Camouflaged Corvette C7 Appears in Gran Turismo 5
Two very curious reported discoveries in GTPlanet’s Forums are attracting quite a bit of attention today.
The most significant comes from GTPlanet user jstickboy13, who reports having seen a camouflaged Corvette C7 appear during one of the game’s “screen saver” sessions, which displays race replays or Photomode locations during period of player inactivity.
GTPlanet user edwinpr also saw the car, and was able to verify jstickboy13′s claims with the following video.
UPDATE: GTPlanet user Furinkazen has also confirmed the car’s existence and recorded another video.
Close observers will note the car’s license plate appears to display the word “POLYPHONY” in the blue stripe along the top. Those following development of the new Corvette will recognize it from many recent spy shots which have been published in the automotive media.
The inclusion of a camouflaged car is, of course, not unprecedented for the Gran Turismo series; GT5 Prologue introduced a camouflaged version of the Nissan GT-R, which was later updated in the game after the car was officially unveiled.
The second curious sighting comes from GTPlanet user Ferraridude308, who reports having spotted a striped Lamborghini Aventador in Gran Turismo 5‘s online Photo Stream website. However, since this blog post was originally composed, the suspicious stripes have since been proven to be shadows cast on the car.
As always, stay tuned in to our forums as our community continues to analyse, discuss, and verify these claims.
UPDATE: GTPlanet user priesty_lfc has now captured new photos of the Corvette C7:
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November 12th, 2012 at 2:59 pm - #KiroKai
To be honest that’s the detail I care mostly about, because it shows PD think about real license plates, imagine they would introduce a license plate editor to GT6 (or GT5 Spec III… speculations FTW) where you can choose from real countries and than choose custom characters…
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November 12th, 2012 at 2:08 pm - #Quakebass
…Aventador is *caused by* some type of shadowing…
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November 12th, 2012 at 1:10 pm - #Pit Crew
Jordan interviews Kaz and lo and behold, things start happening in GT5, right in tune with Anniversary and Holiday season. Im impressed…but cautious.
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:36 pm - #ORPHANTHIRTY7
What BWX?
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:33 pm - #BWX
And we won’t be able to shift it properly with a stick because the transmission simulation is wacked. Won’t be able to shift if wheels are spinning to fast.. I wish PD would fix problems like that after all these years.
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:35 pm - #HarVee
You’re still expecting them to fix problems? Wow.
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:37 pm - #another_jakhole
Mother, Father, I have something to tell you…
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November 12th, 2012 at 2:03 pm - #Quakebass
I don’t think that we’ll be getting much of that at this point… So all I really want for this game is event packs. The seasonals just aren’t cutting it for me. And at least SLIGHTLY improved AI algorithms, and same physics online as offline.
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:31 pm - #ORPHANTHIRTY7
Look at post #163 and down. People are recreating the stripes already. And i don’t know if you don’t know this but not all shadows on GT5 are blocky
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:05 pm - #TheGTGuy
If there Shadows on the Lambo then why are they perfect and not jagged at the edges? And there to well aligned to be shadows.
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:37 pm - #HarVee
Because it’s taken in photo mode. The cars & game environment all look better when captured in photo mode.
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:22 am - #japlkofk69
Quit bitching damnit! This is great!
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November 12th, 2012 at 9:05 pm - #TheGTGuy
Ah ok thanks for clearing that on up :)
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:22 am - #ORPHANTHIRTY7
@ topolino
Are you really wanting to be that ignorant?
Have you ever seen a car with everything covered driving around where you live? If not well i used to live in Michigan about 20 minutes from Detroit and i had seen this many times. Pretty cool actually. I always tried to guess which car they are. I had seen the 2003 viper & 2005 Mustang before.
I am sure the zebra print isn’t the final result. But the covering looks just like what I had seen in Michigan for years.But come on bro. Why can’t you be satisfied? They don’t have to bring it in at all. Be happy.
Pretty sure the C7 will be coming soon considering it says in the dealership 17 cars but there are only 16 cars at the moment.
As for the rumored chrome line avantador. No it is shadows creating the stripes on the car at SSRX. And these stripes have been recreated on other cars and probably more as we speak.
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:03 am - #RobDoggy05
Im leaving this site with a smile on my face for a change instead of a frown :D
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:19 am - #teth75
A frown because of all the pathetic, comments about how PD don’t know what they’re doing, I hope?
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:46 pm - #another_jakhole
…teth75
DAYYUM! Where’s your voice been? That was spot on about what BWX is/has been doing.
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November 12th, 2012 at 6:15 pm - #Dekropttiv
+100 jakhole
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November 12th, 2012 at 8:53 am - #r3dnekteddybear
i turned on my ps3 just to see if i can see it an i also did see the camo corvette.
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November 12th, 2012 at 8:49 am - #Hentis
Defeinately a nice pattern on the corvette under the cover. Anyone recognise it at all?
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November 12th, 2012 at 8:28 am - #DavidtheGT20
If it was drivable….
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November 12th, 2012 at 10:25 am - #SpartanUK
Some of you might get a surprise shortly… =)
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:13 pm - #another_jakhole
Oh what the flurge. I can’t play for at least another week. Damn you SpartanUK !
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November 13th, 2012 at 5:10 am - #SpartanUK
It will be fine for you too anyway, don’t worry and come back in 2 weeks time. =)
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November 12th, 2012 at 8:04 am - #SimonK
Lambo is confirmed to be shadows on route X.
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November 12th, 2012 at 7:55 am - #jedisteampunk
I wouldn’t say that the Corvette C7 is camouflaged exactly, its more like a disguise that is a common practice used by manufactures to put on development vehicles (just like the Nissan with the black mask). They are used to obviously disguise the shape of the vehicle underneath from prying eyes. I’m sorry if I have missed that if anybody else has already made this comment.
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November 12th, 2012 at 1:12 pm - #Pit Crew
Camouflaged… just leave it at that.
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November 12th, 2012 at 2:18 pm - #seanchump
Camouflage is the correct term in this case since it applies to an object and not a person. The definition of camouflage is a set of methods of concealment that allows otherwise visible objects to remain unnoticed by blending with their environment or by resembling something else. A disguise conceals or changes a person’s physical appearance. Camouflage is a type of disguise for people, animals and objects.
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November 12th, 2012 at 2:59 pm - #SZRT Ice
@ PIT CREW
+1
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November 12th, 2012 at 7:54 am - #99999Evolution
Solved
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November 12th, 2012 at 7:19 am - #VSTMcLaren
I’m sorry but does nobody see “jan 13″ on the license plate….what probably means 13 January or January 2013
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November 12th, 2012 at 8:00 am - #NewCadillac
The C7 corvette will debut on 1/13/13 at the Detroit Auto Show.
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November 12th, 2012 at 7:13 am - #infamousphil
Right on!!! Another Corvette up for a Viper butt kickin! But thinking twice about the ‘C7′ nomenclature as Mr. Reeves Callaway used it in the 90s. I’d rather PD get around to TCing or RMing the SRT10 like they did the ZR-1 AND ZO6. Think it would more appropriate?
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November 12th, 2012 at 6:33 am - #Doober
has a spec 3.0 been confirmed or are all these comments just speculation?
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November 12th, 2012 at 7:22 am - #e30 freek
Speculation :)
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:16 am - #another_jakhole
There has to be a sendoff for GT5. HAS TO.
PD has to know we’re expecting Spec 3.0.
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November 12th, 2012 at 11:41 pm - #QuikSlvr223
Am I the only one that noticed how PD, instead of doing small things in a 2.9.1, then 2.9.2, etc., saves all of those small things for an update with a new tenths (or, rarely, a new ones) digit? I can’t remember an update for GT5 with 3 numerical digits.
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November 12th, 2012 at 6:30 am - #Tvensky
I like when developer puts some hints and hidden stuff for users to discover… :)
For now the only reason I dont play GT5 as much as in the release time is because of tracks… lack of tracks is the biggest issue… If ps update GT5 with about 30 new tracks or sell them in DLC… I could play GT5 for 3 more years with no need for GT6…
Cars are already amazing in this game.. but lack of tracks makes GT5 life cycle for me way too short…..
and thanks for fixing online, it seems I dont get online lobby freeze anymore and online itself is more stable… thank you!
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November 12th, 2012 at 6:31 am - #Tvensky
EDIT: ps -> PD
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Nice representation of Michigan license plate