We have a slightly earlier than usual date for the next Gran Turismo 7 update, with series creator Kazunori Yamauchi confirming the date to be Wednesday September 24.
Eagle-eyed fans might have spotted a game server maintenance notice announced earlier today with the same date, and these windows tend to directly correspond with game updates. The subsequent social media post from Yamauchi cements that, bringing the update one day earlier than we were all expecting — and interestingly also affirms that the fourth Thursday of a month is the “usual” time…
Update is coming tomorrow.
This time, it's one day earlier than usual.
明日、アップデート来ます。
今回は、いつもより１日早いです。#GranTurismo7 #グランツーリスモ7 #GranTurismo pic.twitter.com/oJTBUe9rMo
Update (23/09): We’ve now also received the remaining pre-update information, and the article below has been edited to reflect this.
As for the contents, with the veil of shadow lifted we can see that our guesses over the weekend from the silhouette teaser were pretty much on the money.
The Opel Corsa GSE Vision Gran Turismo wasn’t hard to spot, and it’s one of which we’ve been aware for a couple of weeks, after Opel/Vauxhall made the announcement. It’s essentially a hopped-up preview of the seventh-generation Corsa sporting the latest “compass” design language as well as an 800hp dual-motor electric drivetrain.
Made from a flax-composite material, the Corsa also sports some wild aerodynamics that include a dynamic diffuser and dual-action dynamic wing. Players who got a chance to give it a whirl at the GT World Series in Berlin, as well as the invited media and influencer guests who raced it against one another, will have also discovered the boost feature which adds 80hp for a short burst.
Moving anti-clockwise we reach the fifth-generation Toyota RAV4. This was the only large question mark in the list, as the RAV4 has an almost identical sibling in the shape of the badge-engineered Suzuki Across but the image reveals it’s the Toyota. It also shows, by way of the front skidplate, that it’s the Adventure trim — subsequently confirmed in the blog post — sporting a two-liter gasoline engine good for 169hp, driving all four wheels through a CVT.
That’s going to be accompanied by a sibling, but a much, much older one as the FJ40 Land Cruiser joins the roster. Although we can easily spot that it’s the original, short-wheelbase two-door in the later hardtop variant, the model was produced for 20 years and came with a range of engines — including diesel and gasoline units — so this is another that we’ll need to wait on for more detail. However it does add to a list of classic off-roaders, including the Willys Jeep with which the game launched.
We’ve got factory sports halo models next, with the Hyundai Elantra N the fourth car as we carry on counter-clockwise. The Elantra N is the brand’s flagship sedan, and one of five “N” cars — named for the Namyang HQ and the Nurburgring on which the vehicles are honed — in the range, joining its 5N sibling. Unlike the 5N the Elantra N is an older-school ICE model, with a 276hp, two-liter four-pot driving the front wheels and should prove an interesting rival for the FL5 Civic Type R.
Lastly we have the top-dog MX-5 model, in the shape of the Mazda Spirit Racing Roadster 12R. This track-ready, road-legal model joins two Mk4 MX-5 siblings in the game but is the first ND3 model, and sports Super Taikyu-derived technology. It’s the most powerful MX-5 variant ever made, with 200hp from its two-liter engine, and only 200 units will ever be produced.
Excluding the classic Land Cruiser, this looks to be one of the “newest” updates we’ve seen so far. The RAV4 will be the oldest, as a pre-facelift, 2020 car, but the Elantra N and Roadster are all in their latest iterations and listed as 2023 and 2025 models respectively — and the Opel is of course brand new.
That means we’ll see four of the five in Brand Central, with the Land Cruiser in the Legends dealership. It oughtn’t be a particularly expensive update either as other than the Vision GT which will sit at the default 1m credit price, none of them are even six-digit value cars.
The latest blog post also confirms what we were expecting elsewhere in the update. There won’t be a new track again, and we’ve just about lost count of the number of times we’ve written that, but there is a haul of five new races that mostly cater to the new vehicles (even if a little tuning may be needed).
Not yet listed is any information on new GT Sophy circuits or new Bonus/Extra menu books, so we may have to wait until morning to find out those details along with other data like the prices of the cars and new engine swaps. There are some new Scapes set in Bolivia though.
Otherwise we’d expect more races associated to the new vehicles, possibly some new Extra Menu/Bonus Menu books, additional GT Sophy circuits (and cars), and some general housekeeping. As for the update’s availability, that’ll be around 0600 UTC on Wednesday September 24 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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