Polyphony Digital has refreshed “Beyond the Apex”, the free online guidebook that lives alongside Gran Turismo 7.
The studio announced the update on social media, promising “even more content” and pointing to revisions in the game’s physics as the headline change.
*Now with even more content! *
The ‘Beyond the APEX’ Gran Turismo Magazine:
An online guidebook for understanding the mechanism behind cars and driving technique
📖 https://t.co/G911hDmMuo
Now the guide has been greatly expanded and released on gran-turismo. com!
CHAPTER 1:… pic.twitter.com/HCEBH9CCAY
— Gran Turismo (@thegranturismo) July 3, 2026
What Changed?
The announcement is light on specifics. According to Polyphony, the update folds in new edits to the physics, mechanics, and tuning material first written for the original “Apex” magazine. It’s split across five chapters: Automotive Engineering, Review: Mechanism, Review: Tuning & Settings, How to Get Started with Gran Turismo, and Photographing Cars.
A read through the refreshed guide doesn’t surface any obvious major rewrites to the driving model or fresh numbers to pore over. What has clearly changed is the packaging. Sections and headers have been reorganized, and the website itself has picked up some light design tweaks and a tidier layout.
From Bookshelf to Browser
The “Apex” name goes back a lot further than GT7.
Technically, “Beyond the Apex” was first released as a short documentary video included with GT5: Prologue all the way back in 2008:
When Gran Turismo 5 finally arrived in 2010, its Signature Edition shipped with a 200-page “Apex” book covering driving and tuning tips, along with some musings on future automotive technology. Japanese buyers got their own version tucked into the GT5 Collector’s Edition.
With Gran Turismo 6 in 2013, the guide returned under the fuller “Beyond the Apex” name, again as a printed extra bundled with the Japanese anniversary edition. The following year it made the jump to digital, when Polyphony released “Beyond the Apex” as a free iOS app in 2014. GT Sport’s Collector’s Edition also included a similar version of its own.
With GT7 in 2022, it was rebuilt once more as the free online guide we have today, readable in eight languages both on the site and from the in-game menu.
That drift away from physical objects is a bigger story than one guidebook, of course. Sony recently confirmed it will stop producing game discs for new PlayStation titles from 2028, a decision that continues to divide the Gran Turismo community.
For now, the updated “Beyond the Apex” is live on the official Gran Turismo site and in-game.
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