Grand Torque: Cars

Grand Torque: Cars Review: NFS Heat's Look on a Phone, Version 0.31 and Solo

Body Kits, Wraps and a City to Drift Through

The pitch is a customisation garage with a city attached. You pick a car — the roster uses renamed real models, the September 4, 2026 update adding a Supria MK4 and a Nazda NX-5 — and rebuild it: body kits, front and rear bumpers, fenders, hoods, wheel sets, then a paint booth with matte, metallic and special-effect finishes, a colour wheel, and vinyls and wraps that the screenshots show as full-side street-brand liveries. Tuning adjusts engine power, suspension and handling balance for drift or grip. Outside the garage is an open-world map with traffic, drift zones, race missions and career missions, plus two maps added in the same update — a Drift Parking lot and a Race Track — and a Forklift mission that suggests where the developer's sense of humour is. A September 6 four-star says it feels like Need for Speed Heat in its tracks and car skins; a July 10 three-star credits how freely the car can be controlled.

No Multiplayer, Light Damage, and a World That Does Not Answer Back

The reviews agree on what is missing more than on a score. The September 6 four-star withholds the fifth star for the lack of multiplayer and the thin damage physics; an August 23 five-star with five votes calls the graphics extremely great and then asks for licensed cars, rooms where players pick a map and race each other, and an open world that is not interactive — it wants petrol stations, midnight underground street racing and more NPC cars. The July 10 three-star, from a player of console racers, calls it a big step down in car variety, customisation, map size and graphics while conceding the appeal for younger players. The version number says the same thing: 0.31, with a changelog that lists physics, paint textures, lighting and performance improvements alongside the new cars and maps — a game being built in public by Fatih Yanardag's Webperon studio.

Ads, Packs to $19.99, and a Data Card That Shares Your Location

Google Play shows both the advertising and in-app purchase badges, with items priced from $0.49 to $19.99 — currency for cars and parts, on the evidence of the 5,000-coin price tag in the paint screenshot — and none of the top reviews complains about either the ad load or the prices. The data-safety card is the one line to read twice: location, app activity and two other data types are shared with third parties. Android 7.0 or newer is the floor, and Webperon does not publish a size. There is no iOS build. The listing shows 50,000-plus installs and 217 reviews at 4.6, rated Everyone. Prices are regional.