Gran Turismo 7
1.68Gran Turismo 7 v1.68 update adds 3 cars, 4 World Circuits events, and Power Pack practice tweaks
GT7 update 1.68 is live on PS4 and PS5 with three new cars, four World Circuits races, a new Circuit Experience, ten engine swaps, a new Data Logger Drift Analyzer view, and Power Pack changes for practice ghosts and race retry.
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Gran Turismo 7’s 1.68 patch is now available on PlayStation 4 and 5. Based on the official update coverage, this release focuses on cars, World Circuits content, engine swaps, and a few mode-level feature tweaks.
What changed
Cars
- Added three cars:
- Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1969 Race-Mod — Brand Central — 1,500,000cr
- Mazda RX-7 Type R 1991 — Used Cars — 80,000cr
- Renault Captur S Edition TCe140 2021 — Brand Central — 30,000cr
Tracks & events
- Added four World Circuits races, including one event for each of the new cars and an additional World Touring Car 800 race.
- Added a new Circuit Experience at Grand Valley South.
- No new Bonus Menu Book or Extra Menu Book is noted.
- No expansion of GT Sophy support is noted.
Features
- Added a new Seasonal Menu.
- Added ten new engine swaps.
- Added a new Drift Analyzer view in the Data Logger.
- Power Pack changes include:
- a ghost to chase during Practice sessions
- a Retry option for the final race
- No new Scapes or Scapes curation is noted in this update.
Other changes
- Update size is reported at about 1.045GB on PS5 and around 848MB on PS4.
For league ops, we should review any car lists and BoP/spec docs that touch the new vehicles or newly supported engine-swap hosts, and brief drivers on the new Power Pack practice ghost and retry options before organized sessions.
From the changelog
Structured change list parsed from the official notes.
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- A first Gran Turismo 7 content update in the game’s fifth year of active support is now available, with the PlayStation 4 and 5 players now able to get their hands on the 1.68 version of the title.
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Seasonal Menu
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Engine Swaps
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: Other Changes
- Ten new engine swaps are available this time round, and with some pretty crazy new options — as well as a few more rotary-and-V8-all-the-things.
- That leaves us with two new hosts for the Dodge Challenger Demon engine and three for the Rampage Camaro’s LS7. Mostly these are as you’d expect — the 1970 Chevelle and 1969 GTO “The Judge” get the LS7, and the 1970 Super Bee gains the Demon unit — but we didn’t see the GReddy Fugu Z gaining LS7 power nor the Demon for the Maserati Gran Turismo S…
- Very surprisingly there’s no new Scapes or Scapes curations this month, for the first time in a long while. In fact we can’t even remember the last Scapesless update.
- A new “Drift Analyzer” view has been added to the Data Logger too, while the Power Pack sees some changes that gives you a ghost to chase during Practice sessions and a “Retry” option for the final race. That does somewhat take away from the “competition weekend” ethos of the mode though…
cars
- For the most part this update is as regular as it gets, with this three-car offering coming in almost bang on the 1GB average at 1.045GB on the PlayStation 5. It’s a little more compact at around 848MB on the eighth-gen console.
- Regulars will know that we already learned quite a bit about the update thanks to the usual day-before information dump , but that it’s never the whole picture until we can get our hands on the update and its patch notes (and usually not even that is comprehensive). Read on then to find out everything we know.
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Cars
- We already knew the identities of the three cars, being the major part of the update, but it’s only now that we get the last bit of salient information on them: how much they cost. Our estimations were close, although there is one surprise in there too.
- Chevrolet Camaro Z28 1969 Race-Mod – Brand Central – 1,500,000cr
- Mazda RX-7 Type R 1991 – Used Cars – 80,000cr*
- Renault Captur S Edition TCe140 2021 – Brand Central – 30,000cr
- It’s the Camaro that’s caught us out a bit, as we were expecting something similar to the 850,000cr required for the Power Pack’s Mustang American Racer. In fact it comes in almost twice that, at 1,500,000cr, making it about 14 times the cost of the other two cars put together.
- At the other end of the scale, the little 138hp Captur crossover will set you back just 30,000cr. Only the Kangoo is cheaper in the Renault dealer in Brand Central.
- With the RX-7 being a 1991 car, it heads into the Used Car Dealer. As is usual for cars added in updates into these rotating stock lists, it’s available right away as a “Hot” vehicle (not in the regular sense of a used car dealer’s stock) for 80,000cr. This price will vary with subsequent appearances, and of course the car will only be available some of the time.
- Combined that’s a total spend of 1,610,000cr (of which the Camaro is 93%), replacing the last update as the 20th most-expensive in the 36 updates in the last four years since launch.
- Four new races await in World Circuits, with one for each of the new cars and a surprise additional World Touring Car 800 event.
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- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Races & Events Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New World Circuits Races
- Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.68: New Circuit Experience
- We have slightly more in terms of new races than usual, along with a third new Circuit Experience in a row. However there’s neither a new Bonus Menu Book nor even a collection-based Extra Menu Book, and there’s no expansion of GT Sophy support — leaving 19 locations (although five are dirt or oval tracks) still without any support for Sophy to date.
- Although usually pretty decent in monetary terms, the new WTC800 race is a 12-lap run around Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve for a middling 170,000cr reward. There’s the usual high tire wear to contend with too, but no weather changes unlike some of the European rounds of this Gr.3-focused series.
- For the third update in a row now we’ve got a surprise new Circuit Experience at an existing track — following on from the Eiger Nordwand Reverse and Circuit de Sainte-Croix A events added in Spec III and 1.67. We’d suggested this might be the case, so perhaps it’s not so much of a surprise now!
- This time it’s a Gran Turismo classic of sorts, as the Grand Valley South course — GT7’s replacement for the East course, thanks to the reorientiation required to fit the track to the scenery of Big Sur — hosts the challenge. You’ll be driving the Mine’s Skyline R34 for this pretty frantic event.
- Each of the three sectors awards just 3,000cr for passing the gold time, with another 15,000cr for completing the full lap at gold. If you clear every stage you’ll land a 200,000cr bonus, and the “all-gold” prize is a further 1,000,000cr for what should be a couple of minutes’ work.
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