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Gran Turismo: Cars
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While Gran Turismo prides itself on its looks and sounds, its strongest feature by far is its realistic control and car physics, which goes back to the immense variety of cars. Attempting the same turn at the same speed, a four-wheel-drive car will control differently than a front- or rear-wheel-drive car. Now, factor in the different acceleration rates for each car, based on its horsepower - then consider that cars can be upgraded with new parts that alter their horsepower. In total, each car offers a unique driving experience based on its real-life statistics. Veterans will learn that groups of cars with similar stats will tend to drive in the same fashion, but the preponderance of variables translates into ultimate replay value - a huge plus for hard-core racing-simulation fans. However, it ... means a steep, almost intimidating learning curve - a tough pill for casual racing fans to swallow.
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The Gran Turismo represents a new breed of GT kit cars. It is a low, muscular sport body fitted to a sectioned VW floor pan. Suspension is modified Volkswagen with Empi mag wheels on superwide low-profile Goodyear racing tires. Power is supplied by 1800CC's of VW four-cylinder engine complete with dual Weber carburetors and Cyclone headers. The transaxle is designed to ... receive the six-cylinder Corvair engine. The interior includes full instrumentation, sport steering wheel, and racing bucket seats with Targa headrests.
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Gran Turismo 4 makes it worth the player's time to drive through challenges and unlock the cars and tracks too. The list of cars includes 720 different models. There are over 100 tracks to drive when counting both the normal and reverse courses. The cars represent vehicles from the humble 1949 Volkswagen Beetle with a lawnmower-sized 25 horsepower engine to the toughest, most powerful muscle cars ever made and the height of automotive engineering. The tracks include everything from the fastest high-tech speedways to city courses and even dirt tracks. There is probably enough variety to satisfy just about everyone.
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With authentic cars, courses and car physics, Gran Turismo 4 adds an even more realistic racing simulation to the series. Test-drive new vehicles in courses located in various sites, such as Nurburgring Nordschleife, New York City, the Grand Canyon and Tsukuba Circuit. Along with Career mode, Gran Turismo 4 highlights the new GT Photo mode.
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"Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, available in retail stores and on the PLAYSTATION Store, next month, is gaining a few new exciting features for its upcoming US release. North American consumers will enjoy features, such as Drift Mode, Car Tuning, and most excitingly, two-player split screen racing and a new set of offline and online Race Events.
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The Gran Turismo (GT) represents the growing popularity for "kit cars" in America. More and more car enthusiasts are building their own personalized automobiles from a kit designed to utilize a popular foreign car chassis. The VW floor pan/chassis is the most popular set-up for adapting fiberglass body kits. Today you can purchase kits for sport roadsters, dune buggies, or GT cars.
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