Nissan GTR Official pics and info!

DreXeL said:
Since when has a 911 been uninvolving? :confused:

ALL 911s are renowned for being great drivers cars, even the vanilla 'non hardcore' versions.
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No no, you get it all wrong, everyone knows that Porsches are dull and boring.

Although its odd that everyone who thinks that couldnt afford a 911..
 
Tbh, how do you guys know the new GTR is uninvolving anyway? were you on nissan's test driving team?

There was also this thing on top gear about a ferrari, forget which one it is, but whoever gets in the car is likely to get within a couple of seconds laptime of their test driving team, now i find that hard to believe, but surely that is mostly down to driver aids, and i never see anyone complaining that the ferraris are uninvolving.
 
You're right, I am merely speculating due to my experience of the previous generations of GTR.

Vimanis said:
The uninvolving bit i was refering to your earlier post about the GTR and not the porsche, sorry if it comes across that way, i guess i need to make my sentences clearer.
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My apologies, it appeared that you were infering vanilla 911s are uninvolving too.
 
As a matter of fact i have driven 1 Stock R32GTR, 1 550Bhp R32GTR, a Stock R34 and then it was stage 1 modded to about 430bhp and i assure you ALL of them were involving drives. Just because the ass end doesnt step out without warning doesnt mean its not involving nor rewarding to drive, plant a GTR round a bend and watch it just grip and grip and grip and sling you round at a silly rate of speed gave me one of the biggest grins and one of the biggest thrills of my life! ;) Just my opinion... Oh and i have not driven the new model but have my name down for a test drive when it is released. Not that i can afford one but a friend works at a Nissan main dealer... ;)
 
Skyline said:
Just because the ass end doesnt step out without warning doesnt mean its not involving nor rewarding to drive,
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Actually, an involving, rewarding car doesn't 'step out without warning' either. Going back to the RX7 example, it is a very progressive car and gives LOADS of warning when the arse comes round, that progressiveness and driver communication is what makes it so involving. Same can be said for the DC2 actually, and many other renowned driver's cars.

plant a GTR round a bend and watch it just grip and grip and grip and sling you round at a silly rate of speed
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Pure grip and nothing else does not make an involving driver's car. Involvement is how a car communicates with the driver, how it bahaves on/past the limits of grip.

Anyway all this aside, the new GTR certianly appears to be great at what it's supposed to be, and there's no arguing with the figures it's producing.

It'll be interesting to see what the mad jap tuning houses can do with it :cool:
 
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I know this will probably take away from the car in your view, but there's a "Snow", "Normal" and "R" on your T, S and V switch setups that apparently make it as little involving or as intensively involving as you want. To me it sounds pretty flexible to be able to control what you want depending on your mood and catering for a fair few more.

So it can be a proper shopping trolley or a beast with a flick of a couple of switches to transform it, sort of like the "M" switch on an M5. However i do agree that even if something is fast and technologically advanced, it doesn't necessarily make it involving, but i think this one might be pleasently surprising.

Of course it won't be as crazy as a s281, vxr, z06 or an srt10 that make you grin as soon as you switch the car on giving you that satisfied feeling whichever speed you're at.

It'd be interesting to get a passenger ride cam when the car is in fully R mode to see what it's like.
 
Nah, not my cup of tea at all, though I am sure it will shift, tune to silly numbers and be raved about like most of the old Skylines, and for good reason. Just not my thing, and I do hope they put a solid interior in this one, the Skylines always had tacky interiors to my eyes.
 
The 7m38s should actually be about 7m43s, but still an impressive time. They started the clock at the end of the old pit-straight, but stopped the clock at the start. It seemed to take the car about 5s to get along that bit at the beginning, just before the clock started.
Maybe that's the 'standard' way of doing the full-lap timings though (?). Is that what Sport Auto use?
 
Edited to URLs, I copied/pasted from another forum that auto-resized them, so I didn't realise how big they were.
 
DreXeL said:
As a technology showpiece it's to be commended, and there's no arguing with the figures, but will it be an involving driver's car? I seriously doubt it. Still, I guess that's the point.
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I'm not sure, given the success Nissan have had with the 350Z: it seems to be recognised as a superb drivers car by all, so hopefully they will take those lessons forward. Think I'm right in saying it's been developed from scratch as the GT-R rather than evolved from a base model (as the Skylines were) so that should help things.
 
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