Category Archives: Gran Turismo 5

Video: Acura NSX old and new get together in Gran Turismo 5 vid

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Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Hybrid , Performance , Videos , Acura , Toys/Games , Luxury The Acura NSX Concept was only just unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show and here it’s already in a Gran Turismo 5 video. The newest take on an ecological supercar features Honda’s recently pointy concept-design language, as well as a V6 amidships getting help from three hybrid motors and Acura’s SH-AWD. The real thing has been promised three years hence, but if this stab at it does get to production, we have no doubt we’ll be seeing a lot more of it before then. The next phase in the NSX-fest begins after the jump , with two minutes of the supercoupe on an angry run through GT5 vistas

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Video: Acura NSX old and new get together in Gran Turismo 5 vid

Review: Forza Motorsport 4

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Filed under: Toys/Games Playing With The Enemy And Loving It In the interest of full disclosure, I should make it clear up front that I have always been a loyal devotee of Gran Turismo . The series helped craft my automotive knowledge through middle school and high school, helped me choose the proper spring rates for my track rat in college, and generally consumed days and days of my young life. So when Turn 10 introduced Forza Motorsport for the Microsoft xBox in 2005, I was skeptical. Whereas Gran Turismo seemed to push the realism line ever further, Forza Motorsport felt laced with traces of Cruisin’ USA or some other relic of the arcade circuit.

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Video: Matt Farah drives the Art Morrison 3G 1960 Corvette

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Filed under: SEMA Show , Convertible , Performance , Videos , Toys/Games Five years ago, a gent named Art Morrison won the Gran Turismo Award at SEMA for his 3G Corvette . A come-hither restomod, Morrison had tucked a bucket of modern internals – like his own chassis supporting an aluminum V8 with 538 horsepower and a Viper transmission – under the body of a 1960 Corvette. The prize meant that his car would appear in Playstation’s GT5, which it did the following year (as seen at right). Matt Farrah, in his guise as Mr.

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Report: Gran Turismo 5 to get first major update, Red Bull X2010 prototype

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Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Toys/Games , Racing Polyphony Digital has something special planed if Sebastian Vettel manages to take the Formula One Driver’s Championship for the second year in a row. Vettel made history by becoming the youngest driver to ever take the title last year, and if he pulls off a repeat performance, Polyphony says it will release the Red Bull X2010 in game to anyone who logs on to Gran Turismo 5 .

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Video: Speed teases reality show chronicling Nissan/Playstation GT Academy

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Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Videos , Nissan If you’re looking for the ultimate example of life imitating art imitating life, look no further than the Nissan /Playstation GT Academy . The program pits thousands upon thousands of gamers playing Gran Turismo 5 against each other in a fight over a spot on Nissan’s actual racing team.

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Audi & Sony create the ultimate racing simulator

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Recently unveiled at gamescom, the R8 LMS simulator was purpose-built by quattro GmbH and plays Gran Turismo 5.

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