I like the styling of the car quite a bit.

A Porsche designer was once quoted as saying that a car that grasps your attention with polarizing styling and leaves you having a hard time deciding whether you like it or not, is a design that is timeless. I see the GTR as such a car, in that folks are drawn to the radical angular styling, but can't seem to figure out if they like it or not.

Either way, better to have polarizing styling than to be bland. And with its performance potential and amazing price, it could be styled like an Aztek and Nissan would still sell a bunch of them.

 

Sounds like something Chris Bangle said.

 

 

Maybe the first year - there are only so many Nissan fanbois with 70+K in their pocket. After that the car will have to appeal to the crowd that buys 911s with something - and looks will not be one of them. Performance alone will not sell a car over the long haul.

 

911 buyers are set on buying a 911....they wont care about the GTR and how good it is...they will still buy the 911...mayb for prestige factor?

 

Top Gear review - driven by the Stig... no video yet but a nice read. nice pics too :P

http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...ries/12/1.html

 

The more I hear about it the more I want...

 

2 launches from a standstill... dang it looks pretty good in white.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBXUQtrLk_U

 

^
The white one is very sweet. Now, I need to make a plan to rob a bank

 

The titanium gray is another great color.

 

A very nice review video by carview

http://tv.carview.co.jp/mov.aspx?mi=2356

and here are some BnW pictures taken by rock photographer Jim Marshall.





























Following two are the two drivers who tested the R35 at the ring :thumbup:

 

Good Lord... I love that car. Geez...

 

The question comes up...how many BMW drivers are going to jump to Nissan?

 

not many, IMO....lots of bmw owners are badge whores and prolly look down on something with the burger badge on it

 

Sounds like the GTR and 997TT comparison will be interesting. The article makes it seem like the Porsche is faster in a straight line, but the GTR is more composed in the turns.

"For all-round ability, I have no doubt the Nissan is the best car I've ever driven. It is almost as fast as the Porsche - which means it's almost as fast as any car on earth - and inspires more confidence through corners, yet it's also more roomy and practical and has a proper modern gearbox. "

 

^ i noticed that too...the GTR had a passenger

 

Just wait till the tuners get a hold of this thing. It's going to bring a hold new era of car tuning. There's going to be kids with 1000 HP GTR's....LOL

 

Video of the GTR pulling passed a Ferrari 360 with little effort

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?vid...fL59JxY0l4U5b&

 

^

 

I doubt it....Without a ton of money. Reliable HP costs a lot of money.

 

I always talk about committing crimes...but never would. But then if I saw someone drive by in one of these...I may just have to carjack him,

 

according to the recent poll they did on m3 forum between E92 M3 and GTR are about even with GTR having a slight edge

 

Car & Driver First Drive

http://www.caranddriver.com/previews...-r.html?al=112

 

that white with gunmetal wheels is just

 

sick wit it!

 

IWHI

Too bad I have my kid's college fund to think about.

 

High res: http://www.tacticalcenter.net/GT-R/t...gtr_vs_r8.html












Thanks to Chuck at NAGTROC for the scans.

 

Read the next to last paragraph:

Priceless journalism. This guy should get an award. Dicking about. Ha.

 

Why jump?

Buy both.

 

That’s how the English UK vocabulary is everyday. You go to UK and everyone from school kids to nannies all talk like that.

 

 

Some HD videos of the GTR ,



Caution files are HUGE and require download.

http://www.startyourengines.jp/video/premium.php


Video 1 - Interview (Japanese) at TMS
Video 2 - Footage from underground launch party in Japan
Video 3 - Some undercarriage shots/talk then driving on backcountry roads
Video 4 - part 2 of video 3
Video 5 - Around Nurburgring
Video 6 - GTR at the Autobahn

 

problem was the yahoos at new city wouldn't guarantee me an allocated gtr even if i put a deposit down. said they were gonna "draw names out of a hat." whatever. the guys at tony autogroup at least would guarantee me a gtr with a deposit, problem was i had no choice on color, trim, or options. plus only 4 to 6 were coming in over a 18 month timespan so basically it was a wait from june 08 on. that's why i went porsche.

 

Some idiot has already managed to crash it

 

doesnt look like it took that crash very well...the hood should stay attached at the hinges and it should crease in the middle.

 

Person at fault should be beaten like an ape.

 

First Nissan GT-R crash





Even with an advanced all-wheel-drive system, the Nissan GT-R must still be handle for some with its 480-horsepower twin-turbo 3.8L V6. Something like that must've been the case with the owner of this black GT-R, who has earned the distinctly displeasurable honor of being the first to crash a production Nissan GT-R. The location of the crash is unknown, though some forum goers have guessed Hong Kong. The circumstances surrounding the accident are also a mystery, though it's clear that the GT-R hit something almost head on and that its crumple zones do, in fact, work quite well. Hopefully we won't be posting about GT-Rs that bite the dust as often as we do Enzos, but clearly Nissan's new supercar needs to be respected by novice drivers.

 

Oh gosh .. to the GT-R. At least the rest of the body still looks pretty sexy in black.

 

What a wanker.

 

what a fucking waste......