Gran Turismo 7 August 2025/1.62 Update Prediction Thread

[Ryan81]

I predict at least three pretty interesting cars!! Among them:
Suzuki Ignis "19"
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Citroen AX Turbo "86"
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Toyota GR Supra Final Edition A90 "26"
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To be fair, that's an AX GT rather than the Turbo. The Turbo had 480hp 🤯 Would still be a fine addition to the game, though 👍

 

[Voodoovaj]

Seriously how much would it cost to get the license to run the old malaysia Gp circuit? Or Magny Cours? We are in dire need of proper tracks without gimmick chicanes.

TT had Valencia and it would be a great reintroduction. But, I agree, 1 new track would be nice.


As for predictions, I think it's time for the Suzuki Carry to get Sophy support. That will be nice. I'm anxious to see which track gets Sophy support (if any).

My prediction is no update this month.

PD always had one month summer break in updates.

Quite possible. I can see that happening.

I predict that only the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra will be added, just to drip feed the players for the "summer break" of updates. 🤷‍♂️

Ya, that seems like a very likely possibility.


So, my final guess is no update until mid September, and it will have the Xiaomi. Some Sophy additions, and probably a couple cars from the back catalogue. (I'd love to see the GT-R LM make a comeback)

 

[alvitoxde123]

Im changing my prediction a bit:

C63 '08, we rarely got any amgs since launch, GT3 EVO and 190e, we did got some mercs but not amgs specifically, i could be wrong. Also, returning car.
Mustang GT '24, you can argue that pd doesnt add modern cars, but usually, the kind of keep up updated the mystical ones (corvette, mustang, camaro, 911; m3 only missing the last gen, ferraris mainline lineup gen after gen pretty much completed, etc) We havent got much american cars, if i remember well, patterns say we getting one this update.
Now im not to sure about what to picn in suv, but im going Land Cruiser '12. Random guess, just an itch.
Fiat Panda '93

 

[Larzi-]

I predict a no-update month.

This. After the first year there hasn't been an end of August update. In 2023, there was an update in the first week of August, but it was more of a July update delayed by a week, because there was no content update at all in July. August is probably a holiday month at the PD's office.

 

[Doncarlone]

Could be a "no update" month. Could also be the usual 3 car update:

• Chevrolet Equinox '19 (gotta have another crossover)
• BMW M5 E60' 05 (leaked list)
• Citroen 2CV '54 (was in previous gt's )

 

[Scuderia Paul]

Assuming there is a month without an update, do you think we'll get a bumper update for September with two SUVs and no race cars?
🤞

 

[Imbissbrunto]

If there is indeed an update this month, I'd go for:

• Renault Captur (following the recent Crossover SUV trend, we also haven't had a Renault in a while)
• BMW M4 Competition (popular modern sportscar, also the newest BMW road car in the game is 7 years old at this point)
• McLaren 720 S (again, popular supercar and the most recent McLaren road car is from 2013. Might also be wishful thinking on my part)

 

[GlamFM]

Pretty confident there wont be an update.

If there is one however I'm sticking with my 1.61 prediction because why not:

• Xiaomi SU7 seems like a given.
• I feel like there's a RAV4 shaped hole in the newly added range of "family" SUVs.
• 1998 Nissan R390 GT1 is honestly wishful thinking at this point and June would have been a better fit for it because of the 24h at LeMans, but let's have some fun with predictions.

• No track - as I said before, I'm pretty sure we're done here. The next time we'll drive a new track will be in GT8 (which I think could be less than a year out).

• Thank you for your continued support.

 

[Famine]

Who wants stats? You know you do.

tl;dr:

• August
  • August has only not had a content update once: 2024
  • Every August update has included one American car
• General
  • Current run of updates is the joint-longest in over a year
  • Mean car count per update: 3.7; median and mode: 3
  • Road cars dominate generally, averaging 2.8 per update; expect all Road or 2:1 with Race at most
  • Asia/Europe cars most likely, only 8% of cars added were American
  • Brand Central cars more likely: two BC to one LC/UC probably
  • All-new cars more likely, overwhelmingly so in recent updates.
  • Recent updates have tended towards the inexpensive

Spoiler: TL;DR

The month of August - which also sees Japan's Obon national festival take place (August 13-15) as well as the Mountain Day national holiday (August 11) - has only been skipped once for an update, and that was in 2024. Aside from December (twice), no month has been passed over more than once, but January, April, June, July, August, September and October have all been missed once apiece.

However, we are also on the current joint longest run of months with updates since January-May 2024, at three - tied with January-March 2025...

The two previous August updates have contained three and four cars respectively. They've also both contained American cars - the Pontiac GTO The Judge and the Chevrolet Corvette C1. Only November beats it, separately adding the Sierra RS500, Tesla 3, and Escort Cosworth in its three updates, while May has added three American cars separately in four different updates (only 2024 had none).

We've had 31 updates with 115 cars so far, at an average (mean) of 3.7 cars per update. 19 of 31 updates have contained three cars. Three cars thus remains likeliest, with four also possible.

Road cars overwhelmingly outnumber race and tuned - in fact by triple the combined count. The average remains 2.8 cars per update, to 0.7 and 0.2 for race and tuned respectively. You should expect three road : one race for a four-car update (though this has only happened twice in five instances) or two road : one race for a three-car update (seven times from 19).

Asia and Europe are about equal in terms of car origins, though the all-Asia update last time out gave the advantage to Asia - 52:49 - after being equal. Only 14 American cars have been added, and four were SEMA cars and two Ford of Europe cars... We've had six all-one-region updates, and five of those have come since 1.52/October 2024 (the very first one was the other). Four (three since October) were all-Asia, two were all-Europe; there's never been an all-American update.

We're now in the sixth occurrence of (n)-0-0 for updates with American cars. Four of those became (n)-0-0-0-1, with the exception being 1.20-1.26 (and that was the Sierra RS500...).

Brand Central cars outnumber Legends and Used-only by 3:1 each, at 2.3/update compared to 0.7 apiece for the others.

All-new cars are almost triple returning cars (even where returnees include very similar vehicles but a different year or spec-tweak) at 2.7:1.0 but returning cars had a huge boost in a run from April 2023 to October 2024 and have recently tanked - three in seven updates since and eight in 11 updates prior to this period. Excluding that bump, it's almost 5:1 in favour of all-new cars (54:11, in 18 updates).

Four of the last five updates have been among the nine least-expensive in terms of credits required to buy the cars in the game's history. The last one, 1.61, was the exception, at the 13th priciest and the one preceding the run was the 19th. Of the ten sub-million updates, four have arrived this year and five since October 2024. Then again, the most expensive and one of only two eight-figure updates was in November 2024.

With all of that informing it, I'd guess at: three cars; all road cars; all-new; all in BC (maybe one in BC/UC, so a 2000-2010 car under 1m credits); a 2:1 Europe/Asia mix.

Given the recent CUV/sport/quirky lineups I'd say:

• Alfa Romeo Tonale - The CUV. Stellantis has been a little more amenable to driving games recently, and we've had a couple of Alfa Romeos in updates. Also it's available as a PHEV which is right up PD's street right now
• BMW M3/4 (G80/G82) - The Sporty. Fills in a "gap" in M3-platform generations, as we have E30, E36, E46, E90, and F80 (as M4), and the M2 was added in November 2022.
• Daihatsu Tanto FunCross Turbo AWD/Subaru Chiffon Custom R SA 4WD - The Quirky. Sibling MPV kei cars and with that glorious CVT you're all going to love.

 

[GlamFM]

has there been a new development regarding the Xiaomi that I’m not aware of?
Why is nobody predicting it? Seems like a safe bet to me. No?

 

[jonoholland29]

has there been a new development regarding the Xiaomi that I’m not aware of?
Why is nobody predicting it? Seems like a safe bet to me. No?

Feels a bit early.

I’m surprised we’ve not had the Mitsubishi Outlander going by recent updates.

 

[Famine]

has there been a new development regarding the Xiaomi that I’m not aware of?
Why is nobody predicting it? Seems like a safe bet to me. No?

Given the time taken to model a car, I'd not expect the Xiaomi SU7 before November/December. The Vision GT could arrive at any time, of course.

 

[alvitoxde123]

I love how we have been predicting the G gen M4/M3 and the 720S since last year, and we never seem to get it right. However, im pretty sure they will come at some point, since pd probably reads some of these forums, and even if some people disaagree, they sometimes listen to the community. Just check the suggestion forums.

 

[newmedia_dev]

I love how we have been predicting the G gen M4/M3 and the 720S since last year, and we never seem to get it right. However, im pretty sure they will come at some point, since pd probably reads some of these forums, and even if some people disaagree, they sometimes listen to the community. Just check the suggestion forums.

They don’t, none of the later life quality of life improvements get a look in, which should be the low hanging fruit.

Those cars aren’t popular asks more popular expectations.

My prediction is predicated by the current trend of updates not the things I want but here we go

4 cars, 1 finally being the Azam, another non descript CUV possible the Yaris cross over thing.

3. If lotus is coming back (doubtful but rumours) the Elise S2 in various spec

4. We are due another mid spec road car (sic) the M5 V10 is a solid contender but the RS4 is there as well.

insert events

insert scapes

There are no more tracks coming to this game unless they are end of life thank yous

 

[Ande3200]

I love how we have been predicting the G gen M4/M3 and the 720S since last year, and we never seem to get it right. However, im pretty sure they will come at some point, since pd probably reads some of these forums, and even if some people disaagree, they sometimes listen to the community. Just check the suggestion forums.

Remember how many time we keeped predicted the Ferrari 812 superfast possibly even more than year before we got it. So there is hope.

 

[MIE1992]

I'm going to be a bit bold and specific, and I say that I have reason to think we'll get a relatively new version of the Subaru Forester.

 

[alvitoxde123]

Remember how many time we keeped predicted the Ferrari 812 superfast possibly even more than year before we got it. So there is hope.

The difference from that case was that the 812 appeared on the datamine list. On this case, at best it appeared outside the GTWS venue. Which, essentially, means nothing.

 

[Greycap]

Speaking of BMWs, mark my words, we'll get the V12 LMR '99 sooner or later. There's a tidbit of info in the actual game that foreshadows it - get the longtail McLaren F1 GTR '97, take it to the Café, and see how Jeremy finishes his conversation about it.

 

[Famine]

If lotus is coming back (doubtful but rumours)

Who's spreading that one? The clickiest of all bait!

 

[RACECAR]

One interesting pattern I just realized is how whenever an suv has been added, it goes back and forth between a normal gas/petrol power car and a Hybrid. So if we take a look:

Toyota CH-R S '18 (Hybrid)
Mazda CX-30 X Smart Edition '21 (Gas/Petrol)
Honda CR-V e:HEV EX・Black Edition '21 (Hybrid)
Peugeot SUV 2008 Allure '21 (Gas/Petrol)
Nissan Qashqai Tekna 190 2wd e-Power '22 (Hybrid)

So based off this pattern, I think the next SUV will be another Gas powered one so it could one of the following 4 that come to mind, starting with Performance SUVs (something we haven't seen since the Ioniq 5 N and the Urus):

Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat: It would check off ANOTHER addition from Stellantis (Especially after the Stellantis special we got with Update 1.60) and it'd be the first SUV from the US (A Country that is LITTERED with SUVs).

Aston Martin DBX: It would be another more recent Aston (Something lacking as of now with only the 2018 Vantage being the most recent car there) and it would be only the third SUV from a European Manufacturer.

As for the more comparatively pedestrian segment Models:

Renault Arkana: Seeing as this brand appears to be having some decent success with Road Vehicles, maybe they want to show off abit of that with one of their SUVs? It be something more recent then the Clio Twins and it'd be another French SUV to compete with.

Mini Countryman: Been a bit since we've had anything from Mini and it'd be only the 3rd SUV overall with AWD drive (Or "All4" as they call it).

Speaking of BMWs, mark my words, we'll get the V12 LMR '99 sooner or later. There's a tidbit of info in the actual game that foreshadows it - get the longtail McLaren F1 GTR '97, take it to the Café, and see how Jeremy finishes his conversation about it.

I actually brought that up once (even had a screen shot)

 

[IngWeltschmer]

Given the time taken to model a car, I'd not expect the Xiaomi SU7 before November/December. The Vision GT could arrive at any time, of course.

On the other hand, have all VGTs released recently had cockpit view? If so, it could be slowing it down a bit since the partnership signing back in May

 

[tankuroded]

On the other hand, have all VGTs released recently had cockpit view? If so, it could be slowing it down a bit since the partnership signing back in May

All GT7-era VGTs have cockpit view except for the Italdesign, which has signs of it being initially meant for GT6.

 

[Famine]

All GT7-era VGTs have cockpit view except for the Italdesign, which has signs of it being initially meant for GT6.

The Exeneo is basically the Parcour concept from 2013 - which was actually a functional car - with solid side windows instead of something useful, but I guess ItalDesign never bothered sending over the interior CAD models.

 

[SoulSilvera]

First time predicting an update, let's see how badly it goes...



BMW M6 (F06) '16 - Not the BMW players want the most, but there is the precedent of PD adding the road car versions of existing race cars (like the Porsche Cayman GT4).

Ford Mustang Mach-E '19 - The SUV/CUV of the update, and I feel like it will come to Gran Turismo at some point.

Daihatsu/Toyota Copen GR Sport '19 - The "quirky" car of the update. Surprised that there are only 2 Daihatsu cars in the game, considering PD's partnership with Toyota/GR. It would be the 2nd update in a row with a kei car, so I don't know how likely this is...

Mazda RX-7 Type R (FD) '91 - I expect to see a Mazda (or RE Amemiya) of some kind in this update, since there are plenty of them in the Datamined Car List (Autozam, RX-7 GT300, M2 1001, etc...).



I'm not expecting an update in August, so that's why I predicted that the next update will have 4 cars.

• No new track/layout;
• 4 new events, 1 for each car;
• New scapes;
• 5 new engine swaps, which is the standard amount.

 

[T4UR14N]

i’ll start with the usual 3 car update we accustomed too

1. 24’ Toyota Crown SUV or 24’ Ferrari Purosangue - based in the pattern of recent updates

2. 25’ Ford Mustang GTD
- haven’t had an american car in a while

3. BMW M Car (M2 to M8)
- a bmw m-car cause we also haven’t had one in awhile & there have been a lot of them over the years…there is one or two in the datamine 🤔

if we get lucky an get 4-5 cars (because kaz’s birthday lol 😃)

4. 21’ Jeep Grand Cherokee TrackHawk
- because SUV 😅

5. 2005 Honda NSX Type-R GT
- returning from GT5/6

 

[Imbissbrunto]

i’ll start with the usual 3 car update we accustomed too

1. 24’ Toyota Crown SUV or 24’ Ferrari Purosangue - based in the pattern of recent updates

2. 25’ Ford Mustang GTD
- haven’t had an american car in a while

3. BMW M Car (M2 to M8)
- a bmw m-car cause we also haven’t had one in awhile & there have been a lot of them over the years…there is one or two in the datamine 🤔

if we get lucky an get 4-5 cars (because kaz’s birthday lol 😃)

4. 21’ Jeep Grand Cherokee TrackHawk
- because SUV 😅

5. 2005 Honda NSX Type-R GT
- returning from GT5/6

Ngl this would be one of the best updates in the entire game's lifespan!

 

[TylerGT]

One interesting pattern I just realized is how whenever an suv has been added, it goes back and forth between a normal gas/petrol power car and a Hybrid. So if we take a look:

Toyota CH-R S '18 (Hybrid)
Mazda CX-30 X Smart Edition '21 (Gas/Petrol)
Honda CR-V e:HEV EX・Black Edition '21 (Hybrid)
Peugeot SUV 2008 Allure '21 (Gas/Petrol)
Nissan Qashqai Tekna 190 2wd e-Power '22 (Hybrid)

So based off this pattern, I think the next SUV will be another Gas powered one so it could one of the following 4 that come to mind, starting with Performance SUVs (something we haven't seen since the Ioniq 5 N and the Urus):

Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat: It would check off ANOTHER addition from Stellantis (Especially after the Stellantis special we got with Update 1.60) and it'd be the first SUV from the US (A Country that is LITTERED with SUVs).

Aston Martin DBX: It would be another more recent Aston (Something lacking as of now with only the 2018 Vantage being the most recent car there) and it would be only the third SUV from a European Manufacturer.

As for the more comparatively pedestrian segment Models:

Renault Arkana: Seeing as this brand appears to be having some decent success with Road Vehicles, maybe they want to show off abit of that with one of their SUVs? It be something more recent then the Clio Twins and it'd be another French SUV to compete with.

Mini Countryman: Been a bit since we've had anything from Mini and it'd be only the 3rd SUV overall with AWD drive (Or "All4" as they call it).


I actually brought that up once (even had a screen shot)

I'm not the only one who noticed the SUV aspiration pattern. This I noted on HSG's "GT7 | '22 Nissan Qashqai Tekna e-Power Review | Gran Turismo 7" video on YouTube:

 

[Nakano219]

I think you all might be reading a little too hard into patterns that aren't deliberately there. I highly doubt PD are actively tracking what aspiration their CUVs are and releasing accordingly.

Any, suppose I should actually predict while I'm here:

• Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS '21. The road car, not the GT4 race car. Modern-ish European sports cars have been pretty consistent lately, and it's been a little bit since we've had a Porsche. They've already updated the 911 so the 718 seems next in line.
• Toyota Celica 1600GT (TA22) '70. Every update since last July has had something sub-401 PP. This would fit that trend, and is a datamine car. Been a little bit since we've had a Toyota, too.
• Toyota Mirai '21. Yup, going double Toyota. This feels like a thing Toyota would quite like in the game and it's very unique and groundbreaking so I imagine PD would be amenable. It's also single-speed transmission, so it fills the "thing you can't really tune so GT7 doesn't fulfill the car's potential" quota.

I think an August update happens, then September gets skipped. Without doing the research, I'd guess 5-week months (which this is, since July was a week earlier) are rarer skips than 4-week months.

 

[ruestchiva]

I cannot believe that this is a topic but, both Subaru and Mitsubishi haven't had any crossover added. Both brands which I believe they would be very interested in having thier cars featured. It's either going to be the:

- 2021-2024 Subaru Forester E-Boxer
or
- 2023 (ish) Mitsubishi Outlander Sport (dupe for Renault Captur) with a slow-ass engine.

 

[05XR8]

Tuesday when I booted up, I did see this as the first demo image. May not be a kei car since it has 1.2L(and the dreaded CVT), but it’s a baby Forester and just about fits in with the Suzuki Jimny. That’d open it up for more smaller SUVs to fill that bit of the segment in game.