Nissan Skyline Featured in Latest GT5 Time & Drift Trials

The latest round of Seasonal Events are now available in Gran Turismo 5, in the form of new Time & Drift trials featuring Nissan’s own supercar, the Skyline GT-R . The challenges are as follows:

Time Trial No. 48

  • 480PP Nissan Skyline: Deep Forest Raceway Time Trial
    Period of Availability: 2012/11/01 03:00 – 2012/11/15 03:00
    Gold: Cr.250,000  Silver: Cr.150,000  Bronze: Cr.100,000
  • 700PP Racing Car: Cape Ring Time Trial
    Period of Availability: 2012/11/01 03:00 – 2012/11/15 03:00
    Gold: Cr.250,000  Silver: Cr.150,000  Bronze: Cr.100,000

Drift Trial No. 48

  • Nissan Skyline: Daytona Road Course Drift Trial
    Period of Availability: 2012/11/01 03:00 – 2012/11/15 03:00
    Gold: Cr.250,000  Silver: Cr.150,000  Bronze: Cr.100,000
  • D1 GP/Formula DRIFT: London City Course Reverse Drift Trial
    Period of Availability: 2012/11/01 03:00 – 2012/11/15 03:00
    Gold: Cr.250,000  Silver: Cr.150,000  Bronze: Cr.100,000

As always, stop by our GT5 Seasonal Events forum for more analysis and discussion!

GT5 Photomode image by driftinziggy.

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Comments (92)

  1. stupidstormy36

    Wow, Polyphony does know how to make a black list. Now if they can incorporate a black list for online races…Obligatory statement.

    I have yet to try these out, but they do look like fun this time around. And the D1/FD was a great idea. But the Skyline, took me nearly 6 seconds to find one. Way too much time to find one, super rare! lol

  2. EyesOfViolence

    London was a b$#%& to pass. Took me 20 tries lol bought the blitz then the aem s2k….when I had a FC laying around which I ended up beating it with! The sharp lowspeed drifts were irritating. -.-

  3. Mr-McNUGGET

    What?!? An online event with a skyline? Damn, i’ll have to go find one, i hear their pretty rare cars to find.

    1. QuikSlvr223

      I know, right? It’s like they don’t exist. There’s what… two of them? How do they possibly expect anybody to have a Nissan Skyline?

    1. Pit Crew

      Drifting on a wheel seems to work for many in the top 100. Im in top 1,500 on london, top 1,060 at Indy and can probably get better if I keep at it.

      I set my cars to react to torque shifting and minor left right inputs, only using HB for the sharpest of turns or bizarre angles. I visualize my car drifting on an Axis for GT5 physics.

      I was stumped at first but I love drifting so I figured it out and worked around PDs design flaws when it comes to Drift.

    2. Pit Crew

      Another thing Ezekiel you probably drive in real life and not being in contact with the Drivers seat wheel stick shifter, clutch, etc may be throwing you off, but dude you cant let PD win…you can do it. :)

  4. Waster3000

    Enjoyed the Deep Forest time trial. It’s a great circuit, and I for one don’t use Skylines too often. It was way easy to gold though… quick $$’s.

  5. Fire Yoshi

    I manged to get a top 20 time in with my Nur! Although, it’ll probably be top 1000 (at the very least) in a day or so >_>
    Oh well, at least there’s no 2Js. lol

  6. dmz_bean

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I can remember this is the first seasonal event, or even a-spec event bespoke to skylines. Which is odd considering there’s 1000 skylines in the game.

    Also, I dig the fact that PD works so closely with Nissan. PD did all the graphics for the GTR’s onboard displays right?

  7. TokoTurismo

    Ooh brother. Typical PD and Kaz as always. NISSAN CARS… I was thinking about forgiving them, but than this event showed up… *Sighs*, as always I say… No wonder I stopped buying Nissan cars from other games, so sick of them. ALL thanks to KAZ and PD, just by this ONE event. You’re the best PD, you’re the best.. >_>

    I guess the SKYLINES AND GT-Rs are gonna strike AGAIN in GT6… UUUUUUUHHHG…. ~_~’

  8. Jpen

    Omg how did I know that I would see nothing but negative comments? It’s a game. If you don’t like it don’t play it.

    1. Quakebass

      ^ I agree SO MUCH with that statement. We want to play this game series, so we want it improved. Some don’t see another option as better. With regard to the DLCs and Seasonals, “don’t play them” or “don’t buy them” aren’t good excuses – because now we need to wait another week to 6 months (depending on the subject matter) for the new, hopefully appealing content, which could’ve been what we got this time around, had the developers simply looked at what the fans want.

    2. Progress823

      ^^^ +1 to the last three comments. The if you complain/do not buy is not cutting it anymore. In the end we are the consumer and expect a great product, if it is s**t or if it needs improvement, then it is our right to complain. In this case, it is bulls**t that we are not getting decent seasonal events, content, and others.

    3. EyesOfViolence

      Isn’t this the only seasonal event with the gtr? Nor exclusive for any Nissan car? Lol besides the GT academy? Stop complaining dude lol

  9. AKps3

    maybe nissan will work again with PD
    watch the gt-r documentation they are showing how they worked with PD
    its only good for PD so why should they not work so close together?

  10. challengerrt10

    Thanks to PD and GT5 I don’t like Japanese cars anymore (especially GT-R, Skyline, BRZ, S2000, MX5 although we are good and interesting indeed). Even when I play Forza I almost don’t touch any car from this country (fortunately in that game Japanese cars are in the minority and the whole car rosster is well balanced).

    However making time trials available for one car or specific groups (types) of cars is a good step forward.

    In next time trials (or seasonals) use for example F40 with ABS off on Rome Circuit, Monza or Toscana. And use tracks like Top Gear, SSR7 or these with rainy conditions set on.

    PD take advantage of GT5’s potential!!!

    1. AKps3

      maybe nissan will work again with PD
      watch the gt-r documentation they are showing how they worked with PD
      its only good for PD so why should they not work so close together?

  11. BaTsBR

    A bunch if you complains too much.
    Don’t like skylines ? Don’t play it.
    Simple as that.
    D1GP drift ? Nice, never seen the name D1GP in an event. And, if you look a little, there is sktlines that isn’t AWD, there is some awesome RWD…

  12. Brunskill777

    Right well, the time trials are OK but I had a problem with Cape ring. About 3/4 around the lap there’s the jump before the ring, and mostly every lap, even when I lifted, the cars’ front end left the ground but the back end jumped only slightly so I landed back end first so it invalidated. I MEAN HOW STUPID IS THAT?! I have to go quickly to beat gold but when I eventually got gold I had to brake and lose speed. Jumps always seem to invalidate your time so why have tracks where this will inevitably happen for time trials? Another example is the rally track Toscana. The jumps SOMEHOW invalidated your time, leading to me to give up in an utter rage. I mean you don’t see WRC drivers having times discounted ‘as they did a jump too fast’. Anyways got gold on both, only bronze on both DT’s which both just ended up annoying me. I also seem to remember doing EXACTLY the same London drift trial a while ago in the AEM. Don’t think it was the same catogory of cars but definately the same sectors.

    1. karelpipa

      i think it has something to do with crashing your frontend too hard on asphalt/gravel. For game its the same like crashing into the wall or so.

    2. TheEzekiel

      happened to me also earlier mate…it’s just stupidity of creators and another bug..another of many many bugs :D

  13. Xamado7V

    You people really get that bothered because a Japanese company puts Japanese cars in it’s Japanese car game?

    Next you’ll be complaining about GTA being set in America.

    1. HarVee

      We whine because there is over 50 of them on the game. You only need 10 of them at best. And that is a bit too much.

  14. sebastien130879

    dommage de ne pas pouvoir piloter les voitures des dlc dans les evenements en ligne! toujours les meme voiture chapparal en piste pour le contre la montre

  15. m8h3r

    I swear they’ve done “Racing Cars at Cape ring” before. Also is it actual D1 GP regulations or have they just named it that to try and garner interest in them.

    If they’ve altered the Drift settings I may come and do them but if its still got a flawed scoring system where it’s wheelspin on the racing line making the most points then they can call it all they want.

  16. ORPHANTHIRTY7

    Remember in D1GP rule book. “Only drive methods allowed shall be FR, MR, RR, & FF” that is the rule in chapter 1 of the rules and regulations of the D1GP of Japan

  17. hobanator24

    I don’t know why you people are complaining. Apparently, you didn’t notice the D1GP Drift Trial. Now, I haven’t always played the seasonals, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen something like this.

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