Welcome to Mirror Mode, GTPlanet’s series that shines a spotlight on retro racing games. To commemorate the upcoming release of Need for Speed Payback, we’re revisiting one of franchise’s most iconic installments. 

Hennessey may be talking up its land speed record potential, and Bugatti might be thinking about it, but Sweden is a nation of doers.

If you’ve ever sold a car you know what a hassle it can be. Between low ball offers, scam e-mails, and even some shady buyers, it’s not an experience most like. However, writer and director Max Lanman found a way to avoid all this with a simple commercial.

Williams Martini Racing confirms Felipe Massa will leave the team — and F1 — at the end of the 2017 season. Longtime viewers and fans of the Brazilian driver will know this isn’t the first time he’s retired from F1.

Playground Games is keeping the Forzathon events coming for its open-world Forza spin-off. Players will have regularly-scheduled challenges all the way into February 2018, according to a new set of Xbox achievements.

Hennessey has unleashed its new secret weapon in the top speed war with its Venom F5.

GT Sport players will get their first taste of the game’s FIA championships later today.

Yesterday we brought you the news of the first monthly car pack for Forza Motorsport 7. What we didn’t cover in that article is the accompanying patch for the game, which comprehensively updates numerous aspects of the game.

To borrow the oft-used, high-pitched exclamation of a certain famous television presenter: we’re back!

Every week we read loads of automotive news stories here at GTPlanet that we can’t fit into their own articles. In a new feature, we’ll be bringing you a quick round-up of things we might have otherwise missed.

Turn 10 has taken the wraps off Forza 7’s first monthly car pack. With the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio leading the charge, it brings seven brand new vehicles to the title.

As promised, Polyphony Digital has released the latest patch for GT Sport.

A good engine swap, while incredibly tricky, can turn an average car into an absolute monster. Thankfully, at this year’s SEMA show a couple manufacturers unveiled their newest crate engines for all your swapping needs.

A new patch for GT Sport is incoming. Polyphony Digital has confirmed that players can expect version 1.04 worldwide tomorrow.

Despite repeated attempts to throw the schedule off through death, The Grand Tour will be back on our screens early next month.

Forza Motorsport 7 collectors have three new cars to snap up this week. Turn 10 has shuffled the Specialty Dealer lineup again, with a trio of fairly modern cars from three different countries.

Get ready, Forzatographers: our first FM7 Photo Mode Competition has begun.

This week’s Wednesday Want is a little different from usual. Normally it involves our team plucking a car from our thousands-strong Car Suggestions forum and giving it some time in the spotlight, but this week we’ve found something truly special in the classified adverts and thought it really deserved some attention. You can check out past Wednesday Want entries right here.

If you’ve been playing GT Sport from day one, you probably won’t have missed that the Daily Races in Sport Mode were anything but daily.

Although this half of the year has been packed with massive racing games, a surprise announcement was Gear.Club Unlimited for Nintendo Switch. Eden Games has developed a premium version of its free mobile title for the new hybrid console and it certainly looks interesting.