- "Did I mention that this is quite an exclusive place? Only a chosen few drivers even get to hear about it."
- ―Sarah (GT7 release date trailer)
The Legend Cars menu, showing the lineup from November 24, 2022.
Legend Cars (sometimes referred to as the Hagerty Collection) is one of the car dealerships in Gran Turismo 7 that mainly caters to historic and legendary road and racing vehicles. As the name implies, it is sponsored by Hagerty, an American classic car insurance company and automotive media production, and housed inside a Brutalist-styled building. To unlock the dealership, the player must complete Café Menu Book No. 17: Trial Mountain Cup.
The dealership primarily offers older road cars from the first half of the 20th century. Additionally, racecars from before 2001 are sold here. Up to 11 cars at a time are sold, and like with Used Cars, each car can only be purchased for a limited time (a car marked as Limited Stock indicates the player only have a few days left to purchase it) before they are sold out; once they are marked as sold out, they are removed at midnight UTC and replaced by another eligible car. However, the car's description can still be viewed.
Like with the UCD, the player can add a car into the Wish List as long as the car is listed (purchasable or not); the game will remind the player with a flag above the menu building in the World Map when the wish listed car is on sale, and starting in version 1.36, frequently wish listed cars (by the players) will be placed into an extra Special Picks slot. (The Special Picks slot has also been used to support Weekly Challenge Special Events and Sport Mode events on occassion.) Additionally, for cars added in an update that would be purchasable here, they will be marked as "hot" and be placed as an extra slot, in order to allow them to be purchased for the first time.
Purchasing a car here for the first time will award the player with the "Living with a Legend" trophy. There is also another trophy called "Three Legendary Cars", whose description is quite vague (requiring the player to acquire "three legendary race cars that were once destined to win 24 hour races"), in which the cars required are the Ford Mark IV Race Car '67, the Ferrari 330 P4 '67, and the Jaguar XJ13 '66.
As of version 1.50, there are currently 86 known legendary vehicles sold here.
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Gallery[]
Trivia[]
The virtual garage building used during the 2020 (and 2021) FIAGTC World Finals; this building was later reused for Legend Cars.
- The Legend Cars building was originally the virtual garage building used in the 2020 FIA Gran Turismo Championships World Finals; it was also used for the virtual podium segments in broadcasts of the 2021 FIAGTC and 2022 GTWS events.
- Additionally, the Moon Over the Castle rendition used in GT7's release date trailer was also originally from the 2020 FIAGTC World Finals.
- Some Café collection expository texts also use the dealership's building, such as the Chevrolet, Ford and Honda Type R collections. However, as seen from the island in the World Map, there seems to be an adjacent building to the dealership, suggesting that it is used as an empty space or a studio. Strangely enough, the interior of the building is shown to light up at night, unlike in the actual dealership itself.
- The building is also used when the player redeems the Red Bull X2019 25th Anniversary and the movie livery version of the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 '18, as well as for the replica events race menu during the 2022 and 2023 Gran Turismo World Series World Finals.
- The dealership may be inspired by classic car auction/collector companies such as RM Sotheby's, Bonhams, or Barrett-Jackson; however, the way that the player purchases cars from here may appear to be direct like in the other two dealerships, instead of actual auctions.
- The parking garage seen in the building features unidentified cars shrouded in protective covers. In pre-release trailers, some cars were visibly seen, mounted on the parking garage. Upon close inspection, especially in the Nissan Fairlady Z extra menu book, the cars in the covers seem to resemble the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG '10.
- Originally, Brighton Antiques, a fictional sponsor, was to be the company operating the dealership, according to the PSX 2021 and State of Play footages. However, when the game released, its role was replaced with Hagerty; company owner McKeel Hagerty plays a role here instead of the fictional character Stephanie.
- Hagerty is involved with the pricing of cars here.[1] This method is referred to as the "Hagerty Valuation Tool" and has caused prices of certain cars to change on both ends, with the McLaren F1 '94 increasing to Cr. 20 million and the Lamborghini Miura P400 Bertone Prototype '67 dropping down in price to a seven-digit (from a eight-digit) price. Car prices are subject to change as reflected in future game updates.
- Other examples of extreme price increases include the Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion '97, whose price increased threefold from Cr. 3,000,000 to Cr. 9,000,000, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (W194) '52, whose price increased from Cr. 11,000,000 to Cr. 20,000,000, the Ferrari 330 P4 '67, whose price increased from Cr. 9,500,000 to Cr. 20,000,000, and the BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car '97, whose price increased from Cr. 14,000,000 (originally Cr. 9,500,000 at launch) to Cr. 20,000,000.
- The "Three Legendary Cars" trophy is a repeat of the Dream Race trophy from GT5, except it involves only purchasing cars, not racing them.
- For a brief period on July 13th, 2022, a blank "car" costing Cr. 100,000 appeared as a "hot" car on the dealership. Purchasing the car resulted in the player not receiving anything (to the point that the player is not prompted to switch cars), however the "car" is registered as owned once purchased.[2][3]
- The patch notes of version 1.23 incorrectly stated that the Nissan Silvia K's Type S (S14) '94 was to be sold in Legend Cars; it was instead sold in Used Cars.[4] This does not occur in the Japanese language website, however.
- This error would occur again in version 1.34's patch notes, where both Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT Veloce '67 and Nissan SKYLINE GT-R NISMO (R32) '90 were incorrectly listed as being LCD cars instead of UCD.[5] Like with the aforementioned Silvia, this error does not occur in the Japanese version of the notes.
- The De Tomaso Mangusta '69 in its Christian Dior version has the longest sale of any car here, lasting on sale from August 25th, 2022 to January 31st, 2023 (five months and six days).
- As with the UCD, the Special Picks slot have also been used to make LCD cars required for Sport Mode races purchasable. For instance, on April 12th, 2024 (ahead of the first round of that year's GTWS Nations Cup, which features Gr.2 cars), the Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM '98, the BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car '97, and the Toyota GT-One (TS020) '99 were made available on sale to support the aforementioned Nations Cup race. This effectively increased the number of cars available on sale to 14 cars.
- The record was broken again when the All Japan GT Car Championship Special Event was made available in Weekly Challenges, with six Special Picks (BMW McLaren F1 GTR Race Car '97, McLaren F1 GTR - BMW '95, Ferrari F40 '92, Toyota Supra GT500 '97, Nissan GT-R GT500 '99, and Honda NSX GT500 '00) featured for the event, bringing the total number of cars available to 16.
- The acquisition sequence after the player purchases a car is significantly longer and more detailed than the other dealerships, as it shows cars leaving the dealership as the front doors open, followed by it driving off to the distance, waiting to be loaded on a transport truck sponsored by Atkinson Motor Technology (a fictional sponsor), as the sequence ends before the player is prompted to switch to the recently-acquired car. The music that plays is an extended and remixed version of the jingle that plays when buying a car from either Brand Central and Used Cars.
See also[]
- Brand Central (GT7) and Used Cars, other car dealers in GT7
- List of cars sold from the LCD
References[]
External links[]
- GT7 Legend Car Tracker (manually updated)