Lamborghini in GT5!

[Kryz11]

In 2008 VW was thinking on entering, but regulations kept them very unhappy. They say not until next 3 years.. and hmm 2011 should be the year they enter (supposed) and good reason Mercedes, BMW, and Ferrari won't be there , so why not?

 

[sumbrownkid]

I think F1 is a shell of itself now...I'm more into LMP racers and GT cars. VW is supposedly supplying engines to teams in the IRL here stateside.

 

[Fruitcake]

Is it me or Lambo will enter F1 pretty darn soon.

They already did once, and failed

 

[RACECAR]

If Lambo can't get a GT1 car done right, they shouldn't even think of F1.

Technically, Lamborghini really wasn't involved like Aston Martin, Chevy, Maserati, Ferrari, Dodge or Saleen with their factory support, it was all done by Reiter Engineering.

 

[sumbrownkid]

I applaud Reiter engineering for their attempts, but having Lambo's involvement would've made it much more competitive. The JLOC crew wouldn't have been embarrassed at Le Mans if Lambo would've at least gave some of the help that Aston Martin and Chevy, and Ferrari did.

 

[McLaren]

Ah yes, the JLOC car that did a shameful single lap at Le Mans this year before it retired. The crew all gave themselves high-fives in the pits and closed up shop and walked away. I remember the Radio Le Mans guys speculating that the car would be sold for a handsome price. The disappointing part is that the car prevented a legitimate team from competing in the race.

Love the fact that Lamborghini is in the game. Hope this particular car is NOT. 👎

It has nothing to do with the car, but the setup. Year after year, JLOC completely forget to set their cars up for endurance racing & race it as if it were still doing a Super GT race.

The car does ok in Japan, but they keep that setup every time they head to France. 👎

 

[RACECAR]

It has nothing to do with the car, but the setup. Year after year, JLOC completely forget to set their cars up for endurance racing & race it as if it were still doing a Super GT race.

The car does ok in Japan, but they keep that setup every time they head to France. 👎

I guess they don't even try outside of Japan. The races I've watched in recent years in Super GT looks like they've even given up the ghost there as well. If your not even gonna try, why bother at all?

 

[Pierced Lead]

Maybe Lamborghini didn't involve itself because Ferrucio Lamborghini said that he didn't want his company to participate in motorsports?

 

[McLaren]

I guess they don't even try outside of Japan. The races I've watched in recent years in Super GT looks like they've even given up the ghost there as well. If your not even gonna try, why bother at all?

Who knows.

I'm just glad at least Reiter continues to work with the car.

 

[ANFD]

I think F1 is a shell of itself now...I'm more into LMP racers and GT cars. VW is supposedly supplying engines to teams in the IRL here stateside.

As I understand it, from Robin Miller, their involvement as an engine supplier to the IRL was contingent on them being the "Sole Supplier" of engines, which doesn't seem likely at this point.

 

[McLaren]

Maybe Lamborghini didn't involve itself because Ferrucio Lamborghini said that he didn't want his company to participate in motorsports?

After Ferruccio sold the company in 1972, it didn't matter. The 90's already showed Lamborghini's interest with Formula 1 engines & the Diablo GTR.
However & ironically, the Miura was actually born from a car being designed with racing in mind.

 

[Ecchi-BANZAII!!]

They better add Lamborghini Diablo and Diablo SV...

And Murcielago SV

 

[SrRd RacinG]

 

[Heath_1]

That first one (The Diablo SV) brings back memories of old school Need For Speed games like NFS 3 Hot Pursuit and NFS High Stakes

 

[UnoMOTO]

 

[Black Chamber]

Kazunori Yamauchi said that all the cars in GT PSP could be traded and shared with GT5 - so that means if there are 800 cars in GT PSP, we should expect at least that many in GT5.

So then we can assume that the Lamborghini's, Bugatti Veyron and the rest from GT PSP are definitely going to be in GT5, right?

 

[Solid Lifters]

Looks like the Lambo in the pics showed for the PSP was the following car...

 

[Ecchi-BANZAII!!]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one loving the Diablo

 

[Smoke&Slide]

I prefer the Diablo to the Mercielago always did ( not enough Italian flare in the Merci )

 

[arvin charles]

^ To really appreciate the Murcielago, you have to realize that it has styling cues from the Countach (the shape of the hood), the Miura (the back window) & and the Diablo. It's a great design & wonderful to look at in person.

BTW, Loving the Murcielago & the Diablo 6.0 pics.

 

[damez]

Lamborghini finally being in GT5 brings back memories of NFS for me. Lamborghini Diablo VT was just delicious.

 

[Sureboss]

Kazunori Yamauchi said that all the cars in GT PSP could be traded and shared with GT5 - so that means if there are 800 cars in GT PSP, we should expect at least that many in GT5.

So then we can assume that the Lamborghini's, Bugatti Veyron and the rest from GT PSP are definitely going to be in GT5, right?

800 cars in GT PSP? Got a link for that. I'd imagine that'd be well outside the capabilities of the PSP.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Just check the GTPSP news from the E3.
800 cars, 35 tracks (+variations).
Dunno why the PSP shouldnt be able to do this, its not like it has to load 800 cars at once.

 

[Jay]

800 cars in GT PSP? Got a link for that. I'd imagine that'd be well outside the capabilities of the PSP.

http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/news/d3280.html

 

[damez]

800 cars in GT PSP? Got a link for that. I'd imagine that'd be well outside the capabilities of the PSP.

Here:

Product Data (As of June 3, 2009)

●Title Name
Gran Turismo

●Genre
Real Driving Simulator

●Platform
PSP®(PlayStation®Portable)

●Release and Distribution Date
Planned for Thursday, October 8, 2009 in Japan (October 1 in North America / Europe)

●Game Overview
Full spec game design
・Over 800 cars (over 4,500 color variations)
・35 courses, 60 layouts
・60fps

 

[Alex p.]

As we talk about Bugatti and Lamborghini being the first time in GT, I have something for you.
On one German ps2 disc of the official ps2 magazine (OPM2-ops2demo-10), there was a 30 mins feature on the "fresh" GT3 and on two occasions, where Yamauchi would talk about the models of the game, you could clearly identify the fully modeled, but not texturized model of the Lamborghini Diablo (1990) and one lattice model of the Bugatti EB110. I wonder what happened to them...

 

[paskowitz]

As we talk about Bugatti and Lamborghini being the first time in GT, I have something for you.
On one German ps2 disc of the official ps2 magazine (OPM2-ops2demo-10), there was a 30 mins feature on the "fresh" GT3 and on two occasions, where Yamauchi would talk about the models of the game, you could clearly identify the fully modeled, but not texturized model of the Lamborghini Diablo (1990) and one lattice model of the Bugatti EB110. I wonder what happened to them...

Very interesting. Its seems that licensing negotiations fell through as they were working on them. This would be good news for GT5 because if PD is as OCD as I think they are they would have all the technical data for those cars that did not make it. This data in some part could probably be used in the modeling for GT5.

 

[frank-jaeger]

As we talk about Bugatti and Lamborghini being the first time in GT, I have something for you.
On one German ps2 disc of the official ps2 magazine (OPM2-ops2demo-10), there was a 30 mins feature on the "fresh" GT3 and on two occasions, where Yamauchi would talk about the models of the game, you could clearly identify the fully modeled, but not texturized model of the Lamborghini Diablo (1990) and one lattice model of the Bugatti EB110. I wonder what happened to them...

They had licence issues with both Porsche and Lamborghini before the game came out !

 

[Alex p.]

Very interesting. Its seems that licensing negotiations fell through as they were working on them. This would be good news for GT5 because if PD is as OCD as I think they are they would have all the technical data for those cars that did not make it. This data in some part could probably be used in the modeling for GT5.

Good point there.

 

[RACECAR]

They had licence issues with both Porsche and Lamborghini before the game came out !

Well, thats one Licensing issue solved. I'm actually for the first time hoping Porsche is in GT now and I haven't really cared about that for quite some time.