THE NISSAN GT-R is wowing both fans and naysayers alike with its super-quick laps of the Nurburgring - most recently pulling a 7 minute 26.7 second lap - and its victory in the 2009 World Performance Car of the Year awards back in April.

Now the Japanese supercar has made its way into the Italian [...]

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V8 SUPERCARS AUSTRALIA has called time on the Nissan GT-R’s run as pace car for the championship after abruptly announcing the end of its agreement with Nissan Australia.

The decision to sever ties was revealed ahead of the Hidden Valley round of the championship after the Japanese manufacturer rejected V8SA’s request for the car to be [...]

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Nissan said it wasn’t done with the GT-R and Germany’s mighty Nurburgring Nordschliefe, and it wasn’t kidding. After setting a blistering 7 minute 29 second best lap in a bog-standard R35 GT-R a year ago, Nissan has managed to raise the bar once more; this time logging a best lap of 7:27.56.

The car used was [...]

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It looks like Godzilla is set to storm ensure responsible conduct on Aussie race tracks this year, with the news today that the 2009 Nissan GT-R will star as the safety car for this year’s V8 Supercar Championship.

Specially fitted with high visibility safety lights and decked out in the appropriate ‘caution’ livery, the GT-R fits [...]

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For children of the 80s, there’s no more enduring memory than the Transformers – at least as far as pop ‘toy-culture’ goes.  While we may not have known enough about cars at the time to recognise each model the Autobots were based on – Porsches, Nissan 280ZXs, Lamborghinis, even a Lancia Stratos – this only served [...]

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