Destructoid user Klytus made an interesting discovery in the latest issue of Road n Track magazine that has “rumor” written all over it in bright red pigs blood.
While reading through the magazine, Klytus found an article on the Mach 5 (haha!) of Speed Racer fame. While most of the story was about the car itself, and it’s top speeds (305mph FTMFW) and all that jazz, the end of the article reads, and I quote:
Special thanks to Warner Bros. Studios for supplying the car; Yokohama Tire Co. for their support arranging the photo shoot; Willow Run Airport for renting us a hangar, and Polyphony Digital Inc. for creating a virtual simulation of the Mach 5 that we used for our performance tests.
Waaaaaaait, doesn’t Polyphony Digital… is that not the studio responsible for Gran Turismo, the ultra-realistic racing sim made popular on the PlayStation brand of consoles? I don’t know about you, but I’d love to see a little bit of a mix-up in the Gran Turismo franchise. Especially now that the Mach 5 is technically real…
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Whoa whoa whoa, hold on… there’s a mach 5 car, for *real*???
BTW, Polyphony don’t make car games, they make real life simulations called GT!!
I just now read this article
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=6466
and caught the caveat. As you read it, you’re floored by the details, but at the end things get a little strange in his story-telling, and he mentions Polyphony Digital, who make Gran Turismo. Then everything becomes clear. I’ll leave it to the reader to discern the blur in this excellent article, but yeah, it appears the Wachowski Bros (Matrix fame) hired Polyphony to help. Good stuff.