Even when we talked about the GTbyCitroen hitting London last week, we still remained somewhat sceptical about its actual existence. But now, with the arrival of this video, our scepticism has vanished:
We knew of one that had been driven, but not one that’s actually real in the sense that it was up to the job of tooling around town.
There had been reports of it going round the tracks at the ’Ring and Le Mans 24hr races, but we were there and we didn’t see it.
It definitely drove round the Le Mans town in the supercar parade, but that was still at very slow speed.
So we weren’t sceptical that it actually existed, just that it did any of the things that Citroen said it did.
There are reports of supposed drives of it, but even those videos looked like a CGI car when it was running at speed.
Saying all that, even this video doesn’t prove if it can actually run at speed, so we’ll have to wait for it to go up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed at the weekend.
Let’s hope this fine weather holds out.
that thing is dirty!
its sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!
I’m waiting for obligatory “Oh its a Video Photoshop!” (Yes, people are that dumb) Comment myself.
Do we know what the engine is yet?
More reasons to look forward to Goodwood! Can’t wait!
That V8 sound just doesn’t go with this Citroen in my opinion. What it needs is a nice high-rev V12 sound. Because V8 sound reminds of Brick-shaped muscle cars and this is super sleek supercar.
Sounds like a V8 (supercharged?) or maybe even V10.
Sounds good.
Looks good.
My god, Citroen!
At least it isn’t the electric drive from the game….
This car looks quite exciting, even next to a Lambo. If they make a mini-series, it’ll likely be one of the most clownish (in a good way) cars ever to roll off the lines of a major automotive player…
My god, this looks just awesome..
Its powered by an alternative power source, by the sound of it Tom Jones!
Looks interesting, but I’m sure it’s a horrible drive.
Very impressive car, but that rear spoiler… I feel like putting my drink on it.
I’m curious to see it go full throttle, but I’m not sure the Goodwood Festival of Speed will be broadcast on any channel I can watch in my country. Will it be covered on BBC 1 and/or 2?
Chances are it’ll benefit from the Citroen/Peugeot gig by getting the 908 race car chassis for the purposes of Goodwood… and don’t count out the 908 diesel engine either. How about 4 of the C4 rally car engines bolted together making an 8 litre v16 inter-cooled quad-turbo. Anyone? oh wait…
(you know you want to Citroen!)
Watch this link where you can clearly see the Citroen GT being driven with more force – it’s also in French but that doesn’t really matter, check from about 1min and 15sec… ( http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=Bjvkt_xoVZ8 )
Wow! A car which was designed just for Gran Turismo is now a reality. Only difference is that the GTbyCitroen in GT5P had 1 forward gear and 1 reverse gear, so i expect that this real version has more gears.
I have to admit it’s nothing like the mad supercars sketched in the back of a Geography book when we were all younger, in other words, the designer is a genius! It also sounds incredible, like swineflu is trying to escape from the engine bay, then you floor it and it sounds like a nuclear war is occuring inside the engine.
I have to admit, it’s a full on mad supercar, like a Zonda but in a different league of madness. I love it!
The middle part of the back end reminds me somehow of the Toyota FT-HS concept.
Citroen have announced that they’re going to make 6 – it looks brilliant, sounds brilliant and I’d buy one if I had the money!!
I vote for it as the next batmobile!!! It is so mean…
Sounds brilliant!
$1.8 million of american muscle
http://www.gtplanet.net/c itroen-gt-priced-at-18-mi llion-six-to-be-produced
My Turn next with it when you’ve finished in the toilet!
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow at first i thought Citroen sucked
:O
never thaight id say this about any citroen other than an sm or a ds pallas. WANT ONE!
looks good, sounds ace (bit like a certin 3rd gen firebird from a very popular 80s tv show!) and no doubt goes like the proverbial of a very hot shovel. awesome, well done citroen.
To EEZY,
They still do. (Apart from this one)
I just watched the vid from quattro’s link, and they’re talking about a V8 with 600HP. If this is true, it won’t be Citroen’s own so where has it come from (or whence if you prefer, UK Grammar Board and grimble) M3? Corvette?
I want one, hope they build it, and about 500.
I think it should have a V10
Wish I was the one driving it, what fun that must have been
What’s the engine Citroen!?
The Martians have landed on Earth! And they brought their car!
i agree with senseition. exept that maybe it could be a package if it sells well
According to the french video from Quattro, the car has a 600hp V8, 4 point harness, HUD, no electronic stability, tubular chassis, carbon fiber body, 6 speed sequential box, and a boost system that adds an extra 200hp for overtaking. This is pure madness and I want one so bad!!! Leave it to the French to come up with something completely out of this world and beautiful too.
This is the sort of car I would expect to see in the stigs garage.
The original real car was powered, as it is in the game, by 4 hydrogen motors making a total of 780bhp and 1,800lb ft. It’s also “geared” (for lack of a better term for this gearless car) to go 303mph, although I suspect physics prevent that speed from ever happening. After all, a Corvette Z06 is geared to 280-odd mph.
Unfortunately the lack of a hydrogen infastructure (or indeed the €1 squillion needed to produce 6 of these insane cars) means it’s powered by a cheaper, boring, 500bhp V8. I wanted that whooshing sound akin to a jet engine or a spaceship like in GT5P…
Still, if I had £1.1m, I’d get one in an instant. Look at it!!
As I said in the last post, I saw one of these pottering around Paris. They are really mean although I was too far away to hear the engine noise at the time.
Looks like the kind of car that Kirk or Picard would drive. That thing is absolutely NUTS!
I like…
ORGASMIC !!!!!!!! every 25-3o years, citoren have a shortcircuit and the sparks they throw… WOW !!!! Veyron, dig a hole and die !!!
..if ever there were a car to celebrate generation X, THIS IS IT !!! Thank you Cit, was worth every nanosecond of the wait:D
the only thing spoiling it is the citroen badge on the front
WOOOOOOOW….Citroen went NASTYYYY on thiss…..and i love it….well none c this comin i guess….BMW AUDI MERCEDES: GET READYYY
Interesting form of censorship hitting these columns – the previous comments of myself and another poster, pointing out grammatical errors in the original article, have now been removed.
The poor grammar has also been corrected – so do the 2 of us qualify for part of Mr. Hibbard’s salary??
@grimble.. the answer is no. After all, you didn’t write the article, hIBBARD did. Why he didn’t opt to use the ever so efficient spell check, remains a mystery.
ps. keep in mind, these ppl are motor journos..ie.: can barely read, can’t really write and aren’t talented enough drivers to make a living from driving.. so cut them some slack, they do the best they can ..sometimes…
I had a crisis.
the engine doesn’t sound right, a futuristic car should have futuristic engines such as quad electric motors (one for each wheel)
or perhaps some gas powered turbine/jet engines that makes high pitch sounds. THAT would be futuristic, and annoying for your neighbours when you start it on a Sunday morning drive…
The reason it looks like a CGI car when it’s going at speed, is because they’re showing footage of a Playstation 3 game called Gran Turismo.
That’s the reason they made this car.
bushmann, I’m not sure where that harsh generalisition for motor journalists came from – surely they DO make a living from driving, seeing as the job, as far as I know, entails driving a car, poking around the interior and writing about it? I don’t suppose you read the magazine, with it’s primitive paper pages and ink, but I’ve never found holes to poke in their journalism.
Or perhaps I’ve never poked holes because I’m not an irritating Grammar Nazi like you and grimble are coming across as.
SNAP!
THAT HAS TO BE ONE OF THE SEXIEST THINGS ON THE ROAD (SORT OF…) TODAY! and the sound! OMG! what a fantastic machine.
“Does it come in black?”
–Bruce Wayne
OMG The GT is going to be at goodwood, i’m going but the GT is the coolest. hope it’s their on the friday.
so nobody noticed the same guys taking pictures in the background, watched a couple of times to check.
Good question but i’d have it in white.
anybody want a blow up car, ie flat pack car body,
Yes it’s emense but remember it is a citroen
I can’t believe only one of you on here has had a “crisis”.
I had, ooh at least 12 whilst watching this.
And why is Johnny from fifth Gear in this video taking photos.
@mikeado.. the “generalisation”, be it as shallow as it may appear, came from my humble experience of reading article upon article of mainly badly written and horribly composed opinionated misinformation(k-rap)prod uced by various motor journalists the world over.. If you take a split second to actually think about what I wrote it’ll become clear that spelling in my opinion, though it does reflect on the author,is not really worth getting stuck up about.. You might, of course, not agree.. calling people nazis however is simply
bad taste at best.
ps. glad you like the mag.. Jezza’s and james’ articles are usually worth reading.. matt’s issues with not pulling, richard’s overstressed efforts in trying to improvise something interesting for the money, and the rest of usually very dull and bland scriblings however aren’t really my cop of tea.. And the TG mag is one of the better ones.. you do the maths..
..but hey, this GT… what a car
!
Really Nice Car! If It Egsists! I Mean Why Did They Waste Our Time With All That Other Junk! Well Apart From The C6 A nd The DS Range!!!
Ok fair enough bushmann.
Btw “Grammar Nazi” is an internet term for someone who gets pedantic about spelling and grammar. I wasn’t implying any Fuhrer-worshipping.
@58, no worries.. glad we got eachother:D
I went to goodwood today and saw the gt at the supercar padock. It was hard to see it atall because of the croud. It was harsh in a way though because the citroen had a croud but the chrome bugatti veyron next to it didn’t.
Mr Boo
How dare you talk about fifth gear on the webstite for the mecca of car shows. They set fire to our warehouse.
its a marmite car you love it or hate it
It was really cool and I really want to have one.
Wow!!! I want one
imagine waking up one morning.You go out to get the milk and you see that parked up your neighbours drive
..@65..if you do that, it might as well be on your own drive ?:D
EEZY, 1 car aint gonna stop citroen from sucking… anyway what is that thing sticking out the back? maybey it belongs to a surfer who cant get his stuff in the boot!
i dont think this thing actually works properly. it was at goodwood but it never went up the hill. the excuse they came up with was its the only one of its kind and its worth 2 million quid and they didnt want to risk it. but what about the countless number of other unique cars that went on the hill over the weekend?
whoa thats fantastic……….. its great for such a car company to come up with something like this…….. it looks like a redesigned audi R8!!!!!