Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR in Gran Turismo 2

The CLK GTR was one of the first cars to ever be pictured in Gran Turismo 2, being released with a small selection of other screenshots in February 1999. Then, it vanished. Rumour has it that EA held the licensing to the car and GT's creators had to remove it from the game almost as quickly as they'd implemented it.

Now, 22 years later, the car has finally been recreated and modded back into the game by RacingFreak. Here's more information about its creation, from Nik himself:

"After nearly 8 months of work and extensive research, I have decided to reveal my CLK GTR recreation project after the completion of its initial phase! My intention is to recreate as closely as possible the model which was in Gran Turismo 2 before it got cut. As nothing from this model remains in the game, I had to create the model and textures from scratch, basing it on 4 screenshots of it and a render. As additional references I've also made use of nearly 150 photos of the real car.

The model shown in the video is still far from complete as there are numerous issues left to deal with and also lack of proper handling and sounds, but it is now fully textured and playable in-game. This particular version doesn't have any decals yet, but it does have the blue mirrors from the 1997 Suzuka 1000km winning car #10 (yet the decals in the render and in-game are actually based on car #11).

I've started this recreation back in March shortly after model modding finally became possible thanks to commongear's cdotool. Initially I've played around with converting the CLK GTR from NFSIII, pics of which some of you might've seen reposted on Twitter without my permission, but I felt that it will be way better to properly remake the model and this has indeed proved to be a great challenge."

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Watch more gameplay of the car:    • Gran Turismo 2 - 1997 Mercedes-Benz C...  

Music credits:

Gran Turismo 2 East City Remix by Dr Ninja:    • Gran Turismo 2: East City (Remix)  

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