Simpson, Dave (4 December 2018). "The Cardigans review – at their best when playing the lovefool". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 December 2018. Cardigans Platinumskiva för 50000 sålda skivor av 'Gran Turismo' 1998". Lauritz.com (in Swedish) . Retrieved March 17, 2013.

The first three Cardigans albums were recorded at Tore Johansson's Tambourine Studios in Malmö, Sweden (see the 'Malmö Swede Preachers' box). Recently, however, Johansson has developed a second studio, the eccentrically named Country Hell, in a large house in Skurup, about half an hour outside Malmö, and it was here that 'My Favourite Game' and the rest of Gran Turismo were recorded.

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The Cardigans: Gran Turismo" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 7 June 2017.

Hela The Cardigans kommer aldrig att återförenas". sydsvenskan.se. 23 May 2023 . Retrieved 17 August 2023.It is a shame the band have not recorded another album since 2005; Nina Persson recorded a solo album, Animal Heart, in 2014, but there has been very little from her since then. I will move on soon but, before then, I want to bring in a final article that gives some to Gran Turismo. In this feature, Albumism dug deep:

Trendell, Andrew (19 June 2018). "The Cardigans announce 20th anniversary UK tour for 'Gran Turismo' ". NME . Retrieved 5 December 2018.

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Top Albums/CDs - Volume 68, No. 9: Nov 23, 1998". RPM. RPM Library and Archives. 23 November 1998 . Retrieved 8 June 2017. Hits Of The World - Gran Turismo - Japan". Billboard. Vol.110, no.43. 28 October 1998. p.60. ISSN 0006-2510. In an interview in 2009, producer and sound engineer Tore Johansson commented on the dark sound of the record, which sets it apart from the warm, jammy feel of many other recordings made at Tambourine Studios: "It's a very cold and defined recording, no natural reverb or audio curtains: there's not a sound element on that disc which wasn't deliberately put there." [11] Most Broadcast of 1999: Airplay Top 50" (PDF). Music Week. 22 January 2000. p.31 . Retrieved 24 April 2022. Suddenly, by 1997, The Cardigans’ global profile had been raised high for all to see. What they hadn’t counted on was that some listeners—and some critics—wouldn’t grasp the ironic humor The Cardigans had sewn into their material. As such, some fans and pundits mistook their usage of vintage pop for kitsch. This provided portions of the music press an out to dismiss the group’s first three efforts as pleasant, but ultimately disposable.

Wisdom, James P. "Cardigans: Gran Turismo". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008 . Retrieved 5 April 2018.Persson also appeared on the Manic Street Preachers' album Send Away the Tigers (May 2007), providing guest vocals on the UK Chart #2 single "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough". [18] She shared vocals with Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield, who also appeared on stage with the band at the Glastonbury Festival 2007, and who has rated Peter Svensson as his second favourite guitarist. [19] During the band's first break Nina Persson released an album as A Camp, and Peter Svensson and Bengt Lagerberg worked on the project Paus with help from Joakim Berg from Kent, and Magnus Sveningsson recorded as Righteous Boy.