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Great car. if I win the Lotto tomorrow, it would probably be the first thing I'll buy on Monday. Then go for a very long drive, towards Germany.
I couldn't agree more. I'd need a towbar though for my caravan.
Great car. if I win the Lotto tomorrow, it would probably be the first thing I'll buy on Monday. Then go for a very long drive, towards Germany.
Well discussion will go on forever on this car I am sure. Nissan has done what no one else has been able to do from a relatively affordable price point. The greatest names in exotic cars have been challenged to provide evidence of their superior engineering since this car was introduced. Personally, I am old school and there is little that I would want from new exotic car manufacturers including Nissan. I prefer much simpler designs without tons of electronics but with a manual gearbox, and a lot more soul. I already have a car that is plenty fast enough for public roads and I can't see the point in a car that will do 0-60 in 2.8 secs. Sorry guys but I really don't like like the styling of this car either. I think if I ever decide to get another sports car it will probably be from the 70's or 80's. Motor on.
Whereas I'd rather have an Aston or something like a Lambo or Ferarri...
But ANY car can be tuned. Fifth Gear ran a Toyota Starlet against a Dodge Viper (well, Chrysler RT/10 over here) and the Starlet made the Viper look like it was going backwards.
Anyway, I'm not sure tunig has anything to do with it - the car goes like a stabbed rat and it's not like it handles like a greasy weasel. It's just that some machines seem to have more soul, more life, more... erm something! than others. The GT-R appears to be a bit lacking in this department.
Would have one in a heartbeat, though.
I respect the GT-R, it's an awesome engineering and technological achievement, but I sometimes wonder if the lack of heart it is sometimes accused of has something to do with the styling. The orginal prototype (the standard car in GT5, I think from 2002?) was minimalist and awesome, but it almost seems the designers felt compelled to make the styling more busy and obnoxious-looking.
I guess each to their own but really what's to stop Nissan putting that engine and all that tech in something that looks like an Aventador? Or even an NSX?
DaverytimesNot to the esteem that Nissan GTR's are tuned, if my math is correct it took the R35 just 3 years to reach 1300hp in the hands of tuners. Most other car's that reach 1000hp takes decades before they reach such height in the hands of tuners, in the next 10 years R35's will be pushing 2000hp in the hands of insane tuners. The normal R35 GTR is already a beast much less when it's tuned by AMS or Switzer.
HuskyGTI always thought the GTR broke the natural laws of physics. It´s handling does not match its specs at all.
Still, I like the car. I have an almost stock Spec V and it is somewhat fun to drive. Artificial, but fun nevertheless. The only thing that I don´t like about it is the same thing I don´t like about most Japanese cars: It´s lack of spirit... the feel that you are driving yet another generic, high tech, plastic, turbocharged sports car from Japan. And that gets worst as 98% of Japanese car owners will massively tune that car, basically stating that the car is trash, and it needs to be improved, killing even more the true identity of the car and disrespecting the car´s true nature. But that´s just me, I´m a purist.
If I ever find myself in need of a car, and have no option but a Nissan, I would rather get a Z32 Fairlady. I would dissasemble the car completely including the engine, and restore every single piece to it´s stock specs. Man, that car was a beauty.
1. The ACR has the same interior as the regular Viper
2. The ACR showed up at the Ring, drove 4 laps and took the record, while Chevy lapped the track over and over while fine tuning the car
Nurburging laps are unduly praised as being some kind of definitive ranking, when they really aren't terribly valuable. Run the cars under the same conditions for multiple laps and then you might have something. Taking two random lap times and declaring that the car with the better time as faster doesn't work out very well most of the time.
In its stock PP range it is untouchable, there's not a single car that can face the GT-R, and it is competitive against cars that are above its theoretical capabilities.
Well, even in real life, it happens to be a sportscar that also has performance of supercars.. Or super variants of sportscars.
I know, and it is normal for the GT-R to beat some lower end supercars, but how in the world can it be faster than a 458 (about 50 bhp more powerful and maybe 400 kg lighter), an MP4-12C (same story as the Ferrari), an Enzo (more than 120 bhp more powerful, come on!!!), and so on?
But is the GT-R faster in real life than any of the cars I stated above? (Just asking, I don't actually know if it is or if it's not)
think it was a Nissan n14 Pulsar GTI-RFifth Gear ran a Toyota Starlet against a Dodge Viper (well, Chrysler RT/10 over here) and the Starlet made the Viper look like it was going backwards.
But is the GT-R faster in real life than any of the cars I stated above? (Just asking, I don't actually know if it is or if it's not)