“I awoke one day and wondered, why does this car with a famously rattly structure that I put what are essentially straight pipes and foot-wide aggressive tires on each corner make so much noise when cruising?”
No matter what else I drive, getting back into this is a real treat. I’ve taken it to Dublin and northern Italy in the past year, and it’s proven to be an incredibly competent road trip car too.
“It’s now been nearly 10 years since I started this thread. I still own the car, and the choice to TT swap an incredibly rare car, using the cheapest donor vehicle I could find, paying an unqualified friend to do the work, must be one of the stupidest things I ever did in my life.”
I yearned for a sports car again so I placed an order for a Camaro 2SS; I was happier seeing the color in person than from pictures. Yes, I ordered a color I never saw!
I picked her up in July 2016 for a total of a whopping £1500. Waiting for me to do some body work on her, but at this point she is 100% mechanically sorted out at least!
A few months ago, an opportunity came up to own a car I’d almost given up on. Hell of a thing to open my garage to though… long time before this view gets old!
I bought another car. I really wasn’t expecting to, in fact I thought that I’d been just about priced out of the Type R market… It’s a ’98, with just less than 50k mi, and a very clean history.
Porsche has revealed a new official livery for its Vision Gran Turismo car at GamesCom in Germany, and it’s available in Gran Turismo 7 now for players to download and use.
The second and final part of Project S2000 is now live. In this episode, we’re at Brands Hatch to see if I can beat the time I set in-game in my GT7 inspired S2000 – as ever, it didn’t quite go according to plan. Featuring appearances from Tiametmarduk and Jimmy Broadbent.
Here is ‘Project S2000 – Part 1’, where I modify a Honda S2000 using Gran Turismo 7 and then do the same to my car in real life. In the first of two episodes, we focus on the mods in-game, and then in the real world at my Dad’s workshop.
In another example of life imitating art, a new real-world racing series in the United Kingdom will offer up a really rather unusual prize to the overall champion: a 22-year old, first generation Mazda Demio.
Designer Phil Frank, creator of the Nike One concept car, is revealing some new renders for the car as well as telling a little about the story of its creation, marking not only the One’s fictional production year but also the 25th anniversary year of Gran Turismo.