A-B (Aston Martin) | C-G (Chevrolet | Dodge | Ferrari | Ford) | H-L (Honda | Lamborghini | Lotus)
M-N (Mazda | Nissan) | O-R (Pontiac | Porsche) | S-Z (Toyota)
Joint Ventures
The definition of a "Joint Venture" refers to an arrangement in which two or more parties agreeing in contributing their resources into their work. An example of a joint venture would Fiat Chrysler who joins forces with Google in 2016 to help in the development of Automated Automobiles, or when Subaru and Toyota working together of building a 2+2 boxer-4 sports car, resulting with the Toyota 86 and the Subaru BRZ, where both cars share nearly the same body and chassis.
Take The Alleged Car from Ford and have another partnership do all the work... and you have is the everyday English 2-door family saloon of Ford in collaboration with high-performance parts from Lotus. And that is the Ford Lotus Cortina... or just simply... the Lotus Cortina.
Henry Ford II commissioned Lotus' Colin Chapman in building a Ford Cortina into something worth of its performance, and allowing it to be capable to give Ford a good reputation in the racing world. What Lotus did was take the existing Cortina and assigned Cosworth in building a Twin-Cam version of the 1.6 liter four-cylinder Kent engine, bearing 115 horsepower and nearly 1,600 cc.
The Lotus Cortina became active in Rallying, though the car was overshadowed by the success of the Ford Escort, due to the car's reputation for its unreliability. However it saw a light in touring car racing with 2-time Formula One world champion Jim Clark, winning the British Saloon Car Championship with this car in 1964.
Live-Action TV
- The Cortina is the car that played a catalytic role in one episode of Bugs. That car belonged to Roslyn "Ros" Henderson, who has mysteriously vanished from the blue as the only remains of her is her submerged car that was found in a river. The reason why? The following episode reveals a Flashback some terrorist shot her tires out flat, causing her lo lose control and fall down the river. Thankfully, she survived.
- Quite spottable in Heartbeat in one of the episodes, where the Cortina saw spotlight again after nearly 3 decades of inactivity.
- This is the car Potter was driving in The Prisoner (1967) at the near-end of the episode "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, a white Lotus Cortina with a green flash.
- The Cortina is something you'd commonly find in Forza, ever since its inception in Motorsport 4.
- Lotus Challenge of course... adds this under the Lotus marque, despite that it's Ford that did the day job of that car.
- Shift 2: Unleashed adds this one and only 60's British Legends GT car in the lineup.
- Project Gotham Racing 4 adds this good 'ol Jim Clark classic to the lineup. The Cortina is one high tail-happy car, due to having high drifting stats on a low-powered G-Class car.
- Of all the 11 cars of Rally Trophy, the Cortina is one of 'em.
You already probably know this car is tied to the Gran Turismo series. And actually... of course it is.
To explain this, the GT by Citroën is a concept sports car designed in collaboration with French manufacturer Citroën and Polyphony Digital, the developer behind the Gran Turismo franchise, unveiled in the 2008 Paris Motor Show. The exterior was designed by Takumi Yamamoto, who was the childhood friend of the franchise's creator, Kazunori Yamauchi.
In-game, the car is hydrogen-fuel cell powered with about 780 horsepower, whereas the actual Real Life model uses a 646-horsepowered 5.4 Ford Modular V8 engine, the same engine used on high-end Ford Mustangs, Ford GT and later the Brabham BT62.
In 2009, Citroën confirmed for this video game car to get the Defictionalization treatment, with production only in limited quantities, however rumors say production was allegedly cancelled in 2010 due to high costs (which was refuted since). A dream GT supercar of Citroën was only a mirage that never came to realize its dreams.
Music
- Taiwanese singer Jay Chou gave this Gran Turismo car a spotlight as he's seen dancing around with this featured car in his music video
. You'd be surprised to see something like that outside of the real driving simulator.
- Obviously, the Gran Turismo series is where you find this car! It made its appearance since the car's debut in 5: Prologue
- Its PSP game has this, but also a downloadable SP Model with a yellow paint job (which is not in any of the factory colors).
- In 5 and 6, you get 3 different GT by Citroën models: the concept car from 5: Prologue and the PSP game, a petrol-powered road car and the modified race car, which can be won in the Dream Car Championship (B-spec only).
- In Sport and 7, the GT by Citroën serves as the basis for Citroen's Gr. 4 and Gr. 3 race car. While the regular road car can be purchased normally in Sport, in 7, a Citroën invitation is required to purchase the car. So farm some roulette tickets and maybe try your luck.
- While it does appear only in Gran Turismo series, the later years saw other racing games feature the (Defictionalized) GT by Citroën outside of the franchise as a Guest Fighter:
- One of the non-GT appearances is Asphalt 8: Airborne, where the GT appeared via Multiplayer League Update in 2016. The GT later appears in 9: Legends in a Full Throttle Update on December 2020.
- The "Blazing Shots" update in November 2019 of The Crew 2, classified this as a hypercar. It also returns normally in The Crew Motorfest. To avoid Sony suing Ubisoft (being a multi-platform game and all), the car replaces the Gran Turismo logo on the front bumper with a generic checkerboard pattern.
- The Play Station Vita version of Ridge Racer features the Assoluto Promessa features a high resemblance to the GT by Citroën. The car would be widely noticeable in Drift Spirits which has 2 different liveries: one being and Itasha featuring The Idolmaster's Yayoi Takatsuki and another featuring the Pac Racing Club design as a was of commemorating 20 years of R4: Ridge Racer Type 4.
Sport. Leicht. Rennsport. The three words to best describe this car.
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is a supercar/grand tourer jointly developed between the German Mercedes-Benz and the British McLaren, introduced in 2003. The name SLR is short for Sport Leicht Rennsport (Sport Light Racing), a Call-Back to the original 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé, serving as inspiration of this car and the Spiritual Successor.
The car was offered in both coupé and roadster, with the speedster that followed after. It's powered by supercharged M155 SLR V8 engine, generating 617 horsepower, mated to a 5-speed AMG SPEEDSHIFT R five-speed automatic transmission. Its reason the car had 5 gears is because a 7-speed transmission was too complex and would use more components.
In 2006, a new version of the SLR was introduces, as the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition, as the "722" refers to the victory of Formula One driver Sterling Moss who started the 1955 Mille Miglia with the 722 number (indicated with a start time of 7:22 am). It has 24 horsepower more than its vanilla SLR. A roadster followed the year after with the 722 S Roadster also unveiled. A limited edition SLR Stirling Moss, named after said Formula One driver mentioned above, uses a speedster styling, which didn't include a windscreen.
While the SLR discontinued and was succeeded by the SLS AMD in 2010, McLaren Special Operations (MSO) on the other hand offers bespoked programs of the SLR. Models inclufe the McLaren Edition in 2011 and the SLR McLaren HDK (High Downforce Kit) in 2022.
Anime and Manga
- Rich Bitch Sayoko Mishima in Ah! My Goddess embodies her wealthiness and arrogance, as she owns an expensive supercar, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.
- There is something about the Cool Car the character of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson drives in The Game Plan.
- This is how Big Bad Dino Brewster was introduced in the Need for Speed (2014) movie, where he shows up during one of Tobey Marshall's illegal street races in his Cool Car, an SLR McLaren 722 S Roadster. After all, he's a rich Smug Super.
- Balthazar's Rolls-Royce in The Sorcerer's Apprentice can shapeshift into a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren... and then a Ford Pinto.
- Ukrainian singer Anna Sedokova drives a black SLR Roadster throughout the desert roads of the United States in this music video.
- "Last Night" by Diddy (and Keyshia Cole) has him drive a silver SLR McLaren.
- This would be highly regarded as Mercedes's supercar in Asphalt. First appeared in Urban GT 2, then the SLR Stirling Moss in 6: Adrenaline and finally the SLR Roadster in 8: Airborne and 9: Legends.
- John Tanner can drive this in Driver: San Francisco, though it's marketed as a McLaren brand instead of a Mercedes-Benz. It was featured in the "Undercover" mission where the CIA agents' SLR is the car Tanner drives whilst escaping the cops, and then driving it inside AEGIS.
- Forza features both the vanilla SLR and the roofless speedster, the SLR Stirling Moss. They stopped adding the car after Motorsport 6 because of the two joint brands' toxic relations.
- The infamous Mission 34 of Gran Turismo 4 puts you in the SLR McLaren around the Nürburgring. The chief problem? There's a two-minute wait before you start, reasoning why many players don't achieve a 100% Completion. Seriously... a TWO MINUTE WAIT?? No wonder it underwent Memetic Mutation!
- Since the SLR only comes in either silver or black, the PSP counterpart has an SP Model, painted in Magmarot Red.
- The SM722 in Grand Theft Auto Online is based on the SLR Stirling Moss.
- GRID features both the road-going SLR 722, alongside its racing variant SLR 722 GT (GRID 2 only).
- It is the A-Class Exotic that only made its one-shot appearance in ''Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition". Ceasar from By Invitation Only drives this car when you encounter him for the first time.
- The SLR debuted in Need for Speed: Most Wanted as one of the high-end cars. Bull, Razor's Number Two, both figuratively and literally (in that he's both The Dragon to Razor and #2 in the Blacklist) drives this, albeit in a near-bone-stock body with barely any customizations. Though he has his valid reasons. Later returned in Carbon.
- It's quite notable in Hot Pursuit (2010), where cops get the 722 Edition SLR, while the racers get the 722 Stirling Moss. Keep in mind, the car has no roof and no windshield. A roll-over in that car would clearly kill the driver! Sadly, both these cars were removed in the Remastered version due to licensing issues.
- The last appearance of the SLR would be in Rivals. This time, using the 722 S Roadster, exclusively to racers.
- Considered to be a C-Class sports car in Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4.
- It is a high-end A-class supercar in Test Drive Unlimited. The sequel replaces the vanilla SLR McLaren with the 722 S Roadster, alongside the roofless 722 Stirling Moss. Tess's father Stuart Wintory drives a customized 722 S, where you can win his car after beating him in a duel.
The Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ is a 2+2 sports car jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru.
Inspired by Toyota's legendary AE86/Sprinter Trueno/Corolla Levin, it is a fastback coupé equipped with Subaru's trademark naturally-aspirated boxer engine; a front-engine, rear-wheel drive and low center of gravity, thus having similar handling capabilities as the AE86; while its exterior design is inspired by the Toyota 2000GT, the highly sought-after grand tourer of the 1960s.
Toyota also sold the car in the United States and Canada under their Scion marque as the Scion FR-S from 2012 to 2016. Besides the aforementioned name, Toyota marketed the first-generation model as simply the Toyota 86 in Asia, Australia, North America (from 2016), South Africa, and South America; as both the 86 and the GT86 in New Zealand; and as the Toyota FT86 in Brunei, Nicaragua and Jamaica. The second-generation model is marketed by Toyota as the GR86 as part of the Gazoo Racing family (similar to what they did to the "New Supra", which is marketed as the GR Supra).
Anime and Manga
- Japanese-English racer Kanata Rivington from MF Ghost is the pilot behind the pre-facelifted Toyota. 86 (ZN6) as his car for the MFG races. Despite being underpowered as opposed to his rivals driving foreign supercars, his car can achieve Beyond the Impossible and has the absolute skills to do so.
- Later on in the MF Ghost series, a new driver known as Mai Sakurano joins the MFG series with a Blitz tuned GR86. Whilst this car is also underpowered, she managed to push the car in order to qualify for the final race of MFG's 4th Season, and is currently sitting in 13th Place.
Film — Live Action
- Mr. Nobody's personal assistant Little Nobody in The Fate of the Furious drives a Rocket Bunny Subaru BRZ as an attempt to apprehend a coerced Dominic Toretto in New York.
Music
- The song of Steve Aoki and Flux Pavillion "Get Me Outta Here" has a lady drifting her red FR-S around the badlands and through dust smoke.
Video Games
- The American-badged Scion FR-S was one of the 47 original base cars in Asphalt 8: Airborne, considered to be a low-end D-Class car. Sadly, the car was permanently removed because of Toyota's policy of featuring their cars from non-Japanese developed games.
- The Leader of Nu Fangz, Kareem "KJ" Johnson, whom you first face in CSR 2 drives a red Toyota 86 that's customized with a Rocket Bunny body kit.
- The Scion FR-S was in the game as a tier 1 car early on but was replaced by the Toyota 86 in August 2016.
- Two Subaru BRZs customized with a different Rocket Bunny kit are also available as a tier 3 car. One is randomly obtained from crates while the second was exclusive to the 2022 Easter event as a paid car.
- The Subaru BRZ from The Fate of the Furious was featured in a 2017 tie-in event but was initially named as Ramsey's BRZ instead of Little Nobody's.
- A 2020 Subaru BRZ tS is one of the original 9 "Elite Tuners" cars in its namesake campaign.
- It all began in Gran Turismo 5, where it featured various FT-86 concepts. The production version of the 86 GT was finally made available for players in a 2012 update. And it's ''FREE".
- Alongside that is the 2012 Subaru BRZ added as a paid Downloadable Content. The Scion FR-S however is also FREE, like its Toyota counterpart.
- There has been racing variants of the 86/BRZ... first of is the Nürburgring 24 Hours-spec Gazoo Racing 86 in 6, which would be replaced by the generic Gr. 4 86 race car in Sport onwards. The BRZ on the other hand has its Rocket Bunny drift car driven by Daijiro Yoshihara and in 7's'' very first update has the Super GT BRZ GT300, joining in with the other fellow Gr. 3 racers.
- The final update of Sport added the second-gen GR 86, and it is the cheapest car in the game, costing only 8,600 credits. The second gen BRZ also joins in 7 in its first official update.
- Appears as the "Dream" in Horizon Chase 2.
- The car appears in Need for Speed (2015), though oddly enough, the game features the Toyota GT86, the Subaru BRZ and the Scion FR-S as separate cars, despite all three being essentially the same one. The Subaru BRZ in particular is presented as one of the three starter cars the player can choose from to start career mode, and after Toyota left the series after this entry, the BRZ would be the only variant featured afterwards in the series.
- Said BRZ would be the Pimped-Out Car of HashTiger in Payback, whom Mac uses during the prologue to drift so hard, that HashTiger got amped and even threw up from the aftermath. Even wants to get a shot of that!
- Both the 86 and the BRZ joined forces in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5. In 6, the very first chapter shows Kou and Maa driving one (who previously used an RX-8).
The ultimate Super Prototype made by the world's top automobile manufacturers for the video game series Gran Turismo, which are noted for using its very modern-day technology, aesthetics and aerodynamics, taken to its logical extreme and would also define a glimpse of the brands' future productions.
The Vision Gran Turismo name dates back in the 2006 Self-Contained Demo game, Gran Turismo HD, before it would be fully utilized seven years later in Gran Turismo 6 as part of the franchise's 15th anniversary. The very first VGT that started it all would be the AMG Vision Gran Turismo (pictured above), made by Mercedes-Benz, which had Broad Strokes from the 300 SL, but with no rear window and an active rear spoiler. Another notable example would be the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo which had a Le Mans prototype-style shark fin and active rear wing, large front splitter and side air intakes. Its body design would evolve into the production model of the Bugatti Chiron.
Many VGT cars offer in a wide variety of engine types ranging from internal combustion engines (ICE) from Peugeot, BMW, Mazda or Honda, to plug-in hybrids (PHEV) of McLaren Mitsubishi and Nissan, and even all-electric engines made by Hyundai, Porsche, Audi and Jaguar. There were also cars even made by non-automobile manufactures, such as renowned Italian luxury fashion house, Bulgari (BVLGARI).
Film — Animation
- The latest, next-gen Jackson Storm of Cars 3 comes in a very unique body... he is a 2017 Custom-Built Next-Gen Piston Cup Racer, heavily inspired by the 2014 Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo, with lots of futuristic flares. No wonder this future-gen Jerkass is Always Someone Better...
- It's surprising that the film has a deal with Mercedes to showcase their cars, and even arguably the first VGT to sever show in Hollywood. Bruce Wayne of Justice League (2017) picks up Barry Allen in a Mercedes Vision Gran Turismo which wasn't intended for actual production and didn't even have a working prototype. They had to build the car from scratch and even expand the size a little to better fit the very tall Ben Affleck.
- Just like the GT by Citroën as mentioned above being featured as Guest Fighter outside of GT games, the Infiniti CONCEPT Vision Gran Turismo would be features as one of the R&D events as part of a January 2019 update of. Asphalt 8: Airborne.
- Obviously, where it all started, Gran Turismo has Vision Gran Turismo models aplenty, which are Improbably cool concept cars built by numerous brands around the world, with performances that go beyond what man can exceed. There's lots to name that it spawned a "Vision Gran Turismo Trophy" event series dedicated to nothing but VGT models, and some would have Gr.1 regulated versions so they can also compete with the Le Mans prototypes.
- Of all the VGT models, the most honorable and memorable would be the godly SRT Tomahawk X VGT which has over 2,500 HP, insane cornering and can go blast past 600 km/h! Looks like There Is No Kill Like Overkill since you can take it to the "Vision Gran Turismo Trophy+" of Sport since the event has as absolutely no power cap. Enjoy lapping everyone multiple times.
- While there's already the renowned AMG VGT, there's also the LH Edition, made by "the maestro" and seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. Only shows up in Sport as a "Lewis Hamilton Time Trial Challenge" reward car, but sadly didn't make the cut in 7.
- Both the Porsche Vision Gran Turismo and the Mazda RX-VISION GT3 Concept would be the VGT cars acting as the cover cars of Gran Turismo 7.
- Grand Theft Auto Online has some VGTs outside of Gran Turismo that would rather be to hot to drive around Los Santos:
- The heavily-modified Chiron-esque Custom version of the Truffade Nero has racing modifications to strongly resemble the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo.
- Don't forget the first VGT-esque car; the Lexus LF-LC based Emperor ETR1. Though it has a heavy inspiration to the Toyota FT-1, which is also another VGT, too.
- If you like to show your love for VGTs, then the Tygris of Rocket League is just for you. Its body is loosely based off the Mitsubishi XR-PHEV Evolution VGT.
