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After deciding to include the Lamborghini Miuara P400 Bertone prototype, the Polyphony team discovered the only example remaining in the world was owned by the Marriott family - of the posh hotel chain fame. So they packed up their bags and cameras and measuring devices and decamped wholesale to the Marriott residence in the States. "To go to someone's home and do our work without getting in the way of their family, keeping their dog under control, without offending anyone, it's difficult," smiles Kazunori. "But worth it..."
But, I ask, how do you find out how it drives? Take enough measurements and photos you can make a virtual car look faithful, but presumably the Marriott family didn't let you take out the Miura for a few laps of the local track? Kazunori's answer is... enlightening.
"As long as you enter all the parameters for the mechanisms correctly," he says, without a hint of overstatement, "the physics of the car will be created as is. It will behave as it should."
Hang on. That's it? Plug enough numbers into the GT5 physics engine and it will, by magic, reveal the murky secrets of any car's handling and grip? So, without driving the thing, providing you input the data correctly for, say, the 458 Italia, a Ferrari test driver will find it behaves precisely the same as the real thing?
The reply is deadpan. "That's absolutely correct. That is what we found".
So what we have here, more than than a mere computer game, is a sort of unified field theory for cars. Surely, then, manufacturers are queuing up to test out their ideas within GT5? After all, it'd be a whole lot cheaper than running up a dozen test mules in order to discover that a new rear diffuser sets fire to puppies. Kazunori nods. "We receive many requests from manufacturers to see how their concept would actually drive. Engineers can come up with new mechanisms, but it's not always clear how they'll work on the car. We can put them into the game to find out."
Proizvođači automobila traže Polyphony Digital da pomoću Gran Turismovog izvornog koda testiraju prototipove automobila, bez obzira što su u svoje napredne računalne sisteme uložili stotine milijuna američkih dolara. Gran Turismo 5, fizikalnim sistemom je toliko napredna igra da se ozbiljni konkurent (osim nastavka Gran Turisma) ne očekuje u narednih 20 godina.