No Need To Spend $1,000,000: Drive Gran Turismo's Amuse Carbon R GTR In Assetto Corsa

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Amuse Carbon R (R34), Suzuka West Circuit
This full carbon R34 GT-R is a Gran Turismo legend and a one-of-one Japanese powerhouse: The Amuse Carbon R can be yours for an eye-watering $1,000,000 in GT - or you could drive it in Assetto Corsa for free.

This fantastic piece of Japanese automotive history is available for free OverTake.gg thanks to the creator, blackwood91. Alongside his efforts for this crazy GTR, there is also another version of the car, the Tommy Kaira R '99, which is also available in our download section.

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Amuse Carbon R in the Gran Turismo-themed showroom. Image: blackwood91

The original Nissan R34 GTR weighed in at a huge 1,500kg, once the incredible team behind the Japanese tuning company, Amuse, had finished their work on the car, the GTR weighed just under five hundred kilos less than it did from the car's stock form.

“It’s unmistakable that the RB26DETT is one of the greatest pieces of machinery ever built. However, the chassis that carries one of Nissan’s most coveted creations weighs in at over 3300 pounds (1500kg); it serves as a great opportunity to shave some weight. By doing so, 120% of the potential of the RB26 can be extracted.” - Hideki Tanabe, Amuse Founder.

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The single-exit exhaust is an iconic design choice from the tuning company, Amuse

Extracting 120% of the legendary RB26DETT engine was a massive claim, however, there are companies and insane individuals that have produced four-figure horsepower figures from Nissan's groundbreaking feat of engineering. Combine that level of engineering with a loss of 500kg and you have a brutal track-ready weapon.

Stripping so much weight from a regular-sized car is not a small achievement. The method behind the staggering 500kg drop is given away in the car's name, the Carbon R. Amuse stripped the GTR's body panels all the way back and replaced each one with custom-made dry carbon-fibre items.

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With all the panels being carbon fibre, the repair bill for a major testing crash could have bankrupted Amuse when it was first built

Every panel received the full Amuse treatment including the bonnet, the front and rear wheel arches as well as the doors and the aero parts. Even the headlights were stripped back and treated in the same manner as the other parts. All that would stay untouched and unmodified would be the roof as well as the A and C pillars on the chassis.

The weight-saving doesn’t stop there. The Amuse Carbon R has incredibly light wheels with racing spec polycarbonate windows and a stripped racing interior. Amuse wanted to make their Carbon R so light, they even removed the fuel tank and added a tiny 20-litre fuel cell in the trunk.

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This specific R34 is a one-of-one car, but millions of people have driven it thanks to its popularity in Gran Turismo 4.

For those of you who know your GTRs, the R34 is famous for its complex four-wheel drive technology. Unfortunately for the purists, not that they made it past the opening paragraph of this article, this technology adds weight. Naturally, Amuse Swifty disposed of it and converted the Carbon R into a rear-wheel drive monster using a gearbox and drive setup from the GTR's smaller brother, the 300ZX.

What is it like to drive?​

The Carbon R mod is a very well-crafted project that, whilst using some elements from Kunos' stock R34, builds upon an already fantastic base and makes it into what Amuse would have been proud of. The soundtrack is especially brilliant; when it works properly. A handful of times, the audio would dip in volume considerably just before a downshift, as if the clutch had been put in and left like that throughout the corner.

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The Carbon R's custom wheels are on show with this mod. Image: blackwood91

The custom-made bodykit is a great addition and separates the car from its standard counterpart. The carbon effect is clear to see and whilst it makes sense that you can not change the colour due to the car only ever being made in this bare carbon effect, it would be nice to have a handful of colour options for the future.

What do you think about the Amuse Carbon R for Assetto Corsa? Do you remember the car from Gran Turismo 4? Let us know in the comments below!
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Imagine promoting illegal rips with frontpage articles. Unless you think that GT6 and GT7 mean anything other than Gran Turismo 6 and Gran Turismo 7.

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And for the record, personally I have no problems with people ripping cars and tracks from other games and turn them into mods for AC or any other game (so long as they don't charge money for them), but YOUR OWN terms of service forbid this type of content from being present on the website and yet here it is receiving prominent coverage on the homepage.
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Imagine promoting illegal rips with frontpage articles. Unless you think that GT6 and GT7 mean anything other than Gran Turismo 6 and Gran Turismo 7.

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And for the record, personally I have no problems with people ripping cars and tracks from other games and turn them into mods for AC or any other game (so long as they don't charge money for them), but YOUR OWN terms of service forbid this type of content from being present on the website and yet here it is receiving prominent coverage on the homepage.
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We have been in touch with the creator in this regard, and before we released the article, as that bit raised our eyebrows as well. They used these models as reference and not as a base to create their 3D model from scratch, as they ensured us.
 
We have been in touch with the creator in this regard, and before we released the article, as that bit raised our eyebrows as well. They used these models as reference and not as a base to create their 3D model from scratch, as they ensured us.
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If you don't know the difference between making something actually from scratch using blueprints or tracing (which the description of the mod makes it clear this is not the case) and "using a pre-existing model as reference" as you claim, here's a reminder of how unethical it is and why it should never be condoned by anybody, least of them all the admins of a self-proclaimed leader of simracing journalism.
Also, ripping assets from Gran Turismo (or Forza Motorsport and many others) is illegal. Even just admitting to having obtained a rip of a car from any of those games (regardless of its use) should make it radioactive to anybody with a functioning brain if they profit off of it with advertising.

But I guess it's perfectly fine to do that here. I'll go find a rip of another GT6/7 car, remap it so that the UVs don't match anymore, claim the rip was only used as "reference" and release it here tomorrow. I'm sure that one won't be removed for breaking the TOS.
 
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If you don't know the difference between making something actually from scratch using blueprints or tracing (which the description of the mod makes it clear this is not the case) and "using a pre-existing model as reference" as you claim, here's a reminder of how unethical it is and why it should never be condoned by anybody, least of them all the admins of a self-proclaimed leader of simracing journalism.
Also, ripping assets from Gran Turismo (or Forza Motorsport and many others) is illegal. Even just admitting to having obtained a rip of a car from any of those games (regardless of its use) should make it radioactive to anybody with a functioning brain if they profit off of it with advertising.

But I guess it's perfectly fine to do that here. I'll go find a rip of another GT6/7 car, remap it so that the UVs don't match anymore, claim the rip was only used as "referene" and release it here tomorrow. I'm sure that one won't be removed for breaking the TOS.
We do know the difference, of course. In this case, it seems more like a matter of not wording things quite as precisely as they should have. The GT models were used for measurements according to the creator, who have posted mods here for over ten years.

Of course, if there was any evidence that it would simply be a rip, we would take it down.
 
Imagine promoting illegal rips with frontpage articles. Unless you think that GT6 and GT7 mean anything other than Gran Turismo 6 and Gran Turismo 7.

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And for the record, personally I have no problems with people ripping cars and tracks from other games and turn them into mods for AC or any other game (so long as they don't charge money for them), but YOUR OWN terms of service forbid this type of content from being present on the website and yet here it is receiving prominent coverage on the homepage.
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I bet you're a lot of fun to be around...
 
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We do know the difference, of course. In this case, it seems more like a matter of not wording things quite as precisely as they should have. The GT models were used for measurements according to the creator, who have posted mods here for over ten years.

Of course, if there was any evidence that it would simply be a rip, we would take it down.
Please don't listen to these Karens. Next he'll be wanting to "speak with the manager".
 
Please don't listen to these Karens. Next he'll be wanting to "speak with the manager".
Hi "Dr.", you were just as unhinged on PRC back in the day as you're now, I'm glad to see an OG from those days is still around.

There's no point in asking for yet another manager, as every other manger so far has already been obtuse enough.

It doesn't actually matter where the assets originate from, because that's not the point. It does matter, however, when a publication violates its own TOS by promoting something made (in part or in full) using assets stolen from a commercial game as per the author's self admission.

For all intents and purposes, if you say that you're cool with somebody stealing assets from Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport or Need for Speed or whatever else just because it was done only for "research", you are still directly, publicly and openly endorsing piracy. And no amount of "we asked and the dude said 'trust me bro'" will change that. That is called cope.

And going by the reactions to these comments, virtually nobody else has agreed with the manager(s) that chimed in so far either, by the way. I'm sure you're now going to call everybody that has agreed with me stupid.
 
Can you present some evidence that they are ripped and not made from scratch before hurling accusations.
Why can't it be the other way?

It seems right now to report something ripped/stolen, the users need to do all the work necessary to prove something isn't right. And often requiring us to go get the ripped files from GT games or Forza. To me, its an ordeal and a half, so now I just dont report the shady mods still floating around here anymore.

In my opinion, we report something - you guys take it down and ask the creator to prove it isn't. Would be easy for them to show a screen grab from their modeler showing half a model being created over a blueprint or something. They come back with "trust me bro" or cant come back with proof? stays offline.
 
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Why can't it be the other way?
Well I can only speak from my own experience dealing with reports of mods.
Genuine creator is dealt with easily, some are blatant, a fair percentage of reporters are happy to provide proof as they've already found it before reporting.
There's also members who are well versed in a particular game and have been a reliable informed source over a long period and once again easy.
Unfortunately we also get an amount of spurious reports so if we're not sure ask for proof I don't feel that's unreasonable.
If you consider the sheer volume of mods for AC alone you'd need someone at a pc almost full time to check them out before going live.
I'm not saying it's perfect but everyone tries hard to keep the downloads clean.
 
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Would be easy for them to show a screen grab from their modeler showing half a model being created over a blueprint or something. They come back with "trust me bro" or cant come back with proof? stays offline.
That is worth looking into.
 

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