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RUF Automobile and Gran Turismo teamed up for a pop-up event in Tokyo’s Ginza district on March 14, coinciding with the inaugural Luft Tokyo air-cooled Porsche celebration happening just up the road on the city’s elevated KK expressway line.
The pop-up, held at Ginza Sony Park, featured an appearance by the RUF Tribute and served as the launch event for a new limited-edition clothing collaboration between the two brands. RUF shared photos from the event on Instagram, including a visit to...

A new week brings a new set of Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races, with three fresh events now live and running through next Monday.
The headline this week is Race C, which takes Gr.4 to Kyoto Driving Park’s Yamagiwa Reverse layout for a 15-lap race with some strategic depth. Tire wear is cranked up to 4x and fuel consumption sits at 3x, and you’ll need to run both Racing Soft and...

Polyphony Digital is developing a new rendering system for Gran Turismo that uses neural networks to determine which objects in a scene need to be drawn, and the early results suggest it could meaningfully improve performance on PlayStation 5.
The system, called “NeuralPVS”, was detailed in a technical presentation at the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference (CEDEC) last year. The talk was given by two Polyphony graphics engineers: Yu Chengzhong and Hajime Uchimura....

Honda’s bombshell announcement that it is pulling the plug on its planned North American EV lineup has sent shockwaves through the auto industry, and there’s a particular piece of collateral damage that hits close to home for Gran Turismo fans: the Afeela...