Gran Turismo (disambiguation)
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Gran Turismo may refer to:
Cars
Video games
Music
- Grand TourGrand TourThe Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage...
, an educational trip for the monied young around the cultural highlights of Europe
Cars
- GTGT-Science, technology, engineering, measurement:* Gas turbine, a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas* Geometry & Topology, a mathematical journal* Giant trevally, a species of fish from the Carangidae family...
an abbreviation of Gran Turismo - Grand tourerGrand tourerA grand tourer is a high-performance luxury automobile designed for long-distance driving. The most common format is a two-door coupé with either a two-seat or a 2+2 arrangement....
, a type of car for travelling long distance very fast in high style (originally) with the passengers' luggage - Maserati Gran Turismo, a two-door 2+2 coupé produced by Maserati.
Video games
- Gran Turismo (series)Gran Turismo (series)is a popular and critically acclaimed series of racing simulation video games developed by Polyphony Digital.Developed exclusively for PlayStation systems, Gran Turismo games are intended to simulate the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed...
, a video game series- Gran Turismo (video game)Gran Turismo (video game)is a racing simulator designed by Kazunori Yamauchi. Gran Turismo was developed by Polyphony Digital and first published by Sony Computer Entertainment in 1997 for the PlayStation video game console...
, the first of the series - Gran Turismo (PSP)Gran Turismo (PSP)# is a PlayStation Portable game developed by Polyphony Digital. The game was announced at the E3 Sony press conference on May 11, 2004, the same conference where Sony announced the original PSP. Following five years of delays and speculation, it made a reappearance at E3 on June 2, 2009 in a...
, the first PlayStation Portable title in the series
- Gran Turismo (video game)
Music
- Gran Turismo (album)Gran Turismo (album)Gran Turismo is the fourth studio album by the Swedish band The Cardigans, released internationally on October 1, 1998 and in November 1998 in the U.S.. It features a darker and more moody type of music, mixing with more electronic sounds...
, by The Cardigans