Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.55 Is Now Available, Bringing Four New Cars

As is tradition for the final Thursday of a month, the latest update for Gran Turismo 7 is now available after its main contents were announced yesterday. Headlining the update are four new cars, and they’re as diverse a collection as we’ve come to expect from Gran Turismo.

Three of them – the ’90s F1-inspired F3500-A, the 641bhp electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, and the extremely random inclusion that is the 2018 Toyota C-HR – are available to buy from the game’s Brand Central, although if you watched any of the livestreamed GT World Finals last month, you’ll be gifted the Hyundai for free.

That leaves the fourth car – the 1987 Honda Civic Si Extra – to be added to the game’s used car rotation, where it’s currently available as a Hot Pick.

There are no new tracks to report this month, but the update does bring an ‘Extra Menu’ to the Gran Turismo Cafe, one focusing on the game’s collection of Group C Le Mans racers. In the World Circuits section, meanwhile, there are new races in the Sunday Cup, Japanese FF Challenge 450, and World Touring Car 600 series.

GT’s advanced Sophy AI is now compatible with the Interlagos and Mount Panorama circuits, and there’s a new selection of backgrounds in the game’s Scapes photo mode called ‘Chromatic Drive’, focusing on locations featuring long-exposure light painting.

Those were the changes announced yesterday, but as usual, a few other changes have been made too. The physics have received another tweak, mainly to tyre and suspension models, and leaderboards have been wiped in the Circuit Experience, Licence and Mission portions of the game to reflect this.

Finally, arguably the most entertaining part of each update, a host of new engine swaps are available. The newly-added ’87 Civic can have the 1.8-litre VTEC mill from the Honda Integra Type R swapped in, while the fictional Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X Group B’s motorsport engine can be dropped into the Evo VIII road car.

The S15 Nissan Silvia’s SR20DET turbo four-pot can be added to the Renault 5 Turbo and 8 Gordini and the classic Alpine A110. The remaining swaps are all Porsche flat-sixes: the 992 911 Turbo’s motor is available for the same generation GT3 RS and the 2004 Subaru Impreza; the 959’s for the 356 Speedster; and, hilariously, the 964 Carrera RS’s for the sedate Citroen DS21.