[DeTomaso] Pantera now on PS4 Gran Turismo Sport

[Joseph F. Byrd, Jr.]

I haven't a clue about anything you said below, But I picked a few key words and got this google hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xViaCMbPd0

Dang, looks like video Mike just posted

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Subject: [DeTomaso] Pantera now on PS4 Gran Turismo Sport

Maybe nobody gives a hoot but--
After racing Playstation's Gran Turismo for over a decade and seeing (and driving) a great number of oddball cars contained within it (modern 4WD SUV's in a racing game?) but never our beloved Pantera, I'd finally given up hoping that it might ever appear.
Last night the PS4 servers booted everyone off to do "Routine Maintenance".  I shut 'er down and went to bed.  And just now when I booted back up GTSport the first thing that came up was 2.6Gb worth of software upgrade. "Cool.  Gotta be some new cars in there," was my first thought.
The game booted up and there it was--  on a list of new cars sitting between a 2007 Audi R8 and a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T:  De Tomaso Pantera 1971 !!!
Ha!  Finally!  
The software guys who design the cars are really good at simulating handling characteristics and engine exhaust notes so I'll report back here on how good a job they did.  The fact that they picked a '71 from a 20 year spread of Panteras says a lot right there.  
Gran Turismo has come a long way since it first started on tiny CRT/PC screens, even back then I loved it, but this most recent version is beyond stunning.  The effort that goes into the game points to nothing less than an encyclopedic knowledge of auto racing history and a hopeless, cureless, sick love of cars of every era. 
On a modern flat screen TV the graphics are just incredible and the steering wheel/pedal sets are first rate.  (yeah yeah....I'm a 56 year-old fart playing video games like a tech-addicted millennial!) K time for a spin in this sucker-- perhaps around the Nurburgring?
Any guesses on the default color of the GTSport Pantera?  (I haven't looked yet.  First guess:  yellow.  2nd guess: lime green.  3rd guess:
 red
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