Although it’s only been six weeks since Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi first, surprisingly, announced the Spec IV update for GT7, it’s felt like longer — but it is now finally here.
Split into two parts, with one arriving today (as v1.72) and the other at an unspecified date in December 2026, Spec IV brings the kind of wide-ranging feature updates and structural changes that only a “Spec” update can deliver.
Coming in at an appropriately chunky 7.5GB on PlayStation 5 (5.3GB on PS4), Spec IV Part 1 sits just below Spec II in terms of size — beaten only by 1.54 and Spec III, which were both double-digits and required a preload to limit demand on servers.
Over the past six weeks we’ve learned plenty about what the update will bring, but it’s only now that it’s landing on consoles that we have a mostly complete picture.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Sugo Circuit
With only around two circuits per year being added to the game across its life, it’s always a big deal when one arrives in an update. Spec IV Part 1 is so blessed, with the addition of Sportsland Sugo.
A first new circuit added to the Asia-Oceania region since launch, Sugo features only the one main layout at 2.23 miles and is immediately pressed into action with a Lap Time Challenge event starting today.
Notably it’s also the first circuit added to the game after its original launch to feature optional wet weather conditions.
Sugo also continues a theme from 2026’s updates for Circuit Experience events, although that’s probably no surprise as not only is that seven updates in a row for CEs but it’s an entirely new location.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Circuit Experience
Tapping into the circuit’s real-world hosting duties, the Sugo Circuit Experience features the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500 ’16 Super GT car.
There’s a total of four individual sectors, each awarding up to a paltry 6,000cr for gold, and the full lap attack offering up to 30,000cr for gold — with a target of 1:13.200. Grabbing at least bronze in all five awards another 200,000cr, and upping that to gold across the board earns 1,000,000cr.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Cars
Six new cars, of the 12 coming across Spec IV, is one of the larger single drops to date. Again, we’ve known their identities for a little while, but price and availability is always a bit of guesswork until the update lands:
- Citroen 2CV6 Charleston 1986 – Used Cars – 33,000cr*
- Ferrari F355 Berlinetta 1994 – Used Cars – 360,000cr*
- Honda Civic Si Group A Version 1987 – Legends Cars – 125,000cr*
- Honda Step WGN Spada Premium Line 2023 – Brand Central – 37,000cr
- Mazda RX-Vision GT3 Evo 2026 – Brand Central – 600,000cr
- Xiaomi Vision Gran Turismo – Brand Central – 1,000,000cr
In terms of raw credits cost, this one’s a middle-of-the-road update. 1.72 is the 39th content update up until now, and it’s the 18th priciest — and even then, that’s skewed by the obligatory 1m credits for the Vision Gran Turismo.
Of course various added features today could make some of those variably priced older cars a little more expensive, and you’ll want several copies of the Step WGN to account for engine swaps, but at 2.15m credits for one example of all six it’s not a bank-breaker.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: Brand Central Changes
There’s a significant redevelopment of Brand Central in Spec IV Part 1, bringing a lot of the game’s car acquisition features together via the Vintage section and the Car Concierge.
For the first time, you’ll be able to view every single car in the game in one place while shopping for new motors, as every brand is now part of Brand Central. That includes companies that no longer actively trade or even make cars.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: Vintage
You’ll still only be able to buy cars made from 2001 to the present day here, but the Vintage section within each brand allows you to view its other, older offerings and different standard colours.
The interface also tells you in which dealership a particular car is available, and whether it’s currently in stock there or not — allowing you to hop directly to that dealer and buy it if so. If not…
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: Car Concierge
This new feature allows you to order a car — whether it’s in-stock or not — from the Legends or Used Dealer, and in any available colour of your choosing as well as in standard or “mint” condition.
In essence, you navigate to the car within the Vintage section of Brand Central, select the vehicle, colour, and condition, and click on the “Car Concierge Request” tile featuring the NPC “Stephanie”. The car is then added to your request slots and arrives within a few days.
While it will cost extra to have a car sourced for you, and more for a mint-condition example, you don’t pay immediately. That will allow you time to save up for particularly pricey cars — and beware, this now makes it possible for some cars to cost more than the previous 20,000,000cr limit — so you are no longer limited by the car going out of stock.
Only one (reusable) slot is available when you first unlock the feature, by completing the main GT Cafe Menu Book career, but you can open up to four by increasing your Collector Level.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: Experience
This feature is also part of the Brand Central changes, bringing events to manufacturers within their home dealership — similar to the one-make races in Gran Turismo 2, but as missions rather than races.
With Spec IV Part 1 these are limited to four manufacturers: Hyundai, Polestar, Xiaomi, and Yangwang. It doesn’t take a great deal of knowledge to spot that these are three battery EV-exclusive brands (until and unless we get the Polestar 1) and one with a heavy EV focus among recent additions.
Each line-up comprises four short sectional time attacks at various courses, offering 4,000cr apiece for hitting the gold times, and completing each at bronze or better unlocks the fifth and final “exam” test with the same reward.
There’s no particular additional rewards for doing any of this — a small price reduction at that brand, or even a roulette ticket would be nice — so this one’s for the completionists.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Races & Events
We already knew that the update would bring six new races, including the circuits hosting them and the events involved, but it’s only now that the full format data is available.
That isn’t the sum total of events though, with the Experiences adding another 20 mission-style challenges, and the Sugo Circuit Experience also mentioned above.
Additionally there’s three new collection-based Extra Menu Books, as well as the regular Seasonal Menu which won’t come as too much of a surprise.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New World Circuits Races
- European Clubman Cup 600 – Dragon Trail Seaside/R (4 laps) – 75,000cr
- European Sunday Cup 400 – Sportsland Sugo (3 laps) – 42,000cr
- Sunday Cup – Autopolis Short (2 laps) – 25,000cr
- Vision GT Trophy – Spa-Francorchamps (4 laps) – 80,000cr
- World Touring Car 600 – Sportsland Sugo (6 laps) – 90,000cr
- World Touring Car 800 – Sportsland Sugo (20 laps) – 170,000cr
As expected, the Caterham is the cover star for the European event, the Toyotas for the Japanese event, and the 6N for the WTC600 race.
Even though all three races are on circuits that are on the longer side, it’s just ten laps of new racing this time round.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Extra Menus
There’s a bumper crop of three brand-new Extra Menus, but you’re going to need a high Collector Level to have access to them all.
Unusually, none feature any car from the current update, focussing on three triplets of performance and racing machines already in the game before now.
You’ll need to collect: the Polestar, Xiaomi, and Yangwang production cars for “High-Performance EVs”; the Mine’s R34, Nismo 400R, and Nismo Z-Tune for “Tuned GT-Rs”; and the Ferrari 499P, Ford Mark IV, and McLaren F1 GTR ’95 for “Le Mans Winners”.
The rewards for the latter two are at least as good as it gets, with Six-Star Roulette tickets offered, while it’s only a Five-Star for the first.
- Extra Menu 55 – High-Performance EVs – Five-Star Roulette Ticket
- Extra Menu 56 – Tuned GT-Rs – Six-Star Roulette Ticket
- Extra Menu 57 – Le Mans Winners – Six-Star Roulette Ticket
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Seasonal Menu
The regular Seasonal Menu is also available, and we reckon you’re going to want to check back shortly for another one as well.
These require you to collect cars added in the update, within a short window of just 17 days, and this time there’s only three you’ll need: the Mazda, the Xiaomi, and the Honda Step WGN.
That leaves three others, of course, which we’re expecting to form a second Seasonal Menu before the Part 2 update in December.
The reward is potentially mediocre, comprising a Five-Star Roulette Ticket and all of the various items it may contain: the most likely is a 100,000cr bump.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: New Engine Swaps
We have the usual big-update quantity of new engine swaps, bringing ten cars receiving new swaps, for a total of 12 new applications. There’s no entirely new engines, but three of the new vehicles added in the update get swaps right off the bat and we have a watershed moment too.
That comes with the Honda Step WGN, which has not just one, and not even two, but three swaps to become the first car in the game with a third possible engine swap.
They’re some wild choices too, with the turbocharged K20 from the Honda Civic (FK8) Type R the most pedestrian of the three. Also available is a V8 from the GAC Maverick, at just the 1,199hp, and an F1 V12 out of the F3500-A.
Joining the Step WGN in getting swaps from the off are the Citroen 2CV and Honda Civic Si Group A. Both can take on the Honda Integra (DC2) Type R engine, which is a step down in raw power for the latter, but a six-fold bump for the former.
We’re going to briefly gloss over the four Lamborghinis — Aventador, Diablo, Gallardo, Murcielago — all gaining a Chiron swap, as well as the Demon V8 slotting into the Peugeot RCZ Gr.3 Road Car. Suffice to say, that’s a lot of new horsepower in each case.
That leaves two unusual swaps, with the classic Mini Cooper S gaining bike power from the Honda 2&4 concept, and the Mazda RX-Vision concept road car now appropriately buffed with the 787Bs rotary in place of its own original.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.72: Other Changes
Two particular changes should jump out at you, especially as you’ll be surprised by the one you’d thought you’d turned off.
That’s a new opening movie, which features some of the more recently added content as well as a glimpse at December’s Autumn Ring addition (none of the cars though, as far as we can tell). Accompanying that is a new main menu screen which pays homage to the first Gran Turismo as part of the impending 30th anniversary celebrations.
Photography buffs will be happy to see two new sets of Scapes, comprising 15 spots around the newly added Sportsland Sugo circuit and 34 at the famous (or rather infamous) Angeles Crest Highway near LA.
Car Viewer is another of the highlighted changes. Available in your garage, this one allows you to set your current car into one of seven backdrops and view — and photograph — it from different angles or freely rotate it. Interiors don’t appear to be viewable though.
Notably, photographs taken in this mode are included in the “Snap-Happy” PSN Trophy requirements, with the description updated accordingly.
Just as with Spec III, Spec IV features an increase to the Collector Level cap, bumped up by another 20 levels to CL90. If you already meet the requirements for the new levels, having accumulated the appropriate number of points, you’ll be automatically upgraded.
This is associated with the Car Concierge slots and Extra Menu Book unlocks, although we don’t yet have details on the precise requirements for the former.
There’s a small wand-wave over the physics model, with new default settings for suspension and differential gear on the four race car categories. Early reports also suggest an unpublished change to BOP which looks to have ended the category dominance of certain vehicles…
Changes are also enacted on ballast, limiting the amount for lighter cars and the positioning in order to prevent imbalanced setups.
In addition we’ve got the scheduled update for the prices of cars in the Legends Cars dealer, and support has been added for the Moza RS5P wheel before its official launch.
That just leaves us with the regular “various other changes”, which our community will be uncovering in the regular Undocumented Changes thread over the coming days. No, that doesn’t include update Suzuka signage…
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