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The coolest part of video games involving cars is the fact that game designers can make up their own utterly unique – and totally outrageous – vehicles for use in the games. There are no limits in the virtual world.
Last year, Chevrolet unleashed one of the wildest concept cars ever built – the Chaparral 2X Vision Gran Turismo – which was a life-sized rendition of a car made for the PlayStation 3 racing game, Gran Turismo 6.