Gran Turismo 7 looks to be heading back to its normal update schedule after a slightly chaotic period towards the end of 2025, with the first new game update of 2026 landing on consoles this Thursday.
While not set in stone, as we were reminded at the tail end of the year, the usual schedule sees Gran Turismo 7 content updates arriving on the fourth or final Thursday of any given month. With 2026 starting on a Thursday, January 29 is the latter of those two options and — following a teaser over the weekend — is now confirmed for an update.
That means we’re just fractionally under two months on from the bumper Spec III update which arrived on December 4, 2025, and brought the ninth update of that year. Aside from the launch year, that’s a record for a calendar year in GT7’s life to date.
While already confirmed to be only bringing three new cars, the 1.67 update stands to be pretty significant as the full update teaser video confirms what we already expected and suspected: the Gran Turismo series debut of a Chinese marque.
Table of Contents
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Cars
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Races & Events
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Scapes & Other Changes
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Cars
Our guesses from the teaser proved pretty accurate, but it’s only now that covers are quite literally off that we have precise details on the vehicles coming in the update:
- Hyundai Elantra N TC 2024 – Brand Central
- Porsche 911 992 GT3 R 2022 – Brand Central
- Xiaomi SU7 Ultra 2025 – Brand Central
All three of the new cars are making their series debuts and each is a significant step on the game’s car list in its own right.
Nowhere is that more obvious than with the Xiaomi SU7, the first ever Chinese car to appear in a Gran Turismo game in its 28-year history. Originally more famous as a mobile phone manufacturer, Xiaomi pivoted to include automotive production in 2021 as a way to secure the future of its workforce.
One of the newest volume production car brands in the world, Xiaomi has accelerated from having only broken ground on its first factory in November 2021 to its SU7 line selling more than a quarter of a million cars in China in 2025 — acceleration matched only by that of the SU7 itself.
This four-door sedan is only available as an electric vehicle in four different guises, and GT7 is receiving the most powerful of the lot: the 1,525hp, tri-motor Ultra. As well as sporting expectedly impressive performance stats — under two seconds to 60mph, and a top speed above 220mph — the Ultra also holds the road-legal production four-door lap record at the Nurburgring Nordschleife at 7:04.957.
That’s quick enough to keep up with GT3 cars for much of the lap — or at least be within the magic 107% — although you can put that to the test with the second new car in this update: the Porsche 911 992 GT3 R.
After a bit of a lull in this category, it’s a second new GT3 car in successive updates, following the Ferrari 296 GT3 in the December 2025 Spec III 1.65 update. The timing is unusual, with a round left in the absurdly early Manufacturers Cup qualifying for the GT World Series, as it introduces a new vehicle and perhaps a new Balance of Performance to change the series’ conditions mid-stream.
However it’s likely to be a welcome addition for the defending GTWS champion brand. The existing Gr.3 car was actually a GTE category car, with the 911 RSR also sporting a mid-engine layout for aerodynamic packaging reasons. With the move to the 992-generation GT3 R, the car shifts back to the classic rear-engined 911 layout — the first such vehicle in the Gr.3 category.
That leaves the least powerful car of the update, which is another racing machine but from a slightly lower category. As we learned in December, that’s the Hyundai Elantra N TCR — here listed as the “TC”, presumably for series licensing reasons.
This front-wheel drive racer is the third of Hyundai’s successful stint in the TCR category, with the Elantra N itself taking the driver and team world title double in 2022. It’s likely that this will drop into the Gr.4 category, which will probably also see a BOP update as a result.
For now we don’t know what the cost of the three cars will be in this update, as this will only be revealed with the patch notes come Thursday morning.
We’d estimate that this will be a relatively inexpensive update though. If the Hyundai heads to Gr.4, it’s likely to be a 350,000cr along with all the others in Brand Central. The Porsche is harder to pin down, as most Gr.3 cars come in at 450,000cr but there’s some big exceptions like the Ferrari last month at 1.2m; we’d expect nearer the latter than the former. How the Xiaomi fits in is anyone’s guess, but the real world car is near enough to $100,000 to make 100,000cr a reasonable guess.
In total you’ll probably not need 2,000,000cr — so get onto the Daytona Time Trial before it expires in the morning and grab gold — with this likely to be in the bottom third of priciest updates among the 35 to date.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Races & Events
Although we’ll have to wait until Thursday for the final details, we can say that we’re getting some new races and a new collection-based Extra Menu Book. The update preview doesn’t contain any mention of additional support in the base game for GT Sophy, so we’re going to assume this is skipped for the month.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Races
All three of the new races come in the “World Touring Car” series, which firmly suggests that — despite its prodigious power — the Chinese debutant will come in at around 600PP.
It’s likely that the Xiaomi will be the start of the WTC600 race at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, as the WTC700 event at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is a shoo-in for the Elantra N TC and the GT3 R almost certainly at the center of the WTC800 challenge at Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit.
We’ll have to wait for the update to discover the lap counts (or maybe race duration) and prize money for these races, but WTC800 is often pretty lucrative.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: Extra Menu Book 52
Hyundai’s N sub-brand is the theme for the newest Extra Menu Book, for which you’ll need to be at Collector Level 58 — the cap having recently been raised — to be eligible.
You won’t need the new N TC for this one, so it’s likely you’ll already own the three cars required: the Elantra N, the Ioniq 5N, and the N2025 Vision GT. There’s no word yet on what the reward for this collection is, but we hope it’s not a Parts Ticket…
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: Seasonal Menu
Although not confirmed at this point, we’re expecting a new Seasonal Menu to appear in the GT Cafe area too. This is likely to require purchase of the three new cars in the update, and — if previous Seasonal Menus are anything to go by — last for only a couple of weeks.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.67: New Scapes & Other Changes
One feature never skipped from a content update is Scapes, and sure enough the 1.67 update is getting 6 new spots for the shutterbugs among you. This features some new locations in California, which is already one of the best-populated Scapes regions with 305 spots from the 3,296 in total.
There’s still some outstanding mysteries that we won’t know until the patch notes arrive alongside the update, at around 0600 UTC on Thursday January 29. That includes details like new engine swaps, which are always a popular feature. Others don’t even make it into the patch notes, with our members combing through it all to find out undocumented changes like new real car paints.
However, we’d not expect any updates to circuit locations or layouts — especially after two new tracks arrived in Spec III — or even details like the updated signage for Suzuka Circuit first shown in a live event build more than two years ago.
As always there’s still plenty more to come, so watch this space for all the latest as we get it.
See more articles on Gran Turismo 7 Game Update.
