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Nissan and the Gran Turismo game go together like hot umbrella girls and Moto GP. And yet while we have a GTI game car, we don't have a GT-R… yet. That will all change come June 16th, when the car from teaser image above steps into the virtual light.
That's right, another one of "those concepts". But this one is from a carmaker who prides itself on turning geeks into race drivers, so maybe it will be different. What's more, Nissan has a lot riding on the next-gen GT-R supercar killer, so maybe this is a Vision GT-R of sorts.
This solitary image comes from the realm of Twitter, where it was posted with the tagline "we reveal the next chapter in our Nissan story to fans that have always shared our passion for performance." After playing with the contrast and brightness a little bit, the car that emerged really does look like a futuristic GT-R, blending the muscular shoulders of the current model with… basically science fiction.
Since this concept was done for a video game, not for the track, Nissan could have designed Scarlett Johansson with a red dress on wheels. They could have made a Jaguar E-Type with Japanese badges. But what we get was Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, hot but…
But we could say the same thing about every Vision Gran Turismo. Are people playing video games immune to good car design or do they not care because only the back is showing while they play?
And if you find the design hard to swallow, the powertrain will not go down at all. Nissan's next supercar… of sorts will likely be previewed by the Le Mans racing concept they have planned for 2015, which means it could very well be a hybrid. At this rate, they might as well replace the steering wheel with a Xbox controller.
This solitary image comes from the realm of Twitter, where it was posted with the tagline "we reveal the next chapter in our Nissan story to fans that have always shared our passion for performance." After playing with the contrast and brightness a little bit, the car that emerged really does look like a futuristic GT-R, blending the muscular shoulders of the current model with… basically science fiction.
Since this concept was done for a video game, not for the track, Nissan could have designed Scarlett Johansson with a red dress on wheels. They could have made a Jaguar E-Type with Japanese badges. But what we get was Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, hot but…
But we could say the same thing about every Vision Gran Turismo. Are people playing video games immune to good car design or do they not care because only the back is showing while they play?
And if you find the design hard to swallow, the powertrain will not go down at all. Nissan's next supercar… of sorts will likely be previewed by the Le Mans racing concept they have planned for 2015, which means it could very well be a hybrid. At this rate, they might as well replace the steering wheel with a Xbox controller.
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