Nissan Defends GTR time round the ring

[[XC]thewildblue]

http://www.motorauthority.com/nissan...egitimate.html

Interesting reading, specially when nissan offered porsche some driver training....haha

[CyberDruid]

They have a great driver. I enjoyed their vid immensely.

[Nazu]

That shows how pathetic Porsche is. They cant even accept the defeat and try to blame Nissan for cheating...

[clayton]

Well obviously if a big name starts talking, the big name will respond.

[thehinge1]

I forgot exactly where I saw it 18 months or so ago, but someone saw an early GT-R test mule running down a 911 Turbo with no difficulties.

Considering that the 911 Turbo was the 'performance target vehicle' for the GT-R I have no doubts about Nissan's credibilty. I remember back in the days when the mighty Porsche 962 dominated the IMSA GTP class thoroughly until the Nissan FIA Group C prototype came into the class and absolutely destroyed it.

The Cayman S runs very close to Carrera S lap times when helmed by Porsche ace Walter Rohrl, and supposedly the president of Porsche has steadfastly refused to put more power in that chassis as it would embarrass the franchise model costing nearly as much.

Maybe Porsche needs a waaaaaaaambulance?

[Nanometer]

Lmao, Nissan offered free driver's training for Porsche. lol

[YukonTrooper]

Wouldn't be surprised if we see Germany declare war on Japan in the next few weeks.

[MaxxxRacer]

LOL. And now for 2009 Porsche updated the Turbo to be faster than the GT-R.

[Dcepter1]

I forgot exactly where I saw it 18 months or so ago, but someone saw an early GT-R test mule running down a 911 Turbo with no difficulties.

Considering that the 911 Turbo was the 'performance target vehicle' for the GT-R I have no doubts about Nissan's credibilty. I remember back in the days when the mighty Porsche 962 dominated the IMSA GTP class thoroughly until the Nissan FIA Group C prototype came into the class and absolutely destroyed it.

The Cayman S runs very close to Carrera S lap times when helmed by Porsche ace Walter Rohrl, and supposedly the president of Porsche has steadfastly refused to put more power in that chassis as it would embarrass the franchise model costing nearly as much.

Maybe Porsche needs a waaaaaaaambulance?

I remember Car&Driver had an article on this. They did alot of testing with the 911. Then Car&Driver went as far as to call it the "Corvette Killer" on their front cover. This really is an amazing car, I saw it at the LA Auto show about a year ago and I've seen one on the street. REally have to see it for yourself.

[silverphoenix]

http://www.motorauthority.com/nissan...egitimate.html

Interesting reading, specially when nissan offered porsche some driver training....haha

yes because Walter Rohl is such a noobie driver!!

[[XC]thewildblue]

yes because Walter Rohl is such a noobie driver!!

Maybe they should have used him then.....

"A Porsche chassis engineer took a standard GT-R bought in the United States with regular road tires, and tested it on the same day against a Porsche 911 GT2 and a Porsche 911 Turbo. According to Porsche, the GT-R posted a time of 7m 54s, with the 911 Turbo managing 7m 38s and the 911 GT2 getting down to 7m 34s."

[Zytek_Fan]

Well, Cadillac cheated. (rollcage)

[mcflurry4321]

The GT-R is seriously incredible. My dad works at a Nissan dealership and they had the first GT-R in Minnesota and I got a ride in it Wouldn't let me drive it though

Knocked my socks off that's for sure. I can easily see it beating a Porsche, but then again Porsches have always been kinda meh to me. Last exotic I would buy.

[StealthyFish]

so how long before you drop another 20k into a transmission? lmfao. I'd love to see someone do that without LC. vdc off anyone?

[Avid6eek]

so how long before you drop another 20k into a transmission? lmfao. I'd love to see someone do that without LC. vdc off anyone?

The car is just as fast w/o launch control. :p

[jaguarking11]

The car is just as fast w/o launch control. :p

No its not. Point made it drops off nearly a second 0-60. Put it to perspective 0-60 droping off 1 second is the equivalent of droping 3cyl out of the hoped up vq v6 in there.

No launch control it means 0-60 is around the same time as a z06 if not slower. Also maintenance is much higher than a comparable vette.

[Scubar]

Why are you postin in a thread thats been dead for 18 months ?

[Movieman]

Why are you postin in a thread thats been dead for 18 months ?

He's trying to get to 100 posts!

[jaguarking11]

Actually, I just realized this was an old thread. HAHA, ah well. Your free to remove my remark. I gotta stop posting first thing when I wake up.

[[XC] Oj101]

Lmao, Nissan offered free driver's training for Porsche. lol

I reckon someone was fuming and someone else got a bonus for that,