
The Citroen GT striptease continues with a more revealing image of what looks like a rip-snorting concept car. Huge tires, a ginormous front splitter meant to keep something seriously fast bolted to the ground at speed, enough front air intakes to break records, and that thing out back, which we thought were mirrors yesterday, must be a terrific wing. As they say in French, oh la la, c'est cool. Meant to appear in Gran Turismo Prologue, it will also be at next month's Paris Motor Show, and so will we, so stay tuned.
Citroen releases another image of the GT
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 10:29 AM Posted under Tags : citroen, citroen gt, CitroenGt, gran turismo, GranTurismo, gt, gt5, paris motor show, paris motor show 2008, ParisMotorShow
Sony picks GT Academy winners to race in Dubai 24 Hours
Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 8:31 AM Posted under Tags : gt academy, gt5, gt5 prologue, gt5prologue, GtAcademy, motorsports, Nissan, playstation, playstation 3, Playstation3, ps3, racing, sony

First art imitates life and now video games do the same, with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Nissan having joined forces to create the GT Academy. Over the course of eight months, the academy culled a group of wannabe racers from a field of entrants who posted the best lap times in GT5 Prologue. Then, for five days at Silverstone, the finalists competed in the game and on the actual track, watched by ex-F1 racer Johnny Herbert and a panel of five judges.
The two winners were just announced, and Top Gun status went to Lars Schlomer and Luis Ordonez. Schlomer is a taxi driver in Bonn, Germany; Ordonez is an MBA student from Spain. Now that they've won, they'll be thrown into boot camp for four months to learn to how to race for real silver: in four months, they'll have to earn their racing licenses and get ready to drive a factory-backed Nissan 350Z in the 24 Hours of Dubai this coming January.The rest of us will have to be content with GT5 Prologue for now...