Gran Turismo 7 June update teaser hints at Escudo Pikes Peak’s return

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A content update is coming for Gran Turismo 7 later this week, with series creator Kaz Yamauchi giving a now traditional teaser of the three new cars it will add to the game. Gran Turismo 7 patches typically land on Thursdays, so keep an eye out on 23rd June for update 1.17.

GTPlanet’s keen motorists eyes quickly deduced the identities of some of the silhouettes that Yamauchi-san tweeted. The top one is a rather obvious one, thanks to the iconic shape of the splitter, rear wing and roof scoop. It’s the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak, a hugely powerful 1,000bhp car designed to take on one of the world’s most challenging tracks. The car dates back to when Pikes Peak was still a dirt road the the end of the 1990s.

The car originally featured a turbocharged Suzuki V6 2.5 litre engine, before it was boosted to 2.7 litres to reach that 1,000bhp mark. This was all to take on the Pikes Peak hill climb which sees competitors racing up a 12.42 mile track with over 156 turns and an elevation change from 1,440m above sea-level at the start to 4,302m at the finish line. With such a dramatic change in elevation, you need vastly powerful engines and comically large aerodynamic devices to cope with the lower air pressure near the summit.

The Escudo Pikes peak has been a Gran Turismo mainstay, starting with Gran Turismo 2, before the more powerful car appeared in Gran Turismo 3 through 6.

Alongside this novel vehicle, the other two new cars look to be a Gr. 3 rendition of the Suzuki Vision gran Turismo and what GTPlanet speculates to be a convertible 1932 Ford or Deuce Roadster, likely added as a car that Polyphony found at SEMA.

While getting three new cars added to the game is nice, and we can expect some new race missions to be added to the game alongside them – perhaps as Cafe Menu Books, as with May’s update – players are patiently waiting for Polyphony to deliver on some promised changes and features. After a wave of dissatisfaction following the game’s release, they pledged to make it so cars could be sold from your garage, add online time trials, add 24hr Endurance Races to the Missions, and more. Personally, I’m really, really, really hoping they sort out the custom online lobbies so you can edit settings, something which has taken a step back in usability since GT Sport.

Grievances aside, Gran Turismo 7 is great. In our review, I wrote:

“Gran Turismo 7 takes everything that was excellent about GT Sport’s fantastic multiplayer, high fidelity cars and circuits and innovative Scapes mode, and builds up a more traditional GT experience around it. It’s got its own quirky new ideas which will likely be passing diversions to most, but at its core, this is the Gran Turismo you know and love. Broad and accessible, but with depth, nuance and competitive racing for those keen to find it.”

Source: Kaz Yamauchi via GTPlanet

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