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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car
Car Analogy Please writes to tell us that a new car unveiled at the Paris Auto Show was modeled after the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue car. GTbyCITROËN is the first car that has been designed in tandem with a video game to then spill out onto the actual pavement. "The GTbyCITROËN is the product of a partnership built up during the creation of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Takumi Yamamoto, from Citroen and Kazunori Yamauchi from Polyphony Digital Inc, the games developer were inspired by each others industries to design a concept car for the game that then flowed further into the real-world. The game version of the car mirrors the real-world performance of the concept."
Now if only the gun industry would follow their lead and build me a hand-held railgun.
Better pictures.
That's great, but call me when THIS car from gran turismo 4 is actually made (if it's not already)
http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-Nike-ONE-Gran-Turismo.htm
http://ac520.mygallery.biz/albums/gt4/Nike_One_2022_p03.jpg
Polyphony Digital has made the jump from video game to real world with the Nissan GT-R as well. The video game designer worked on the design of the driver gauges in the GT-R
That actually looks pretty cool. Though TBH I don't see how much the video game aspect can help,
since you could design whatever you want that looks cool in a game but have it not work in reality.
But good publicity.
It's not a real-life car. It's a concept. Concepts are renders and at best life-size fiberglass models.
Call me once it goes into production.
"Programming is life, the rest is mere details"
Yeah, I'm French, but I really have no respect at all for the French auto industry.
It's plain and simple: for the last 10 years, any car produced in France has been (s)crap. Nothing else. US don't laugh, you're even worse (apart from the Corvette C6).
The French auto industry can't make a decent engine, except when partnering with other manufacturers (Ford for Diesel engines, BMW for petrol engines, since we talk about PSA here - for Renault, see Nissan) and have managed to increase the average weight of their vehicles by 40% (a 207 CC weighs as much as a full blown BMW 330i, damnit!), all this while turning the driving experience from "fun" (Peugeot 106 Rallye; CitroÃn Saxo VTS; Renault Clio Williams) to "dull" (Peugeot 207 RC; CitroÃn? Hah! Renault is the exception here: Megane and Clio "RS Team").
The only thing the French industry can provide excitement about today is concept cars, and WRC victories (which they don't even take advantage of to make an appealing road legal derivative - unlike Subaru, Mitsubishi, and even Ford, damnit!). Don't expect a CitroÃn like that on the roads in the foreseeable future. If ever.
that is the best-looking Citroen I have ever seen... it is still butt-ugly.
I'm guessing you're from the US, home of such absolutely beautiful cars as the Chrysler 300 and the Ford Edsel.
(Hey! You do NOT want to funnel air under the front tires! Duh!)
You *do*, however, want to funnel air to the front brakes. Pretty much all the older big Cits (CX and XM in particular) had huge airscoops just under the front, for ducting lots and lots of cooling air to the front brakes. The actual discs, pads and calipers are relatively small on them compared to similar-sized cars (my CX, despite the fastest model having a book top speed of 140mph and weighing nearly two tons, has 12" vented front discs - the same across the whole range) but because the braking pressure is provided by an engine-driven pump rather than your right foot, you can apply much, much more force to the brakes than on a car with conventional brakes. I think it's in the region of 6 or 7 tons per square inch. Now, that's all very well, but you've got a small disc (low thermal mass) and a lot of friction, so it's going to get really, really hot...