The most exciting car that Infiniti has ever built was nothing more than collection of pixels and bits for months now. In partnership with the Gran Turismo racing video game, Infiniti created what it called the Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo, and it was spectacular. This big swoopy two-door sports car has a profile that is reminiscent of an Aston Martin, bit with a more organic and muscular shape. It was achingly beautiful, but it could only be seen in the digital world of Gran Turismo. That changed at Shanghai when Nissan and Infiniti unveiled a real version of the car to the public. If the videos and photos are anything to believe, the car looks even more incredible in the flesh.
If you have never seen the car or had the chance to use it in Gran Turismo, Infiniti created this great video that looks into all the subtle details and thought processes that went into to creating such a defining style. All I can hope is that Infiniti takes this shape and uses it to create a true road-legal car. Check it all out below
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SHANGHAI, China – Last week at the 2015 Shanghai auto show, Infiniti held its inaugural Infiniti Design Night ahead of Auto Shanghai 2015. The evening occasion took place at the Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum.
Under the theme of “Aesthetics of Contrast,” Infiniti Design Night showcased three design concepts showing an exciting path to Infiniti’s future: the Q80 Inspiration (first shown in Paris, October 2014), Q60 Concept (Detroit, January 2015), and the Vision Gran Turismo designed especially for the latest Gran Turismo® 6™ video game.
This was the first time the Vision GT was displayed as a real “flesh and bones” concept car, having only been seen and experienced digitally in GT6 prior to this event.
The dramatic Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo
The Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo is a vision of what a high performance Infiniti could look like in the future. Available for download in GT6 exclusively on the PlayStation®3 system, it was created through close collaboration with the creators of Gran Turismo®, the racing game franchise developed by Polyphony Digital Inc. that has sold more than 72 million copies worldwide.
The virtual concept car began as an ambitious global Infiniti Design competition to “design a pure Infiniti GT car,” which Infiniti’s Design team in Beijing won. Part beauty, part beast, its shape is powerful, sensual and audacious – articulating the team’s ambitious racing language for Infiniti.
The team kept to Infiniti’s design language and added some Chinese influences to the Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo. The fluid movement and the delicate gradation of the body are inspired by traditional Chinese calligraphy and landscape paintings, while the character lines uninhibitedly flowing through the car reflect the dynamism of China.
Up front, the Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo sports a sharp visage and a wide grille, giving it a wild and powerful look. The curves of the fenders wrap around the tires, and the car appears ready to pounce.
The design development of the Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo started with hand sketching, then refined digitally, refined again by hand sculpting, and then returned to digital for final refinement.
“The Q80 Inspiration, the Q60 Concept and the Infiniti Concept Vision Gran Turismo are all thematically different,” said Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti Executive Design Director. “Yet the same thread of handcrafted artistry weaves through them, and they all speak with one Infiniti design language.”
