Gran Turismo Sport car line-up revealed

PORSCHE will join the Gran Turismo racing sim for the first time as part of a 162-car line-up making up the new Sport edition launching later this month.

The small number of cars pales in comparison with the 1200-odd that feature in the game the Sport version is based on, Gran Turismo 6. It is expected that more models will be added in updates and as players open up new segments.

As its name would suggest, the latest version focuses purely on sports and race cars, and six competition classes: Group N is for stock road cars; Group 4 for GT4 cars; Group 3 steps up to GT3 and Group 1 covers full-blown prototype, LMP1 machines and access to some of the vehicles that have featured in the Vision Gran Turismo series of concepts. The Group N class is further divided in to 10 segments according to power output.

Rally stages and vehicles return in the Group B class, which brings back the magic and peril of 1980s Group B rallying, while participants can have a laugh at some of the outlandish hardware featured in the Group X class, which is for fantasy concepts that you probably won’t see on real-world tracks any time soon.

Players will be able to progress through a number of “sport mode” racing categories including daily races for building and honing skills against other players online. The main event in sport mode is the FIA Gran Turismo Championships, broken into manufacturer series and the Nations Cup.

Virtiual competitions with other meatspace players will be on an even playing field thanks to Advanced Match Making, which uses driver and sportsmanship rating indexes to pitch similarly skilled and mannered drivers against each other.

Race fairness will also be maintained with an automatic “Balance of Performance” (BoP) function that adjusts the weight and power output of each participating vehicle regardless of its variety or class where compatible.

Here is the full list of exciting cyber-hardware to keep you eagerly anticipating Gran Turismo Sport ahead of its arrival:

Road and race cars

• Alfa Romeo 4C (four variants)
• Alfa Romeo MiTo
• Aston Martin Vulcan
• Aston Martin One-77
• Aston Martin Vantage (three variants)
• Audi R18 TDI
• Audi R8 LMS
• Audi Sport Quattro S1 Pikes Peak
• Audi TT (two variants)
• BMW i3
• BMW M4 (three variants)
• BMW M6 (two variants)
• BMW Z4
• Bugatti Veyron (two variants)
• Chevrolet Camaro
• Chevrolet Corvette (four variants)
• Citroen DS3
• Citroen GT (three variants)
• Daihatsu Copen
• Dodge Charger
• Dodge Viper (three variants)
• Ferrari 458 (three variants)
• Ferrari LaFerrari
• Ford Focus
• Ford Mustang (five variants)
• Honda Civic Type R
• Honda Project 2&4
• Honda NSX (four variants)
• Hyundai Genesis Coupe
• Hyundai Genesis (three variants)
• Jaguar F-Type (three variants)
• Lamborghini Huracan (3 variants)
• Lamborghini Veneno
• Lexus LC500
• Lexus RC F (three variants)
• Mazda MX-5
• Mazda 6 (four variants)
• McLaren 650S (three variants)
• McLaren MP4-12C
• Mercedes-AMG A 45
• Mercedes-AMG GT (three variants)
• Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG (three variants)
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evo (five variants)
• Nissan GT-R (five variants)
• Peugeot 208 GTi
• Peugeot 908 HDi
• Peugeot RCZ (five variants)
• Porsche 911 (991) (two variants)
• Porsche Cayman
• Porsche 919 Hybrid
• Renault Clio RS 220
• Renault Megane RS (two variants)
• Renault Sport RS 01 (two variants)
• Subaru WRX (five variants)
• Toyota 86 (four variants)
• Toyota S-FR (two variants)
• Toyota TS050
• Toyota TS030
• Volkswagen Golf Mk7 GTI
• Volkswagen Scirocco
• Volkswagen Beetle

Vision Gran Turismo concepts

• Alpine (two variants)
• Aston Martin DP-100
• BMW
• Bugatti
• Chevrolet Chaparral 2X
• Daihatsu Copen RJ
• Dodge SRT Tomahawk (four variants)
• Fittipaldi Motors EF7
• Honda Sports
• Hyundai N 2025
• Infiniti Concept
• Lexus LF-LC GT
• Mazda LM55
• McLaren Ultimate
• Mercedes-Benz AMG (two variants)
• Mini Clubman
• Mitsubishi Concept XR-PHEV Evolution
• Nissan Concept 2020
• Peugeot (two variants)
• Peugeot L500R
• Peugeot L750R
• Subaru Viziv GT
• Toyota FT-1 (two variants)
• Volkswagen GTI (three variants)