How Cars Get Into Gran Turismo

Ever wonder how real-life cars get into Gran Turismo games? Jalopnik chronicles the saga of the Morrison Corvette, a restored 1960 Chevy that won Sony's annual Gran Turismo Awards and thus was scanned in for an appearance in the next GT game. (I'm not sure of the timeline on this -- they say it's for GTHD, but that's already out...)

The first scan they did was the underside of the car. They did a pan of the chassis. As they were scanning it, in real time, there was a 3-D
wireframe model being built of the car on the screen. You could actually see the relationship between the body mounts and the floor.
You could see the exhaust and the clearance that the exhaust had. You could see the tread pattern on the tires, the horns, and all the fasteners holding those in place, the whole chassis, the headers, the oil pan - everything.

From Bucket to Binary [Jalopnik]