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GTbyCitroen concept at 2008 Paris auto salon - Click above for high-res image gallery

Less than completely psyched about the launch of the new Citroen C3? Granted, the new compact hatchback may not be the most exciting vehicle ever to come from the quirky French automaker, but don't despair - we've got some more exciting news from the other end of the spectrum as reports surface that Citroen has approved a small run of its fantastical GTbyCitroen supercar for production.

You'll recall the GT as the design which Citroen unveiled together with the creators of the Gran Turismo video game franchise last year in Paris. The closest the concept was ever meant to get to reality was the single show car built and the digitized version which gamers would be able to play on PS3, but earlier this month, we reported that the French automaker was receiving enough interest on the car to consider putting it into very limited production.

As if to whet our appetites, Citroen took the concept on a drive around London last week, and has since confirmed that it will make the climb up the hill at Goodwood this month. But if you're looking for a closer approximation of life-imitating-art-imitating-life, a short run of GTs will reportedly see the light of day. Only six are said to be built, at a reported price of £1.1 million ($1.83 million USD). The jury's still out on what will power the mythical beast - gossip suggests an American V8 sourced from either General Motors or Ford and driving in excess of 500 horsepower through a sequential gearbox - but carbon-fiber construction and exotic interior are said to be part of the final package. We could see a production version at the upcoming Frankfurt show in September, so stay tuned.


Gallery: GTbyCitroen


Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live


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REPORT: GTbyCitroen gets the green light for limited production originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GTbyCITROËN concept in London - Click above for high-res image gallery

The almost impossibly long and low GTbyCITROËN, which started life as a concept car for the wildly popular Gran Turismo gaming franchise (part of Polyphony Digital Inc. and Sony's Playstation empire), has made its first real-life foray through London in a recreation of the video game's street circuit.

Though originally designed as nothing more than a model to drum up interest in the quirky French automaker and the oft-delayed next installment of Gran Turismo, there has reportedly been so much interest in the GT that there is actually a very real chance that Citroen will put the supercar into limited production, possibly powered by a rumbling V8 engine from Detroit.

While this thinly-disguised photo opportunity passage through Piccadilly surely took place at a snail's pace, we can only hope the French supercar aqcuits itself well as it storms up the upcoming 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill as part of the Sunday Times Supercar Run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which starts on July 3. Click past the break for the press release and below for a high-res gallery.


Gallery: GTbyCitroen in London


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Stunning GTbyCITROËN concept car runs Gran Turismo London city streets course in real life! originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GTbyCitroen - Click above for a high-res image gallery

When Citroen collaborated with the people behind Sony Playstation's hit Gran Turismo game franchise on the show-stopping - if clumsily named - GTbyCitroen for last year's Paris Motor Show, few thought it would see the light of day. That includes the French automaker itself, but as we reported back in March, demand has picked up enough to prompt Citroen to consider the GT's creation. The latest reports indicate that the Chevron-labeled automaker will have its answer ready, one way or another, within a month's time.

The indication of Citroen's deliberation reportedly comes straight from the mouth of the company's product guru Vincent Besson (think Bob Lutz with a beret and a dangling Gauloise). Apparently Citroen has received a number of prospective orders from potential buyers who'd like to see the supercar drive off their plasmas and into their garages. If the PSA subsidiary does indeed decide to built the GT, it will be in extremely limited numbers and at a price high enough to cover the costs -- 15 examples at a million euros apiece is where it's tipped to be at. Powertrain is another issue altogether, as the concept's conceptual hydrogen electric drivetrain would likely be replaced by a more conventional V8 sourced from Detroit. French style and American muscle? Sounds like a winning combination. We'll just have to wait four weeks to find out if it will come to fruition.


Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live



[Source: Autocar]

REPORT: PSA to decide on GTbyCitroen production within four weeks originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for high-res gallery of the Citroen GT

Autocar has it on good authority - by that we mean Citroen's product chief Vincent Besson - that the GTbyCitroen concept unveiled at last year's Paris Motor Show and later made available as a playable car in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be headed to production. Besson says that the GT's popularity made the automaker ponder its viability as an actual product and now it's considering a limited run of up to 20 units. While he was tight-lipped on specs (probably because none of have been nailed down yet), Besson did intimate that the production GT would ditch its fictional hydrogen fuel cells for a V8 that could come from General Motors or Ford. We think the supercharged 5.4-liter that powered the Ford GT would do nicely; after all, they do share the same name.

Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live


[Source: Autocar]

Citroen GT making jump from video game to production car? originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above to see the GTbyCitroen in action

The GTby Citroen has had a short, busy life: from teaser renderings to its Paris Motor Show debut to rumors that Citroen might make the coupe - and then quickly to a denial. Now it is evidently running on European tarmac with a distinct high-powered wail. The commentary is entirely in Polish, but you don't need to understand the language to know that this is where the car looks its best: hugging the road at high speed. Follow the jump to check out the video. Thanks for the tip, Luzik!

Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live


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VIDEO: Citroen GT in motion... in Polish originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for a high-res gallery of the GTbyCitroen

So while it turns out that PSA is actually not looking to buy Honda's F1 team (that's why they call it the rumormill), the brand could have seriously sporting aspirations of a different sort. According to Jean-Pierre Ploué, PSA's chief designer, there might be a 20-edition run of the GTbyCitroen, the car Citroen created for Sony's GT5. The game car specs came in at 3,000 pounds and 782 horses, some of those powered by hydrogen. If a real car -- actually suggested to be a grand tourer by Citroen's press release -- were built, we hope they opt for a version of the Peugeot 908's diesel V12. For 700 hp and 800 ft-lbs, we'd have no problem driving a car that looks like a catfish up front and a platypus out back. No matter what they put in it, expect it to be tres chere if it ever gets built.

Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live


Gallery: GTbyCitroen


[Source: Cardisiac via Motor Authority]

Rumormill: GTbyCitroen could be built in limited numbers originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click the image above for a high-res gallery of the GTbyCitroen

The day is here, the GTbyCitroen has got over its shyness and is ready to be seen by the world. Par for the French, the GT is funky -- and we're not even going to get into the seventh teaser for the car in which the car was completely covered. Contrary to the rakishness of its looks, it's also fairly slow. The 3,000-pound two-seater takes a virtual 3.6 seconds to get to a virtual 62 mph, and that's with a 646 digital ponies boosted by an additional 136 hydrogen-powered horses. As for the design, if you're wondering what that rear overhang is about, the phrase you're looking for is "retinal persistence." Yeah. You can find more explanations like that and a whole lot more in the press release after the jump, and the gallery of high-res photos below.

Gallery: Paris 2008: GTbyCitroen Live


Gallery: GTbyCitroen

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Paris 2008: The GT by Citroen. No, the whole thing this time originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click the image above for a high-res gallery of the GT by Citroen

In a move more "Um, yeah..." than "Oh yeah!", Citroen has released the sixth teaser image of the car that will, one of these days, be revealed entirely to the world, all at once, front and back. We aren't even sure if this qualifies as a tease, since getting a glimpse at a front end we've already seen doesn't really ring the bell. What we can say is that one of our commenters appears to be right: the car does look like it's only 10 inches high. Relive the magic of the slowest reveal ever in the gallery of high-res photos below.

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


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How you say "enough" in French: Citroen releases sixth GT teaser originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Citroen has let slip another drip in the GT by Citroen reveal, and this time it's a video showing off the dramatic shapes of "The Drive of Your Life." Dig those mirrors, and the glasshouse swept back in monumental fashion. Whatever is pushing the car's massive rims apparently needs a lot of air, with two raked scoops behind the canopy and two more on the sides ahead of the rear wheels. And the rear end of the car looks like -- dare we say it -- a tail... It's Mach 5 if the car comes together like we expect, or platypus if it doesn't. The Paris Motor Show reveal is in but a few days, and you can mark us down as officially excited. Check out the video after the jump and more teaser pics in the gallery below. Thanks for the tip, Nick!

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


[Source: Gran Turismo]

Continue reading VIDEO and new PICS: Citroen GT in stereoscopic darkness

VIDEO and new PICS: Citroen GT in stereoscopic darkness originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for a gallery of the GT by Citroen

It's time for your next dose of the GT by Citroen concept. To the commenter who wrote that the front of the car looks like a catfish -- well, in a victory for symmetry, the back of the car looks like a catfish, too, and a couple of other gilled sea creatures. No matter its fishy similarities, it also look like it will be a lot of fun to throw this baby around Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. The tease can't go on much longer -- the Paris Motor Show begins in a week. We'll be there with cameras and bait, just in case.

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


[Source: Zer Customs]

Hanging back: GT by Citroen rear comes up for air originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for a gallery of GT by Citroen teaser shots

The cloak on the GT by Citroen has been pulled back again to reveal a little more sheetmetal. Call us crazy, but we have the feeling this car is going to put the "Whoa, that's wild..." back into concept cars. This little corner shows off two vastly different personalities: look at the center structure and it could be any pleasant Frenchmobile -- a 2CV even; scan out to the sides, and it's got the kind of vicious appendages of a predator. Then there's that diffuser hanging out there like an arctic steppe, mirrors that are 18 inches long, and a tapered rear end that can't possibly stay planted without some aero aid on scaffolding. For all we know, the car could be hiding nine or ten other personalities, as well. We can't wait to see it.

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


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More intensity: 4th Citroen GT teaser image originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for high-res images of the Citroen GT concept

Day three in the Citroen Gran Turismo car reveal, and this time we do have the front of the car again. We thought the second pic was the front as well, but apparently that's not the case. The tiny bit front overhang on the car is taken up entirely by intakes and a dual element splitter that looks large enough to double as a hydrofoil. Combined with the leviathan rear diffuser, massive tires, and minimal ride height, the car looks like a straight up racer as opposed to a GT... but if you'll notice, there's a space on the front bumper for a European license plate. All we can say is come on, Paris Motor Show.

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


[Source: ZerCustoms]

Once more with feeling: Citroen releases third GT teaser originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for high-res images of the Citroen GT concept

The Citroen GT striptease continues with a more revealing image of what looks like a rip-snorting concept car. Huge tires, a ginormous front splitter meant to keep something seriously fast bolted to the ground at speed, enough front air intakes to break records, and that thing out back, which we thought were mirrors yesterday, must be a terrific wing. As they say in French, oh la la, c'est cool. Meant to appear in Gran Turismo Prologue, it will also be at next month's Paris Motor Show, and so will we, so stay tuned. In the mean time, you can check out both high-res images in the gallery below.

Gallery: Sony/Citroen GT Teaser


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Citroen releases another image of the GT originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Click above for a high-res image of the Citroen GT concept

Citroen is teaming up with Sony to launch a new concept that will debut at the Paris Motor Show and be available in Gran Turismo Prologue on the Playstation 3. Sony has released one image of the cloaked concept and a brief teaser video (posted after the break) showing the low-slung coupe sporting a set of slit LEDs, massive fenders and a widened stance. We haven't been able to coax out any details from our contacts, but if this Citroen GT doesn't make in onto the road, at least we'll get to experience it in the virtual realm.

[Sources: Sony, LeBlogAuto]

Continue reading VIDEO: Citroen and Sony release teaser of new GT

VIDEO: Citroen and Sony release teaser of new GT originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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