A first Gran Turismo 7 content update in the game’s fifth year of active support is now available, with the PlayStation 4 and 5 players now able to get their hands on the 1.68 version of the title.
For the most part this update is as regular as it gets, with this three-car offering coming in almost bang on the 1GB average at 1.045GB on the PlayStation 5. It’s a little more compact at around 848MB on the eighth-gen console.
Regulars will know that we already learned quite a bit about the update thanks to the usual day-before information dump, but that it’s never the whole picture until we can get our hands on the update and its patch notes (and usually not even that is comprehensive). Read on then to find out everything we know.
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Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Cars
We already knew the identities of the three cars, being the major part of the update, but it’s only now that we get the last bit of salient information on them: how much they cost. Our estimations were close, although there is one surprise in there too.
- Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1969 Race-Mod – Brand Central – 1,500,000cr
- Mazda RX-7 Type R 1991 – Used Cars – 80,000cr*
- Renault Captur S Edition TCe140 2021 – Brand Central – 30,000cr
It’s the Camaro that’s caught us out a bit, as we were expecting something similar to the 850,000cr required for the Power Pack’s Mustang American Racer. In fact it comes in almost twice that, at 1,500,000cr, making it about 14 times the cost of the other two cars put together.
At the other end of the scale, the little 138hp Captur crossover will set you back just 30,000cr. Only the Kangoo is cheaper in the Renault dealer in Brand Central.
With the RX-7 being a 1991 car, it heads into the Used Car Dealer. As is usual for cars added in updates into these rotating stock lists, it’s available right away as a “Hot” vehicle (not in the regular sense of a used car dealer’s stock) for 80,000cr. This price will vary with subsequent appearances, and of course the car will only be available some of the time.
Combined that’s a total spend of 1,610,000cr (of which the Camaro is 93%), replacing the last update as the 20th most-expensive in the 36 updates in the last four years since launch.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Races & Events
We have slightly more in terms of new races than usual, along with a third new Circuit Experience in a row. However there’s neither a new Bonus Menu Book nor even a collection-based Extra Menu Book, and there’s no expansion of GT Sophy support — leaving 19 locations (although five are dirt or oval tracks) still without any support for Sophy to date.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New World Circuits Races
Four new races await in World Circuits, with one for each of the new cars and a surprise additional World Touring Car 800 event.
Although usually pretty decent in monetary terms, the new WTC800 race is a 12-lap run around Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve for a middling 170,000cr reward. There’s the usual high tire wear to contend with too, but no weather changes unlike some of the European rounds of this Gr.3-focused series.
The Camaro is the cover star for the American Clubman Cup 700 event at Road Atlanta. This is a quick, seven-lap blast with 90,000cr on offer — so you’ll need to win it 17 times to offset the cost of the car. Handily there’s also a new Time Trial with it this week, so the 2,000,000cr possible prize should help.
Kyoto Driving Park’s Yamagiwa course hosts a new Japanese Clubman Cup 550 race, over three laps. The RX-7 is the hero car for this one, and there’s 60,000cr for taking the win. That just leaves the Captur in the European Sunday Cup 400 at Dragon Trail Gardens Reverse, in a two-lap race with a 38,000cr reward.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Circuit Experience
For the third update in a row now we’ve got a surprise new Circuit Experience at an existing track — following on from the Eiger Nordwand Reverse and Circuit de Sainte-Croix A events added in Spec III and 1.67. We’d suggested this might be the case, so perhaps it’s not so much of a surprise now!
This time it’s a Gran Turismo classic of sorts, as the Grand Valley South course — GT7’s replacement for the East course, thanks to the reorientiation required to fit the track to the scenery of Big Sur — hosts the challenge. You’ll be driving the Mine’s Skyline R34 for this pretty frantic event.
Each of the three sectors awards just 3,000cr for passing the gold time, with another 15,000cr for completing the full lap at gold. If you clear every stage you’ll land a 200,000cr bonus, and the “all-gold” prize is a further 1,000,000cr for what should be a couple of minutes’ work.
We’d also been expecting another new Seasonal Menu, since they were introduced in Spec III. As is now the norm, you’ll need to pick up the three new cars from the update within the next two and a bit weeks — it only runs until a second before midnight on the evening of Sunday March 29 — and there’s a Five-Star Roulette ticket as a reward.
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Engine Swaps
Ten new engine swaps are available this time round, and with some pretty crazy new options — as well as a few more rotary-and-V8-all-the-things.
We’re going to start with one of the maddest of all, which sees the RX-7’s rotary engine (the game’s existing Spirit R swap) go into the Daihatsu Copen kei car. A rotary kei swap already exists, with the Suzuki Cappuccino being a grind favorite, but this is the first front-wheel drive rotary in the game.
Two more small, front-wheel drive cars get some decent bumps this month, with the B18 engine from the Integra Type R heading into the 2008 FIAT 500 (a sibling for the Panda last time out) and the Abarth version of the car getting the more modern K24A Civic Type R unit.
The new-old RX-7 — the ɛ̃fini Type R — is straight in for a swap, gaining the 787B’s quad-rotor R26B, although this is the only car added in this update to get a swap immediately despite the obviousness of a Clio RS engine for the Captur. Maybe next month…
Another highlight is the addition of a Huayra swap for the Mercedes-AMG C63. Bringing the AMG-built V12, based on the engine from top-end Mercedes S/CL/G models (and Maybachs), to the C should provide some thrills.
That leaves us with two new hosts for the Dodge Challenger Demon engine and three for the Rampage Camaro’s LS7. Mostly these are as you’d expect — the 1970 Chevelle and 1969 GTO “The Judge” get the LS7, and the 1970 Super Bee gains the Demon unit — but we didn’t see the GReddy Fugu Z gaining LS7 power nor the Demon for the Maserati Gran Turismo S…
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: Other Changes
Very surprisingly there’s no new Scapes or Scapes curations this month, for the first time in a long while. In fact we can’t even remember the last Scapesless update.
However the sparse patch notes do have some other details. There’s a welcome fix for the Ferrari 296 GT3’s steering animation, and a new BOP option for solo Time Trial modes that allow you to practice in a car without having to manually set the appropriate power and weight.
A new “Drift Analyzer” view has been added to the Data Logger too, while the Power Pack sees some changes that gives you a ghost to chase during Practice sessions and a “Retry” option for the final race. That does somewhat take away from the “competition weekend” ethos of the mode though…
As ever, there’s some changes in the update not specifically mentioned in the patch notes, including new “Real Car” paint. You’ll be able to read about these on GTPlanet as they’re uncovered over the next few days in our regular Undocumented Changes thread.
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