Aussie Cars in GT7 - I wish

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Back on the AU Tickford. V8 Sleuth has posted this with the caption "It's coming.". Coming to or for what I don't know. Probably returning to the track for historic racing.
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If the Glen Seton #5 Ford Credit AU was hard to come by, any AU V8 Supercar would do. Craig Lowndes #00 Green Eyed Monster would be the one to scan.
 
05XR8
Back on the AU Tickford. V8 Sleuth has posted this with the caption "It's coming.". Coming to or for what I don't know. Probably returning to the track for historic racing.
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If the Glen Seton #5 Ford Credit AU was hard to come by, any AU V8 Supercar would do. Craig Lowndes #00 Green Eyed Monster would be the one to scan.
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Does V8 Sleuth even have any insider knowledge on Gran Turismo car development? Seems unlikely "it's comimg." means anything GT7 related
 
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05XR8
Back on the AU Tickford. V8 Sleuth has posted this with the caption "It's coming.". Coming to or for what I don't know. Probably returning to the track for historic racing.
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If the Glen Seton #5 Ford Credit AU was hard to come by, any AU V8 Supercar would do. Craig Lowndes #00 Green Eyed Monster would be the one to scan.
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I’m going to assume it’ll be featured at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival early next year.
 
Cap'n Jack
I’m going to assume it’ll be featured at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival early next year.
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Lord have us mercy. It was a preview to Noonz announcing their new bi-monthly magazine. :lol:
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In regards to the festival that would sweet. I've got to get out there. So do PD. ;)
 
05XR8
Back on the AU Tickford. V8 Sleuth has posted this with the caption "It's coming.". Coming to or for what I don't know. Probably returning to the track for historic racing.
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If the Glen Seton #5 Ford Credit AU was hard to come by, any AU V8 Supercar would do. Craig Lowndes #00 Green Eyed Monster would be the one to scan.
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They could get a hold of this one.
 
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Connot believe I am saying this about the car that all but sank Ford Australia but the AU Supercar looks ok all these years alter.
 
05XR8
How long ago is that photo? From last year, the Ford Credit car was being restored.
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2022
 
ScottPuss20
2022
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That’s another possibility. Though it looks a bit rough.

Looked through V8 Sleuth archives. The 2024 article I posted earlier in this thread, about the FTR003 chassis being restored from BA panels. As of January this year, here is its progress:
www.v8sleuth.com.au

Mystery bar work discovered in Seton Bathurst Ford restoration

RESTORATION work on one of the former Glenn Seton/Ford Tickford Racing Falcon V8 Supercars is continuing, as shown in the latest in the series of videos
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From this 2020 article on the FTR004 chassis:
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Saturday Sleuthing: The last Ford Tickford Falcon

THIS week Saturday Sleuthing takes a look at a car that drew down the curtain on a chapter of V8 Supercar racing for Glenn Seton. That car is FTR004, the
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Here’s FTR004’s home

Home - Perth V8 Supercar Collectables Museum

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Chassis FTR002 appears to be with a private collector. I guess it would be fairly easy for PD to scan an AU Falcon, if that’s what they wanted to bring back for nostalgia sake.
 
05XR8
Six years later. Still waiting for when the time is right…
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E3 2017: First Look at Bathurst in Gran Turismo Sport - IGN

Exclusive footage of Mount Panorama and fresh insight from GT creator Kazunori Yamauchi.
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Think the time is right with Toyota now in Supercars?

If PD and V8SC have a deal we might still have to wait for proper performance data, but at least one car could be ready. We’ve only had one V8 Supercar before.

 
Peep the Dunlop museum. Zero mention of Dunlop & Supercars (they've been the sole category supplier since '02).

PD hates Supercars or won't acknowledge their existence?
 

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At least folks can live out their Aussie wishes on PlayStation. I’m doing that right now!
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It’s been forever since PlayStation players could duke out the Blue & Red battle in Toca and V8 Supercars games. In Gran Turismo, we really never had a Holden versus Ford event. Even with just the six car grids, there were no doubling up FPV GT, FPV F6 Typhoon, Holden Commodore SS, Holden Monaro CV8 or even adding the Pontiac GTO for players to experience.

PD like to add cars from around the world and hope PD see fit to lean on a continent that have produced iconic models from Ford Australia and GM Holden.
 
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It's just such a small market, most of the player base will have no idea what a V8 Supercar is. They'd get a bigger player base from introducing the Brazillian things they race, some sort of Nascar/supercar/transam thing. Given the driving dynamics in the game, V8SC would be an interesting class. Heavier and more powerful and way more skittish than the GT3 cars, would make Bathurst daily race interesting affair.
 
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Depends. I’m sure Shane Van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin would have made many aware of their origins before their current race duties.
I’m sure many know who Max Verstappen is. Anyone following him would know about V8 Supercars with his Red Bull affiliation.

On the gaming front, other games like iRacing have V8 Supercars. That would be more exposure.

Today’s casual Gran Turismo players? Most probably wouldn’t know Brazil have racing cars. At least V8s has history(at least being in half the history) in the GT franchise. We’ll see, been 25 years since the Tickford XR8 debuted in GT3.
 
NevilleNobody
It's just such a small market, most of the player base will have no idea what a V8 Supercar is. They'd get a bigger player base from introducing the Brazillian things they race, some sort of Nascar/supercar/transam thing. Given the driving dynamics in the game, V8SC would be an interesting class. Heavier and more powerful and way more skittish than the GT3 cars, would make Bathurst daily race interesting affair.
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If iRacing is anything to go by, then the player base for Supercars is much larger than Brazilian Stockcars. Supercars has maybe a handful of ranked races go “official” (6 or more entries) each week, where as only a handful of Brazilian Stockcar races have ever gone official. Even still, that’s only a fraction of the popularity of GT3.
 
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213m brazillions and 33m australians, i figured the brazillians were a larger player count but income levels may suggest otherwise.
 
Car enthusiasts are border free. Kaz won't let considerations like "too niche to be highlighted" stand in his way.
 
NevilleNobody
It's just such a small market, most of the player base will have no idea what a V8 Supercar is. They'd get a bigger player base from introducing the Brazillian things they race, some sort of Nascar/supercar/transam thing. Given the driving dynamics in the game, V8SC would be an interesting class. Heavier and more powerful and way more skittish than the GT3 cars, would make Bathurst daily race interesting affair.
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The current Stock Car is a disaster, the car had a rough development. It's basically an SUV bubble on top of a tube chassis. Previously it was saloons. The V8 era was kind of a mini-NASCAR.

My perception though is that the global automotive community knows more about the Australian industry than the Brazilian. This is due to language, international racing (older people may remember Holden's success at Spa) and also simply because the Australian cars were more "spectacular". In Brazil, the most powerful 70s muscle car (the local Charger R/T built on the Dart platform) had, like, 210 bhp (gross). I don't recall Australia ever getting the big blocks but, before the horsepower scare/oil crisis of the 70s, cars were pretty fast, even the Valiant Charger with the Hemi-6. As you get to more recent years, the difference in speed becomes worse, as HSV and FPV offerings were pushing north of 500 bhp whereas locally built Brazilian cars rarely, if ever, got past 200 bhp (on regular gas the Civic Si saloon was the most powerful Brazilian car of the 2000s with 190+ bhp).

I only know the V8SC from Forza and a little rFactor. In Forza, they were fun and a good way to set drivers apart based on skill.
 
Have you guys looked at the Australian Motor Museum in GT7?
 
05XR8
Think the time is right with Toyota now in Supercars?

If PD and V8SC have a deal we might still have to wait for proper performance data, but at least one car could be ready. We’ve only had one V8 Supercar before.

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Whether you consider this an Aussie car or not, I'm in on a Lexus-Aus V8 engined racing GR Supra stretched to fit FT-1 dimensions!

When it comes to GT7, it makes me wonder what group Supercars would fit in, if they ever considered it

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Whether you consider this an Aussie car or not, I'm in on a Lexus-Aus V8 engined racing GR Supra stretched to fit FT-1 dimensions!

When it comes to GT7, it makes me wonder what group Supercars would fit in, if they ever considered it

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Authentic Collectables stated they were waiting on the teams to send them their CAD data IOT begin making the diecast versions.

Surely they could send that data to Polyphony. Pretty sure that's what iRacing relied on.
 
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Authentic Collectables stated they were waiting on the teams to send them their CAD data IOT begin making the diecast versions.

Surely they could send that data to Polyphony. Pretty sure that's what iRacing relied on.
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I was looking at getting one of those, actually :lol:

Edit: When comes to CAD data, they would not only need this but access to actual cars for audio as well as licensing from Supercars.
In my opinion, the most likely way Supercars would ever get into GT7 would be if Toyota insisted on the V8SC Supra being added to their FT-1/Supra family, and if that was the case then it would be the sole car potentially without licensing. On the other hand, they wouldn't have to make many cars to complete the series, and the modeling aspect might not be too difficult considering they're all mechanically similar
 
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