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Citroen Showcases GTbyCITROEN News

Gran Turismo 5's flagship vehicle hits the streets of London; we've got the video and all the details...

By Chris Leyton
Posted: 24/06/2009

Emphasising the realism of the Gran Turismo series, Citroen showcased its concept car driving around the (real) streets of London in scenes that strangely mirror the virtual world of Gran Turismo 5. It seems the Gran Turismo series has always strived for realism, but now the real world is beginning to mimic the video game series.

GTbyCITROEN marks a collaboration between the French car manufacturer and Polyphony Digital. Although the Japanese game studio is no stranger to working with car manufacturers in the past, having shared knowledge on numerous Nissan models, the production process with Citroen marks a step further than anything they've previously offered.

The resulting GTbyCITROEN was reportedly first conceived back in 2003, as a result of Citroen's Japanese designer, Takumi Yamamoto, being a close childhood friend of Polyphony's Kazunori Yamauchi.

If you missed it on the streets of London, the GTbyCITROEN will be making an appearance at the Greenwood Festival of Speed between July 3rd and 5th.

Although, if you've got a spare £1 million TVG has heard rumours that suggest the concept car could be developed into a limited run production model. Strangely enough that would match the 1 million credits needed to purchase the car in GT5 Prologue!

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	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 29th Oct 2009 07:28, Post No: 46 notice how no forza fanboys are infecting the GT5 blog like the GT fanboys are infecting the forza blog, just goes to show how shallow some people will go just to make a fun racer seam rubbish
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 05th Oct 2009 22:19, Post No: 45 oh and no it wont be out before xmass if its comming out in japan in march expect it to hit the uk by april 1st lol so much for a 2009 release also the latest video on gamersyde clearly shows the game running at 60 fps till it goes to the replay mode where it reverts back to 50fps, also apon watching the video there still seams to be an issue with popup.
	By: Anonymous Added:Fri 28th Aug 2009 21:11, Post No: 44 Rise of Games spotted a brochure allegedly handed out during the event, which details a Q4 2009 release and the fact that the full game boasts over 1000 different vehicles to get your hands on. lol 1000 variations of vehicles in the game not 1000 totally different cars maybe 400 different car models/makes though to be honest any racing game that lets you customise and tune cars means it has an infinate number of cars especially as no 1 car customised/tued up personally can be exactly the same on somone elses game unless they tell them the exact spec/setup of that car.
	By: Anonymous Added:Fri 28th Aug 2009 20:27, Post No: 43 So I'm confused... Istead of ever releasing a game they have made 2 pre-games to keep people interested??? Sounds like the develpoers are having problems following through with their promises...
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 02nd Jul 2009 03:01, Post No: 42 yea right they are still making money off the prologe crap why would they want to put out the full version I wouldnt if it was up to me I'd just wait till people stoped buying the prologe to put out the full one.trust me its ready but once the full version comes out they wont sell anymore prologe GET IT!
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 07th Jun 2009 10:01, Post No: 41 a release date has been set christmas 2009!
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 05th Apr 2009 14:41, Post No: 40 look releasing a game of this nature early just cause a few of you are inpatient and cant wait till polyphony feels the game is right, this game is huge in comparison to forza 3 fuel ect the prolouge was just a pressure release just so people could see how the games evolving. the main game will have hundreds of cars loads of tracks as expected from a gt game but like killzone 2 this will still be in development for some time to come (segaboy's right a late 2009 early 2010 is a good estimate). i know killzone 2 is out but how long was it in development is what i was using as an example, releasing the game now would be like comitting suicide, the game would still be full of bugs and glitches and from what we have come to expect from big game developers is that they like to get there games as close to perfection as possible, just dont make them rush it by asking for it now they know there high demand for it thats why there getting it as good as they can, and trust me when this game comes out it wont dissapoint. oh lastly this game is being made by a japanese firm so why shouldnt it come out in japan first, im sure if you were a game dev studio you know where to release you game first
	By: Anonymous Added:Sat 04th Apr 2009 14:35, Post No: 39 We've all been waiting a very long time for the actual release of GT5. It's been a while and I think it's time they stopped making Prologues- there's been enough suspence. When it comes out it will definetly be a must buy though.
	By: Anonymous Added:Fri 03rd Apr 2009 18:14, Post No: 38 why dont they just release the game. why should people in japan get it before us. it had better by good by the time it comes out or else forza 3 will be the talk
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 05th Jan 2009 12:21, Post No: 37 at least i want to there are mechanic problems