Motor Trend’s Angus MacKenzie has a recap of his last 24 hours participating in a Nissan 360 press event. One of his more interesting notes is that Motohiro Matsumura, president of Nissan Technical Center North America, promises that the Nissan GT-R really is only making 480hp. Motor Trend’s previous dyno test indicating a wheel horsepower rating of 430hp for the GTR was right; however their factored in drive-train loss of 15% was wrong, and as such, so was their claim of 507hp. Matsumura says the car actually has a remarkable drive-train loss of only 10% thanks to the use of ultra low friction ball bearings in the wheel hubs and transmission, as well as a very accurate alignment of the car’s AWD prop shafts.
MacKenzie says Motor Trend plans to examine Matsumura’s claim of a 10% drive-train loss with some coast down tests of the car in the near future.
[Source: Motortrend.com]
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