Top Gear Test Track To Appear In Gran Turismo 5

[nissanskyrice]

Dont know if this is old news but I just found this out today and now I think I'm going to have to buy a PS3 just to get this game.

I hope you can get a Suzuki Liana or a Chev Lacetti then compare your time to the celebs. I hope I can do better than the blind man

Linky

PRESS RELEASE:

Gran Turismo® and BBC Worldwide to collaborate on best-selling racing game series Gran Turismo®

Top Gear to provide content for download via GT TV™

Tokyo, October 24 2007 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and Polyphony Digital, Inc., the creators of the best-selling racing franchise, Gran Turismo®, today announced a collaboration with BBC Worldwide that will allow BBC's Top Gear programme to be downloaded through Gran Turismo TV (GT TV™) on PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™).

GT TV, a dedicated online channel packed with the latest news and content from the motoring world, will launch worldwide on PLAYSTATION®Network in 2008. BBC Worldwide will provide 40 episodes of Top Gear, the award-winning BBC television series about motoring for download.

In addition, the Top Gear Test Track – the track featured each week on the show, where host Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team test the latest cars – will be replicated in Gran Turismo 5 (GT5) on PS3. For the first time in a racing game, players will be able to burn rubber and experience every white knuckle, hairpin turn on the Top Gear Test Track for themselves.

"We at Polyphony are great fans of the world's best motoring programme, Top Gear, so we're delighted to be collaborating with BBC Worldwide to deliver Top Gear content via Gran Turismo," said Kazunori Yamauchi, President, Polyphony Digital, "We're sure that players will be as thrilled as we are when they get the chance to put their own driving skills to the test on the Top Gear Test Track in GT5, as well as enjoying classic episodes of Top Gear via GT TV."

Simon Danker, Director, Digital Media, BBC Worldwide commented, "BBC Top Gear is the world's number one motoring media brand and we're thrilled to make it accessible to Gran Turismo gamers. We continue to explore different avenues to share our content with an expanding audience, and are delighted to participate with Polyphony Digital in the launch of this exciting new opportunity."

[funkymonkey]

pfft... wait for celebs to start bashing the playstation for weeks before they get a drive to perfect their lines...

always wanted a crack at the Top Gear track... excellent news.

[Sklyn]

Awsome, I have been PC all the way for quit a while now but have been considering buying a console lately. This is making it even more tempting.. I really hope it comes out on PC, but I doubt it will.

[Marco-R34GTT]

As much as I wish you where right... cops would sooner fly mate.. However much I'd love to be wrong....

[Beer Baron]

GT TV launched in 2008? hahaha, It's already launched. I was using it last night. I watched some D1GP, and they had tokyo motorshow coverage on there, and some Top Gear on it too and even Best Motoring. nice.

[rdub_32gtst]

Awesome, that would be sweet as

See if we can beat the STIG with those lap times he does!!

[typevu]

PS3 for christmas me thinks