Even Skoda Is Doing A Vision Gran Turismo Concept Now

11 years after the Vision Gran Turismo programme made its debut, it can sometimes seem as though there’s not a car manufacturer (or fashion designer, for that matter) out there that hasn’t already designed a fantasy concept car for the Gran Turismo series.

Turns out there still are some left though, and the next entry in the programme will be from a manufacturer that’s never featured in a GT game before: Skoda. No, really – in 27 years of the series, not a single one of the Czech company’s cars has featured. Not a high-performance vRS model, not one of its many rally cars – nothing.

That’ll change with the Skoda Vision Gran Turismo, which is set to be an all-electric, four-wheel drive single-seater. Skoda says it’s inspired by the 1957 1100 OHC Spider, an open-top racing car of which just two were built. That car had a 1.1-litre four-cylinder derived from one of the firm’s road car engines and made a corking 91bhp.

The Vision Gran Turismo, we suspect, will produce more. Quite a lot more. We don’t have any more details at the moment, but the one grainy teaser image Skoda has provided shows something wide, low-slung and with a slender LED rear light design.

Skoda 1100 OHC Spider

It looks as if Skoda’s gone down the futuristic, no-limits racer route for its car, following in the footsteps of VGTs from the likes of Dodge, Chevrolet and Hyundai. Expect it to have four-figure power numbers and be capable of pulling many, many Gs through the corners (virtually, natch).

The car’s being revealed in full on 24 April, presumably meaning it’ll appear in Gran Turismo 7 with the next game’s major update, of which we’ll have all the details as soon as Kazunori Yamauchi does his usual silhouette teaser Tweet. It’s certainly a grand statement for the company’s series debut – beats an Enyaq vRS, anyway.