I want this car so bad!! (and so will you.)

I also checked on the Nurburgring track times because thats where alot of the testing is done.

7:15* -- 170.48 km/h -- 2008 Nissan GT-R, 450 PS/??? kg (*mfr.) provisional entry

To compare this, the ultimate

7:11 --- 172.065 km/h -- McLaren F1. Mika Hakkinen

This is one of the top 5 fastest cars ever tested there.

Hell, the Carrera GT

7:36 --- 162.631 km/h -- Porsche Carrera GT, 612 PS/ 1475 kg, factory test driver Walther Rrl (02)

Check the numbers yourself.

http://www.supercars.net/PitLane?viewThread=y&gID=3&fID=0&tID=10073
 
Sooooooo much misinformation in this thread.

Big single turbo would be RETARDED on a car that is meant for track ability, not quarter-mile racing.

Again, this car would run circles around a fucking Civic on a real track.

And finally, people capable of affording to own a car like this not only don't care about driving the car in the snow, they certainly would not find themselves in some econo-box civic.
 
experts.. who are these experts, its all speculation. i have a video of a nissan factory driver turning a 7.38.

the other websites driver did a 7.35.

both of those times are pretty close to each other, which means consistent. i can't really believe 7.15 (as much as i would like to)
 
Yeah, i agree with you. I would say the supercars official time of 7 35 is right. Still damn fast
 
No real 6 speed, that's strike one.

Looks like a combination of an Eclipse and a Nissan 350Z, both of which I despise, that's strikes two and three.

Taking the name of such an amazing car...you're out. The original Skylines were so much better looking that this new one. I'll stick with the classic.
 
to these guys:

I know that the G35 = the R35 skyline. just like I know that the

240SX= Silvia and that the actual Honda Accord happens to look

remarkably like an Acura TSX.

I'm not your average skyline lover whose seen it on The Fast and

Furious and thinks it is the best thing out there. I knew about the

skyline before it was even popular and have lusted after one for a long

time. I'm a gear head to the bone and when I say I'd prefer the R34 to

the new GTR I mean I actually want the R34 for certain reasons. Now I'd

also like to state that I want the R34 for more cosmetic reasons

because if I was to build a Skyline for pure power and ability I'd

actually choose the R32 with an RB25DETT.
 
O yeah, I was totally not talking about you. I don't think your post was even there when I went to reply. I just meant that stuff about infiniti/nissan
 
www.motortrend.com/future/spied_vehicles/112_0712_2008_nissan_gt_r

7:36 --- 162.631 km/h -- Porsche Carrera GT, 612 PS/ 1475 kg, factory test driver Walther Röhrl (02)

7:36 > 7:35

Quite amazing regardless. One second is a very small amount of time at the Ring.

This car will fit a niche market as is. Most people who buy Porches are buying them for status not for performance, so the Skyline won't appeal to them because it lacks the status. I'd love to get a chance to ride in this thing at a track day or an autocross. It'd put the Elise I've ridden in to shame.
 
Road cars the Nissan GT-R must beat:

1. Porsche Carrera GT: 7 minutes/28 seconds

2. Porsche 997 GT2: 7 minutes/32 seconds

3. Pagani Zonda F: 7 minutes/33 seconds

4. Koenigsegg CCR: 7 minutes/34 seconds

7:11 - McLaren F1

7:15 - Porsche 996 GT2 RS

7:28 - Pagani Zonda F

7:28 - Porsche Carrera GT

7.32 - Porsche 997 GT2 2008

7:34 - Koenigsegg CCR

7:38 - Nissan GT-R

7:40 - Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

7:40 - Porsche 997 Turbo

7:40 - Bugatti Veyron

7:41 - Manthey Porsche GT3 M410

7.42 - Corvette Z06

7:42 - Porsche 997 GT3

7:42 - Ford GT, 550

7:43 - Lamborghini Murcielago

7:44 - Pagani Zonda S

 
the top statistic is from the exact link you provided,
http://www.motortrend.com/future/spied_vehicles/112_0712_2008_nissan_gt_r

the second is in the comments page of youtube.

on the supercars website, it clearly says that the carrera gt turned a 7.28. press ctrl-f and put in carrera. thats why i said look at it again. i don't care if the gt-r beat the carrera gt in one instance, i don't care about that for all you know the track could have been wet when that time was posted, all that matters is the quickest time which was 7.28 for the carrera gt. so stop patronizing me with your 'greater than' symbols, because im clearly in the right on this.
 
I hardly patronized you on anything. I simply took the initail statistics provided in the first post of the link, and asked you your source when you posted your list. Chill out.

Bottom line, a few seconds on The Ring is very little of a difference. And it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt unless both times were recorded with the same driver, under the same exact track conditions, as a simple change of the driver could easily change those numbers.

Either way, you are talking about a car, that for an estimated $70k, is capable of hanging right there with straight-up supercars, and is not an econo-box either.

I'd say that is damn impressive.
 
I don't like it, and I don't want one.

It's completely controlled by computers. You can't even get it with a true manual trans. and it's supposed to be a "sports car".

It's fast and all, but I don't like the idea of the car's brain doing all the driving for me. I'll take a slower, more exciting car any day.
 
Although i agree with your part about the transmission being a drawback to the fun factor of driving it, most the "sports cars" now are coming with the paddle shifters.

Look at Ferraris, ect...
 
I hope I'm not bursting anyone's bubble, but it isn't going to hold Skyline in its title in the U.S. or overseas. The Nissan GT-R is the production name and the G35/37 is the Skyline for now.

Anyways, on another note, I was looking on the official site for the GT-R and it looks like the back seats are insanely roomy for a sports car of this kind.

 
exactly. fuck everything else, i'm never buying a car with a sequential shift transmission, or an automatic transmission, for as long as i can avoid it.
 
i'm excited for the new M3, with 420hp @ 8400 rpm (i think, not really sure and too lazy to look it up). they replaced the inline 6 with a v8, at the same time saving weight... and guess what? it comes with a 6 speed manual transmission. hoorah.
 
GT-R_08.jpg

 
Regardless if its faster, slower, slower by 10-20 seconds over all those cars posted above, is that its still fucking fast, and it costs half of the cheapest car there. Plus it has room (kinda) for more people in the back seat and will have a trunk. Slap on a ski rack and I'm good to go. Perfect for the Whistler highway.
 
Well, Infiniti's are nothing but Nissans branded with a new name for the North American market.

There are no infiniti's in Japan to the best of my knowledge.

Nissan just rebadges them and gives them the name Infiniti because it sounds a hell of a lot nicer than a Nissan. Same with Lexus and Toyota.
 
the 7.28 time and the 7.36 time for the carrera gt was the same driver. and a couple seconds in automobile racing is a huge difference.
 
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