Jordan Greer

With all of the exciting news and announcements generated from Vision Gran Turismo projects over the past few weeks, like Subaru’s VIZIV GT and GM Design’s Chaparral 2X, it might be easy to overlook one manufacturer who has apparently withdrawn from the program: Alfa Romeo.

Since the PlayStation 3 encryption keys were published by hackers back in 2011, both GT5 and GT6 have been targeted by users looking to modify the games beyond their intended parameters. Although “hacks” have always been a part of video gaming and even the GT series, it now takes on a new seriousness, as it threatens the integrity and fairness of online competitions.

Since the official debut of GM Design’s Chaparral 2X Vision GT concept car at the LA Auto Show yesterday, more in-game screenshots of the car in Gran Turismo 6 have been released, along with photos of the full-size 2X model unveiled at Chevrolet’s press event.

Another new batch of Time and Drift Trials are now available in the latest round of GT6 Seasonal Events. Keep in mind that additional new events, featuring the updated BMW M4, were also released last night with the launch of GT6 update 1.14.

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The latest update for Gran Turismo 6 has just gone live, and it’s arguably the biggest yet, bringing with it one of the most anticipated new features for the game: “community” tools. It also brings new cars, an updated track, new events, and much more.

The “SUBARU VIZIV GT Vision Gran Turismo” gets a full reveal today, as Polyphony Digital confirms the car will be in the next Gran Turismo 6 game update, version 1.14.

As most readers will recall, a new Safety Car based upon a special edition of the BMW M4 was announced for Gran Turismo 6 a few weeks ago. Many of you were quick to notice, however, that the car shown in the screenshots did not contain a flashing LED light bar on the roof, as could be seen on the real car which BMW debuted at SEMA the following day.

Changes are coming to the Suzuka Circuit in the next Gran Turismo 6 update, according to the latest post on Polyphony’s PitStop website.

Chevrolet and PlayStation have announced a special competition in Los Angeles to celebrate the debut of the company’s new Vision Gran Turismo project car at the LA Auto Show next week.

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GM Design has surprised the entire auto industry today, announcing their Vision GT project – which gave them total creative freedom to design a concept car for Gran Turismo 6 – will be used to revive the historic Chaparral brand.

Another new round of Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 6, featuring a series of races on three different real-world circuits spread across the globe:

The European round of GT Academy 2014 makes its cable television debut today, with the premiere of a new reality show on ITV4 in the UK. The show, which airs on Wednesday evenings at 8:00pm local time, covers all the drama of the finalists at this year’s Race Camp at Silverstone.

GM has just announced their Vision Gran Turismo project with a mysterious screenshot posted to the Corvette Facebook page. The image is definitely a teaser, and will no doubt spark some debate as to exactly what part of the car is being shown (click the picture above for a larger view).

The 2014 Gran Turismo Awards were held at Drai’s Nightclub on the Las Vegas strip Wednesday night, where Kazunori Yamauchi announced a custom car from SEMA 2014 – the world’s largest aftermarket automotive industry event – would be featured in an upcoming Gran Turismo game.

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb – the most famous and challenging hill climb race in the world – has just announced that Gran Turismo will be the “Platinum Sponsor” for the 2015 event, and will even be part of the race’s official name.

A new safety car – the first for the series since the Nissan R34 GT-R Pace Car was released in 2002 – is coming to Gran Turismo 6. It’s based on the BMW M4 “M Performance Division”, and will be officially revealed at SEMA 2014 in Las Vegas this week.

GT Academy returns to Spike TV this Friday, November 7th, at 11:30pm ET for Season 4 of the reality television show which chronicles the North American GT Academy Race Camp, where the 2014 champion will be crowned and begin their professional racing career with Nissan.

Polyphony Digital, which has long been noted for its relatively small team of developers when compared to other video game production companies, is looking to recruit more staff members.