History YMMV / GranTurismo

** ''Gran Turismo 4'' replaced this with "Panama" by Music/VanHalen in the US, and a remix of "Reason is Treason" by Music/{{Kasabian}} in the UK, both also pretty epic tunes.

** The American version of ''Gran Turismo 3'' had a few metal gems from the Eighties, with "Turbo Lover" by Music/JudasPriest and "Kickstart My Heart" by Music/MotleyCrue as examples. The European version, instead, had a more ElectronicMusic soundtrack... Which still kicked butt, with artists like Overseer, Music/{{BT}} and Apollo 440. And don't forget to mention [[Music/{{Feeder}} Feeder's]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jjzE44I09c Just A Day (Alan Moulder Mix)]]" from the said intro as well!

** ''Gran Turismo 2'' did have a great [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e701QHyCr0o intro]] with "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans (from their album oddly also named ''Gran Turismo''). Both American and European versions had different soundtracks: the highlights of the American soundtrack are "Bodyrock (B & H Bodyrob Remix)" by Music/{{Moby}}, "Now Is The Time" by The Crystal Method, "Push Eject" by the Boom Boom Satellites, "Cars" by Music/FearFactory and Music/GaryNuman, and the absolute fan-favorite, "Dragula" by Music/RobZombie. The European soundtrack, while being much smaller, still managed to deliver some great tunes, with artists like Music/{{Ash}}, Propellerheads and Music/FatboySlim. Even the PAL version's intro features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8eush9P5E a nice trance remix of the said song]].
** The rest of the original soundtracks created for the series are excellent as well. ''Gran Turismo 4'' at least had a few songs from its original Japanese soundtrack intact when it made the jump to Europe and North America.

** ''Gran Turismo 6'' continues the trend with masterpieces like Daiki Kasho's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWowTpFENZI Looking For You]].
*** ''6''[='=]s licensed soundtrack got unfortunately thrashed by fans, but it's difficult to see why, with artists such as Music/DepecheMode, Amon Tobin, Miike Snow, Music/{{Chvrches}}, Camo & Krooked, Boys Noize, Music/NineInchNails, Music/{{Wolfmother}} and Music/{{Nero}}.
*** ''6'' has a LOT of recycled songs. So your mileage may vary here.

** Fans had mixed reactions to the eSports direction that ''Gran Turismo Sport'' is leaning towards. Some believe Polyphony needs to focus on improving gameplay aspects first, especially the audio, instead of eSports. The photo mode has also come under scrunity as well.
** Older race cars such as Group C (Jaguar XJR-9, Mazda 787B, Nissan [=R92CP=], Porsche 962C and Sauber C9) in the Group 1 class and late 00s-era Super GT [=GT500=] cars (Epson NSX, Petronas Tom's [=SC430=] and Xanavi Nismo GT-R) in Group 2 are somewhat divisive in ''Gran Turismo Sport''. While there are some fans who welcome these older race cars with open arms due to their nostalgic value within the series (and in case of Group 2, to increase the diversity of the class in lieu of other silhouette race cars such as DTM ones, which Super GT has shared a platform since 2014), there are others who disapprove of their inclusion in these categories due to how obsolete and easily out-classed they are in comparison to the more modern race cars in their respective divisions. In the case of Group C, they are also serious contenders to the more-modern Le Mans Prototypes, making this a BrainsAndBrawn competition as well.

** The decision to essentially make ''Gran Turismo Sport'' an always-online multiplayer game by removing the series-staple single player campaign mode and making it so that the game locks the player out of most game modes (even single-player modes) and disables saving unless the player is logged in to PSN was extremely controversial and heavily criticized in some circles. Polyphony, in an apparent response to the blowback, eventually patched in a single player mode, though the always-online restriction has remained.

** ''Gran Turismo Sport'' has its own tier system (''7'' does away with Group X and the N classes in favor of an overhauled version of the performance point system, but retains Groups B and 1 through 4)):

%% ** Zombie Jeff Gordon.

*** This is especially prevalent[[note]]or at least especially well-known thanks to another of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0n0LwFdCY BK4's memes]][[/note]] on the 1997 1.5 Mazda Demio A-Spec with racing exhaust and stage 2 turbo in Gran Turismo 1 and 2, which sounds much less like a car and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04DB1Wo7Sco more like a spaceship.]]

* {{Padding}}: In early games (until the fourth one), certain cars sold with different names in different locations were given their regional names dpending on where you were (i.e. Mazda Miata for America, Mazda MX-5 for Europe and so on). In the PSP installment, as well as Gran Turismo 5, Polyphony added every regional model of the various cars. Take the aforementioned Miata/MX-5/Roadster; ''33 cars'' out of the 1,000+ in [=GT5=] are Miatas, but with different badging. The same thing applies to Vauxhall/Opel, where the only difference is the badge and the country.

* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: An unusual example in ''Sport''. Polyphony Digital intended the game to be online multiplayer focused, with an specialization towards eSports. To that end, they initially opted to release barely any single player content in the basic game and mandated an internet connection to save and access most of the game modes. In response to fan demand, they eventually introduced a single player mode (which was initially rather barebones, but has since been fleshed out by subsequent patches), only to see it become the primary focus for a significant portion of the playerbase. Based on the trophy stats, somewhere between a quarter and a third of ''Gran Turismo Sport'' owners have never played so much as a single online match in a game where that was intended to be the main focus.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The reaction to the performance point calculation system change in Update 2.10 of ''Gran Turismo 5''. It reverted in update 2.11, shuttering the complaining.

** ''Gran Turismo 2'' contains a lot of contemporary vehicles that have not made an appearance in any other title, which has lead to the game having a lot of ReplayValue.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: You might think the 2JZ-GTE swap option for Nissan Silvia S15 in ''7'' is something that Polyphony Digital made up due to how out of place the engine swap is (A Toyota engine in a Nissan?). It is a quite common tuning among drifters, especially in Japan where professional drifters often replace Silvia S15's SR20DET with a 2JZ engine, the same engine that powered the iconic Toyota Supra.

** Lenny Kravitz's Are You Gonna Go My Way (Gran Turismo Remix) is a headbanging song played in the NTSC-U version ''Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec''. The PAL version plays Feeder's Just A Day instead, which is equally a banger.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: You might think the 2JZ-GTE swap option for Nissan Silvia S15 in ''7'' is something that Polyphony Digital made up due to how out of place the engine swap option is (Toyota engine in a Nissan?). It is a quite common tuning among drifters, especially in Japan where professional drifters often replace the S15 factory with the 2JZ engine from Toyota Supra.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: You might think the 2JZ-GTE swap option for Nissan Silvia S15 in ''7'' is something that Polyphony Digital made up due to how the option is out of place (Toyota engine in a Nissan?). It is a quite common tuning among drifters, especially in Japan where professional drifters often replace the S15 factory with the 2JZ engine from Toyota Supra.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: You might think the 2JZ-GTE swap option for Nissan Silvia S15 in "7" is something that Polyphony Digital made up due to how the option is out of place (Toyota engine in a Nissan?). It is a quite common tuning among drifters, especially in Japan where professional drifters often replace the S15 factory with the 2JZ engine from Toyota Supra.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: You might think the 2JZ-GTE swap option for Nissan Silvia S15 in "7" is something that Polyphony Digital made up. The 2JZ swap is common engine swap among drifters, especially in Japan where many professional drifters swap SR20DET from S15 in place of 2JZ.

* KillerApp: Was this for the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation.
** Was also one for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and would have also been one for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 had the first full featured installments for those systems not spent nearly the entirety of their lifespans in DevelopmentHell...

** Even ''7'' was this at one point. Thanks to a lacking (in comparison to older games) single player campaign, Microtransactions, and with the 1.07 update, a slashing in race rewards resulting in a grinsier experience, and the servers being offline for a whole day, ''7'' at one point was ''[[https://www.gamebyte.com/gran-turismo-7-is-now-the-lowest-scoring-playstation-game-ever/ the lowest user-scoring Playstation game ever on MetaCritic.]]''

** ''Gran Turismo 2'' did have a great [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e701QHyCr0o intro]] with "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans (from their album oddly also named ''Gran Turismo''). Both American and European versions had different soundtracks: the highlights of the American soundtrack are "Bodyrock (B & H Bodyrob Remix)" by Music/{{Moby}}, "Now Is The Time" by The Crystal Method, "Push Eject" by the Boom Boom Satellites, "Cars" by Music/FearFactory and Music/GaryNuman, and the absolute fan-favorite, "Dragula" by Music/RobZombie. The European soundtrack, while being much smaller, still managed to deliver some great tunes, with artists like Ash, Propellerheads and Music/FatboySlim. Even the PAL version's intro features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8eush9P5E a nice trance remix of the said song]].

** Similarly, in the initial release of the ''GT2 Project A-Spec'' mod, the Toyota Caldina somehow ended up with the same engine spec as the Tacoma Pikes Peak car, making it a family wagon with 1000 horsepower (And tuneable to 1500), and the ability to go nearly 300 mph with tuning.

* TheRedStapler:
** The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Subaru Impreza WRX [=STi=] series of high performance rally cars were brought over by their respective makers to the United States, thanks largely to their exposure in these games.
** One could say ''Gran Turismo'' helped with massively boosting the popularity of the Nissan Skyline GT-R in America, which went on to be featured in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' and in countless other racing games. While the non-[=GT-R=] Skyline was exported to North America as the Infiniti G35 (replacing the Nissan Primera-based G20) beginning in 2001 (and later becoming the G37 when the [=VQ37=] engine debuted), by the time the GT-R nameplate made it over in 2007, it had evolved into a more exotic, Ferrari-fighter brand, dropping the "Skyline" name entirely and referred to as only the GT-R. While many design aspects are still prevalent, it's clearly not the same car anymore.

** You will be hard-pressed to find a single person in the entire world who enjoys the One-Lap Magic missions in ''4'', simply because of the interminable wait before each one. Mission 34 illustrates this - instead of starting the leading 300SL two minutes ahead, you instead have to ''wait idle on the grid'' for two minutes. Every single time you restart. You could quite feasibly wait two minutes, outbreak yourself into the first corner, get a five-second penalty, have to restart and wait ''another two minutes''. This mission - and, primarily, the waiting - singlehandedly prevents many people from getting 100%.

** PAL Soundtrack. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Yet another meme by [=BK4=], which is widely associated with Simon Thorton's remix of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_24tiC5JEiw Fucking In Heaven]]" by Music/FatboySlim (albeit [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored]] as "Illing In Heaven"), a PAL release-exclusive licensed song which the NTSC-U and NTSC-J versions lacked due to regional differences. The remix itself gained infamy for its [[SensoryAbuse loud]], [[HellIsThatNoise screeching electric guitar noise]] being played throughout the entire track. [[/labelnote]]

** Surprisingly, despite the aforementioned FandomRivalry above, casual ''Gran Turismo'' fans tend to get along with ''Forza Horizon'' fans, due to having wide racing varieties revolving around off-road racing, which ''Forza Motorsport'' (''GT'''s chief rival) still omitted much to their dismay. This is also helped by the Horizon sub-series having largely avoided the always online restrictions for single-player progression that the ''GT'' games have had since ''Sport''.

** Surprisingly, despite the aforementioned FandomRivalry above, casual ''Gran Turismo'' fans tend to cling along with ''Forza Horizon'' fans, due to having wide racing varieties revolving around off-road racing, which ''Forza Motorsport'' (''GT'''s chief rival) still omitted much to their dismay.

** "From Gamer To Racist" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A derivative from the movie adaptation's ill-fated TagLine "From Gamer To Racer", which quickly became a meme after the movie poster with said joke phrase [[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fan-made-gran-turismo-poster-162549316.html ended up on Roku app]][[/labelnote]].