fun fact : the Ford GT LM Race Car (and Spec II) are the only cars with racing gearbox in Gran Turismo 4 that don't make a whine sound because they are actually set as "standard" gearbox despite being fully adjustable.
@@alrecks619interestingly, 2002 GT-R CONCEPT LM also is favourite car for Makima (Chainsaw Man) and Kaho Hinoshita (Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Doukoukai).
34:13 "BRAD KESELOWSKI, WON THIS RACE" Fun fact, Brad Keselowski also broke 4 records with his win at Darlington: His 3 year long winless streak Winning in a RFK car, RFK being co-owned by himself and he last won in a Team Penske car The first the #6 car has won in NASCAR in 13 years, last won by David Ragan at Daytona Ford's 2024 winless streak across every single major racing series they have participated (3 of the races being lost in photo finishes against a Chevrolet)
@@Space.Folding IRL the Viper was considered somewhat of a cheater. got DQ from GT1 series (i think) and bc of a little name discrepancy returned the following year. Unchanged!!!
I'm surprised to see it wasn't in here! GT3 alone cemented it as my favourite car of all time, and that's coming from a European kid that grew up with F1 and DTM.
man the ending is even sadder when i thought about the Nismo R33 GT-R LM race car livery had that sticker on the door that said "Keep The Dream Alive". hits harder than it already is
On 787B: I feel like this car is the most misunderstood racer for some reason. I'd roll my eyes every time people think that the car is "so fast, it's banned" (while the R32 Group A actually existed), but to be fair I used to believe more on the "not meant to be reliable but it won by sheer luck" angle. Regardless, I applaud Mazda's engineering team to create the most balanced and reliable race car that gave them the win they deserve after years of attempts. On Skyline LM: That image of the road car driving to the sunset will forever be ingrained to my head. Fun fact: I actually traced one frame of the scene for my thesis defense years ago. Kinda shame that we haven't got the road version Skyline LM in GT7, even the race version, and the fact that the race version wasn't fully licensed when it appeared doesn't help either.
Setsuna-chan's Minolta 88C-V imo is one of the 250 cars that are wished to be returned in Gran Turismo 7 along with Maki-chan's Toyota GT ONE and Castrol Mugen NSX 2000. So far, only 2000 Mugen NSX, Maki-chan's Toyota GT ONE and 2 Volvo Models are added in GT7 via updates.
IIRC what really happened is that the FIA threw a fit that manufacturers were actually using different engines, and after '91 forced everyone to use the same engines that F1 did. So rotaries weren't banned by name, but they were banned alongside everything else that wasn't what the FIA wanted specifically.
@@reinbeers5322 Group C was immensely popular with manufacturers and fans thanks to its fairly liberal rules. As long as it met the mandated fuel economy targets pretty much any engine was eligible. Thus there was incredible variety. Porsche's 962 with their proven turbo flat six that had been winning races all over the place since the 1970s, Nissan and Toyota opting for bespoke small displacement Turbo V8s, Mercedes with a larger production based V8 Turbo, Jaguar with their giant 7.0L fuck off V12 taken from the XJS V12 and of course Mazda with their unique rotaries. And then there was the cheaper C2 class for privateers running F1 derived V8 engines, usually Cosworth. Seeing as Group C was starting to rival F1s popularity the FIA decided to effectively make the C2 class the new top class in the WSC starting in 1991. (Which eventually caused a mass exodus and the death of Group C) However as Le Mans was sanctioned by the ACO the old C1 cars were eligible to run in that one event, but with severe ballast. So everyone opted to run the faster 1990 spec cars, besides Mazda who thanks to them running in GTP were able to avoid the ballast restrictions of their faster competitors. And the rest was history.
Excellent video and the nod to the R33 GT-R LM at the end was perfect... it left a big impression in me as being the first car to appear at the intro of GT1 and the last, at the final video (I swear to God I was crying as "Second Chance" played in the last scene, as the LM disappears towards the sun). Thanks to this, I'm a big fan of the model and scored a 1/18 scale of it from OttoMobile to include in my diecast car collection. Shame Polyphony Digital apparently forgot about it while Turn 10/Playground Games added it to Forza.
The iconic car for me in GT3 has to be the Team Oreca Viper GTS-R. That red livery on the viper is eye popping. Not to mention at the time it was one of the most dominate race cars of an era.
i remember seeing the Ford GT for the first time in the GT4 intro being in absolute awe, to this day one of the most beautiful cars i've ever seen in my life
Personally… the true embodiment of gran turismo for me is the team oreca dodge viper race car with the iconic red with white paint job and the yellow lights
I was surprised roflwaffle didn't talk about the oreca viper. I always thought that car was an Icon tied to gt3 considering how much it was shown in the game's opening.
Even though the GT-R LM was forgotten in the gran turismo series, it shifted to the Forza Racing Games, having appeared in Motorsport 7 and Horizon 3, 4 and 5 with a Forza Edition variant in Horizon 4.
Since it has been leaked that thr next silhouettes will be some of the most famous cars in GT i think the video is very appropriate, Good Job Rofl (prediction for next video: gran turismo award cars that never made it in game until now)
These are definitely GT icons, but I think you missed some other ones: Dodge Viper GTS-R Team Oreca and Chevrolet Corvette C5-R Pagani Zonda C12 Pink Vitz
While I do agree with you I think most gamers know about the R35 GTR because of Need for Speed Prostreet as that game was the first racing game to feature the production ready R35 GTR and it also featured the prototype R35 GTR.
Hit it out of the park again Roflwaffle. You truly found the legends of Gran Turismo some famous and some not so famous. My hero car has to be the Ford GT (LM Race Car Spec II) with GT4 being my first game I played. However I also have some honourably mentions: The Castrol Toms Supra, the Team Oreca Viper and the Panzo Race car.
2002 Nissan GT-R Concept LM, 2002 FAIRLADY Z CONCEPT LM, 2004 Ford GT LM Spec II, Shioriko Mifune's Mazda 787B, Setsuna Yuki's Minolta Toyota 88C-V are all very iconic and legendary cars in GT FRANCHISE... The 2009 Audi R8 LMS LMGT3 from Gran Turismo PSP also is very underrated.
I find that the GT1 JP End Credits theme, "Second Chance" by Masahiro Andoh ft. Joseph Williams, perfectly fits the GT-R LM's situation in the lore of GT rn.
Fun fact: The original project 7/12 was also in Test Drive 4 as the reward car for beating the Masters Cup. Also was the only car with a 7-Speed gearbox and was the 2nd fastest car in the game behind the Viper GTS-R
I wish more people would try to speed run or LP stream the old Test Drive games. That’d be great to watch someone try to not lose their mind trying to deal with the god awful AI that rubber band so fast they literally wreck you lmao
@@heedseeker6155 Was TD4 any good? I recall TD5 and especially TD6 just being outright bad and having some of the most off-model vehicles of any racing game, even for the time.
@@ArbitraryOutcome TD4 was pretty bad as well but it’s like a charming kind of bad lol. The car models in all of the TD’s on PlayStation are wonky and bizarre but they were never going to look too good because it’s an arcade racer on a game console just getting used to 3D. Still fun to play from time to time
I fell in love so bad for that ford gt lm race car as a kid, i think it's one of the most iconic mascot for any granturismo. And one of those great icons of video game. I remember buying NFS undercover on ps2 just to remake it and being able to drive it
The Nissan R390 twin turbo V8 is the engine McLaren used for the MP4-12C and pretty much all other modern McLarens with a V8 twin turbo. It was reworked but it is the engine they basically use. Including the P1.
Was really waiting for a video like this, as there are so, so many cars whose entire identity to me is tied to Gran Turismo. I am also a diecast collector, so I am working on a mini-collection of GT icons. Already have a few, like the Calsonic R32, Takata NSX, the Gran Turismo 4 GT and R34 pace car.
You need to talk about fictional cars of Gran Turismo (FGT,RX8 LM Race Car) BECAUSE I think it's an interesting idea (especially you need to talk about FGT because it's criminally UNDERRATED!)
I could have sworn there was already a video critiquing the Vision GTs. I haven't watched it in a while but I thought the LM Edition cars were brought up, but if not, they are interesting vehicles nonetheless. Some of em seemed like "what ifs" to some degree, like the GTO LM effectively being a "what if the Mitsubishi GTO ran in the JGTC".
Only Roflwaffle has made me want to yell YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN to a ps1 car model. That intro (and game) made a huge impression on 5 year old me, unable to speak english and unable to really understand what that car was. I had written it off as a trailer car that couldn't be raced since once I found out about racing modifications the R33 didn't look at all like it and it took me over 5 years to find out it was a real car.
It's funny to think that Forza series carried the torch at preserving R33 LM legacy from GT, I really liked it there. I've spent lots of hours in online races with "Nissan Nismo GT-R LM Forza Edition" because with a bit of tuning it was really good to use at almost any road car tournament, and it's livery reminded me of it's former glory in GT 1 days. Driving in a Road Car gave me pleasure too, so maybe right now it is one of the best "contemporary" ways to experience this car in a videogame. Your video also gave me food for thought about "car on the cover" phenomenon and how videogames used to market. Usually I don't like discussions with the common theme like "something used to be better", for example "racing games used to be better", anyway I couldn't help but think about it in a way, that earlier racing games utilized it's cover art to emphasize specific car and make it look like the best car in the game even if it's perfomance wasn't that great. One of the best examples of it is yellow Lamborghini Diablo SV in Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit or Honda S2000, that is used in various GT2 cover arts and even in the game's menu design - these cars aren't the best in its class, but because of game covers you look at it like it's something really special, something that stands out of the rest of the roster. Today I feel that if I look at the modern racing games covers, I won't feel anything special about the cars on it and I really can't get a solid reason of why is it happening. The last games, that made me exciting about specific cars because of it's covers are Forza Horizon 4 and Wreckfest - and after I didn't feel that again. Maybe it is sense nostalgia, that give me that feeling about old games, maybe something else. Anyway, I find it a bit sad, that starting from Gran Turismo 5, GT Series didn't feature cars on it's covers the way that you will instantly recognize the car and want to have it in the game, they've done it in mostly stylistic way, that made cars blend with the other elements of the design, so it doesn't have a chance to stand out on its own and you probably won't even remember, what exact car was used there. In that sense I wish things were more like the past days.
Perfect video to watch before we drive off to the Nürburgring today and get ready to watch the 24h race! Thanks Roflwaffle! It was a good video to watch 👀
The end of the video actually made me feel rather sad. Justice for the GT-R LM! I wish both would be added to GT7! Alongside the R390 GT1 and Cerebera.
Fun fact, the black livery with blue window banner is an actual livery used by Nissan for the R390. It was a test livery in preparations to Le Mans 1998
The absolute first car that comes to mind when i think of Gran Turismo is the SUZUKI ESCUDO PIKES PEAK, and I bet its the same for many others, that really should have been considered for this video, absolute icon!
Man, I'll never forget the first time I played Gran Turismo 5. I was completely blown away by the night time driving (I was at Le Mans if memory serves me correctly). What car was I driving you may ask? You guessed it, The Castrol TOM'S Supra.
the 97 car was chosen due to ease of access as it was the only "true" castrol supra left in existence around the time it was modeled/scanned during the gthd era, the 00 car is somewhere in southern north america and the 96 is in france. a sister 98 spec car was found by cerumo and restored a few years ago.
The Esperante GTR-1 I recall was screwed over by being heavier than it should. Not nearly as egregious as the Storm GT's case, but the additional weight definitely didn't help. Anyways, maybe the Vector M12 LM counts as another "GT icon", though it already got brought up in a past video thanks to the Trial Mountain Endurance bug.
Great job as usual Roflwaffle... A car to examine the history on would be the Toyota 7 race car. It has a very checkered past through all it's iterations. Might be a great medium length topic for a future video
One car that for me is as iconic as the Castrol Supra is the yellow Pennzoil Nismo R34 ... That or it's just nostalgia kicking in as I always used it against my brother when we played through GT1- GT4 growing up.
Worth remembering that The Ford GT LM Spec II Race Car AND the Ford GT LM Spec II Test Car also are the only GT Original Race cars that have 1:18 scale Die-Casts made of them By Autoart. Seems like there were THAT big a deal. Also an ironic fact: The #3 Toyota GT-One that chased down the BMW in 1999 is the same sole surviving #27 chassis from 1998 with the exact same driver lineup.
34:20 that darlington race is nascar’s designated throwback weekend, it’s been around for close to a decade now so basically all of the iconic nascar schemes have already been done at least once if not many times
Also, in '91 the regulations changed in Grp.C to the 3.5 engine formula. Anyone running an older engine could still run, but would have their performance restricted. However, because Mazda were running in the lower group C class (C2) before, they were able to enter without performance restrictions
And the engine would see use in the Kudzu LMP in probably 95-96, pretty much dispelling the "engine banned" allegations people would throw, if they'd ever bother to learn that is.
@@SetsunaTheFandomHell, the engine saw life in LMP900 up into the early 00s, with it being in the back of a couple of WM (the same constructor that broke the 400 km/h mark first) LMPs, to not really any success N2M stateside you had Mazda with the semi-factory LMP675/LMP2 program with the 3-rotor (the Courage C65-Mazda being the basis of the Funai), also to little success, as the nature of wankels made them incredibly ill-suited to both ground effect regulations and air restrictor formula. Can't remember for know long wankels were LMP2 legal, but it was pretty deep into the 00s.
The R390 Road and Race cars were standard in GT5 and 6, but at least they were some of the "semi-premium" models in 6. They had a very good improvement, an almost premium-like exterior, the race car in fact even had a polished up livery, which is something I believe other semi-premium race cars didn't.
2nd comment for the Cerbera Speed 12, I saw the racing version in British GT back in the day when they were testing. It was pretty fast if I remember, only being beaten by a Saleen, which by the way had started from the pit lane. Ah man, I miss GT1 & 2 😢
I love being a patron and a loyal Roflwaffle viewer! I'm actually playing Gran Turismo 4 as I'm typing this comment! It's my favourite GT game of the series!
Yupp i do play that when i was a kid, also i didn't realize there was a secret setting that can make camera car become far. So yeah, i decided to revisit gran turismo 4 and 3, these game was one of best nostalgia i've ever play man ❤❤❤😊😊😊
For me Viper Team Oreca and Ford GT LM are the two iconic cars, also i think Viper is the “cover car” of the GT3, like he is so marketable, he appears in the intro and most of the demos in the menu
Man, it’s good to hear the backstory from these cars. For TVR, there are some models I would like to see in Asphalt 9: Legends Unite because not only the famous ones feature, but some of the cut cars that would make the roster a bit bigger with the Griffith reboot being the longest class D king.
The ford GT40 is infamous in GT2, in which it boasted good AI and a horsepower number above the maximum allowed limit at Rome during the Historic Car Cup.
Every time I watch a video like this, I hope someone will mention the Tommy Kaira ZZII from GT3. Having 100%'s the game more than once, it was still my favourite car to drive and yet no one else seems to remember it
I think the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak should be considered an icon... We could also argue on the RE-Amemiya RX7, the Chaparral Fan Car, the RUF CTR Yellowbird and the Dodge Vision GT Tomahawk... Heck, I'd even consider the R30 Skyline Sillouette "Foumula" in that same bundle too!
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Nissan: we have to change the entire car to fit the regulations
Toyota: you could use the fuel tank
Dodge and Mercury: Nah, we can't do that here mate.
fun fact : the Ford GT LM Race Car (and Spec II) are the only cars with racing gearbox in Gran Turismo 4 that don't make a whine sound because they are actually set as "standard" gearbox despite being fully adjustable.
Electric Prius '97 in gt2
the kicker is that The GT Concept LM (Spec I) actually made the straight cut noise in GT3 lmao.
@@francescoiuliano5690and also 2009 EV Prius Touring Car in Gran Turismo 5.
@@alrecks619interestingly, 2002 GT-R CONCEPT LM also is favourite car for Makima (Chainsaw Man) and Kaho Hinoshita (Hasu no Sora Jogakuin School Idol Doukoukai).
IKR
34:13 "BRAD KESELOWSKI, WON THIS RACE"
Fun fact, Brad Keselowski also broke 4 records with his win at Darlington:
His 3 year long winless streak
Winning in a RFK car, RFK being co-owned by himself and he last won in a Team Penske car
The first the #6 car has won in NASCAR in 13 years, last won by David Ragan at Daytona
Ford's 2024 winless streak across every single major racing series they have participated (3 of the races being lost in photo finishes against a Chevrolet)
And the best part? There was no wall riding involved.
Chevy humiliated them the same way they humiliated Ferrari? That's cool, though i like Ford slightly more
They oughta run that scheme as the main Castrol one lol
And he chose the scheme mainly cuz of the gran turismo influence, he said it in some promotional material
is any of those actually a record?
Thanks to the sad ending of this video, I now demand the Nismo GT-R LM to return to Gran Turismo.
The GT-R LM NISMO 1995 Racing off in Gran Turismo 1 ending credits:
(Singing Dreaming Now from Nijigasaki starts playing.)
😢😭😭😭
How time flies so fast in Gran Turismo franchise.
To me it just feels weird that the Team Oreca Viper is not considered amongst the other GT titans of the PS2 era
Should be. To me that is the most iconic GT car together with the Castrol Supra.
Or the 'Vette C6.R
@@Drew.DrivesYTS7R should've been added in GT7...
@@Space.Folding
IRL the Viper was considered somewhat of a cheater.
got DQ from GT1 series (i think) and bc of a little name discrepancy returned the following year.
Unchanged!!!
No one seems to remember GT3’s red Viper GTS-R Team Oreca :(
I do! What a sexy car. Although I prefer the GT2 livery
I'm surprised to see it wasn't in here! GT3 alone cemented it as my favourite car of all time, and that's coming from a European kid that grew up with F1 and DTM.
@@sirloinestakegames7866Honoka Kousaka's 1999 Viper GTS-R TEAM ORECA LMGT2 Livery should return to GT7!
@@koenslinkmanand also Super GT and FIA Rallycross World Championship.
i sure as hell do
Small correction at 13:15. The 787 has a 4 Rotor engine, not a 3 Rotor.
I thought Shioriko Mifune's 787B has 3 rotor engines like Mazda RX7 Touring Car 2002.
Fun fact, 4 is the big unlucky number in Japan. Quite brave of Polyphony to feature that number on a hero car.
That seems like a commonality among Asian cultures that 4 is super unlucky. Why is that?
@@alistairwalker2850 because the way it sounds in those languages is very close to the sound that translates to "death"
Oh, we're eating good today. New Roflwaffle video and 41 minutes long!!!
Yeah subpar frozen dollar store waffles !
Great video as always.
getting very fast with the videos. yay 😁😁😁
@@WhiteRoseUSand also the legendary one. Especially the 2001 Pagani Zonda LM.
@@shannacollins4741salty much?
man the ending is even sadder when i thought about the Nismo R33 GT-R LM race car livery had that sticker on the door that said "Keep The Dream Alive". hits harder than it already is
Rip in peace Nissan GT-R LM. You were in one game but left a hell of an impression for that one game
True. GT-R LM 1995 is truly the GOATED car. The same also goes to 1996 Impreza WRC with 592bhp and a special black colour.
Trupy a RIP in pieces moment 💔 😢 🙏
On 787B: I feel like this car is the most misunderstood racer for some reason. I'd roll my eyes every time people think that the car is "so fast, it's banned" (while the R32 Group A actually existed), but to be fair I used to believe more on the "not meant to be reliable but it won by sheer luck" angle. Regardless, I applaud Mazda's engineering team to create the most balanced and reliable race car that gave them the win they deserve after years of attempts.
On Skyline LM: That image of the road car driving to the sunset will forever be ingrained to my head. Fun fact: I actually traced one frame of the scene for my thesis defense years ago. Kinda shame that we haven't got the road version Skyline LM in GT7, even the race version, and the fact that the race version wasn't fully licensed when it appeared doesn't help either.
Setsuna-chan's Minolta 88C-V imo is one of the 250 cars that are wished to be returned in Gran Turismo 7 along with Maki-chan's Toyota GT ONE and Castrol Mugen NSX 2000. So far, only 2000 Mugen NSX, Maki-chan's Toyota GT ONE and 2 Volvo Models are added in GT7 via updates.
IIRC what really happened is that the FIA threw a fit that manufacturers were actually using different engines, and after '91 forced everyone to use the same engines that F1 did. So rotaries weren't banned by name, but they were banned alongside everything else that wasn't what the FIA wanted specifically.
@@reinbeers5322 Group C was immensely popular with manufacturers and fans thanks to its fairly liberal rules. As long as it met the mandated fuel economy targets pretty much any engine was eligible. Thus there was incredible variety. Porsche's 962 with their proven turbo flat six that had been winning races all over the place since the 1970s, Nissan and Toyota opting for bespoke small displacement Turbo V8s, Mercedes with a larger production based V8 Turbo, Jaguar with their giant 7.0L fuck off V12 taken from the XJS V12 and of course Mazda with their unique rotaries. And then there was the cheaper C2 class for privateers running F1 derived V8 engines, usually Cosworth.
Seeing as Group C was starting to rival F1s popularity the FIA decided to effectively make the C2 class the new top class in the WSC starting in 1991. (Which eventually caused a mass exodus and the death of Group C) However as Le Mans was sanctioned by the ACO the old C1 cars were eligible to run in that one event, but with severe ballast. So everyone opted to run the faster 1990 spec cars, besides Mazda who thanks to them running in GTP were able to avoid the ballast restrictions of their faster competitors. And the rest was history.
@@mrspandel5737Porsche 962 also another car planned to return in GT2 A SPEC MOD.
Excellent video and the nod to the R33 GT-R LM at the end was perfect... it left a big impression in me as being the first car to appear at the intro of GT1 and the last, at the final video (I swear to God I was crying as "Second Chance" played in the last scene, as the LM disappears towards the sun). Thanks to this, I'm a big fan of the model and scored a 1/18 scale of it from OttoMobile to include in my diecast car collection.
Shame Polyphony Digital apparently forgot about it while Turn 10/Playground Games added it to Forza.
21:34 "what are we some kinda gran turismo 3?" **For Faith from Yakuza 4 OST starts playing**
THE SELFISH DEEEEEEEEEED
@@wyoming2868IS NOT FREEDOOOOOOOM.
@@Thereal_nishikiyamawhy it isnt a freedom?
@@purwantiallan5089 you ruined it
We are the Gran Turismo 4.
The iconic car for me in GT3 has to be the Team Oreca Viper GTS-R. That red livery on the viper is eye popping. Not to mention at the time it was one of the most dominate race cars of an era.
Cant believe this guy didnt mention the Viper with the Green Lights "Shaking My Had"
The 1996 Viper GTS-R also a very underrated car.
i remember seeing the Ford GT for the first time in the GT4 intro being in absolute awe, to this day one of the most beautiful cars i've ever seen in my life
Personally… the true embodiment of gran turismo for me is the team oreca dodge viper race car with the iconic red with white paint job and the yellow lights
I was surprised roflwaffle didn't talk about the oreca viper. I always thought that car was an Icon tied to gt3 considering how much it was shown in the game's opening.
Even though the GT-R LM was forgotten in the gran turismo series, it shifted to the Forza Racing Games, having appeared in Motorsport 7 and Horizon 3, 4 and 5 with a Forza Edition variant in Horizon 4.
Was the GTR LM appeared in THE CREW 2 or Motorfest?
The yellow GT LM Spec II is cursed
I wasn't expecting to hear Ground Zero Funk in a Gran Turismo video, an absolute banger.
Since it has been leaked that thr next silhouettes will be some of the most famous cars in GT i think the video is very appropriate, Good Job Rofl (prediction for next video: gran turismo award cars that never made it in game until now)
that ending, gave me tears briefly.
These are definitely GT icons, but I think you missed some other ones:
Dodge Viper GTS-R Team Oreca and Chevrolet Corvette C5-R
Pagani Zonda C12
Pink Vitz
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The Escudo Pikes Peak is another Gran Turismo icon, but I'm guessing it was left out because it already featured in prior videos.
To me, another icon from the early games is the Mobil1 NSX
Honda NSX Castrol Mugen
Escudo is curiously missing?!?!?!??!?!??!!??!?!
GT1 and the castrol supra are the reason I fell in love with motorsport, racing games and sims and cars in general
I feel extremely lucky to have sat in that Road LM car in Nissan's Zama facility quite a few years ago... Still with it's key in the ignition.
I think the R35 GTR should also be on this list for one reason.
It shares the graphics with GT5 because Nissan collaborated with PD to create them.
While I do agree with you I think most gamers know about the R35 GTR because of Need for Speed Prostreet as that game was the first racing game to feature the production ready R35 GTR and it also featured the prototype R35 GTR.
I remember being amazed at driving the R35 GTR in cockpit view for the first time in GT5 Prologue with the car's amazing MFD screen
It's literally the face of Gran Turismo.
Hit it out of the park again Roflwaffle. You truly found the legends of Gran Turismo some famous and some not so famous.
My hero car has to be the Ford GT (LM Race Car Spec II) with GT4 being my first game I played. However I also have some honourably mentions: The Castrol Toms Supra, the Team Oreca Viper and the Panzo Race car.
2002 Nissan GT-R Concept LM, 2002 FAIRLADY Z CONCEPT LM, 2004 Ford GT LM Spec II, Shioriko Mifune's Mazda 787B, Setsuna Yuki's Minolta Toyota 88C-V are all very iconic and legendary cars in GT FRANCHISE... The 2009 Audi R8 LMS LMGT3 from Gran Turismo PSP also is very underrated.
I find that the GT1 JP End Credits theme, "Second Chance" by Masahiro Andoh ft. Joseph Williams, perfectly fits the GT-R LM's situation in the lore of GT rn.
Your patreon roster is getting stronger! Keep up with the good work!
Honourable mention for the Mazda Demio/ Mazda 2. First licence test on every GT I played. It was also my first car. ❤️
Fun fact: The original project 7/12 was also in Test Drive 4 as the reward car for beating the Masters Cup. Also was the only car with a 7-Speed gearbox and was the 2nd fastest car in the game behind the Viper GTS-R
I wish more people would try to speed run or LP stream the old Test Drive games. That’d be great to watch someone try to not lose their mind trying to deal with the god awful AI that rubber band so fast they literally wreck you lmao
@@heedseeker6155 I couldn't agree more, I still remember having a hard time with San Francisco on TD4 but I loved the tracks
@@heedseeker6155 Was TD4 any good? I recall TD5 and especially TD6 just being outright bad and having some of the most off-model vehicles of any racing game, even for the time.
@@ArbitraryOutcome TD4 was pretty bad as well but it’s like a charming kind of bad lol. The car models in all of the TD’s on PlayStation are wonky and bizarre but they were never going to look too good because it’s an arcade racer on a game console just getting used to 3D. Still fun to play from time to time
I fell in love so bad for that ford gt lm race car as a kid, i think it's one of the most iconic mascot for any granturismo. And one of those great icons of video game.
I remember buying NFS undercover on ps2 just to remake it and being able to drive it
Nfs Undercover was such a great game. Thanks for reminding me of my memories, Upgraded 997 Turbo was best!
THAT FILM THUMBNAIL 🔥🔥🔥🔥
the best gran turismo icon is obviously the daihatsu midget
Nah bro it's the Citroen 2CV
Pink Vitz/Yaris: "Excuse me, am I joke to you?".
Everyone: "Yes, you are!".
Yellow Evo: "Amateurs."
Mazda 787b won me my first GT World Championship in GT4.
16:33 could it be that they already planned Monaco as the final licence test in GT2? Given the beta version of the track in GT2 is drivable
The Nissan R390 twin turbo V8 is the engine McLaren used for the MP4-12C and pretty much all other modern McLarens with a V8 twin turbo. It was reworked but it is the engine they basically use. Including the P1.
Was really waiting for a video like this, as there are so, so many cars whose entire identity to me is tied to Gran Turismo. I am also a diecast collector, so I am working on a mini-collection of GT icons. Already have a few, like the Calsonic R32, Takata NSX, the Gran Turismo 4 GT and R34 pace car.
You need to talk about fictional cars of Gran Turismo (FGT,RX8 LM Race Car) BECAUSE I think it's an interesting idea (especially you need to talk about FGT because it's criminally UNDERRATED!)
I could have sworn there was already a video critiquing the Vision GTs. I haven't watched it in a while but I thought the LM Edition cars were brought up, but if not, they are interesting vehicles nonetheless. Some of em seemed like "what ifs" to some degree, like the GTO LM effectively being a "what if the Mitsubishi GTO ran in the JGTC".
Only Roflwaffle has made me want to yell YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN to a ps1 car model.
That intro (and game) made a huge impression on 5 year old me, unable to speak english and unable to really understand what that car was. I had written it off as a trailer car that couldn't be raced since once I found out about racing modifications the R33 didn't look at all like it and it took me over 5 years to find out it was a real car.
It's funny to think that Forza series carried the torch at preserving R33 LM legacy from GT, I really liked it there. I've spent lots of hours in online races with "Nissan Nismo GT-R LM Forza Edition" because with a bit of tuning it was really good to use at almost any road car tournament, and it's livery reminded me of it's former glory in GT 1 days. Driving in a Road Car gave me pleasure too, so maybe right now it is one of the best "contemporary" ways to experience this car in a videogame.
Your video also gave me food for thought about "car on the cover" phenomenon and how videogames used to market. Usually I don't like discussions with the common theme like "something used to be better", for example "racing games used to be better", anyway I couldn't help but think about it in a way, that earlier racing games utilized it's cover art to emphasize specific car and make it look like the best car in the game even if it's perfomance wasn't that great. One of the best examples of it is yellow Lamborghini Diablo SV in Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit or Honda S2000, that is used in various GT2 cover arts and even in the game's menu design - these cars aren't the best in its class, but because of game covers you look at it like it's something really special, something that stands out of the rest of the roster. Today I feel that if I look at the modern racing games covers, I won't feel anything special about the cars on it and I really can't get a solid reason of why is it happening. The last games, that made me exciting about specific cars because of it's covers are Forza Horizon 4 and Wreckfest - and after I didn't feel that again. Maybe it is sense nostalgia, that give me that feeling about old games, maybe something else.
Anyway, I find it a bit sad, that starting from Gran Turismo 5, GT Series didn't feature cars on it's covers the way that you will instantly recognize the car and want to have it in the game, they've done it in mostly stylistic way, that made cars blend with the other elements of the design, so it doesn't have a chance to stand out on its own and you probably won't even remember, what exact car was used there. In that sense I wish things were more like the past days.
2:51 BASED MAN
Perfect video to watch before we drive off to the Nürburgring today and get ready to watch the 24h race!
Thanks Roflwaffle! It was a good video to watch 👀
This channel is brilliant. Such a nostalgia hit.
This video is truly iconic
liked for tekken ost stayed for goated video
I wish that the Renault Espace F1 was a GT Series icon…
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The end of the video actually made me feel rather sad. Justice for the GT-R LM! I wish both would be added to GT7! Alongside the R390 GT1 and Cerebera.
Thank you for the info on the Castrol Tom's Supra and the Ford GT LM Race Car. I did not know that :)
You forgot the Suzuki Pike's Peak
Every upload you make is a great day! Great vídeo as always.
Another excellent video, brilliant mix of the gt series lore and stories of real world racing.
Fun fact, the black livery with blue window banner is an actual livery used by Nissan for the R390. It was a test livery in preparations to Le Mans 1998
Got a massive 500ml cup of Chai. About to enjoy the next hour. Roflwaffle vids are a must watch, and a hit beverage makes it exponentially better.
Gran turismo actually made me fall in love with the pagani zonda r and the r92cp the most
No Escudo is a crime
The absolute first car that comes to mind when i think of Gran Turismo is the SUZUKI ESCUDO PIKES PEAK, and I bet its the same for many others, that really should have been considered for this video, absolute icon!
39:03 same thing happened in Gran Turismo 7, with Porsche 911 GT1
Man, I'll never forget the first time I played Gran Turismo 5. I was completely blown away by the night time driving (I was at Le Mans if memory serves me correctly). What car was I driving you may ask?
You guessed it, The Castrol TOM'S Supra.
the 97 car was chosen due to ease of access as it was the only "true" castrol supra left in existence around the time it was modeled/scanned during the gthd era, the 00 car is somewhere in southern north america and the 96 is in france. a sister 98 spec car was found by cerumo and restored a few years ago.
Just started the 45 minutes of my break, tysm sir
Can't wait for _Icons of Gran Turismo Vol.II_ with the XJ220 LM & Espace F1. Oh and the Panoz GTR-1. Maybe RUF?
Viper should be in there too.
Venturi 600 maybe? From gran Turismo 2
The Esperante GTR-1 I recall was screwed over by being heavier than it should. Not nearly as egregious as the Storm GT's case, but the additional weight definitely didn't help.
Anyways, maybe the Vector M12 LM counts as another "GT icon", though it already got brought up in a past video thanks to the Trial Mountain Endurance bug.
@@BogdanVirijevicyep. Ayumu Uehara's Atlantique 600LM. One of the most OP cars in GT2 along with 767B.
Incredible work mate 👏
Great job as usual Roflwaffle... A car to examine the history on would be the Toyota 7 race car. It has a very checkered past through all it's iterations. Might be a great medium length topic for a future video
how the hell do you only have like 40k subscribers? this is a top quality video essay
One car that for me is as iconic as the Castrol Supra is the yellow Pennzoil Nismo R34 ... That or it's just nostalgia kicking in as I always used it against my brother when we played through GT1- GT4 growing up.
Worth remembering that The Ford GT LM Spec II Race Car AND the Ford GT LM Spec II Test Car also are the only GT Original Race cars that have 1:18 scale Die-Casts made of them By Autoart. Seems like there were THAT big a deal.
Also an ironic fact: The #3 Toyota GT-One that chased down the BMW in 1999 is the same sole surviving #27 chassis from 1998 with the exact same driver lineup.
34:20 that darlington race is nascar’s designated throwback weekend, it’s been around for close to a decade now so basically all of the iconic nascar schemes have already been done at least once if not many times
The toyota woodone is my favorite car personally. The aqua livery and its sound are my entire childhood.
Also, in '91 the regulations changed in Grp.C to the 3.5 engine formula. Anyone running an older engine could still run, but would have their performance restricted. However, because Mazda were running in the lower group C class (C2) before, they were able to enter without performance restrictions
And the engine would see use in the Kudzu LMP in probably 95-96, pretty much dispelling the "engine banned" allegations people would throw, if they'd ever bother to learn that is.
@@SetsunaTheFandom I didn't know that, learn something new every day!
@@SetsunaTheFandomHell, the engine saw life in LMP900 up into the early 00s, with it being in the back of a couple of WM (the same constructor that broke the 400 km/h mark first) LMPs, to not really any success
N2M stateside you had Mazda with the semi-factory LMP675/LMP2 program with the 3-rotor (the Courage C65-Mazda being the basis of the Funai), also to little success, as the nature of wankels made them incredibly ill-suited to both ground effect regulations and air restrictor formula.
Can't remember for know long wankels were LMP2 legal, but it was pretty deep into the 00s.
Roflwaffle GT video? Day was made
Guys I think he likes Gran Turismo
The R390 Road and Race cars were standard in GT5 and 6, but at least they were some of the "semi-premium" models in 6. They had a very good improvement, an almost premium-like exterior, the race car in fact even had a polished up livery, which is something I believe other semi-premium race cars didn't.
Today is a good day! Roflwaffle uploading GT content is always a good day.
2nd comment for the Cerbera Speed 12, I saw the racing version in British GT back in the day when they were testing. It was pretty fast if I remember, only being beaten by a Saleen, which by the way had started from the pit lane. Ah man, I miss GT1 & 2 😢
the Spec II Ford GT is why I love the 05-06 Ford GT mostly cause of the 02 concept version car wheels
The GTR LM part got me crying ngl
The Oreca Viper, C5.R and Castrol Supra are the secondary holy trinity of GT3.
I'll always remember getting a TVR speed 12 up to 275 mph in GT4 and it being the fastest I ever went in a game until the SRT vision car in GT sport.
Hell yea. Something to watch while having lunch!!!!
when i think of gran turismo the first car that always comes to my mind is the castrol supra. i love the castrol supra
Rolf is the best GT channel on the net
I love being a patron and a loyal Roflwaffle viewer!
I'm actually playing Gran Turismo 4 as I'm typing this comment! It's my favourite GT game of the series!
Yupp i do play that when i was a kid, also i didn't realize there was a secret setting that can make camera car become far. So yeah, i decided to revisit gran turismo 4 and 3, these game was one of best nostalgia i've ever play man ❤❤❤😊😊😊
GT4 is pretty good, just wish it had races for some race cars like the Zonda LM 💔
For me Viper Team Oreca and Ford GT LM are the two iconic cars, also i think Viper is the “cover car” of the GT3, like he is so marketable, he appears in the intro and most of the demos in the menu
Great video. I also appreciate the use of the yakuza ost. 👍🏻
Man, it’s good to hear the backstory from these cars. For TVR, there are some models I would like to see in Asphalt 9: Legends Unite because not only the famous ones feature, but some of the cut cars that would make the roster a bit bigger with the Griffith reboot being the longest class D king.
The Castrol tom's Supra: the hero
the denso sard Supra: the cunning and undermining villain race car..
The first thing that comes to mind when I think about GT 4 is that my PS2 looks like it's about to crap out. Can't even think about that.
PD went out of their way to fully optimize the capabilities of PS2 despite still having limitations of only being able to bring up to 5 CPU cars.
The ford GT40 is infamous in GT2, in which it boasted good AI and a horsepower number above the maximum allowed limit at Rome during the Historic Car Cup.
im so excited to watch this !!!!!!!
Every time I watch a video like this, I hope someone will mention the Tommy Kaira ZZII from GT3. Having 100%'s the game more than once, it was still my favourite car to drive and yet no one else seems to remember it
a few cool cars with 36 - Eagle Weslake TF1 that Dan Gurney used at Spa Francorchamps way back in 1967 - wish that was in GT
T1G even!
Tekken 5 OST banger as always
"my PAYY-trons"
What timing with the return of the Castrol NSX GT500. I love it!
I think the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak should be considered an icon... We could also argue on the RE-Amemiya RX7, the Chaparral Fan Car, the RUF CTR Yellowbird and the Dodge Vision GT Tomahawk... Heck, I'd even consider the R30 Skyline Sillouette "Foumula" in that same bundle too!
"We're taking on the cream of the crop." For some reason, as you were saying it, I heard it in Macho Man's voice in my head!!!!😂😂😂😂