24 June 2009 - 11:00
Citroen GT hits London
Up until now, the GTbyCitroen has been pure virtual reality – a digital-only supercar created for the Gran Turismo video game. So we were a little surprised when these pictures popped into our inbox.
Yep, it’s a real one. In London. Take a good look at the first pic in our
gallery. See the shadows and reflections? That’s not the work of a Photoshop
genius - it’s proof that Citroen has made a proper, touchable concept version.
Looks awesome, doesn’t it? At five metres long and just a metre high, it’s got
a swoopy supercar stance. The gullwing doors don’t look bad either.
Of course, Citroen couldn’t resist a little virtual trickery – some of the shots are renderings from the GT5 Prologue game.
But fear not. The real GT goes to Goodwood next week to drive up a posh
man’s driveway. Hopefully it will have something decent under the bonnet. Maybe
some kind of V8 sourced from outside the Citroen parts store.
If not, there’s always the 1.6-litre diesel from a Berlingo…
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the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP engine would be pretty good, 700 horsepower and 890 ft·lbf........
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Did it pay the congestion charge? That means it's a proper working car... I did see someone's picture of it at Le Mans so it seems to be making it around. Citroen's biggest engine is a 3.0 V6 as far as I know but if you strapped a few turbos to that it might be alright!
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These are three words I have never used to describe a Citroen (or any French car, for that matter) before: I want one!
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This is simply awesome. Saw it at the Geneva Motor Show. Please, please build this car!
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I saw this parked next to the Arc de Triopmh last month. Was working and everything. Wasn't there a Top Gear article about it having a Ford V8 from a Mustang? It looks mental in real life.
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A Ford V8 would be excellent. I learnt to drive in a Citroen and drool over Mustangs, so this thing with a 4.6 V8 spankned up to 650hp a la Koenigsegg CC8 would be epic
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nice car !!
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@StigsIrishCousn: Let's just stick two of them together to produce a 6.0 V12. With a turbo or two added for good measure.
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If this is a photoshop, it's a good'un. Even the reflection in the windscreen seems to fit. One but: in the side window there is a reflection of a bit of blue sky, but it seems a cloudy day in London.
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I saw it at the Paris Motorshow, and it's been at Citroen's showroom on the Champs Elysees - it looks brilliant.
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LOOKS brilliant, but it'll just be another flying carpet with dodgy electronics and depreciate in value every minute you drive the thing. The French make tools for garlic salesman to use instead of donkeys, not sportscars
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Maybe it will have a 1.4 L straight 4 engine producing 90 BHP from a Dacia (made by Renault).
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Pics 2, 3 & 4 are from GT5P, pic 1 is real, pic 5 is a Citroen rendering. And it's powered by hydrogen, just like in the game. I speak the truth.
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That is one of the most fantastic looking cars on earth. If they make it, and I really hope they do, I WILL buy one. What about the new twin turbo 3.0 Diesel from the XF? It's going in the C5 an C6, why not this? Still, I look at this car and immediately think "V12". Why not both? But even if it has the 1.0 3cyl from the C1 I don't care I just want one! As a piece of design more than anything.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-zvSj4Kep4 he says it has a V8 engine!
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wow! it has the most stupid name ever i think but it looks amazing. i reckon it should have the v10 from the gallardo. that is an amazing engine
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THE ONLY CITROEN THAT LOOKS NICE :D ...
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they aren't gullwing doors are they... they hinge from the A Pillar not the roof therefore being beetlewing doors
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i know that the french wouldnt build this as they generally build rubish cheap ugl cars, if they did it would be awsome. Im not shure but i think that that is going to be in gran turismo 5. I THINK.
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its fuel cell powered by four motors delivering 780bhp say Citroen....
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You don't use Photoshop for such a job. It looks like a rendering to me, not the best one I have seen. Reflections? If you have a 3D model and a HDR image you will get exactly the same lighting and reflections you would get in real life. Guess what it is you are seeing in most car commercials... That being said... what a car.
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You don't use Photoshop for such a job. It looks like a rendering to me, not the best one I have seen. Reflections? If you have a 3D model and a HDR image you will get exactly the same lighting and reflections you would get in real life. Guess what it is you are seeing in most car commercials... That being said... what a car.
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I agree with "kadajawi", definitely a rendering. If it only weren't French.
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Some are renderings some are real pictures......yeah yeah yeah..it's French blah blah blah...when will these subliminal stereotypes ever stop? I don't understand why they would source a GM/ or Ford V8 engine when they have an inhouse 520 kW 5.5L V12 diesel engine that won them the Les Mans? I mean with a running of just 20 units, the diesel engine would be justifiable.
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that looks great!!
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the car looks like a French rip off of an Audi R8
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Sounds like a big old American V8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOfBMRKLCCA
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This is abit of Dale (new slang for Bull S**t), 3 of your photo's are from GT5 Prologue and the last picture doesn't seem to look like London. All the same CITREON GO AND MAKE IT, it will be just as funny as Aston's iQ
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So this is the car that The Otomotive College (TOC) Malaysia feature in their poster when presenting their college.
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Bryanz - it looks so much better than Ingolstadt's blingster because the French (and Italians) can naturally just with a flick of a pen create a masterpiece, whereas Jerry has to spend hours and hours over something... and it still looks pretty terrible even next to Berlusconi's and Sarkozy's weakest designs... Photoshop? Look at the Curry's insignia on the windscreen and bonnet, and the sky on the rear offside wheelarch... and the windscreen again - clouds aren't always grey all over - there are blue partings in them sometimes too...
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It must be a V12 HDI from the peugeot 908RC le mans
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there will probably be a suprising sort of engine in it like a diesel but nonetheless this car looks fantastic
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looks like a vacuum cleaner......sorry, a Hoover
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hhmmm a good engine......................................... 650 cubic inch supercharged nitro methane dragster engine, 7000 bhp. That would bee soo much fun. woo V8's HEHE
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rustymx5 commented on this article
24 June 2009
They have to make that! If they could source the oily bits cheaply (LS7 Corvette ZR1 motor anyone?) then it could be justifiable?
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