A new update will go live on Gran Turismo 7 tomorrow, on the usual “Thursday of the last week of the month” cadence where game updates for the racing game usually drops.
The April 2026 update, or Update 1.69 if you prefer the nicer version number, adds three new cars. Three cars that can’t be different enough.
The deep cut of the trio is another variant of the existing Porsche 911 964. The Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau (964) is a lightweight version of the 964 that only 80 of them are ever made, give or take. Thus, the car is only purchasable at Legend Cars, so you better grab them quick if you want this specific car or wait out until it’s back in rotation. To the Porsche fans, this is an interesting niche history of a very specific line of many 911s. To those who like to have “new” cars added to the roster in this monthly content update, it’s the least exciting of the trio.
The next car in the list should please EV believers, it’s the Yangwang U9. As teased before, this is the ludicrously fast electric supercar by Chinese manufacturer BYD’s luxury brand, Yangwang. This marks the second appearance of a Chinese car manufacturer in GT7, following Xiaomi. And it’s a beauty. Designed by Wolfgang Egger, the person behind the handsome Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione (also in GT7), the Yangwang U9 has an aggressive front facia and one massive swan neck wing.
But the most interesting addition of the trio has to be the adorable Renault Twingo. It’s the Twingo! The cute, cheap, little French car that could is making its Gran Turismo debut, joining a list of zany cars that somehow ended up in a closed-circuit racing game (shout out to the Unimog). But now you can really do the twist, the swing and even the tango with the Twingo by upgrading its performance without the hardships of actually working on one. With the graphical prowess of Gran Turismo 7, you can also appreciate the bright glossy body colour, contrasted by visibly plasticky not-body-matched-coloured bumpers, with simple rims covering the side of those super-thin tyres and of course, the extremely 90’s Memphis design of those seats.
Come on, it’s the Twingo! Look at how happy it is to be here! The Twingo is so cool that Renault just revived them as a new EV, with just a happy of a face.
Gran Turismo 7 April 2026 Update New Cars
As of Update 1.69, Gran Turismo 7 now has a total of 565 cars
- Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau (964) ’93 (Legend Cars)
- Renault Twingo ’93 (Used Cars)
- Yangwang U9 ’24
Gran Turismo 7 April 2026 Update New Features
Here’s something new. For those who purchase the Power Pack DLC, GT7 will now add in Power Pack Challenges. These are essentially Weekly Challenges as offered in the base game. In the example screenshots, these will not require you to enter a specific event, just do 3 of the full-weekend-experience races and you can get up to 800,000 credits, basically the same amount to the normal Weekly Challenges. But if you have the DLC, there’s an opportunity to earn 1.6 million credits each week, and two times faster to accumulate enough credits to buy those expensive 20 million cars.
Other than that, expect a new Extra Menu collection (collect three cars for a reward), new World Circuits events and a new featured curation in Scapes, the game’s static photo mode.
The April 2026 update for Gran Turismo 7 goes live on April 23. Patch notes will be linked here once it goes live.
Gran Turismo 7 is out now on PS4 and PS5. Check out our review of the game here.
Source: Gran Turismo, PlayStation Blog