Re: Gran Turismo News and Information

**Forgetful** Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:59 am

PSN and GT5 servers are back up.

**Forgetful** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:00 pm

Forgetful wrote: I now know why they call it the 86 GT... It's part AE86 throwback, part 2000GT Throwback:

The lifted, pointy nose, the arc of the hood, the cut of the side windows and bottom of the door, all from the 2000GT.

Gran Turismo News and Information - Page 4 SH-G12-004

**timneyb** Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:47 pm

Will be a Subaru over here.

Still no reason for me to walk into a Toyota dealership. I understand the logic of their branding, but the fact that every sporty fun car in the Toyota empire are found in their subsidiary's dealerships does disappoint me a little. I liked oogling the GT-R and WRX on our last trip a car buying (Owen was oddly enamored with the Leaf however), even though we will not be buying anything so fun.

**Forgetful** Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:15 pm

timneyb wrote:Will be a Subaru over here.

Still no reason for me to walk into a Toyota dealership. I understand the logic of their branding, but the fact that every sporty fun car in the Toyota empire are found in their subsidiary's dealerships does disappoint me a little. I liked oogling the GT-R and WRX on our last trip a car buying (Owen was oddly enamored with the Leaf however), even though we will not be buying anything so fun.

We had a Ford GT in our showroom. It attracted a lot of attention. Having something like that gives your salesmen opportunities. pirat

**HWKII** Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:27 pm

Yeah, the 86 GT is actually three cars:
Scion FR-S
Toyota 86 GT
Subaru BRZ

The price of this car is almost too good to be true (reading in the ~$25,000 range) for what it is; but then I am reading that all the dealers I can find are going to be holding a raffle for these cars because Subaru/Toyota/Scion are producing them in extremely limited quantities. Maybe that's just for the 2012 model year? Because otherwise (and even still): Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Evil or Very Mad

This car is near perfect in my opinion: Not too heavy, not too much HP, just enough lightness and power to be a hell of a lot of fun to drive in the real world. A true people's sportscar in the mold of the old British sportscars. I don't think a car has been more interesting to me since I first saw the MX-5.

**Forgetful** Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:08 pm

http://www.gran-turismo.com/hk/gt5/photo/

Huh, guess I didn't RTFA when they announced this photo gallery business. I thought it would be a built in sharing tool for us, rather than having to upload the pics to a third party site, but I was wrong.

What really happens is the pics you set to 'share' end up in this random online gallery, with no attribution might I add Neutral

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**timneyb** Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:36 pm

Forgetful wrote:http://www.gran-turismo.com/hk/gt5/photo/

Huh, guess I didn't RTFA when they announced this photo gallery business. I thought it would be a built in sharing tool for us, rather than having to upload the pics to a third party site, but I was wrong.

What really happens is the pics you set to 'share' end up in this random online gallery, with no attribution might I add .

Needs rating tool.

**Forgetful** Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:22 pm

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just testing the link posting

**robiker** Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:24 pm

Wow! Check out the Tank Cars on the kart track. LOL!

**clacksman** Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:26 pm

robiker wrote:Wow! Check out the Tank Cars on the kart track. LOL!

I didn't get that one. I did get five of the chick in Bern and five where one of the visible cars was seriously off kilter.

**Forgetful** Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:29 pm

Ya, apparently car catapults are big in Hong Kong, based on how many pics I saw of cars at altitude.

**robiker** Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:48 am

**Forgetful** Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:49 am

We got tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/LotusVideo/status/178629067510263809 so now we're on twitter @DriverSports

You can also find us on Google+ at the moment.

**clacksman** Fri Mar 16, 2012 9:44 am

Pics posted yesterday aren't there today.

**Forgetful** Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:25 pm

PSN Forum is back up.

**HWKII** Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:48 pm

Forgetful wrote:We got tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/LotusVideo/status/178629067510263809 so now we're on twitter @DriverSports

You can also find us on Google+ at the moment.

This is awesome! What a Face

**clacksman** Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:47 am

Suddenly, GT5 maintenance on the 4th.

Start: 04/04/2012 01:00 EDT
Finish: 04/04/2012 03:00 EDT

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/gt5news/d6267.html

**Forgetful** Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:45 am

clacksman wrote:Suddenly, GT5 maintenance on the 4th.

Start: 04/04/2012 01:00 EDT
Finish: 04/04/2012 03:00 EDT

http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/news/gt5news/d6267.html

THAT JUST HAPPENED! Shocked

Didn't last very long though. Nothing new to report.

**HWKII** Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:58 pm

Forgetful wrote:Didn't last very long though. Nothing new to report.

**HWKII** Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:08 pm

Well, I was wrong. Today it's all VWs in the OCD.

Some nice ones though, I am sure I am going to pick up some that I don't have. Cool

**clacksman** Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:37 pm

PSN down for maintenance 9am-10pm Monday the 16th

**clacksman** Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:42 am

GT Academy 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz_aotBo384

**Forgetful** Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:10 pm

Kai play?

**redsoxboy80** Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:16 pm

Is Canada out again? I'm hearing a lot of chatter that it is.

**RackAttack** Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:43 pm

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/16/start-your-engines-gt-academy-2012-gears-up-for-may-2nd/

The action will then jump from the virtual cars of the PS3 game to actual Nissan sports cars when the winners of the National competition are invited to take part in the intense international Race Camp competition in August

I wonder if that means the NA finalists will attend the same finals as the European finalists. I hope they include Canada this time, it sucks that you guys missed out last time.

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