Jordan Greer

A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges arrives this Friday, August 28, as your console clock ticks past midnight. As always, there’s five events on the slate, you’ve got seven days to work through them, and there’s bonus reward tickets on offer for checking them off.

Three years after the Gran Turismo movie hit theaters, one of its most recognizable costumes is up for grabs: the Nissan NISMO racing suit worn by Archie Madekwe as Jann Mardenborough, complete with a belt nameplate reading “J. Mardenborough”.

The online LEGO rumor mill (yes, that’s a real thing) has been buzzing for months about a brick-built recreation of the original PlayStation console, and the latest reported details include a hidden Gran Turismo diorama built into the set itself.

The debate around Gran Turismo 7’s new physics model has raged all week, but one notable endorsement has arrived from an unusual place: the top step of a Super GT podium.

A new week brings a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, with three fresh events now live and running through next Monday, August 31.

British motoring magazine evo has published a wide-ranging interview with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, covering everything from the challenges of tire physics to Polyphony Digital’s relationship with Sony.

Gran Turismo 7’s 1.71 update landed just a few days ago, and while four new cars is a fairly modest haul, the changes underneath are anything but: this is the biggest shake-up to the game’s physics since update 1.49 back in 2024, with new behavior for tires, suspension, steering, and input devices.

The Viewers Gift Campaign for Round 2 of the Gran Turismo World Series is up and running again, with entries working as of earlier today. Polyphony Digital suspended the campaign over the weekend after the entry system broke down at the start of the Tokyo broadcast, leaving players unable to register for the two free “Stealth Model” cars.

Fanatec’s new Podium Pedals Formula are back in stock Wednesday, August 19, at 14:00 UTC (that’s 10:00 AM Eastern, 7:00 AM Pacific, or 4:00 PM CEST). If the first batch is any indication, you won’t have long to think it over: the initial production run sold out in roughly seven minutes.

The second Manufacturers Cup Exhibition Season of 2026 is on its way, with Polyphony Digital setting a four-round Gr.3 calendar that gets underway on Saturday, August 22 and runs through September 12.

A new week brings a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, with three fresh events now live and running through next Monday, August 24.

A one-off Ferrari widely regarded as the first prototype for the legendary 250 GTO has been selected to win the Gran Turismo Trophy at the 2026 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, putting it in line for a potential future appearance in the Gran Turismo series.

For the second consecutive round of the Gran Turismo World Series, the popular “Stealth Model” car giveaway has proven too popular for its own good. Entries for the Viewers Gift Campaign broke down as the Round 2 broadcast from Tokyo got underway on Saturday, and this time Polyphony Digital has suspended the campaign entirely while it investigates.

The 2026 Gran Turismo World Series resumed on Saturday, with Round 2 broadcast from Polyphony Digital’s headquarters in Koto-ku, Tokyo. It was a different kind of event to the season opener in Milan: no theatre, no tickets, and no public crowd, with the only spectators being the Polyphony employees who make the game itself.

The 2026 Gran Turismo World Series is back this weekend, with Round 2 broadcasting from Polyphony Digital’s Tokyo studio on Saturday, August 15. The Manufacturers Cup gets things started at 13:00 UTC, with the Nations Cup following at 15:00 UTC, and you can watch both streams right here.

Round 2 of the 2026 Gran Turismo World Series gets underway this weekend at Polyphony Digital’s Tokyo Studio, and Fanatec is marking the occasion with something you can’t just buy: a T-shirt signed personally by series creator and producer Kazunori Yamauchi.

This week’s new Online Time Trial isn’t sticking around. Gran Turismo 7 pairs the Toyota MR2 GT-S ’97 with the East End layout of Autodrome Lago Maggiore on Sports Hard tires, and instead of the usual two-week run, it’s gone in seven days.

A new set of Gran Turismo 7 Weekly Challenges arrives this Friday, August 14, as your console clock rolls past midnight into the weekend. Five events are live for the next seven days, along with the usual run of bonus tickets for anyone who clears them.

A new week brings a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, with three fresh events now live and running through next Monday, August 17. This week swings between two extremes: an anything-goes sprint on a giant oval, and a pair of steadier Group races to round things out.

A new update for Gran Turismo 7 is on the way, with series creator Kazunori Yamauchi confirming the news through his regular “silhouette” post teasing the vehicle content and prompting the usual guessing game as to the identity of the cars within…