How many cars has GT sold?

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I remember the first time i saw a Nissan Skyline, if it did not stop for gas i would not know what it was. this was when i lived in the Caribbean. My wife and I was going home early one morning from partying all night, i was on a highway doing about 100 mph and then i heard it, a loud roar quietly coming up. I check my rear view and saw lights behind coming up fast, then it happened, it passed me at approximately 150 mph (guessing by my speed and at the rate of the vanish). I just saw decisive 4 round tail-lights disappearing in the dark. My wife asked what was that, she is into fast cars as well. My reply was i have no idea. This happened in 1997, the year the skyline was unleashed in my caribbean island. I pulled into a gas-station where i heard the same roaring engine leaving and then saw the decisive tail-lights. Oh, by the way at that time i had a twin turbo-charge 1997 mitsubishi galant vr-4 and that car was no joke. that was was misrepresented in gt1, gt2 and none in gt3. That version was never available in the US. That car rocks man!!!!!!!!
Another time i was entering on a highway and stopped at the lights when a Ford F-150 Lightning pulled up beside me reving his super-charged v8 and staring at me. The Light showed green, off we went, i was in front, passed 3 cars, then 4, then 5, he tried to pass several time but my turbo-chargers were too potent for his super-charger. We pulled off at the same exit and stopped at the lights. He puuled up alongside my mitsubishi and asked what the hell i has under the hood, I happily said a 2.5 litre v6 twin turbo-charged 4wd. Then i asked the same question and he said he has a lousy-ass super-charged v8. He said he was trying to pass me from eversince the move off from the lights.
 
syclone538
My prize car list has 9 skylines on it, and yes I have the North American version also. I agree you don’t need to win 5 Ford GTs. They could have removed 1 or 2 GTs from the prize cars and the same 1 or 2 cars could have been removed from the game. But they could have removed 5 or 6 skylines from the prize cars and 40 could have been removed from the game. I just don’t see how you can pick on Ford when Nissan is 10 times worse.
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Well at least we agree some more 👍

Ford GTs or Skylines, whatever, ...as long as they are not all over the place :)
 
So overall in the % of cars in the game Ford is underrepresented, but in exposure as you try to win the game it is overrepresented. When you go through Extreme, Professional, and Endurance, you see this car in 4 prize spots (then once more in Special Conditions). So Ford must have payed alot to get that much exposure for the GT and Polyphony doesn't mind the pay.
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But the Ford GT is GT4's icon. And it makes a lot of sense that PD would have chosen it. It has a rich automotive history. It is widely recognized as an amazingly cool car. And, perhaps most importantly, it's styling is a modern revival of an old school racing style. It restates an era.

These things are exactly what GT4 is all about. It has an emphasis on showing players what these machines have been like all throughout the history of cars.

I can't think of a better car they could have used to represent that.


I'm sure that the manufacturers do apply pressure. However, I also think it's pretty clear that GT is not heavily affected by it. If it were, you would see cars not only being represented more... but with unrealistically unbeatable performance. Heck, I hear more people whine that the Ford GT was 'ruined' because they can't figure out how to drive it. Apparently they expect it to be wicked fast _and_ as easy to drive as a grocery getter.

People can whine all they want about what is and isn't in the game, but at the end of the day, PD has to chose a set of cars to include in the game and to fill in the prize car lists. And frankly I really hope that their selections are not chosen specifically to try not to piss off fan circles. Because at that point, it becomes a completely political game.

- Skant
 
Shentar
From everything I read, the Subaru WRX and WRX STi and the Lancer Evo's were brought to the US as a direct result of Gran Turismo making the US public aware of these cars.
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I'm not calling you a liar or anything, but I'd be skeptical of that claim. I'm a dedicated Subaru enthusiast, and I can assure you that there has been a large desire for performance Subarus in the states since well before the GT franchise existed. The Impreza's legend started in the early-mid 90's, when Colin McRae was winning WRC titles with it. While the sport may not be as prevalent here in the states as, say, NASCAR, there is still a significant following, supported mainly by the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). I've personally been a rally racing fan since the mid-80's when I used to watch the rally that ran through the state forrest near my hometown of Olympia, WA (I don't think there are any international rallies in the US anymore, but SCCA still uses the same stages for club and pro events).

The biggest issue with introducing the high-performance versions of the Impreza here had to do with emissions standards, which are stricter. They weren't sure the cars would sell, and didn't want to invest the money in meeting standards unless they were sure. So for the '98 model year, they introduced the 2.5RS, a version of the Impreza with the already proven EJ25 engine and some drivetrain, suspension, and cosmetic upgrades to make it more like the WRX. They sold like hotcakes, and a mod community quickly sprang up. That convinced them that bringing the WRX over would be worthwhile.

While I don't doubt that many young people learned about Subaru by playing GT, I don't think it had a significant impact on Subaru's decision to bring high-performance versions of its vehicles to the US. If you consider the time it takes to bring a model (even one using "off-the-shelf" parts, like the 2.5RS) from concept to market, they had to have been considering the move as far back as 1996, possibly earlier.
 
NONE of the cool cars except the Impreza will be released in Holland.... No Skylines, Evo's, Supra's etc. etc.. :(
 
my dad plays gt concept and he bought a civic type-R if it were not for gt concept then my dad would have bought a mondeo st200 :yuck:
 
GT4 has me seriously thinking about the new BMW 3-series. What a sweet car!
 
Tim_Gommers
NONE of the cool cars except the Impreza will be released in Holland.... No Skylines, Evo's, Supra's etc. etc.. :(
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Come over and get one from the UK then. You'll have to learn to drive on the wrong side (of the car I mean)
 
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realize that the GT franchise has turned me on to Japanese sports cars in a big way.

I live in South Africa, but I grew up in North America, and my first love was always muscle cars, 'Vettes and the like, but for a variety of reasons these cars are not available here. For a long time the only sports cars you could get here were the German luxury kind (BMW Z3/4, Merc SL etc.) yet recently the Japanese manufacturers have started bringing in the hotter models (RX-8, S2000, 350Z, Imprezas, even the Evo VIII has just been launched here).

So while GT didn't directly influence my choice of car (RX-8) I think it definitely made me notice a whole new world of models.

BTW, for the record, the RX-8 is very faithfully reproduced in GT4, from what I can tell (haven't taken my 8 around a track IRL yet). Though they didn't quite get the engine/exhaust sound right, the real thing sounds a bit beefier :)
 
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