Well it’s been a rather long wait, but finally here is some of the first footage of the Nissan GT-R’s 7:29 lap of the Nurburgring. Sound and video quality are poor, but it’ll have to do until someone gets the DVD footage.
[Source: Youtube]
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However dumb this may sound, Autospies.com is reporting that Car and Driver has declared the new BMW M3 the winner in a battle between the Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 Turbo. Ridiculous is an understatement.
Lets break this down: The Nissan GT-R is faster on the track then either the 911 Turbo or BMW M3. It is both faster and quicker in the 1/4 mile then either the 911 Turbo or BMW M3. So, what we can only assume is that Car and Driver is using some highly subjective “fun to drive” trickery to get the M3 to come out on top. My guess is that the M3 was awarded “best soul” and “best use of obnoxious M-badges” or some other meaningless rating to overturn the GT-R’s and 911’s much greater performance figures.
Give me a C6 Z06 and I’ll run circles around that high-strung piece of Bavarian Viagra.
Just some proof that the new Nissan GT-R can’t actually drive it’s self. It does in fact, actually require at least 1% driver skill.
Kudos on keeping it out of the wall. Not sure who to send those kudos to, Nissan or the driver, but kudos nonetheless.
Despite Nissan’s greatest efforts, there are still two very monumental hurdles to overcome before their Nissan GT-R can claim the tile of “world’s fastest production car” on the Nurburgring. If or when they overcome the Porsche Carrera GT, they’re still left with the biggest hurdle of them all, the Pagani Zonda F Club Sport:
The Zonda’s 2700lbs curb-weight and 7.3l V12 making 641hp are going to make life mighty difficult for either the Nissan GT-R or GT-R V Spec. Nevertheless, all of this back and forth battling for the Nurburgring title is mighty entertaining.
I call bullshit. Absolute bloody bullshit. 480hp and 4,000lbs does not equal a car this fast. I want pictures, video, and a tear down of the car NASCAR style. Ok so I’m kidding (sort of), but what the hell. AWD is making RWD look like a joke. Our only savior is the ZR1 and I’m not too sure how confident I am about that.
GT-R ACHIEVES UNDER 7:30 AT NÜRBURGRING
GT-R among the fastest ever production road cars at the ‘Ring’ -Nissan today announced that its GT-R supercar achieved a lap time at the infamous Nürburgring in Germany of seven minutes and 29 seconds. Recorded on April 16 and 17, the GT-R used was a base specification car and fitted with the standard Japanese market tyres. Driven by GT-R chief test driver Tochio Suzuki, this latest lap time beats the previous fastest time for the GT-R by nine seconds.
The previous best lap time for GT-R of 7:38, also driven by Suzuki, was one of the fastest laps achieved by a production car despite conditions being slightly damp on two corners.
Also, the cars tires are not your normal idea of “road tires”:
Both sets of tyres are part of a new emerging segment where the line between “ultra high performance road tyres” and “trackday tyres” is blurred. The rumour on the track is tyres like this are probably worth 1-2 seconds a lap on a standard circuit, meaning the difference to the final lap time they could potentially make at the Nurburgring is huge. Read more
[Source: Nissan, Tyrereviews]
The summer is near, and what better way to spend it then behind the wheel of some of the world’s greatest cars? Ok, so that’s not really an option for us, but if it were, here are three of the cars we’d most like to spend time with:
1. 2009 Corvette ZR1
Could there be a better way to spend your summer then by doing 205mph in America’s preeminent supercar? We think not. With 638hp on tap and a lowly hp to weight ratio of 5.25, the Corvette ZR1 is in other worldly territory .. territory previously only frequented by cars like the Porsche Carrera GT and Ferrari Enzo.
Even better then all of that? The car’s motor uses a sleeved aluminum block and completely forged internals: from the rods to the pistons to the crankshaft. What this means to you is that adding another 100+hp to the ZR1 will be potentially as easy and carefree as upping the boost a few PSI (thank of the ZR1’s LS9 motor the way we think of the Supra’s 2JZ-GTE: bullet proof). Here’s a TDC guarantee for you: full after market bolt-ons for this car will have it making 700+rwhp (roughly 740hp at the crank).
2. 2009 Nissan GTR
If your idea of summer fun is destroying your local road course’s track record, then the 480hp Nissan GT-R is the car for you. With enough technology and power to commandeer a small third world country, the Nissan GT-R is truly a world beater.
Reasons we want this car? A remarkable Nurburgring time of 7:38, 1/4 mile in 11.8 and a 0-60 of 3.5 seconds. Also, the car’s launch control system is guaranteed to keep us entertained at every red light in the country.
3. 2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
With all the world beating and supercar destroying business taken care of by the Corvette ZR1 and Nissan GT-R, we’ll probably also need something a little more practical and family oriented for the summer. Right? WRONG! We’ll need something even MORE outlandish and impractical then either of those two previous cars! This is the summer after all, so we don’t have time for practicality! Thankfully the 457hp Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG clearly and unequivocally meets and satisfies our desire for the impractical and slightly nutty.
Why is this car so great? Because it masquerades as a nice civilized four door sedan, when in all actuality its as civilized as a D1 Grand Prix car! The 457hp will have you screaming around corners like Keiichi Tsuchiya, and the car’s four doors just means that all your friends will be there to cheer you on. Perfect.
Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the legendary Gran Turismo video game franchise, drives the new Nissan GT-R down the Nurburgring attempting to hit 193mph.
Being an avid follower of the GT series (I even have a Tsukuba lap record in GT4), this brings my inner nerd much joy.
[Source: Youtube via Autospies]
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]
