Gran Turismo Series

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6 showcasing this week’s beginner, intermediate, and expert level challenges. The events feature non-race cars and race cars alike tackling technical and high speed tracks. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, tips and tricks, and much more.

Special Event XIII

GTPlanet’s Weekly Race Series heads to Europe this week for a fun romp around the Eiger Nordwand Short track.

We’re back to online racing this week, with the GTPlanet Endurance Series making a visit to Austria and the newest real track in the Gran Turismo series, the Red Bull Ring.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6 showcasing this week’s super lap and drift trial challenges. The events feature front engine rear-wheel drive non-race cars, Italian non-race cars, Mazda’s RX-7, and GT300 class race cars. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, tips and tricks, and much more.

UPDATE: Although these numbers were reported in official court documents, they have since been discredited. Thanks to detective work from NeoGAF and here in GTPlanet’s community, we see the judge quoted sales numbers by VIRAG in their original claims against SCEA, made in July of 2014.

After a couple of weeks of extreme close-up teasing, the covers are finally off Bugatti’s Vision GT car due to head to GT6 in September.

Every now and then we hear of a lawsuit brought against the Gran Turismo games, and it seems that the US arm of Sony’s entertainment branch has been locked in a curious legal dispute for the last 12 months over Gran Turismo. Just like the last legal rumblings, it all comes down to signage, in both Gran Turismo 6 and its predecessor title Gran Turismo 5.

A new batch of seasonal events are now available in Gran Turismo 6 showcasing this week’s super lap and drift trial challenges. The events feature the Lancer Evolution and Subaru Impreza, 1980’s era race cars, lightweight sports cars, and rally cars. This week’s challenges are as follows, and remember to stop by our GT6 Seasonal Events forum for in-depth analysis and discussion, tips and tricks, and much more.

If there’s one thing you can rely on with PR, it’s that if the first attempt to engage your audience is too subtle the second one won’t be. So when a small image of seven virtual pit crew members wearing Gran Turismo overalls doesn’t quite get the job done, a video of Gran Turismo’s creator Kazunori Yamauchi being driven about in a classic Bugatti Type 51 should smash the point home:

With all eyes on the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance yesterday, Bugatti picked its moment to get a spot of viral advertising underway. Its choice of accompanying hashtag harking back to the company’s founder Ettore Bugatti – #imaginEBugatti – may have raised a few wry smiles, but not as much as the image accompanying one Tweet from the official account: