One of the forum members over at Automobile Magazine posted a short review of the Nissan GT-R, and in his review he touched on something thats been in the back of my mind for awhile:
At the same time, however, there’s a catch: Nissan’s new baby is enormously complex, remarkably heavy, and surprisingly cold-hearted. The GT-R weighs in at almost 3900 pounds–to put this in perspective, that’s roughly 500 pounds heavier than the famed “4DSC” Nissan Maxima from the early 1990s, which was a large, heavy four-door sedan. And unless you’re hammering on it, the GT-R feels . . . well, it feels ordinary. Kind of dull. Boring. Like a Nissan Altima with a sadistic ride. Its limits–and its creators’ dedication to compromise-free practicality–are so high, that unless you’re doubling the speed limit, you’re not really struck with any of the car’s character. You’re not really having a good time. And even if you do probe the GT-R’s limits, everything kind of gets done for you.
Where’s the soul of the Nissan GT-R? Where’s the passion? It’s obvious that a lot of passion went into building the car, but somehow none of that translates into driver passion. It’s almost as if all of Nissan’s wonderful technology is keeping it’s drivers at a safe, passion free distance… Which sounds strange, but just look at Japanese society. It’s very modest, very sterile and very introverted; an enviornment where passion has trouble being explained, let alone experienced.
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