Nissan GTR Owners and Lovers Thread

alexthecheese said:
What are they like to live, day to day? Does the ride quality ever get boring? From what I've heard it sounds very hard.
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The ride quality is fine to be honest, unless the roads where you live are really terrible, i.e. pot hole filled or incredibly bumpy like of the northern meets we do, a GTR simply can't put its power down in such technical bumpy roads, neither can the 911. Such roads need a much softer setup car or something like an EVO or Impreza or a stock Boxster/911. Lowered cars with stiff suspensions prefer less bumpy roads for sure, my EVO was the best all round car by far as no matter what the road condition was or the weather you could use its power.

But on normal roads, town driving, they are fine in my view on comfort mode, yes the MY11 was an improvement but I found the car fine.

If anything the biggest issue with the GTR on the road is its size, on a more narrow line you have to hold back a lot as if you meet something wide coming the other way its going to be a very scary moment.

The ride quality for me in an 09 was never an issue, fuel consumption on the other hands, it is very easy to see single digit figures on a blast out in a GTR. :D
 
As people know I am happy to give demonstrations of such exhilaration :D

Once the 100 days of snow is over you should come to the next Karting meet or RR day.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Single digit :o

Still it must be so exhilarating to zip away from traffic lights with a 0-60 of sub 3 seconds. Proper thrown back in seat like.
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Yes so so easy, just bury the throttle and your gonna be doing it in around 3.8s every time without fail or any drama. Use LC and its quicker for sure but not necessary unless you think the car next to you is capable of sub 4s. ;)

When me and my mate had a PDK 911 C2S, I think we did about 50+ launch controls in a day. :D
Every set of lights was a launch control opportunity. :D
 
^JP^ said:
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It's incredibly impressive and clearly the aero for those high speed corners is helping.

But even with him driving it absolutely to the max giving everything it's got, it just looks so easy and that's him driving it at 110% and for me that's the GTR's biggest failure, it's too good and makes going insanely fast way to easy. It's just not a challenge unless your trying to set new lap records and most of us mere mortals can't think that fast. By the time your feeling challenged yourself as a driver on the road your twice the speed limit and it's all to easy.

I'd still like one bit I'd like to buy a 600+ BHP one to enjoy the acceleration but then move it on a few months later without loosing money as I just think I'd get bored quick with one maybe, but no denying incredibly capable cars.
 
I agree, there is little challenge driving the GTR fast, sure on a circuit you need skills to know every bit of the track, how late to brake, turn in etc but you can still have fun with it, VDC in R mode and you can push it in corners until it steps out without ending up backwards.
Which for me is perfect as I am no racing driver.

In that video he had VDC fully off (3rd switch along was down and orange) so the electronic systems were not helping him, I used that setting once and it is very scary, ended up four wheel drifting sideways when doing a launch.

I really want you to get one and set it up for track, turn VDC off and see what you think. Like you say, if its too easy and boring you can sell it on.
 
There's a mint standard (bar exhaust) R32 GTR for sale near me for £8.5k.... I'm sorely tempted to go and have a look. I can see my self putting the new kitchen on hold if I do though...
 
DAIR said:
Never driven one so I can't comment on whether it's hard or easy to drive flat out.

Either way I think it's a decent looking car and would love to own one.
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Flat out, you need skill to pedal them quick, but my point is on the road driving a GTR at just 90% will result in you going more than double the speed limit to start getting sensations of thrill and fear, things you can get in less capable cars at or close to the legal speed limit.

Their ability is un-questioned and they are a hoot to drive, certainly not soulness like some people claim, the transmission chatters, the diff is design to allow some rear slip which makes you feel like a hero at first, until you realise it makes no matter which way you turn the wheel it sorts you out.

Just when your driving a GTR quick enough to a point its becoming challenging your in big big trouble with the old bill. :D
Want a car which will beat any other car on the road pretty much, buy a GTR and tune it a bit. :D
 
MooMoo444 said:
Single digit :o

Still it must be so exhilarating to zip away from traffic lights with a 0-60 of sub 3 seconds. Proper thrown back in seat like.
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I'd wager that most performance big engined vehicles will reach single digits. Heck, N54 and N55 engined vehicles all drop to 7MPG - trouble is, the OBC won't allow it to read lower than 7MPG (the truth may make you cry, I guess?!).

If those engines can manage to reach lower than 7MPG in 1st and 2nd gear, you bet that anything same/bigger can manage the same too!
 
Thanks for pointing me to this thread JP. Nice to see fellow owners here. I currently have a 59 (MY09) DMG GTR with a couple of mods:

Litchfield Stage IV
Circlips and Litch Bellhousing
About to have Litchfield suspension fitted next week

Full respray in a few months. Never kept a car for more than a year(ish) but the GTR is coming up to 2!
 
Nearly posted this in the "What have you done to your car today?" thread but remembered we have this!

Swapped the OEM bootlid and spoiler for this yesterday. Probably not to everyone's tastes but I absolutely love it.

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The stock spoiler only really starts working over 130mph or more (can't remember exact figures).
People remove it for drag racing when they are running highly modified setups to gain a few mph up top.
I doubt he will feel any difference on the road.
 
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