Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: SEMA Best in Show winners in-game video

A few days back, we reported on the 2007 Audi TT winning the Best in Show award at this year’s SEMA show and Gran Turismo Awards. Do you want to know what happens to the winners of that prestigious award? It gets digitized and included in Polyphony Digital‘s Gran Turismo video games.

Check out the winners from previous years and their in-game counterparts in the video at the full article.

For the uninitiated, SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) holds a car show every year which coincides with the Gran Turismo Awards. Each year a car is chosen for the Best in Show award and gets immortalized in Polyphony Digital‘s Gran Turismo. Today, we’ve a video showcasing previous winners and their digital counterparts.

We see a classics and new cars alike: 1962 Buick Special (2003), HPA Volkswagen (2004), 2004 Honda S2000 (2005), and 1960 Chevrolet Corvette (2006). The video also shows Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo, inspecting the cars himself at the SEMA show.

Well, check out the video and see the cars in action in-game. The latest title in the series, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for the PlayStation 3, will be drafting to the PlayStation Network and the shelves in December so keep checking back for more news and updates.