Ah, April Fool’s Day. The one day a year where automotive PR offices can ease back on the hard work of promoting their wares and let their collective hair down — and even poke fun at themselves.

The new week of Season One of DiRT Rally 2.0 continues, with the release of the first new location for the game, in the shape of Monte Carlo. I say “new”, but just how new is it? Is it simply a reskin, or does it offer a significantly different experience?

This week’s Daily Races give you a chance to try out some of the new content from GT Sport’s most recent update.

How can we make autonomous vehicles safer? This is a question that engineers and researcher struggle to answer. But now, thanks to an experiment by Stanford University, an answer might be on the horizon.

Sony has announced that it will be discontinuing support for Driveclub, bringing an end to the game’s online life.

As of next week, Polyphony Digital will extend its Penalty Zone system to cover all of its Daily Races.

It’s the season of plenty in the world of Gran Turismo Sport. We’ve seen not one but two car-carrying updates in March, and yesterday the official site leaked yet more like the Toyota AE86 Trueno and Porsche 962. Now comes word of another classic Italian, though it’s an unlikely one: the Lamborghini Espada.

Grab your thick coats and snow boots, because Winter has returned to Forza Horizon 4. A fresh batch of events and content accompanies the snowfall for this week.

Codemasters has announced the latest entry in its highly-rated Formula One franchise. F1 2019 will drop players into the action of this year’s season, and it will do so earlier than ever before.

Two weeks ago, Codemasters opened the floodgates with season one DLC for DiRT Rally 2.0. The first injection of new content saw the likes of the Citroën C4 and Skoda Fabia make their way to the game.

We haven’t even had time to install GT Sport’s latest content update, but already there’s news about more — albeit unintentionally.

The second major update of March for Gran Turismo Sport has just been released. Although it does not come with a new track — Autopolis was just introduced a few weeks ago — 1.36 brings with it an interesting new “overtake” feature.

In today’s automotive market, the idea of a performance SUV is not that strange. It seems like virtually every company has some sort of sporty version of its SUV or crossover — or coupe crossover. So where did it begin? For this week’s Want, we’re looking at exactly that, the genesis of the performance SUV, the GMC Typhoon.

Kunos Simulazioni has announced the first season of its new Assetto Corsa Competizione esport series. Called the SRO E-Sport GT Series, it will kick off next month alongside the Blancpain race at the historic Monza circuit.

Group C truly is the dog’s bollocks. A truckload of power, tons of downforce and brutal power delivery — it’s hard to understand why the class didn’t receive more love within sim racing. With this wonderful sim racing explosion we’re in the midst of, that is finally changing.

If you’re not into grinding for credits, we’ve got some good news. By raising the price cap for eligible cars, Polyphony Digital has expanded the number of available vehicles in the GT Sport PSN Store by seven. This will make 271 of the game’s 289 cars available to purchase with real money instead of in-game credits.

Fangio and Maserati. Clark and Lotus. Senna and McLaren. Certain pairings of names are famous in Formula One, with one modern duo standing out: Schumacher and Ferrari. And come next week, we’ll see them together again.

There’s few requested content items quite like it. Other than perhaps a premium Mk4 Supra (which Polyphony Digital delivered over a year ago), there’s nothing the fans want to see in GT Sport quite like Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

We are not fans of Forza Horizon 4’s Festival Playlist, introduced in Series 7. However, after a backlash from the community, it looks like Playground Games is exploring a patch to make it more palatable. The question remains though, is it enough to fix it?

Full-sized LEGO cars are cool, but there’s always been something a little… arty about them. You can look, but you can’t touch, and you certainly can’t get inside.