Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

Known as Gran Turismo 2000 during development, the game has less tracks and cars compared to its predecessor, but it went to become an instant hit.

"Sample" cars
"Sample" cars are intended for debugging and testing purposes. There are 10 "sample" cars in total:

Regional Differences
As with every Gran Turismo game, regional differences exist. The introduction movie has the usual different background music: the Japanese version used a new Moon Over The Castle arranged by pentagon, the North American version used a specially-mixed version of Lenny Kravitz's Are You Gonna Go My Way (also appears in races), and the PAL versions use Feeder's Just A Day.

The Japanese and North American versions had 6 Formula One cars, while the PAL versions had only two. In addition, the cars are more identifiable in the US and Japanese version of the game, using the FCYY/D format (C stands for cylinder, YY stands for year, and D stands for driver). The cars in the US and Japanese version of the game are called the F686/M (Nigel Mansell's Williams FW11), the F687/S (Ayrton Senna's Lotus 99T), the F688/S (Senna's McLaren MP4/4), the F090/S (Senna's McLaren MP4/5B), the F094/S (Senna's Williams FW15), and the F094/H (Damon Hill's Williams FW15B). The PAL versions' F1 cars are the Polyphony001 (an F094/H with higher nose) and the Polyphony002 (the F688/S).

The PAL version has Vauxhall cars in it, but it requires the language set to (British) English. Also, the US version has Exxon instead of Esso, just like Gran Turismo 2.

An often overlooked difference exists in the Team Oreca Viper: the US version has the car number 91 on the doors and Dodge in the windshield. All other versions has the car number 51 and Chrysler (parent company of Dodge) in the windshield.