Used Car Dealership

The Used Car Dealership is a game mechanic featured in Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 2, Gran Turismo 4, Gran Turismo 5 and Gran Turismo 7. It simulates a real-life used car dealership, allowing the player to purchase older model cars. While these cars come with mileage and a pre-determined color, they are cheaper than those available at the new car dealerships.

Gran Turismo

See also: Gran Turismo (PlayStation)/Used Car Cycle

The Nissan used car line-up in the first Gran Turismo (first cycle shown)

In the original Gran Turismo, only Japanese manufacturers have an Used Car Dealership. The available cars will change every 10 in-game days. All versions of the game have the same used car patterns, which reset every 60 cycles (600 days).

Cars can also be sold from the Used Car Dealership (being the only game to do car selling from the UCD instead of the garage until GT7) at a rate of 50% (60% if the manufacturers match). For manufacturers without a UCD, cars may be sold from the dealership's main menu instead. Note that all prize cars in the game are all valued at Cr. 20,000, so they are always sold for Cr. 10,000 (Cr. 12,000 if the manufacturer matches).

Gran Turismo 2

The Nissan used car line-up in GT2 (first cycle shown)

Like in the previous game, only the Japanese manufacturers (except Tommy Kaira) have an Used Car Dealership, although some other foreign manufacturers were planned to have Used Car Dealerships in the demo versions. The available cars will change every 10 in-game days, with the pattern resetting every 60 cycles (600 days).

Different region versions of the game have different used car cycles.

Gran Turismo 4

See also: Gran Turismo 4/Used Car Cycle

The Late 90's Used Car Dealership in GT4, with a specially marked low-mileage Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 Turbo (J) '96.

The Used Car Dealership (referred as Used Car Showroom in this game) is now split into three categories: Historic 80's (for pre-1990 cars), Early 90's (cars from 1990-1995), and Late 90's (cars from 1996 to 2002). As some events require cars built in a specific decade (such as Japanese 70's Classics, Japanese 80's Festival, or Japanese 90's Challenge) the Used Car Dealership can be useful to find cars that meet these requirements. The available cars will change every 7 in-game days. As buying cars adds up one in-game day, players could purchase up to seven cars for each week's line-up.

Starting from this game, used cars will come with a pre-determined mileage, which affects statistics such as engine performance and body rigidity. These can be restored with an oil change at GT Auto and a body rigidity refresh at the vehicle's manufacturer tune shop, respectively. Also, players are no longer able to purchase multiple copies of the same used car. There are some used cars that have very low mileage at 10 km (6.2 mi), marked with amber text in the mileage field in the lineup.

From days 694-700 (the last used car cycle before it repeats itself), four special black race cars will appear in used dealerships. This is the only way to acquire them (except for the black Formula Gran Turismo as that is only awarded to the player for 100% completion). If the player missed the time frame, they will have to wait until the next final cycle (day 1394-1400 in the second loop, for instance) for the cars to reappear.

Gran Turismo 5

The Used Car Dealership in GT5.

The Used Car Dealership is the only place where players can buy Standard cars (other than the Online Collector's Dealership, when the game's online services were still available). Due to the large number of cars, varying in both type and age, their price can range from under 2,000 to almost 20 million Credits. While the majority of cars have mileage between 1,000 and 10,000 kilometers, some cars, such as the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 '09 and Ford GT '02, feature little to no mileage.

Up to 30 cars will appear simultaneously at the Used Car Dealership. Every in-game day, 6 cars will be replaced with other cars. This means that players will have 5 in-game days to buy a car before it disappear.

The price can calculated with the following formula:

New car price × (100 - Car's mileage (in kilometers) / 2000) / 100)

where the resulting credits is rounded to the nearest 100 and mileage is not counted after 100,000 km. (Example: 280,000 km is treated as 80,000 km)

Gran Turismo 7

The logo of Auto Plus.

The Used Car Dealership in GT7. Note the Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth '87 and Nissan Silvia K's Aero (S14) '96 being marked as "Hot" and "New".

The Used Car Dealership (referred to as Used Cars in this game) sells road cars (and two Professionally Tuned cars, Honda Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car and Toyota Trueno 3door 1600GT APEX (AE86 Shuichi Shigeno Version)) from the model year before 2011. Invite-only cars from the time period are excluded, as well as the Lexus LFA '10 due to the car's price exceeding Cr. 1,000,000. There are 30 cars displayed at a time (increased from 15 in version 1.11 in response to player feedback), and the availability of each car is determined by the game's server. A car that has been listed on the dealership after a while will be marked as limited stock, giving the player roughly two days to buy the car before it is marked as sold out. Sold out cars are then cycled out by new cars the following day (as of May 2, 2022, newly added cars are now marked as "new" in the UCD), giving the player 24 hours from midnight UTC (the period when the dealership cycle changes occur) to put the car on their Wish List. Cars can be added to the Wish List at any time as long it is listed on the dealership (even when the car is sold out, effectively making it the player's last chance to add it to the Wish List); the game will remind the player with a flag above the UCD on the World Map when wishlisted cars are on sale.

Additionally, if the player has not completed all main Café Menu Books, some cars may appear permanently (until the start of a new car collection Menu Book) just for the player to help them complete a Menu Book from other than racing. For this reason, despite their model years, the Toyota Aqua S '11, Honda Fit Hybrid '14 and Mazda Demio XD Touring '15 can be purchased from there until Menu Book 3 is done, as Brand Central is not open until Menu Book 4 is completed. A permanent line-up also overrides the server-based UCD if Menu Book 1 has not yet been started.

In addition to Brand Central, the UCD in GT7 is complemented by Legend Cars, which is similar but sells historic and legendary road and racing vehicles.

Some cars in Used Cars (e.g. 1990s to early-2000s JDM cars) may be sold at higher prices than in previous games, likely owing to a "supply and demand" rule where their prices have skyrocketed due to their increasing popularity in more recent times, just like in real life.

Used Cars was first shown on the map menu screen of the first trailer shown during the PlayStation 5 reveal event, with first details of the dealership being shown in the second trailer shown at PlayStation Showcase 2021. In it, the dealership is depicted as run by Auto Plus (originally a fictional sponsor found in Gran Turismo Sport's Livery Editor and tracks). A star rating was also originally featured in the build shown at the aforementioned show, but was removed in the build showcased at the game's State of Play in February 2022.

For cars that are sold from both Brand Central and Used Cars, the dealership description text (the "Learn More" button) feature slightly different text between both.

Car Appraisal Service

In version 1.26, a Car Appraisal Service is added, which allows the player to sell cars for credits. Each day, the car's base value can change randomly (at a general value of roughly 40% to 60% of the car's selling price), with parts that the player has installed (including swapped engines, which add Cr. 30,000 in value) adding to the car's value. Unlike in the PS3-era games, gift cars can be sold; however pre-order DLC cars or Manufacturers Cup contract cars may not be sold, nor the car the player is currently driving. Additionally, only one instance of each car can be sold every 24 hours; for instance, if the player has already sold a Honda NSX Gr.B Rally Car, the player must wait another 24 hours to sell that model again for credits.

Hot Cars and Special Picks

For cars added in an update that would be purchasable from the UCD, the cars will be marked as "hot" and be placed as an extra slot, similar to Menu Book cars, in order to allow them to be purchased for the first time. The "hot" car slot has also been used to allow players to purchase an UCD-only car if it is required for a Sport Mode race, such as in the case of the Honda Civic Type R (EK) Touring Car when it was used for the first round of the 2022 GTWS Nations Cup Season 1 (held May 28, 2022; the car was marked as such the day prior and the day of the race). The Toyota Trueno 3door 1600GT APEX (AE86 Shuichi Shigeno Version) became the car with the longest sale period in the UCD when it was sold from June 1 to July 25, 2023, as part of the qualifying time trial for the Japan National Sports Week esports event, although it was not flagged as a "hot" car.

In version 1.36, a new feature called Special Picks was added, giving additional slot in the dealership for one of the cars that were heavily wishlisted by the players, as mentioned above. Special Picks cars last for a week and are decided from the player's wishlists two weeks in advance. This effectively increases the number of UCD car slots to 31 (more if Special Picks slots are also used as Special Event support or an used car recently added in an update is on sale). Since June 2024, the Special Picks function also helps supporting Weekly Challenges, as well as newly added Extra Books (and to lesser extent, Sport Mode events).

External links

• GT7 Used Car Tracker (manually updated)