Gran Turismo Project X1 Car Revealed

What if you could create the ultimate racing car, a vehicle unbounded by rules or legal racing conventions? Literally the fastest car possible. It was a question Gran Turismo’s Polphony Digital asked, and one Red Bull dutifully answered.

“If you built the fastest racing car on land, one that throws aside all rules and regulations, what would that car look like, how would it perform and how would it feel to drive?”

The result: The X1 Prototype. From the press release:

“Red Bull’s aerodynamics expert, Adrian Newey, performed the role of technical advisor on the X1 Prototype project. Adrian is renowned in the motorsports world for designing championship winning cars. Throughout the X1 design process by Polyphony, Adrian contributed his vast experience, as well as a pure, child-like technical curiosity. As a result, the completed X1 Prototype became an extreme car, having a unique form and mechanism unlike any other racing car in history.”

Source: Press release

26 Comments

  1. Looks like a cross between an F1 car and Le Mans car…

    • naah, itz just epic though, u must admit!

  2. i’ll give an opinion when i get a good view of the car.

    wouldn’t it be funny if it ended up like the car homer designed on the simpsons. :)

    • yer, the car for the average gamer.

    • Yeah agree, you couldn’t really appreciate it from that video, but what an opportunity for Adrian Newey, I bet he enjoyed his time designing this car.

  3. Does it fly?

    • If you turn all the front downforce off and upp the rear loads, then crank up the gear ratios and add all engine mods :)

    • will it blend?

      • who cares, all i want to know is, is it a good idea to microwave it?

  4. Adrian Newey is a genius, I hope they make on in real life.

  5. All the racing/le mans etc cars are a bit dull to me. I much prefer the street cars. More character

  6. My only potential concern is just how impossibly difficult this car will be to obtain. Even so, looks good. Well ok, the description sounds good.

  7. Has it got a blown diffuser… and does the front wing flex under cornering? Oops sorry just finished reading the F1 review, must have got me comment boxes mixed up.

    Anyway nice to see a really fast car in the game we can unlock and use to blow everything else away for some easy money!

  8. Looks like a Caparo T1… from what we can see.

  9. is this real, or just inside GT? bit confused

  10. Good god. I wasn’t actually that far off when I mentioned the batmobile a day or two ago.

    • Wouldn’t a batmobile just be your average car around this?

      • Yeh, but cornering with a grappling hook would be teh aces! :-p

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