Nissan has released the first official images of the Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo, its design to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the mighty PlayStation game.
Created by a team of young designers at Nissan Design Europe, who apparently worked in collaboration with Polyphony Digital (makers of Gran Turismo), the project was so well received that it gained input from an advanced engineering team based at Nissan Technical Centre in Atsugi, Japan. The result (Nissan says) is a 2+2 supercar with an advanced aerodynamic body that 'gives hints as to how a supercar of the future might look.'
With the next GT-R said to make the step up from 'supercar destroyer' to actual supercar might we be looking at the early design process for the R36? Certain GT-R characteristics are there including the style of the bonnet, headlamps and even the shape of the greenhouse, but perhaps most telling is that the rear end features the distinctive quads lights - a GT-R hallmark all the way back to the PGC10 GT-R of the late sixties.
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Gamers will be able to drive the concept soon when the car, along with the rest of the Vision Gran Turismo vehicles, appears in GT6. The Japanese manufacturer says that 'as a specialist in automotive design in three-dimensions, Nissan believes that the real-world is ready for the Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo. Watch this space...'