You've probably noticed a pattern starting to form with my blog posts lately... (Post No. 43)

    And to be fair, that's okay. For now, we will just interrupt the "basic installation instructions of Linux for just like the Administrator", (We'll be returning to those later.) And then mention a specific challenge of beating the Gran Turismo games that I will be focusing on --- not that there are specific Gran Turismo challenges for each game from GT 1 to 7 (This includes Sport, by the way), but one particular challenge which pretty much states, "I must beat Gran Turismo 1 using nothing but either Japanese cars or the Dodge Viper GTS/RT 10/GTS-R." 

  

  Why a rule like this, you might ask? Well, it's simple really. There are probably only six total British cars, (Aston Martin DB7 Coupe, including the one that you can buy at the Aston Martin dealer in the game, as well as the Special Color which sometimes drops as a Megaspeed Cup prize car --- which the latter of which I'm not counting, as it's essentially the same car, and by definition, it also accepts the same livery color as the dealership purchase version, the Aston Martin DB7 Volante, The TVR Cerbera, TVR Griffith, (Both the B340 and Griffith 500, as they may look like the same car, the game lists them as separate models, so they are two cars completely different from each other.) and the TVR Cerbera LM Edition race car. 

   American cars, excluding the Vipers which I've mentioned (already) are also not that well represented in Gran Turismo 1. Why? Well, the proof is in the Gran Turismo 1 disc itself, depending on which region version you have. If you have the Japanese version, You have the Dodge Viper GTS/RT-10 and Copperhead Concept Car (All Dodge cars are listed as Chrysler), and Both of the 1996 C4 Corvette Coupes and the Camaro Z28. (The 30th Anniversary one is available in Simulation mode as a hidden prize car for beating the Clubman Cup.) and the 427 Corvette Stingray is absent completely from the Arcade Mode in that version of the game. Whereas in the International Releases, (NTSC U/C, and PAL) the 1967 Corvette Stingray is present there, too. 

    So, I plan on taking up this challenge in the NTSC U/C disc which is what I have in real life, and then perhaps sharing the data I have collected from the gameplay at a later date, on a future posting somewhere. Also, the majority of my race wins will probably be behind the wheel of a Japanese car of some kind.