GTR detailed, proper pics :)

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Unfortunately I still haven't had time to get the thing tinted; 90 hour work weeks are not conducive for having a life. Insanely pleased with the car though, it's nice to be back in something that gets attention since the M3 just cruised under the radar for the most part.

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That is awesome. Any chance of some interior pics?

I'll grab some this weekend, it's the Orlando festival of speed tomorrow so I'll just have one of the event photographers take some better shots.

Your Datsun seems to be branded as a HYUNDAI :p

Looking very tidy in red, can't wait for the inevitable mods!

Yes, license plate holder is going soon, I have a carbon GTR one on order, then the mods will commence later this year.

looks beautiful in an aggressive way!

we still need to sort some shoots out as per our conversation a few months ago! When are you next over here?

I was just admiring your shots of the 335D in the other thread and was wishing I could have you take some decent shots of the GTR, alas you're a little far away for that.

I will be back in the UK either Christmas or Easter, maybe we can sort out a time for you to shoot the Turbo S :)
 
Dave

It looks awsome, very nice indeed. :)

When can we expect a review of how it compares to your previous cars, M3, 911 etc?

Hopefully sometime in the next week, I've got a very busy one ahead of me though sadly.

nice! though i'd have gone for black :D

Black's so common out here and after my black M3, I'm done with black for a while, I just can't keep it how I want to.

What do you do to work a 90 hour week?

Medical school to be an interventional radiologist.
 
What shift pattern do they work in the US ?

The full time nurses work 48 hour weeks with 4 x 12 hour shifts and 3 days off. Think the juniors who do the rounds etc.. work the same.

It varies but minimum for me if it's a good day would be 8am-6pm 7 days a week. Add in 2 days of overnight call and the fact that most days I don't leave until midnight or later and you can easily rack up 90 hrs.

Lovely car, red doesn't look like the best color but no doubting that is a seriously quick, fun, mental car. Would love to own one as my next car.

Personally I love the red, it's incredibly rare out here. Just don't buy one without doing your research first, even my 911 was pathetically cheap to run compared to this.
 
I don't know how the system works there but are you a student or a doctor in the process of becoming a radiologist?

You probably know but here we go to med school for 6 years, then do 2 years (FY1/FY2) rotating around the hospital every 4 months and then start our speciality training which can take 3 to 7 years.

EDIT: hope you don't mind me asking.

Its 4 years of undergraduate degree first followed by 4 years of medical school before starting residency in your desired field. For me that's 6 years on a very reduced salary.
 
Ok so not too different to here. It takes around 13 years form start to finish here also.

So you are a resident in radiology now? Thats a very commutative area to be in, but then taking home half a million a year after your done is not bad going so all the hard work and long hours will be worth it:D

No, I'm still in med school at the moment but I do a lot of rotations to make sure I'm top of the pile to get into interventional radiology.

Interventional doesn't seem to be under the same threat as regular radiology, you can't outsource surgery! That and it's totally addicting, I love it; even after a 20 hour day, I still want to get up and go back to work :)
 
So...you're a trauma surgeon...despite still being a student? I've heard of poetic licence but that is ridiculous.

You obviously have shedloads of cash, but your story seems to be ever changing...why?

What would your attending say if he knew you were going around telling people you were a trauma surgeon?

I was initially going to be in trauma, changed my mind and obviously the important job of updating my profile must have slipped my mind. My attendings wouldn't care, I'm going to be a fully qualified doctor soon, do I really have to spell it all out in my profile?
 
It takes 15 years of training before you start making that sort of money, some can make 1 to 1.5 million per year however the 5 years of residency you do is hell and you only make 50k per year.

50k USD which is a joke if you consider most have spent 7 years in university and around 250 000 USD worth of debt.

That added to the fact that they work 12+ hours per day 5 or 6 days per week.

We make about the same in the uk however we do not work as long hours anymore.

That's the beauty of it for me, I don't have any debt. I also already own a home, have my cars etc so when I do graduate from even medical school, the $50k salary is supplemental income, nothing more. 6 years later at the end of residency will be an enormous jump that's for sure since I only quoted the base salary, not the almost guaranteed bonus each year.

That said, I'd happily stay on the $50-60k, I didn't choose to go down this road for the salary, it's a nice perk but not why I'm doing it. You don't choose to go back to school at 26 for just money, at least I certainly wouldn't. I don't think the US salaries for doctors are that high, I just feel the UK salaries need to come up for the level of work that's involved and the responsibility/commitment required to become a physician. While I did say salary isn't everything, it's a hard sell to convince someone to go to the UK and earn 75k when you can step out of residency here and make $600-$1m without breaking a sweat.

It's a big salary for sure but half the people in the building I live in when I'm in Tampa are sports stars, they make my income look like I work at a burger joint, they're stupendously wealthy.
 
So you weren't actually a trauma surgeon then, bit like you weren't actually accepted onto the Eurofighter squadron and the list price on the GTR wasn't actually a bargain. I have no doubt that you are a clever, rich, benevolent man and a great bloke...but you do have a propensity to exaggerate somewhat ;).

Not at all, you're just so bitter you love to have a dig wherever possible. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about either, as per usual. I really shouldn't even waste my time explaining to someone like you on the internet but anyway, I'll give it a go.

I should probably start with the fact that my integrity is the most important thing to me, period. Anyone that insults it will illicit a similar response because while others may not agree with me, a man is only as good as his word. That means a lot to me and will explain my following response.

I had been torn between trauma and IR for quite a while but was actually doing trauma rotations about a year ago. What my final specialty is makes little to no difference, my training still involves general surgery and trauma due to my two chosen specialties overlapping in their first couple of years. There is no exaggeration, I may not be a totally qualified surgeon YET but the fact that I'm top of my class and having spent almost $250k of my OWN money to train, don't you think I'd be rather moronic to not finish?

Again, the Eurofighter thing, because obviously everything everyone else says must be correct and I clearly must be lying. Even in the other thread people saw what had happened, that i had either been misinformed or was simply being tested for the future. I was accepted as before doing the same things everyone else did except then I was asked to take additional tests, a bunch of silly things actually, for what they told me was going to be for a future fighter program, namely the EF.

I really, really wish you would learn that hiding behind a computer monitor makes you look so childish and pathetic. You openly admitted you don't get embarrassed or feel stupid because "it's the internet". I really don't understand why people feel the need to be someone they're not on the internet, it must be a really sad and unfulfilling life to have to snipe or bully people around behind a glass screen and feel that you're "winning" by attempting to pick holes in things you know nothing about.

I have absolutely no reason to be as open as I am on these forums to questions. Do I really need to share things like salaries with you all? No. I do so because I have nothing to hide and I like to explain to the people who are genuinely curious rather than those, like yourself that are looking for a single thing you have no idea about that sounds wrong so you can pounce on it and make yourself feel better.

Please butt out of my threads, permanently, you're wearing very thin and I know that I'm far from alone in that opinion. Fix whatever it is in your life that makes you so bitter and jaded and maybe you'll actually find joy in what other people share and do rather than act like a selfish, jealous and immature fool.
 
The dealer I got it from is a Nissan GT-R dealer and a Hyundai one. I have a replacement plate frame on the way and a new personalized plate, however that'll take a few months to arrive probably.

Its a flash looking car. Am well pleased for you.

Did you choose the black leather with the red side flashes?

No, this one is just plain black inside. I would've quite liked one with the red but I didn't exactly do a lot of shopping around, this one was just too good to pass up.

Nice car Dave, you've come a long way since the VX220T you had at the OCUK meet a few years ago.

I'll give it 6 months before it's replaced by something cheaper to run like a Ferrari 458 :D

Ironically, you're probably right (about the running costs). Ferrari are now launching a 7yr unlimited mileage warranty as of 2012. I'm sure it'll get rolled into the price of the car but still, that's a marked improvement.

What will really scare you is that it's almost been 10 years since that meet and since I worked at OcUK! Makes you feel old huh?

I need to sort out my life lol.

Only 18 but still have next to no money, and no job at the moment.

BTW nice car, is it possible to get it to stage 1 without invalidating the warranty?

At 18 you have plenty of time left, attitude and work ethic go hand in hand with success. Then again, success is not always money, just being happy with what you do and what you have, that is being successful - money makes things easier but believe me it makes things more complicated too.

Nissan would have to actually prove my mods made the component fail in order to deny warranty. Given how much this thing costs to run as a daily driver, I'll probably just do an exhaust and leave it at that for now. I need to start saving pennies for the bigger maintenance items like brakes and tyres which are terrifyingly expensive at $7k and $2k respectively :o
 
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