The most recent automotive to affix the “Gran Turismo 7” steady shall be the Polestar 5, coming this December in a free replace for gamers on each PlayStation 4 and PS5. The announcement was made on the Los Angeles cease of the Gran Turismo World Collection, a world esports racing event with the purpose of launching sim racers towards real-life racing careers. Along with the Polestar 5 being added to the sport — a part of a partnership that’s “set to proceed over a number of years” — there shall be a particular time trial occasion within the sport, the winner of which can get flown to Fukuoka, Japan, to attend the World Finals of the GT World Collection.
Gran Turismo sequence producer Kazunori Yamauchi says he has “lengthy been impressed by Polestar vehicles for his or her superior, clear, and chic designs.” Whereas the Polestar 5 is only a manufacturing automotive (albeit one with as much as 884 horsepower), I would not be stunned if this partnership will end in a made-up Imaginative and prescient Gran Turismo automotive quickly, and the addition of different fashions. Polestar remains to be engaged on the 6 roadster, which might be fairly enjoyable within the sport.
Actual-life and virual lap occasions shall be an identical
“Gran Turismo” is thought for its excessive realism, and Polestar and sport developer Polyphony Digital labored carefully to make the Polestar 5 drive as precisely as attainable within the sport, enlisting the assistance {of professional} race automotive driver Igor Fraga. Not solely did Fraga win the inaugural FIA Gran Turismo Nations Cup in 2018, however he has since nabbed 4 Gran Turismo World Collection titles and at present races in each the 2025 Tremendous Method Championship and the 2025 Tremendous GT sequence. Fraga went to Polestar’s growth services in Sweden and the Manufacturers Hatch race observe in England to drive prototype automobiles and join with the Polestar R&D staff, with Polyphony’s staff making use of his real-world suggestions to the dealing with and dynamics simulation within the sport.
Polestar says that with the correct individual behind the wheel, the 5’s lap occasions in “Gran Turismo 7” and in actual life are “immediately comparable.” Joakim Rydholm, Polestar’s head of driving dynamics, says “working with the Gran Turismo staff to make sure the digital ‘really feel’ of the Polestar 5 was as shut as attainable to the actual factor was a extremely vital step for us. The tip end result means the digital automotive 100% replicates the behind-the-wheel expertise of the actual Polestar 5, which means GT racers may have simply as a lot enjoyable as patrons of the particular vehicles.” When the time trial goes dwell in-game, Polestar shall be releasing a documentary movie concerning the collaboration on YouTube.
