Gran Turismo 7 Adds The OG Maverick And A Homologation-Special R32 For May Update

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Gran Turismo 7's next update is coming tomorrow, May 25, and it’s worth talking about. Not because it’s the biggest in the world or anything — we’re getting the standard three cars and no track. However, the cars themselves are interesting, as are the quality-of-life changes that will surely make those still playing very happy.

For starters, a Ford Maverick is joining the game. Not that Maverick, of course, but also not your bone-stock coupe, either. Like the Roadster Shop Rampage Camaro, ERC Mach Forty and Sung Kang’s Fugu Z, this Maverick was made for SEMA, where it won the Gran Turismo Award in 2018, per GTPlanet. It was built by Greening Auto Company and also happens to use a Roadster Shop body. Underneath it, you’ll find a twin-turbocharged Windsor V8 making 1,200 horsepower.

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Another new addition — the 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo — is also quite curious. See, the R32 GT-R was a titan of Group A touring car racing, and in the early days of the car’s life, Nissan built a homologation-special version of the R32 to legally be able to bring certain changes to competition.

GT7 already has a late-model 1994 R32 GT-R V-Spec II, which had wider tires on larger BBS rims and Brembo calipers relative to the earlier non-V-Spec models.