Kazunori Yamauchi

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Kazunori Yamauchi

Kazunori Yamauchi (山内一典, born August 5, 1967) is a Japanese game designer who is the CEO of Polyphony Digital and creator and producer of the Gran Turismo series. He became the president of Polyphony Digital after creating his first game called Motor Toon Grand Prix, a cartoon racing game that was completely original and had a colorful, unique, and in every sense, "cartoony" feel.^{[citation needed]} Since then, Yamauchi has fulfilled his dream of creating excellent car games with his massively successful Gran Turismo series.^{[citation needed]} For his help with promoting Volkswagen(VW) models in the series, VW gave him a Golf R32.^{[citation needed]}

He recently helped design the technology for Nissan's new GT-R which appears in the latest game in his franchise, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.^{[citation needed]} He was given a Nissan GT-R for his contribution.^{[citation needed]}

On a video included with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, Yamauchi remarked his favorite car design is the Ford GT and he owns two in real life.^{[citation needed]}