'Dream Job' on offer for winner of seventh Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition

Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces for a seventh year to offer a 'dream job' to one lucky Gran Turismo gamer. The Nissan PlayStation GT Academy defies convention and opens up the possibility of a career in motor sport to anybody, male or female, that has ever

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Jann Mardenborough joins the British Racing Drivers' Club

The winner of the 2011 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, Jann Mardenborough, is now a member of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), arguably the most exclusive club in motorsport. This achievement is another nod from the motorsport 'establishment'

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Aston Martin unveils virtual DP-100 racer for Gran Turismo 6

Aston Martin is unveiling an exceptional new addition to the hugely popular PlayStation 3 exclusive racing game Gran Turismo 6 (GT6) in the shape of the stunning Design Prototype 100 - DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo.

Developed in-house by the Design team at Aston

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Nissan celebrates 15 anniversary of Gran Turismo with Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo

Nissan lifts the virtual covers off the Nissan Concept 2020 Vision Gran Turismo, a vision of what a high-performance Nissan could look like in the future. It was created through close collaboration with the creators of Gran Turismo, Polyphony Digital Inc., the legendary

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Volkswagen reveals GTI Roadster Concept at Woerthersee

Volkswagen is turning the virtual world into reality this weekend, as it presents the GTI Roadster concept at the famous Woerthersee GTI meeting in Austria.

The GTI Roadster was originally created as a purely electronic car, to feature in the Sony PlayStation 3 classic,

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GT Academy winner Reip joins Ordonez in Nissan ZEOD RC driver line up

The driver line-up for Nissan's revolutionary ZEOD RC prototype will feature two past winners of the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy program with Belgian driver Wolfgang Reip signed to join Lucas Ordonez at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.

In 2012, Reip won the European

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Miguel Faisca crowned 2013 European GT Academy Champion

GT Academy Driver Development Programme and a full-season's racing in a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 beckon for Portuguese Gran Turismo gamer as he aims to become a real racing driver.

Miguel Faisca, a 24-year-old student from Lisbon, Portugal has been crowned the

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Over 830,000 enter Nissan and PlayStation GT Academy online competition

Entry to the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 qualifying closed last week after more than 830,000 people from the participating European countries had downloaded and played the online qualifying demo. The demo, based on the hugely popular Gran Turismo5

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Scion announces collaboration with its iQ and Sony’s PlayStation Vita

Scion is pleased to announce that starting May 1 through July 31, 2012, buyers of a new 2012 Scion iQ will receive a PlayStation Vita (PS Vita), portable entertainment system, while supplies last.  The promotion coincides with the nationwide release of the iQ, Scion’s

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Successful ‘Gamer-to-Racer' GT Academy Programme expands for 2012

Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces again to run the fourth year of the innovative GT Academy virtual-to-reality racing competition. While the four previous GT Academy graduates line up in top-level race series in 2012, the programme that set them on their path to

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