Chevy Gives Gran Turismo 5 Players Chance at Driving a 2014 Corvette C7—Virtually [2012 L.A. Auto Show]

Chevrolet prides itself on its ability to keep each new generation of the Corvette a near-total mystery until it is revealed. For the most part, the company is successful—we’ve only spied well-covered 2014 Corvette C7 test mules, and background info on the car is hard to come by. (We do know a little bit about the latest Vette’s new-generation small-block V-8.) This reality makes Chevy’s collaboration with the folks behind the Gran Turismo 5 video game to offer a 2014 C7 Corvette prototype in the game all the more fascinating. Players now can download a camouflaged Corvette test mule and drive it on any track they like, well before the real deal makes its debut in January.

Besides giving enthusiasts a rare, virtual first look at a hotly anticipated new sports car, Chevrolet’s participation with Polyphony Digital, the outfit behind GT5, further raises the next-gen Vette’s profile. We also dig how the in-game C7 is fully decked out with a heavy layer of complex camouflage, just like the real prototypes we’ve caught testing in the wild. Chevy says the digital C7 even features realistically unfinished driving dynamics. That said, the game doesn’t give players the finalized 2014 Corvette experience—Chevrolet is clear that the in-game car merely approximates “specific driving characteristics that are currently being tuned and refined ahead of the vehicle’s official debut in January.”

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The Corvette may be wearing a layer of cover-up for its Gran Turismo 5 appearance, but Chevy’s work to keep the car’s detailing as secret as possible may actually have been undone slightly by Polyphony’s digitization. That’s because the Vette in the game is pretty clearly rendered, as opposed to the at-times blurry spy photos of its real-life counterparts that we’ve seen. Assuming the digital car is as realistically recreated as the rest of the rides in GT5, this is perhaps our best look yet at the next-gen Corvette.

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