With the latest Gran Turismo news coming from GamesCom in Germany, here’s a sweet video of GT5 Prologue to get your blood flowing:

What’s announced so far:

Cars

• 1,000 vehicles
• 170 Premium new models (full interior modeling, the interior corresponds to vehicle damage)
• 830 kinds of standard model (some are from Gran Turismo 4 that have been carried over to GT5)

Tracks

• 60 courses confirmed with 20 or more to be revealed

Physics

• Physics system simulation is brand new
• Represented is full fall in vehicles
• Damage representation (reproduced in full by real-time collision deformation)

That’s a whole lot of racing goodness for the price of one game. Combined with Sony’s announcement today of the long awaited price cut and new PS3 Slim, this game is going to move millions of systems.

Read the full translation or in Sony’s own words if you read Japanese.