The latest new Gran Turismo 7 content update is now with us, following an almost three-week long period of anticipation and hype after being partly revealed at the GT World Series in Milan back in May.
It’s going to take PlayStation 4 owners a lot longer than usual to download the update, with 1.70 coming in at just a little under 8GB on the eighth-generation console. On PS5 though it’s closer to what we’d expect from a five-car update at just over 1.6GB. We’re not wholly sure why there’s such a significant difference this time round.
Of course the usual update rhythm applies, and we already knew quite a lot about the contents following the regular pre-update announcement yesterday, but there’s always more information only available when the patch notes land. Read on to discover all!
Table of Contents
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Cars
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Races & Events
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Engine Swaps
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: Other Changes
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Cars
We’ve known about the cars since May 23, so there’s not a lot left bar the rather unexpected pricings:
- BMW M Hybrid V8 2025 – Brand Central – 3,000,000cr
- Ferrari 499P 2023 – Brand Central – 3,000,000cr
- Peugeot 9X8 2025 – Brand Central – 3,000,000cr
- Porsche 911 (992) Turbo S Safety Car – Brand Central – 380,000cr
- Porsche 963 2024 – Brand Central – 3,000,000cr
Previously it’s been the case that racing cars have had higher prices than peers where they have been more successful. However all four of the new LMH/LMDh cars come in at 3,000,000cr, matching the price of the existing Toyota GR010, despite only two of them having had major success on either side of the Atlantic. The Safety Car’s price, about a quarter more that the road car on which it’s based, is exactly what we expected though.
This actually makes 1.70 the third priciest update of all thus far. Even if you buy only one of each — and each car only has one livery/number — it’s 12,380,000cr, placing it just behind the 1.20 update and the record-holding 1.55 update, both of which were skewed by a single car.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Races & Events
We already learned about the five new races yesterday, heavy on the Gr.1 as you’d expect, but now we have lengths and winner’s prize money numbers too. Along with the second new collection-based Extra Menu Book in a row there’s now confirmation of the time-limited Seasonal Menu, although it’s a little different, and a fifth new Circuit Experience in the last five updates.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New World Circuits Races
- European FR Challenge 550 – Eiger Nordwand Reverse (4 laps) – 40,000cr
- Gr.1 Prototype Series – 24 Heures du Mans Racing Circuit (7 laps) – 260,000cr
- Gr.1 Prototype Series – Sardegna Road Track A (15 laps) – 220,000cr
- Gr.1 Prototype Series – Watkins Glen Long Course (15 laps) – 220,000cr
- Pickup Truck Race – Fishermans Ranch (1 lap) – 32,000cr
The three Gr.1 races aren’t quite the money-spinners we’d hoped, but nonetheless do press the four new cars into action right away — even if the 950PP cap for the events makes them a little outclassed. Around 200,000cr for what’s going to be 25 minutes’ work each time is a middling return.
There’s not a new race suitable for the 992 Safety Car, with the other two events seemingly plucked from nowhere. They do at least feature two unusual circuits, with Eiger’s reverse course up for the European FR Challenge 550 (watch out for the hairpins going uphill!) offering up to 40,000cr and Fishermans Ranch in a one-lap Pickup Truck Race for 32,000cr.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Circuit Experience
Fishermans Ranch also features in the fifth new Circuit Experience in a row. That takes you back to one of the trickier original Circuit Experiences but now in the reverse direction.
You’ll need to watch out for that leap at the top of the circuit, as the landing zone is pretty short especially in the Lancia Delta HF Integrale WRC. In total there’s seven sectors worth up to 6,000cr each time and a full lap awarding 30,000cr for a gold time, but it’s the bonuses that entice again.
Pass every sector and the lap and you’ll earn 600,000cr, while there’s another 2,000,000cr on top of that if you make all of those passes gold ones.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Extra Menu
After months without an Extra Menu we get two in two updates. This one will have you collecting three 2016 LMP1 hybrids — the Audi R18, Porsche 919, and Toyota TS050 — with a Six-Star Roulette ticket as the reward.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Seasonal Menu
Unusually, this one will ask you to collect four cars rather than just three, with the four being all of the new hypercars. This is again time-limited, so you’ve got slightly under three weeks to collect all them with another Six-Star Roulette ticket for completion.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: Power Pack Changes
There’s no major changes compared to the previous update, but there’s a couple of important new details. That includes access to detailed settings when you use one of your own garage cars instead of the preset cars, as well as Race Shop being added for garage cars to allow you to pick up tyres and fine-tuning components without having to back all the way out.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: New Engine Swaps
Despite the lull in updates — and presumably until the next one, likely at the end of July — it’s just a five-swap update this time round.
The crown for wildest swap goes to the Toyota RAV4 Adventure, which gets an 840hp supercharged V8 lump from the Dodge Demon Challenger to quintuple its power output. Yikes.
Elsewhere there’s two new homes each for two other engines. You can make your own first- and second-generation Audi TT-RS with a swap from the Audi Sport Quattro rally car, while the Nissan GT-R’s VR38DETT now goes into the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak and Renault Espace F1.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.70: Other Changes
Pikes Peak finally makes it into GT7, but only as a new Scapes location. There’s 11 spots around the infamous Colorado mountain’s treacherous road ascent, including one previously used to promote the Suzuki Vision Gran Turismo way back in May 2022 but unavailable to players until now.
Otherwise changes are few and far between. In game terms the biggest is probably a new opening movie for Sport Mode races — we assume meaning the GTWS movie, which should therefore debut this weekend with the new Exhibition season.
As ever, there’ll be some changes in the update not specifically mentioned in the patch notes that include things like new “Real Car” paints. We’ve spotted new reds from Renault and Yangwang, new yellows from Mazda and Renault, several new blues from Mazda and Renault, and yet more white/black/gray shades from Renault.
You’ll be able to read more on changes like these on GTPlanet as they’re uncovered over the next few days, in our regular Undocumented Changes thread.
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