Gran Turismo Racing Modifications in Real Life

[@MattJ155]

Hi everyone. Just wanted to say a big thanks to you all for racking up over 4,000 views on my latest video so far. While that might not be amazing for big channels, it's certainly more than I usually get on new releases. Thanks again!

[@boheyo]

I like how there's 40 Castrol liveries just because they were actually allowed to say Castrol on them.

[@ThreeDaysOfDan]

lmao, that's probably true. they had Castrol sponsors out the ass in that game and a bunch of others such as

[@soldadoryanbr7776]

@@ThreeDaysOfDan need for speed had a lot of Castrol ads

[@wojakthecrusader1410]

What you expect this game came out in 90's

[@artoodiitoo]

I think the alternative red/blue Castrol liveries might be based on FINA liveries on rally Celicas I´ve seen, they have bit similar look

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

@@wojakthecrusader1410 plus, Castrol was at it's peak in the 90s... WWF sponsorship deals, Sponsoring the NHRA funny car of John Force and even ruling Toyota with multiple Supras, Corolla Hatchbacks and Celicas with their name and logo on it. They weren't kidding when they said "DRIVE HARD!" Back then.

[@TwentyNinerR]

Many of the infos are new to me, despite me being a near-lifelong GT fan. I think a sequel featuring GT2 racing mods should be next, and I have a story to share about one of the cars featured in the game.

[@MattJ155]

Glad you liked it!

[@TotallyNotASpy1]

I would love to hear the story!

[@travosk8668]

Raka Radityo i don't think he can make sequel seeing as gt2 actually licensed the race cars

[@RandomCarGuy17]

@@travosk8668 No, it could be done. GT2 has more racing modifications than GT1 and a good chunk of them still aren't licensed.

[@Hillzy_Eighty7]

Gibson Motorsport R32 was in the ATCC (Australian Touring Car Championship) The Winfield livery was from the 1992 season and the photo shown was at Hell Corner at Mt Panorama,driven by either Jim Richards or Mark Skaife

[@divecolosio4988]

The "Pack of ar**holes" car?

[@CarsSimplified]

I miss the racing modification system; I remember the anticipation built high when you go to see if the latest car you got had the option available.

[@rogehmarbi]

Same here. I still remember the time when I got the R390 Road ver, my heart was completely broken when I found out the car had no racing mods (well it had one, but without the rad racing decals usually come with them). It was like 20 years ago but I still remember it vividly

[@Calvin_Coolage]

Hopefully Gran Turismo 7 brings it back. Even if they have to make up fake liveries, I just want it back.

[@Temmoie]

They just simply force you to buy those cars but racing modified on dealership. Kinda sucks, but at least they're still there.

[@possiblycrazy442]

Excellent job, everyone! Aside from the cars I was already fond of (like the Silvia) I was happy to learn about the Works DB7 and the Katayama RX7. This really helps me appreciate GT1 more as a sort of indirect time capsule for mid-90s race cars.

[@EmpanadaDeCaca]

These cars were so obscure, that i cannot imagine the amount of time and research that you had to invest in order to make this video

[@Arcaniac]

Im Sorry, but I already love the Gran Turismo series but this video just turned GT1 into the greatest Super GT Simulator ever, LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE CARS

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

I KNOW THEY LOOK REALLY FUCKING GOOD, EVEN ON PS1! The older GT's have an advantage on newer ones for, in some's opinion including *me only sometimes,* a better and more fun-unrealistic *AESTHETIC,* or at least some artistic variety to complement the creative changes to the later iterations.

[@kaedeschulz5422]

@@ChrisPoindexter98 Also older gts had these awesome tight rally tracks like the one wich starts at the coast for example. I really miss these tracks.

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

@@kaedeschulz5422 the most fun I've had since was the randomly-generated Gran Turismo 5 ones; lacking some visual flair, but tons of variety, a fantastic idea executed...pretty well. But yeah, Tahiti Circuit, Tahiti Maze...lots of classics.

[@Vladi306]

I'm really impressed by the fact that you went out of your way to get shots, in game, that are the most similar to the images of the real life cars. Informative video too! Good stuff here.

[@yuuji_]

Unfortunately it's stretched to 16/9

[@MattJ155]

Thanks for noticing, Brendan. I tried to replicate the real life shots as best as I could.

[@PACKERMAN2077]

@@MattJ155 I applaud that attention to detail when you could have just as easily pulled everything from the internet and if you couldn't get everything you would have cut corners, and told us to use our imagination.

[@bowlerwildcatGaming1991]

We need the cars back in GT Sport

[@pinkyo293]

Just make them using liveries, I've remade the MX5 and Supra MK3 liveries fairly accurately

[@gtrpaceteacher8775]

That's the thing only gt 1 and 2 let's you put on bodykits

[@kaedeschulz5422]

@@gtrpaceteacher8775 5 and 6 also depending on the car.

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@gtrpaceteacher8775 ever played GRAN TURISMO 3?

[@gtrpaceteacher8775]

@@purwantiallan5089 yes why?

[@h1k0usen13]

I never even knew about all of this. Really interesting and creative choice by the developers..

[@sampletext24]

I really like how he made the rally car counterparts jump in the game for the comparisons lol, definitely quality content!

[@LeafFerret]

This is the video that I’ve always wanted, now I know what colour to get when it modify it.

[@OhMrZack]

Man, I sure do miss driving the Viper in this game!

[@DatOneCat]

It's weird, but looking through this car list makes me miss the times when a lot of race cars still utilized the "arch" wing design instead of the GT wing design that's common place nowadays. I don't know, there's just something to it that's visually appealing to me more.

[@Toxic2T]

true

[@lorezn9416]

Thanks for posting these videos! GT1 will never die

[@camrunner6633]

GT1 is still a solid play today

[@TGrrr89]

19:13 That particular Viper actually didn't race until 2000. It also won the 24 Hours of Daytona outright that year, along with a GTS class win at Le Mans.

[@TakumiFuji01]

The Advan JTCC Civic driver is actually the Drift King, who also drove along his mentor Kunimitsu Takahashi, and younger driver Akira Iida with all three of them driving in the GT2 Kunimitsu NSX.

[@26b]

The info about this is absolutely astonishing tbh. I really appreciate that gt was really about motorsport in addition to being a sim racing game

[@HollandNights]

Great video mate! Just a small correction, the Gibson Motorsport R32 GTR was raced in Australia in the ATCC, not Japan

[@submaniac93]

I can't wait to add my input on this! There are SO MANY racing modifications based off of obscure race cars (mostly cars that raced in the Super Taikyu series in japan!)

[@MattJ155]

Maybe you'll know some we missed - perhaps even enough for a part two. :)

[@MattJ155]

@submaniac93 Can't wait to hear if you know of any more that we missed.

[@submaniac93]

@@MattJ155 I don't know if you meant to write it under my wall of text, but... well I made that wall of text that i'm updating as I find more stuff I forgot to write x) You got a lot more than I thought you would to be quite honest! GG to you sir :)

[@natechatigny7107]

14:35 DK drove an EG civic touring car??!! That's insane! Your level of research is outstanding

[@Psydrre]

It very much reminds me of the R32 he raced.

[@artoodiitoo]

I think the Celica racing modification is based on the rally car more than the track one (black mirrors, and the wheels are more like what they used in rallies, also the Toyota banner in the windshield is similar) Also, Kaz said in an swedish game magazine interview for GT2, that Carlos Sainz was his favourite rally driver, and he drove a Toyota Celica, tho it was the earlier model.

[@SmallBlogV8]

Very cool and interesting! As a bit of pedantry, JGTC didn't re-brand as Super GT until 2005, so strictly speaking all the cars in here from that championship are JGTC cars (starting from 1994). I'm also fairly sure the red Gibson R32 only raced in Australia.

[@TheWEENERMAN]

Thank you for this video, I really appreciate the time and effort you put into researching some of my favourite cars. I've recently had to do a lot of research on the NISMO R33 GT-R LM for a mod I'm making for Assetto Corsa. Glad to see I'm not the only one that's had to spend days of research to create something based on the original Gran Turismo. Keep up the good work!

[@artoodiitoo]

Ah I wish we could have proper racing modifications back to GT, these are so cool. Also, thanks for this awesome video, I always wanted to know the origins of these liveries

[@chipsnever957]

I really wish they kept the whole "racing modification" thing for the series. It was fun to see what cars you could do it to. (Who remember's the FWD NASCAR from GT2? 😆)

[@marcelopeluca3372]

I'm guessing they got rid of them after Polyphony was given a larger budget to afford licensing more race cars

[@Katana2097]

This is super quality content, mate! Love this informational video.

[@svenkieper]

this reminds me of my childhood, was so impressed back then... always love gt1 and gt2

[@adammclaughlin845]

Good video, really interesting and informative, not to mention nostalgic. The Castrol Supra GT in white with the green and red livery is so iconic. I'm sure I remember racing cars in the 80s wearing the same colours.

[@Bensawi]

I wish some day, some one do replicas of 3000gt and RX-7 special models 😍

[@Hillzy_Eighty7]

The Winfield R32 GTR was the dominant leader in Australian Touring Car Championship during the early 90s before being banned

[@ChoboUnjeon]

6:37 looks like the livery of the Nissan Fairlady Z Concept LM Race Car '02 is also a reference to this car

[@mahiru20ten]

Correct. The 787B livery was also referenced in the RX8 Concept LM. But I wonder where do the yellow-blue version of the car (which only appeared in GT4 Prologue) came from...

[@ChoboUnjeon]

@@mahiru20ten I think the GT4P livery (the car appears on lesson 35) is just a pallette swap

[@movierookie4282]

Great video . :) . Highly enjoyable and informative. I cant imagine how long it took. Love your videos .

[@MattJ155]

Thanks so much!

[@ares5111]

Funny that those non licenced cars here in gt1 are licenced in gt2 :D most of them.

[@TheAgoProduction]

there are the best granturismo's quality content in this channel.

[@claudioschumi87]

Love this ! I forgot how many liveries there was in GT1 I'm not a fan of Japanese cars like many who love them but as I am older now and a bit wiser I have come to appreciate some of the race cars when back then as a kid I was so pro Italian cars well still am but there are some beauties in this game. Also fun random fact years ago my dad use to do gardening for a certain BTCC Champion in his Vauxhall Vectra days Mr. James Thompson who my dad (bless him) had no clue who he was but I did I have met him a few times and spoken to nice guy as well. I was about 14/15 years old and he was selling his 125cc go kart my Dad almost got it for me as I was into my karting but the price was a bit too high so we didn't get it unfortunately.

[@Pluvillion]

Growing up with the channel since 2013, yet it never fails to impress with tons of information. Keep up the amazing work mate!

[@FuchsiaShocked]

This is so nerdy. I love it. I never realised they were referencing so many real racing cars, except in the more obvious famous cases, where obviously I couldn't miss it.

[@paxhumana2015]

Nerdy, more like gear head, my dear.

[@sunray2818]

There are a lot of Super Touring inspired modification like Laguna, G20, Mondeo, 406 and others, mainly to represent the most competitive Touring Car Competition of that time, BTCC.

[@seanhart7185]

The long waits for your videos are always worth it in the end. I didn't know about 80% of these cars in the first place. I never thought in a million years that the Chevy Corvette C4 livery was real. Great video as always!

[@diegodias1998]

Found difficulty to soak up all of this information, but I gotta say, this is a nice video. You have an amazing eye for details, pal

[@lorezn9416]

At 23:08 I think it is a Mitsubishi MIRAGE ASTI RX, rather than a Civic Ferio

[@DerpyAngel09]

glad I wasn't the only one that noticed, I had to scroll through the comments for a bit and I got concerned until I saw someone else noticed it too lol ^_^

[@rogehmarbi]

Watching this again to prepare myself for the GT2 version that's going to drop soon

[@Lonezewolf]

Car Vader, he's alive!

[@TheWahyuwirawan]

it was back then a big job for polyphony to include all of these special racing cars for modification based on true life. Original GT still my best and most played racing game besides GT2 and NFS high stakes in original playstation console

[@Drexcyia]

Cant wait for this

[@questaebenzinah2600]

This is monumental. Please do it for GT2...

[@alexm4514]

Seem to remember there was a few BTCC liveries from the late 90s, Peugeot 406, Vauxhall Vectra and Renault Laguna definitely did. The Mondeo too maybe

[@blisshope05]

The livery of the Weddsport Chaser reminds me of the Vauxhall/Opel Astra Touring Car and the Vauxhall Calibra Touring Car.

[@Dexter037S4]

Great, I can't get the Dealership theme out of my head, Thanks Matt!

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

While I wish racing modifications didn't go away with 3: A-Spec and would make a return in Sport, there were bigger priorities in mind for each game after all (like the game actually fucking being fun at its core, for example), at least all you have left to do is like 500×2-odd racing mods in Gran Turismo 2! 😆

[@ThreeDaysOfDan]

Race mods DO exist in GT sport in the form of GR 4 / Gr 3 variants , almost every single road car in gt sport at launch had a Gr variant minus a select few. As teh game has been updated however, 95% of cars introduced are road going cars with no GR varients in sight and It seems PD is content with the GR 1/2/3/4/b roster as only 1 car has been added to GR 4 and a few to Gr 3 . GR 1 has actually been the class to receive the most amount of new cars but the community is split as 4 of the new additions are group C cars from LE mens that should be their own class .

[@RunningOn7CylindersYT]

The Gibson GT-R was also the dominator in Australia

[@Moonlight52867]

This is awesome I didn’t know what some of the race modifications were based on and now I do thanks

[@calumward1192]

The only one I know you missed was the yellow/orange Toyota Corolla trueno gt apex, that was my first car and first car to put the racing modifications on as a kid 😃

[@HotwingLouie]

Awesome vid 👍You should do another racing modification on GT2

[@radityaindera3442]

This must have been taking absolute ages to make! Thank you so much for the hard work!

[@firstescobar6863]

Racing mods in gt5 are limited to less than a 100 cars out of 1000 cars. This game is so high tech

[@emulatorgaminguk2751]

Look how detailed the cars are in GT5 (Premium ones) and see how high tech the game is then. Non of them are laser scanned btw.

[@jcsscalemodels]

The thumbnail is a work of art. Looks like its actually from the game.

[@purwantiallan5089]

Bring back those race mods in GRAN TURISMO 7.

[@X2011racer]

A C4 Corvette appears in one of the American race events that heavily resembles the Racing Modification seen here. Turns out that you can equip custom parts to recreate the RM in GT7.

[@karemare6426]

this is content at its best, bravo my friend!

[@MattJ155]

Thank you!

[@Subuwu.]

What about the TVR Cebrera Speed 12 Racing Modification

[@connoisseuroftigolbitts]

14:53 If you tune the suspension soft the car will drive on two wheels

[@nkpgbmx]

Interesting video! And thank's for all other video uploads too! Huge fan of Gran Turismo series!

[@MrJohnReviews]

Great Video, also the unisia jecs was also featured on Gran Turismo 2 as well

[@TommyFenstermacher5150]

The blacked-out Raybrig NSX Test car is one of the best looking racing machines I've ever seen. I honestly like it better than the actual Raybrig NSX.

[@Hanschepu]

Bruh!! I always wanted to know if most of these cars were Polyphony doing their thing or were actually based on something real.. Also props for finding all these pics! Really appreciate the hard work put in, also this was in recommended so hopefully youre aboard the algorithm S.S. Keep up the awesome GT Content

[@scwarzewaffe85]

What a fantastic, and very well researched video - a breath of well needed fresh air! And great to see the thunderbolt reference in there also. Great work👍🏼

[@twongi3000]

car design peaked in 1999

[@XimelNivek]

This the best video ever, thank you for making this!

[@MattJ155]

You're welcome!

[@lazyox]

Gran Turismo 2 have the KURE and ZEXEL skins for R33

[@MidnightMechanic]

It's interesting how they borrow palettes from certain sponsors, even though there's no mention of the branding name. They used the blue and silver palettes for the FET based Supra, however neither FET or Power Craft names are on the car model.

[@markisaki979]

I want all the real versions of these GT1 RM cars in GT Sport now!

[@blainy-o93]

That first MX5 looks half-inspired by the Gulf colours with the way the stripe wraps around the bumper. Definitely know more about some of the racing mods from GT2 though, like all the works cars from the '98 BTCC season except the S40 being there.

[@TheV8Pumpkin]

I still can never unsee the fact TVR stands for... Trevor lol

[@markTK901]

I have always wondered if anyone in real life has applied liveries or wrap to their cars resembling the GT1/GT2 race modifications.

[@Craze4Blaze]

Only a few hours to go! Can't wait!

[@MattJ155]

Me too! :)

[@bobbobson3652]

Yay I feel special 🤣. I didn't know I'd be featured lol

[@MattJ155]

You helped, so of course you'd be featured. :)

[@artoodiitoo]

The blue rm on the CR-X EF8 might be inspired by a M&M Sports 1st gen CRX livery, or one on a City Turbo II, I saw them in WasabiCars´s video called "Car Spotting with HondaPro Jason, and We Visit M&M Honda Super Tuning" It would also go with the aqua colored prize car racing modification.

[@CamilleDeBastiani]

Nice videos and even nicer thumbnails!

[@hydro5168]

This was a really nice video, good job dude.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@MathewSmart]

Ahh I'll just stop and correct you there on the Red R32 Gibson Motorsport Skyline! It never raced in Japan, should check your facts first! It only raced in the ATCC (Australian Touring Car Championship) but was scheduled to race in the 1991 Fuji 500 but Nissan decided it was not a good idea as it was way faster than what they had and didn't want to make themselves and customers look shit lol... Otherwise great video

[@Sagari90]

He's back!

[@MattJ155]

I never went away. 😉

[@Iunio92]

this is a great video. I can only imagine the amount of time it would have taken to find all those images and make the connections

[@djstatyk1540]

That Toytoa Suh-LEEK-uh was on fuh-LEEK-uh. And once i got that toyota chaser in the game, i became god. I'm wiggin over the fact that when you have a rally car corolla jumping in the game, you find a shit similar in real life

[@vipbeef2174]

I haven't played Gran Turismo that much but its fun and interesting to watch tho

[@rx2976]

You make great Videos , Matt. Keep it up !

[@David-lr2vi]

Now do this video for GT Sport. Should fill 20 seconds! I miss the early GT games when they had more than half a dozen cars to pick from.

[@wabbit234]

I love these sort of videos.

[@MastaKilla63]

Them Nissans look awesome. I was born in 1995 actually. VERY late in it lol

[@danilo030689]

About the castrol supra gt, it could be considered similar to the #38 castrol cerumo supra jgtc too.

[@davegx13]

Will you make that for GT2 too?

[@csababugyo9109]

It would last forever to make

[@nickz4993]

New game: Take a shot every time he says JTCC/JGTC

[@COMPOSITE.02]

I love this thumbnail-design

[@MattJ155]

Thanks! It was made by Toyota SPRINTER TRUENO 1986: kzbin.info/door/_sCwdcZ5cv5K4Qkf3K2g5w

[@nathanstroud2223]

Did anyone happen get a Castrol ad for this video? ...as if the video wasn't already a 24 minute Castrol ad.

[@rasuu17]

That's very impressive work!

[@possiblycrazy442]

I hope the '96 Corvette is in here! I have an image of one saved to my computer that looks just like the GT1 model, and I'd love to know more. Also, the Kunimitsu NSX has a cool story behind it.

[@MattJ155]

Both are in there!

[@possiblycrazy442]

Excellent! @@MattJ155

[@StigDesign]

5:54 and all of subaru rally MC-Rae :) he was a great driver :) 10:30 lol now i need to find GranTurisimo music and or play the game again XD :D Great video as allways :D

[@MattJ155]

Thanks man!

[@BrySkye]

Licensing is a bit more complicated than the video makes out. You still essentially need permission to modify existing designs and to use the brand names in that context. Legally Distinct doesn't entirely apply when you're still describing something as being from a specific manufacturer and model, like a Toyota AE86 Levin. Heck, they even get a say over what colours and liveries can be applied to them. If you ever wondered why the Audi Quattros in DiRT Rally, DiRT Rally 2 and DiRT4 only ever had one livery when others would have about 6, its because Audi would not allow the car to be displayed with anything other than the official works team livery. It's livery details like sponsors and series where you'd be able to avoid licensing issues. Things like hardware limitations/time constraints (polygon budgets, etc) are likely to be the greater reason for some inaccuracies/differences to the actual 3D models, than avoiding licensing.