Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.54 Brings PS5 Pro Enhancements And Five New Cars

With the PS5 Pro released early in November, it was a little disappointing to see Gran Turismo 7’s promised update wouldn’t launch with it. Well, finally, some good news.

GT7’s 1.54 update is now available as a free update to all players on PS5 Pro, PS5 and PS4, and those on the Pro have a bunch of new enhancements at their disposal. This includes a host of visual improvements, headlined by the addition of ray-traced reflections in gameplay for the first time.

There's also an experimental 8k mode, provided you've got a display capable of utilising that resolution.

Along with those, five new cars have been added. The fastest of the update is the Porsche Mission X concept. Revealed in 2023, this fully-electric hypercar has been designed as a showcase of the direction Porsche will go with its next halo model, although we’re not sure when a road-going version will arrive if at all.

It’s not the only Porsche in the update, with the 992 911 Turbo S arriving. Its 3.8-litre twin-turbo flat-six produces 641bhp, and it should prove to be a bit of a straight-line weapon in-game.

There’s another German car too, albeit completely unlike either of those. It’s the 1955 Mercedes W196 R, as driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Sir Stirling Moss. We expect this will immediately be on the most expensive cars in the game, quite possibly joining another handful in classics at the capped 20,000,000 credit mark.

Then we have the Ford Escort RS Cosworth, a car that somehow has never featured in a Gran Turismo game to date. To say we’re excited about it as an understatement.

Rounding out the new additions is a Suzuki Jimny Sierra. Like the Kei-spec Jimny XC added to the game earlier this year, it’s the three-door model but this one utilises the 1.5-litre engine seen in global markets including its brief appearance in the UK.

There’s no new track this time around, even though the massive 32GB size of the update gave us hope of that being the case. You will however now be able to visit some scenic areas of Colorado in Scapes mode.

Rotiform wheels makes its debut in the game too, while a menu book that requires you to collect three F-series Ferrari models now features. There are also three extra races for World Circuits, and Sony’s experimental Sophy AI will be compatible with two more tracks – namely Trial Mountain and Tokyo Expressway’s East Course.