Gran Turismo 7: The Weirdest Car in the Game

[@mitchell-wallisforce7859]

Fun fact: that extra exhaust pipe up top is for the snowmobile engine that actually powers the fans. It took the pole during Road Atlanta's first ever race weekend in the Can-Am Challenge series, and proceeded to keep taking pole positions with the margin to second place being around 2 seconds. Over one lap. Driving this thing in the mission challenges was nuts. It has 70's brakes, 90's power, and legit LMP1 levels of downforce. It's utterly unhinged.

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

Aaahhh nothing like drum brakes to stop .

[@Duergantia]

Why does it seem to corner so sloppily if it has such high downforce?

[@afoxwithahat7846]

@@Duergantia Either the body isn't stiff enough or Suspension has bad setup/geometry. Likely the second option.

[@CharlesOttman]

until the snowmobile engine ran out of gas and then it was a horror show.

[@sonnenblumenkerne2499]

@@afoxwithahat7846 70s tyres might have something to do with it as well

[@brasslion4176]

Steve the reason you were having so much trouble with oversteer is that you forgot to put in more fabric softener into your car. The lack of it makes the rear end loose, and also your clothes will be static-y as a result

[@Shy_Abi]

God damnit

[@kazefw3834]

Which brand is the best though?

[@SenorBolsa]

I also like to add some baking soda to the intake for odor control, but this is controversial and might be up for a rules change next season.

[@TheBossMan2407]

He just need to unlock the rare pose in f1 and it will really help his driving abilities across all games

[@LoganScottY]

I am watching a fabric softener ad on this video and half way through it, I decided to look at the comments and I see your comment.....

[@k-dog7013]

Interesting fact about the car: the transmission was a three-speed automatic in order to give the smoothest possible power delivery to not upset the ground effect.

[@mikehipperson]

All Chaparrals used automatic boxes from the #2.

[@Logan912]

@@mikehipperson Yep. The 2E was automatic, but there was still a third pedal that could be used to adjust the angle of the rear wing.

[@dannnsss8034]

We have Cvts nowadays

[@madmax2069]

​​​@@dannnsss8034 yeah, but they can't hold the amount of power race cars can deliver, it wrecks the belt and it just slips, or the belt snaps. CVTs while interesting, they're highly flawed, the only thing they're good for is snowmobiles, anything heavier that can produce the power and they just do not hold. They was tested in F1 before they was banned and it was all sorts of issues. Why do you think they're so problematic in road cars?

[@Wanderlauch]

This is lovely, I always wanted a race in a graphics card!

[@whitemamba8137]

That's why I've never clicked so fast in my life. I thought it was a modded lobby full of graphic "cars"😅🤣

[@afoxwithahat7846]

If the RTX 4090 had fans powerful enough to keep it cool.

[@commanderdon4300]

When Graphic cards become so powerful that the decide they don't want to be in computers anymore...

[@teknastyk]

rtx 4000series fans for mo powa baby

[@FormallyMeltus]

Air conditioner 😩

[@JakeLoeppky]

These videos are what makes Steve legendary in my opinion. Commentary is unmatched. He could've dogged on the penalty system the whole time but didn't even have to say anything- point got across with pure humor.

[@GoatedAtNFS]

this car may be weird to drive in GT7 but was a monster in GT5

[@UnknownSpooky]

And GT4

[@punkpanther86]

exactly, in previous gt games the 2J was unbeatable

[@AlexA-xo9hx]

I always loved this car in gt5

[@FormulaObscura]

I loved entering it in the compact car championship in GT4 and lapping all the normal hatchbacks like 5 times

[@lbnewell23]

It took me years to beat this bastard in gt5 😂

[@ALIEN_SEAGULL]

Polyphony needs to figure out the way penalties get applied. In this race they were absolutely unnecessary and VERY harsh, especially when you just get tagged and you go towards the wall against your will.

[@EmptyCheetosBag]

just don’t hit the wall???

[@LUXSTERIA]

@@EmptyCheetosBag did you not read the comment

[@tiresomeowl]

Wall penalties should be removed altogether. It doesnt make sense it doesnt help you go faster… why get a penalty?

[@jozixl8808]

@@tiresomeowl ikr what’s the point It’s like kicking someone whilst they’re down

[@nicholasterreri6999]

Yeah, I’m new and the harsh wall penalties have completely turned me off because you get double penalized so often

[@corroded]

I've always been surprised at how fast a RTX 4090 can do a lap

[@ireallywanttoswallowyournut]

@Impala1439 the car is literally built like a graphics card

[@StevePhoenix]

That's a really unfair comparison. A 4090 is considerably larger than a 2J.

[@eat2909]

@Maddy the car looks like a graphics card

[@chimpe1727]

Probably consumes same energy as one

[@AlbertLamarque]

That's the pioneer of ground effect combined with 70s tire and brake tech for you. Chaparral made some truly amazing machines. Ground effect active might require you to use smaller and consistent steering angles and go on the outside of corners and weird stuff like that. Also, the Chaparral 2D and 2J have been around at least since GT5

[@UnknownSpooky]

They were both in GT4 as well

[@donbehatin]

@@UnknownSpooky and gt2

[@PablooWT]

Yeah i remember IT was nuts in GT4, like absolute beast that can win every race for you, but it was way easier to control back then...

[@IIGrayfoxII]

@@donbehatin Chaparral was never in GT2 or GT3 GT4 is the first time they were in the GT series.

[@Unxone_Gaming_]

2D and 2J have started in Gran Turismo 4, continued to Gran Turismo 5 and have seen as last in Gran turismo 6. In Gran Turismo 7 the 2J maded a come back.

[@jackeldogo3952]

It's a snowmobile engine creating a vacuum cleaner to keep old Chappy tight on the turns.

[@tasticfan4286]

I remember in GT4 this car was OP. They took the vacuum downforce to the extreme.

[@SNOWDUDE13]

Seeing this car again just reawakens the emotional damage this monster caused in previous games.

[@ItsJustMetrion]

...Unless you're the one driving it!

[@willCX]

This reminds me. I remember the Jaguar XKR 12. No matter how hard ya try including smashing the XKR into a wall. Still comesbacks and overtakes I don't know why at the point and how but I used a Bugatti Veryron. Many retrys

[@gee_kaz]

Seeing the 2J in the All American Championship in GT 4 is terrifying

[@radicaIized]

Still crazy to think about.. most genius aerodynamics in the 60s-70s. Probably could’ve held its own if regulated for Group 6 prototypes

[@orcastrike7750]

That’s impossible lol. Fan cars would be useless in rally, they’re only effective when raced on smooth surfaces.

[@dmcharlestt4945]

@@orcastrike7750 Group 6 isn't rally by the way. At a point, group 6 was the pinnacle of prototype racing. Cars like the Porsche 936 competed in it.

[@orcastrike7750]

I swear to god I thought the original comment said Group B lol, pretty sure it did

[@dmcharlestt4945]

@@orcastrike7750 oh lmao

[@Fetidaf]

@@orcastrike7750I’d hate to be behind this thing on a rally course 😂 And they complained about rocks being thrown out the back on asphalt….

[@quim-ninja-6919]

I love watching Super GT because he’s polite, funny and never gets upset when someone messes up and crashes in to him. My Nan would like him. Great video as always

[@porterbatzdorfer8787]

Lovin the consistent uploads Steve! Keep up the great work 👍

[@andreaspooky6183]

It's basically a shoe box with an airplane jet mounted on

[@Jzwiz]

Looks that way but its a snowmobile engine oddly with a howitzer tank turbine. Had to power the fan somehow. The maytag liveries people made for it are funny

[@jaysway8972]

@@Jzwiz I see it as a v8 powered vacuum cleaner since it literally sucks air from underneath the car and shoots it out the ass

[@CLOYO]

@@Jzwiz Bro... It's both.

[@DJAizakku]

@@Jzwiz It uses actual military grade turbines to suck the air under the car, the snowmobile engine is to power the turbine.

[@Jzwiz]

@@CLOYO its a tank turbine

[@clubbedtodeath16]

At this point I think the developers are just releasing daily race combinations so they can have a laugh at superGT videos

[@tomanderson6335]

If memory serves reason the 2J looks like an appliance is because Jim Hall and his team basically built it as an engineering exercise/test mule, with an eye toward running it with properly developed bodywork during the 1971 Can Am season. But they realized the underbody suction concept was so powerful, so much of a game changer and so much of a threat to the then-dominant McLaren factory team that, with encouragement from Lexan (which provided the side skirts that sealed the 2J to the pavement), they ran it in 1970 with rudimentary bodywork that was basically there to cover what was underneath and satisfy the Group 7 rule that required enclosed wheels. There were multiple occasions where it had the pace to take the fight to the McLarens, only to have the two-stroke snowmobile engine that drove the suction fans die, turning the 2J into a contraption that was probably about as unwieldy as it was in this daily race. Even so, the FIA outlawed "sucker cars" globally (Gordon Murray's Brabham BT46B and its clever workaround notwithstanding.) at the end of the 1970 racing season, and Chaparral left sports car racing altogether.

[@xAtrizy]

Loving the consistency, you're by far my favorite youtuber!

[@484berkshire]

High downforce cars with terrible traction under acceleration seem to be the cars I'm best at driving, so I actually loved this race (along with the F1500 race a few weeks ago, and the MP4/4 time trial a bit before that). I did the entire week (well, half week) without qualifying and won about 40 races. Unfortunately like it shows in your video, participation was low, and I was also often the only A+ (or anyone above B) in these races, and several times I was leading by the time we got out of T1 on Lap 1, despite starting mid-pack at best most of the time. Even though I ran away with a lot of these, the car always gave me a lot to do, even with TCS on 1, so I was never board, and many times I found myself getting comfortable, only to have it oversteer at the exit of one of the corners when I got on the throttle a fraction of a second too early, giving me a 5s penalty.

[@ArcadiaP]

The humour in this video is out of control, I was laughing throughout it all, fantastic stuff, Steve!

[@Hamzta]

What a beautiful flying fridge! 😁

[@fillman86]

it's hard to imagine the giant amount of downforce that this created, but on cross-ply tyres XD

[@whitemamba8137]

You've become of my new favorites to watch. I've been a huge GranaDy for over a year now and that's how I discovered you. Keep up the grind man

[@johnnjeru1398]

Imagine if this was a wet race, I couldn’t even

[@Schnitzelwario]

6:59 Fun Fact: The Driver with the name "Muerte" means Death in Spanish.

[@Lego_Huracan_SuperTrofeo]

I like how you not only get pushed into the barrier, but you get a penalty for it 😂🤣🤣🤣

[@The11thSon.]

The worlds fastest Allotment Shed, with AC unit, ever. Sensational!

[@gothops154]

This car was made in Midland, TX and if you don’t know what the Permian Basin is it’s hard to explain how incredible is it that this car/company came from Midland, TX. Btw that giant air conditioning unit is a fan that sucks the air out from under the car to create down force. It was so good it was banned (or maybe because the fans spewed rocks at the drivers behind lol) P.S. I lived in Midland for a few years AMA

[@inurabera]

Spewing rocks behind sounds like something from Wacky Races!

[@thunderkat2287]

What the fans out the back are actually doing is blowing air out from under the car, thus creating a vacuum under the vehicle and by extension- *literal TONS* of downforce, even while standing at idle. This allows the car to turn on a dime while maintaining a slippery drag coefficient (at least, for the time), as you don't have a massive wing in the back acting like a parachute. Only problem back in the 70s is that you literally made your opponents eat your dust, as the vacuum fans had a tendency to pick up debris from the track and YEET them out the back of the car, creating a massive dust cloud. For this reason, I think the appliance it most resembles is a roomba :3

[@krotos6134]

Glad to see that the fridge car is also in GT7

[@Timrud1]

In the 1970’s they asked somebody to draw what a teleportation device to the shadow realm looked like. And this was it.

[@michael_boss]

“The Hotpoint factory driver.” 😂😂😂

[@Terrtail]

This is why i love this channel, Steve could've drove with no mistakes and winning every single race, but he only kept crashing and making a lot of mistakes just for an entertaining video. Now that's dedication!

[@dmitrypodpryatov5989]

I wonder how many times you need to hit Barry R to be able to drive a whole lap while serving a penalty 😅

[@oscarzt1652]

ive just worked it out to be 28

[@yoyo322K]

LMAO I thought the thumb nail was a graphics card

[@NATM462]

The Hotpoint 5000 is a hard beast to tame

[@mysteriousgt3090]

Missed opportunity to insert the "i love refrigerators" guy, during the grid camera. Apart from that, exellent video and entertainment

[@slain2450]

I get STRONG washing machine vibes from this car. Can't believe you served 30 seconds of penalties, and you weren't even last lol AND you finish P6, you absolute legend

[@484berkshire]

I actually managed to win one of these comfortably, also after serving a total of 30s of penalties, half due to my own mistakes, the other half being knocked into the wall from someone else mistakes. This was an absolute meme race and I loved it!

[@gohhoe1999]

When playing GT5 on the PS3 in 2012 & driving this car, I once joked that the back of the car looks like a pizza box with ventilation holes cut at the side of the box to cool the pizza ... er ... engine! But now I think it could also be seen as looking like a mini tower PC also with ventilation holes to keep it running cool

[@SampaioLipe_]

Steve, with all due respect, after this video i doubt any owner would be willing to let you have a go 😁

[@itmethang]

This is like a go kart without brakes with a fridge as its body.

[@RACECAR]

I would say its closer to AC unit, you've got the vents in the back and the high flow filter in the hood for all that incoming air. I do see though how it could be seen as a washer machine as well, maybe as a combined washer-dryer machine featuring twin-spin cycle technology for twice the effective cleaning of laundry and that deep lent trap for very efficient drying.

[@LyleKingofSpace]

Several Chaparral cars are on display at the Permian Basin museum in Midland, Texas. They also have hands-on stations that explain the physics behind the Chaparral cars.

[@N0N0111]

Routers with buildin modems saves power and are much more efficient, when you use separate boxes it's just another layer of lag.

[@TheEGL]

Idk about you but this was so overpowered in 1970, it got banned, nicknamed the “Sucker Car” another term for it personally should have been “what that mouth do?”

[@жорето]

When I did these races I hoped the car would have the original 3-speed automatic transmission. It would have been interesting, but I could guess Polyphony tried that and it was even more horrible to drive...

[@111ShockWave]

Here's a tip from a video gamer that loves racing games and always places first. Never press the brake, only release throttle. Brakes are used for drifting only, and if you don't know when to brake then you should not.

[@sermerlin1]

This car is broken to drive in the game... This car is actually BEAST to drive in real life. It literally sucks itself to the floor and you have INSANE amount of traction at all speeds. Not just when the air speed is highest. This looks like someone forgot to turn on the air vacuum engine and you are just driving on internal combustion engine with 0 traction LOL.

[@gbeving3167]

Chapperal is a boat brand, I didn't know they made a land boat

[@InGovWeMistrust]

I remember this car from gran turismo 4. It was extremely fast and a lot of fun to mess around with but absolutely useless for serious driving.

[@vsm1456]

I'm not sure it should behave like that. 650-680 HP is a lot, but the weight of the car, fuelled plus downforce, could be around 2000 kg-force, so it also had a lot of grip. What's important is that downforce in this car didn't change much with speed, so it had all that grip at any speed.

[@arthurneddysmith]

Haven't driven GT7, but the 2J in GT6 drove like it was on rails. You had to *try* to send it into a barrier.

[@SavouryLobster]

If anyone wants some cool history on the development of race cars, look up the co-creator of chapperall, Jim Hall. He's an incredible figure in the history of motorsport and deserves recognition. There's a good interview with him on KZbin

[@fx47771]

Yess Please drive the Ford GT Forza Edition on Forza 7.

[@MK-Masters]

I did Spa24h race with this car and forgot it hads no lights. Safe to say it was an interesting race lol

[@GPLaps]

No brakes... oversteers a ton... lots of power... Sounds like my kind of fun :D

[@paulwright1363]

I’ve used it alot …with a good setup it’s well drivable and is pretty quick for grinds 😊😊

[@sailcvl3976]

I remember trying to get used to this car on gt4. Its extremely high performance but twitchy as hell and super unforgiving. The real car is literally vacuumed down to the track, thats what the weird apparatus is on the back and why it has rubber skirts around the sides to keep the suction to the ground.

[@worldhello1234]

@0:56 Strange, mate, this car is a ground effect behemoth. @5:20 It serves a purpose. Instead of wings there is an engine on the back that creates 2 tons of downforce mated to a 4- speed automatic transmission and a 7l Ford V8.

[@mattwells1036]

Yeah I noticed when stock suspension tune it's pretty bad to drive. Glad someone whose good enough shows similar issues I have on controller. Doing a reverse rake, lowering the rear raising the front somewhat, will dull that oversteer problem out. Used it on sardena money grinding at 800pp, it was too harsh on fuel, but now tires force another pit anyway, so thata not an issue any more

[@thaizzz]

If I remember correctly, this thing was so overpowered (High horse power) and the g forces so high during cornering that they decided it was a better idea to keep an automatic transmission, so the pilot could focus on piloting. Yes it did die a little on the exit of slow corners because automatic transmissions were like that, but it also meant less wheelspin. Essentially, traction control.

[@brickhouse5795]

Hello Super GT viewer here, thank you for another magnificent video. Keep doing the good work. It would be great if you showed us more GT Sport Carnage, that Truck starting from the back of the grid keeps me up at night.

[@HECKproductions]

i think the correct appliance is a vacuum cleaner because first ly it looks like the bottom part of some ancient modesl and also because it has the S U C C

[@horn_of_plenty2629]

Mr. Brown you always leave me laughing. Great video. You know it's a great race when you serve a 10 second penalty and don't get overtaken...lmao.

[@bryant3454]

Didn’t know dodge made convertible chargers

[@aldinowidya1516]

Deep-web rumors that it's not the same Steve commentarying after that 20 seconds penalty. The original one got too old to comment full video after that the management have to search the replacement just to complete the video.

[@Mike_858]

Sir Jackie Steward once drove it and he said the 2J was amazing and he could not get it to spin. He said if you went too fast into a corner it would just very gently slide out of the corner in slow motion. He also said that the level of grip was amazing and he was overtaking other cars from the outside of the corner. So exactly the opposite of what the car is like in GT7.

[@Sargentwhitey]

Man I need to get this game and experience these.. Only experience I've had similar to this in a GT game was the Mazda Furai in GT PSP.. that thing was insane to drive quick.

[@ashermorales8276]

0:50 missed opportunity to throw the “I love refrigerators” meme in there 😂

[@epicnoodle7444]

SuperGT not winning a single race in a video? Impossible. That's just goes to show you he is indeed a human being.

[@SnookerMafiaVektor]

Came for the racing, stayed for the household appliances banter.

[@kellymonday6137]

From the video I'd say, between the penalties and the handling of that car that the race isn't worth doing. Thanks for sharing so I don't have to waste my time. LOL

[@sheldoncooper8199]

I cant wait for the Chaparal 2 D my Favorite Car of GT 4 and GT 5 Yes i am Dead Serious its the Ford GT and Jaguar XJ66 Killer and the even Destroys the NSX GT500 of 2004.

[@Lichtx]

For a bit I thought it looked like the drivable couch from Wreckfest

[@DaniMacYo]

It’s an extremely fast portable air conditioning unit. 🤣💨

[@supercededman]

Steve asking for a drive in a real version of this mobile upright freezer: if this is his audition/demo tape, I don't think he'll get any takers, lol.

[@maxlmlllan2604]

So that's how Appliance Direct did their same day delivery 🤔 who knew

[@noone6905]

The fan system is actually not for ac. It was used to apply suction to create more down force sucking the car closer to the ground and blowing the air out back. It would increase downforce and traction while also disrupting the airflow behind it so that other cars tailing couldn’t take advantage of drafting close behind. The disruption in the airflow behind is ultimately why the technique for down force was banned. The car also had a hard time sticking the the track and you would randomly lose traction if the seal between the car flaps and ground wasn’t good enough (often on the turns).

[@a.s.cirillo6785]

love driving this car in the sardegna world touring car 800 race. With the right setup you can drive really good lap times

[@genericmodz]

I drove it on 1 of the endurance missions on comfort hard tires I never wanna do that shit ever again 😂

[@TheGamingDefinition]

The washing machine from gt4. Was impossible to beat back in gt4, if you saw this car in a championship or race, it was just an immediate restart 😂

[@jeffreybelk5566]

"Come on Barbie, let's go party!" German - NEIN!

[@midslam]

The thumbnail of the PSUs on wheels got me.

[@MarshallLoveday]

Did you turn the 'downforce fans on? From what I remember, this Chaparral had a SECOND engine, about the size of a snowmobile engine, which powered fans than sucked the air from under the car, creating suction, which equals downforce. Maybe there's some secret switch that 'turns on' the fans......

[@jaysway8972]

They are on automatically, if u look closely at the fans, they are spinning

[@treyreppe4348]

The car had a extreme blower out the back fans. It "cooled" by creating a giant vacuum under the car literally sucking it to the road. So its most like a vacuum cleaner or air conditioner in function.

[@johnsullivan937]

Man gt7 would be so much better if poliphany focused on filling out racing series like this, can am/group 6, group c1, 90's gto/gtu,, lmp2/lmp3 instead of just having one make to populate an entire grid. To me the diversity in cars all racing together is what makes a race interesting. Each car having different strengths and weaknesses. I'd love to see some other classes get the gr3/gr4 treatment. Oh and if they would take out those few cars in gr3 that make no damn sense, having an entire grid of modern gt3 cars racing alongside a 90's gt1 mclaren is just stupid.

[@BrannanClark3027]

Somebody back there died😂 The Italian straight into the wall😂😂😂 I can’t breathe 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RearWheelZeal]

My washer's got two motors. Good for about a buck-80 she is. Right treat really.

[@razrsrealm]

11:40 look at the last guy on the southeast corner of the map spinning around LMAO. Edit: He left shortly after lol.

[@buzbuz33-99]

I done many grinds on that track with that car. When coming out of a turn, you must be gentle with the accelerator until all side pressure is gone or you continue to turn into the wall. No braking in turns. That said, it will out-turn just about everyone in a corner. If you are ever in Midland, TX they will let you sit inside the original car. Just think - if they hadn't outlawed it, there would have been entire grids full of these monstrosities in the US.

[@carcosa_swamp]

SuperGT: "and it's going to be a P5 ultimately" Barry R: "hold my beer"

[@AlertJester66]

I think in the uk they call that line up Icelands also I thought this car was called the twin tub washing machine from the 1970's

[@StreetKingEvolution]

Still waiting for the say SuperGT releases merch. Can't wait to sport a SuperGT racing jacket at the track next year.

[@cailear7512]

When doing one of the missions but driving this car was sooo infuriating to drive but also fun

[@trev1418]

This was a monster in previous games, especially GT5 ! Glad to see it up on GT even today

[@HydroTECGaming]

Kinda looks like one of those vehicles that push planes back from the airport terminal 😂

[@lightbringer502]

Such a missed opportunity to throw the "I love refrigerators" guy in as a meme cutaway.

[@Sebe_r35]

Super GT racing in a roomba from the 70´s, who would have thought...

[@danielkanewske8473]

If you converted a washing machine into a refrigerator and then used that as your air conditioner, that is the machine that most resembles that car.