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Sony and Polyphony Digital, both bolstered by their newfound ability to set a final (for real!) release date for Gran Turismo 5 , have taken the initiative to reveal not one, but two special European editions of the game. The “Signature Edition” somewhat resembles the U.S. “Collector’s Edition,” and includes a fancy metal case, a miniature SLS AMG 1:43 model car, a USB flash drive, a wallet, entry into a contest to win a Mercedes Benz, vouchers for 11 DLC vehicles, a key fob, an art book, a driving strategy mini-magazine and an extravagant €179.99 price tag

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Gran Turismo 5’s European special editions offer two levels of luxury

How would you like to get your name in the credits sequence of the most frequently delayed video game in the history of mankind? That’d be quite a claim for you to lord over your friends, wouldn’t it

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Name this song, get your name in the Gran Turismo 5 credits

Fans of Top Gear are undoubtedly well-versed in the automotive show’s test track — mostly because it’s featured in every episode. Regardless, you haven’t seen it in Gran Turismo 5 yet and courtesy of the Top Gear blog , you now can. We’ve parked the video past the break, feel free to give it a look-see.

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Take a tour of Top Gear’s test track in Gran Turismo 5

Sony may have dropped a few details about Gran Turismo 5 (like a release date) at its E3 presentation , but it was saving the real news for an even bigger event: Cue random interview on the UK PlayStation site with Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida. In this interview, Yoshida casually confirms the existence of unannounced elements in the racing sim, including a track editor and go-karts. For every individual driver, Yoshida says there is ” a driving experience to suit, whether that is taking on the Top Gear test track, chucking cars around stunt arenas, go-karting, creating and sharing your own track or intense head-to-head races.” Elsewhere in the interview (and just as nonchalantly), Yoshida references some ” new game-enhancing graphical effects, such as damage, night racing and weather.” Damage has already been confirmed and weather rumored

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Gran Turismo 5 includes track editor, weather and go-karts

Sorry if the headline mislead you in any way No, the perpetually delayed Gran Turismo 5 still doesn’t have a release date. Trust us, we looked! Unfortunately, it wasn’t at the end of this new E3 trailer, either. Guess you’ll have to make do with some incredibly gorgeous footage in the meantime

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Gran Turismo 5 releases a trailer

It’s been a while since we last saw images from Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 — at least ones that were capable of moving whilst being accompanied by high-octane trance music. Such moving pictures were released earlier today, likely in an attempt to remind us just how pretty the game really is. (Here’s a refresher course: It’s super pretty.) You can check out the trailer posted after the jump, but we suggest having some ninjas around when you watch it, because the music will totally make you want to fight some ninjas.

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Gran Turismo 5 ‘Nights’ trailer is appropriately unlit, pretty

We hate to be all Captain Obvious about it, but there’s good reason the Gran Turismo series is still doing laps around the virtual track. People are voting with their cash, as the latest figures from Polyphony Digital show that Gran Turismo PSP has managed to sell 1.8 million copies. And through its success, it’s hit one hell of a milestone for the Gran Turismo series at large

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Gran Turismo PSP helps series top 55 million units sold

The vice president in charge of “Southern Europe” (read: Spain, Portugal) at Sony Computer Entertainment isn’t a man to mince words. No sir, James Armstrong answered his recent interview question from Canarias Al Dia on the subject of Gran Turismo 5 ’s release date with rock solid certainty: “We believe that we will launch the product this Autumn, before the holiday, though this hasn’t been decided yet. [our translation, not direct]” Alright, so Armstrong wasn’t exactly 100 percent nailing down a date for the game that’s been delayed more than a few times (Sony most recently pushed back its Japanese release to an unknown date).

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Sony Europe: Don’t worry, Gran Turismo 5 will be out before Christmas. Maybe. (We hope.)

If you’re someone who loves themselves some arbitrary console performance figures, Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has you covered. Speaking to VentureBeat , the Gran Turismo creator reckons the latest game in Sony’s flagship racing series taps “about 80 percent of the processing power” of the PlayStation 3,” adding, “the PS3 hardware has a very high peak performance.

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Yamauchi: Gran Turismo 5 uses 80% of PS3’s power