Toyota S-FR ‘Racing’ Spotted in Gran Turismo Sport
September 2nd, 2016 by Brendan Rorrison
Eagle-eyed GTPlanet user
queleuleu has spotted a yet-to-be-announced car that will feature in the Gran Turismo Sport roster — the Toyota S-FR racing model. The photo featured above shows a clearly modified version of Toyota’s concept car in GT Sport’s ‘Scapes’ mode being photographed against an urban environment.
The image was spotted within a
massive presentation for the Computer Entertainment Developers Conference (CEDEC) 2016. Crafted by Polyphony’s own Hajime Uchimura, the presentation dives deep into the math behind colour representation and recreation, using Gran Turismo Sport for numerous examples. If you can read Japanese, we imagine this is quite the peek behind Polyphony’s curtains, so to speak.
The S-FR was technically playable in Gran Turismo’s last outing, featuring in a special GT6 demo at the
Tokyo Motor Show last October. At that time the official word was that the car “would be coming to the Gran Turismo series in the future”. There was confirmation the regular S-FR would make it’s debut in GT Sport in August when it was
captured during some off-screen gameplay at Gamescom.
The racing model of the S-FR was created by Toyota’s Gazoo Racing and is essentially a further evolution of the original concept S-FR. The little car is a proof of potential more than anything else. Stripping the car down with a carbon-fibre grille and a vented bonnet, it’s definitely one of the more aggressive small vehicles created by Japanese manufacturers in recent years.
Toyota’s goal for the base version is to challenge the Mazda MX-5, so one would assume the racing model is a potential rival to the MX5 Cup Car which is also included in GT Sport. Perhaps we could see some Mazda vs Toyota events in GT Sport’s online events section when the
game eventually arrives at some point in 2017.
GT Sport is due to be showcased at Tokyo Game Show this month, so we’ll be on the lookout for any new cars or tracks shown off. Stick to GTPlanet for the latest on GT Sport.
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