- Due to technical restrictions, this article uses the sharp symbol (♯) to represent #.
The 2010 Joey Logano #20 GameStop TOYOTA CAMRY (Fantasy) is a NASCAR race car produced by Toyota. According to the car's description, this car is a special edition model based on the 2010 Joey Logano ♯20 The Home Depot TOYOTA CAMRY '10. It only appears in Gran Turismo 5.
Logano originally planned to use this scheme at the 2010 TUMS Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway (held on October 24, 2010), but due to a delay in the game's release, he ended up using a same livery for the 2010 O'Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, a NASCAR Nationwide Series (today the NASCAR Xfinity Series) race held at Texas Motor Speedway on November 6, 2010.
Description[]
This car is a special edition model of the 2010 NASCAR entrant, Joey Logano's #20 The Home Depot Toyota CAMRY with original coloring and livery designed by Gran Turismo.
On June 14, 2008, at the 16th round of the NASCAR Nationwide Series[1] in Kentucky, Joey Logano, in his third race, became the youngest driver to win a Nationwide Series race. He was only 18 years and 21 days old at the time. A truly amazing record that had racing fans across the U.S. bewildered.
In 2009, at 19 years of age, Logano became a fulltime participant of the Sprint Cup - the premiere NASCAR event position above[2] the Nationwide Series[1] - as a member of Joe Gibbs Racing,[3] one of the major teams in NASCAR. His car wore the number 20, which signaled his position as the successor to Tony Stewart (also number 20), a very popular NASCAR with two championships under his belt. Logano[4] inherited Stewart's longtime sponsor Home Depot as well as many of his staff and team members. From the very beginning, Logano's[4] team was built to win.
And the young Logano[4] was up to challenge as he finished high in the rankings midway into the season. Encouraged by team owner Joe Gibbs, the legendary NFL coach who led the Washington Redskins to three Super Bowl titles, and his teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin, Logano[4] proved that he belonged with the best stock car racers in the world as Toyota's lead driver and is destined to become a shining star for years to come.
Acquisition[]
| Game | Purchase location | Credits | Other methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gran Turismo 5 | --- | --- | Received as a pre-order bonus if game was pre-ordered from GameStop (North America-only). |
Trivia[]
- During normal gameplay, the GameStop logo on the car's front will disappear. The logo is otherwise present when the car is viewed in menus or in Photo Mode.
- The front GameStop logo is also absent on the car's thumbnail.
- Like the original car, this car features the Coors Brewing Company 21 Means 21 (the company's anti-underage drinking campaign) Pole Award sticker, instead of the Coors Light one, as Logano was then 20 years old in 2010; however, the decal is still blurred out.
- This is the only NASCAR car appearing in Gran Turismo 5 that does not appear in Gran Turismo 6.
- This car was often seen as one of the participant cars in the Remote Racing mode when set to use NASCAR cars. However, with the termination of the game's online services on May 2014, Remote Racing is no longer available.
- Despite being coded as a DLC vehicle, it is actually possible to obtain this car without having the relative DLC installed. This car has a 1/23 chance to be obtained from a 2010 Gift Car Ticket, and a 1/83 chance to be added from a Toyota Gift Car Ticket. However, these two items are not available under normal circumstances (while manufacturer-based tickets are not regularly used, year-based tickets were only distributed when the player is connected to the servers on their birthday date; with the requirement of having 18 years old for the creation of a PSN account, this meant that the 2010 Gift Car Ticket would have been normally obtainable in the year of 2028), and must be hacked into the player's save data.[5]
- If the car was added to the player's Garage with the above mentioned tickets, the car will remain fully playable for only the current session of the game. If the game is exited, and the game is started again, the car will then exhibit properties that any other DLC car will have, requiring the appropriate DLC files installed into the game's install data to use it again, but will remain in the player's Garage.[5]
- To further tie-in to the GameStop promotion, the cover of the game pre-ordered from GameStop feature this car.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Written as Busch Series (the name was last used in 2007), although the then-current name (Nationwide Series) is properly mentioned once; today the series is known as NASCAR Xfinity Series
- ↑ Incorrectly written as "under"
- ↑ "Racing" was not capitalized in-game
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Miswritten as "Logan" in the game.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gran Turismo 5/Cars on The Cutting Room Floor