for all the latest as we get it. As for the update’s availability, that’ll be the morning of Thursday August 28, at around 0600 UTC, but you won’t be able to play until the end of the server maintenance window a couple of hours after that.
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