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[SCRIBR]

damn that's hot!

look at those brakes!

[ZAP]

Cinching down the chin strap of his helmet, Toshio Suezaki's appearance transforms just before his thumb deploys the tidy flush-mounted door catch of the 2009 Nissan GT-R. The factory test driver is innocuous and soft-spoken, but in this moment his eyes harden. It is behind the wheel of this car, still camouflaged to frustrate spy shooters, that Suezaki-san will wield violence incongruous with his bookish manner just minutes later.

One of the primary performance objectives set forth by the Nissan GT-R's development team is to lap the Nürburgring's Nordschleife faster than a 997-based Porsche 911 Turbo. The 2009 Nissan GT-R had circled the famed circuit in 7 minutes and 55 seconds during endurance testing earlier in the year, trailing the 911 Turbo by 15 seconds.

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[seventytwo]

I will have one of these pieces of Hi tech Jap crap any day.

I would still prefer the new RS6 Avant

[saleen]

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[f-wolf]

I just love these Numbers :-))

Nissan will undoubtedly come clean with all the technical nitty gritty at the Tokyo show, but what we know for now is that it's powered by a twin-turbo 3.8-litre V6 with in excess of 350kW and 580Nm.

As per its predecessors, it transmits power to the tarmac via all four wheels, but new for the fourth generation car is a dual-clutch six-speed automated manual gearbox.

The Volkswagen Group got the ball rolling as far as dual-clutch gearboxes go, but rival carmakers are rapidly jumping on the bandwagon, and BMW and Porsche are soon to reveal their interpretations on the theme.

Getting back to the GT-R, overseas sources suggest it will accelerate from standstill to 100km/h in just over 3.5sec, and top speed is reported to be just under 310km/h.

Clearly, it's going to make life difficult for the likes of the Porsche 911 Turbo and BMW M6. We can hardly wait...

[XR06T]

nice car, and congrats zap.

its pretty fat at 1700+ kgs!

[tquarrell]

is it just me or do most japanese sports cars look bland. To me, what they can do is far more impressive than the sight of one. I remember Nissan claiming 0-100 for the 2.6's at 4.8 sec, however the real world testing was closer to 6 seconds. A 600hp dodge viper or 500hp vette has a sh*t load more street cred for the money as they not only go fast, but look and sound tough aswell. Looking forward to driving one sometime anyway.

[ZAP]

Three diagonal gray stripes in a circle granted me permission to click the 2009 Nissan GT-R's left paddle shifter twice in rapid succession and floor the throttle. No, it's not some kind of hallucination. This symbol, when posted on the shoulder of Germany's autobahn, represents the unrestricted portion where all speed limits are removed.

The speed starts piling on like a roller coaster that's been pointed down Niagara Falls. As the tach needle nearly impales itself on a big 7, I give the right paddle a flick and keep the throttle buried. The engine note is barely interrupted and the falling sensation begins anew, at a rate that seems impossible at velocities this high.

I'm driving a "PT2" iteration of the 2009 Nissan GT-R, a right-hand-drive preproduction car with black diapers masking the styling of the nose and tail. There's black tape covering the door handles, the headlights, even the GT-R badge on the steering wheel. No one in the world has driven a final production version, because at this point the final production version doesn't exist.

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[senna_T]

drool! I yearn for a trip to the autobahn where you can declare blitzkrieg on the road and not have blue and red lights chase after you!

[Venom XR6]

If its 80k US, you can pretty much double that price here once you add the tariffs, LCT and all the other crap the government gets their greedy hands on. Tell em their dreaming at 120k. 150k up to 180k for the top of the line version seems more likely.