At the annual GTI festival at Worthersee, Austria, held last month, Volkswagen showcased one of the most impressive looking cars we have seen all year. This is car changes all boundaries of CGI design and brings it to reality and that is because the Volkswagen GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo is a Golf GTI show car that was originally created as a purely electronic CGI entity for the Sony PlayStation3 classic “Gran Turismo 6” video game. The two-seat convertible is powered by a 3.0-litre V6 twin-turbocharged TSI® engine that produces 503 horsepower and a mighty 560Nm of torque between 4,000 and 6,000 rpm. The power of the TSI engine is transferred to the 20-inch wheel-and-tire combination via a seven-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission and a 4MOTION all-wheel-drive system. The lightweight sportscar can also sprint from 0-100kmph in an estimated 3.5 seconds and can cross 300kmph. Volkswagen and Sony teamed up together to create the GTI Roadster, Vision Gran Turismo.
Klaus Bischoff, Head of Design at Volkswagen said, “When Sony asked us if we would develop a Vision GTI vehicle exclusively for the game to mark the 15th anniversary of Gran Turismo we didn’t hesitate for a moment. An in-house competition was immediately launched and young Volkswagen designers submitted their designs. The submissions were judged by Bischoff and none other than Kazunori Yamauchi, Director of Polyphony Digital and Vice-President of Sony Computer Entertainment—and the inventor of the “Gran Turismo series”. The car itself looks simply awesome but it is highly unlikely that it will ever see production.
