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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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We’ve all heard how powerful the GT-R is… yadda yadda. The GT-R is faster than… blah blah.
But it’s only fair other car owners have a say. I stumbled upon something I think many of you will find cool: a Corvette owner running into the AutoBlog test GT-R. With a few pictures in hand [...]

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The GT-R has only been out for a few hours (maybe not… but you get the picture) and a a higher-performance GT-R V-Spec model has already been confirmed. The performance Spec V model will shed weight, gain power, and outshine its weaker sibling. The V-Spec is supposed to use carbon fiber to shed more [...]

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