Entries Tagged as 'Skyline GTR'

More news on Nissan’s 520 HP GT-R Spec V

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

More details about the 2010 Nissan GT-R Spec V, the GT-R’s performance cousin, have emerged. After a few weeks working out around the Nurburgring, the new GT-R has lost 200 pounds and bulked up to 520 HP. With the rear seats out, the car’s weight now stands at 3,615 lb. The changes mean the GT-R [...]

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Tags: Car News · Nissan · Skyline GTR · Tuner Cars

Top Gear smashes UK’s only Nissan GT-R press car

July 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Top Gear Magazine has been having its share of fun with the new Nissan GT-R, but the fun and games ended abruptly when the GT-R driver’s braking caused a collision with an Audi R8. The GT-R, which is the same car the Stig drove around on the Top Gear test track is also the only [...]

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Tags: Hooligans · Nissan · Skyline GTR

GT-R at the Top Gear Track

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

The Stig has finally tossed the Nissan GT-R around Top Gear’s race track. The lap time had leaked before the show but I decided to wait for the official numbers. Turns out the leak was infact true (a surprise considering most e-rumors are blatant lies). Sorry to the few that complained. Anyway, the GT-R did [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Skyline GTR · Technology & Gadgets · Videos

Top Gear: Clarkson’s ego in GT-R vs. Bullet Train

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Top Gear was on yesterday, and if any of you haven’t yet watched it, you really should. Racing from Hakui-Shi to Tokyo, the trio put Japan’s brand new GT-R up against Japan’s tried and tested public transit. It might not have been a proper review of Japan’s “first” super car, but it was a [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Skyline GTR · Videos · japan

The first American GT-R delivered in California

July 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Update: AutoBlog.com reports Alison paid sticker price ($72,900) for his GT-R, likely because he had one of his two Japanese-spec R35 GT-Rs sitting as a display model at Universal City Nissan.
After having to endure the pain of driving around in America’s first Japanese-spec R35, Daryl Alison (middle) has also become the first person to take [...]

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Tags: Car News · Nissan · Skyline GTR

First GT-Rs at port, owners upset for having to wait

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

While the first round of American GT-R orders have been promised for a July delivery, Chuck at NAGTROC has discovered that the cars are infact already in Jacksonville, Florida. The cars have arrived early and Nissan HQ is insisting that no car be released before individual dealers have fully equipped and trained all their staff [...]

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Tags: Car News · Nissan · Skyline GTR · Spotting

Video Update: Nissan GT-R around Nurburgring in 7:29

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve been told over and over again that Nissan’s GT-R is fast, but now we have video proof of just how fast the GT-R can lap around Germany’s Nurburgring. Nissan first claimed the car featured in the video is an unmodified prototype, but later reports hinted that Nissan had infact performed slight tweaks to the [...]

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Tags: Mazda · Nissan · Skyline GTR · Statistics · Videos

GT-R cuts lap time down to 7:29, 9 seconds less than before

May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Nissan today announced that its GT-R supercar achieved a lap time at the infamous Nurburgring in Germany of seven minutes and 29 seconds. Recorded on April 16 and 17, the GT-R used was a base specification car and fitted with the standard Japanese market tires. Driven by GT-R chief test driver Tochio Suzuki, this latest [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Skyline GTR · Statistics