We’ve told you the specs, we’ve shown you the pics, now here’s Nissan’s latest and greatest interpretation of the R35 GT-R on video.
This official Nissan footage shows the R35 GT-R SpecV rocketing around Germany’s Nurburgring at astonishing speed, with neat four-wheel drifts, lightning-quick changes of direction and glowing brake rotors aplenty. If you can understand Japanese you might be able to glean even more from this brief vid, but for the rest of us this is simply our best look yet at just how quick the SpecV is. Now, where are those laptimes?
Check out the vid after the jump.
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The look of the R35 is a winner anyway, more speed can only be a good thing. Are those suspension parts hand built?
I’m thinking maybe Porsche are right in saying Nissan cheated with tyres and other things in the standard GT-R and now no matter how hard they try with the specV they can’t better it.Thats why there is no laptimes i could be wrong but thats just my 2cents worth.
Some of the footage there looks very similar to the coverage Best Motoring did on the R35s original runs at Nurburgring.
So much effort goes into each attempt to better their time on that track. Would be good to see the times released to see if all the work by the Nissan engineers has been worth it.
Like everyone else I’d like to see the laptimes for the SpecV as well.
But numerous independent tests (Autocar UK, EVO UK, et al) have performed lap-time tests around various circuits such as Bedford in the UK against the 911 GT3 or 911 Turbo and found the GT-R faster (if not by a massive amount, then by at least 1-2% of lap time per lap).
So even if you don’t want to say the GT-R is patently faster, one should be able to realise that at the very least it has the potential to match the Porsche 911 GT3 and Turbo.
It is curious how Porsche have gone on record as stating they couldn’t get within 20″ (IIRC) of the GT-R’s claimed laptime, I’m sure their drivers are more than up to the task, but it would appear more likely to me that Porsche is goading Nissan into having to prove publicly (or provide more proof than has already been given) that their GT-R completed the Nordschleife lap in the time they say it did). Perhaps Nissan are not willing to engage further in this petty dispute with Porsche over laptimes. The GT-R was given COTY 2008 by EVO UK which is a superb magazine with VERY impartial journalism - ever since its first issue back in Nov 1998. Evo acknowleged that the Lamborghini LP560/4 was the more thrilling and emotive drive and ownership proposition, but that the performance capability and especially bang for buck ratio of the GT-R could not be overlooked.
Matt