Inside Line had a chance to sample the 2012 Nissan GT-R at the hands of Dirk Schoysman. Dirk has been driving Nissan GT-R's, and plenty of other cars at the Nurburgring for a couple of years. 19,000 laps according to Dirk.
But underhood, the changes are myriad. Most tellingly the 3.8-liter V6 receives another slug of turbo boost, a less restricted air supply and revised valve timing to liberate a lot more horsepower. Nissan refuses to talk specifics yet and is only saying that the engine will have "at least 40 hp more" than the existing car.
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| Improvements to the interior include carbon fiber accents. This right hand drive car shown to the press is a Black Edition. You can see the red accents on the gear shift lever. |
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| Red engine accent. They must have got the memo. "Red is faster." |
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| New lighter wheels, 390 mm brake rotors, 10mm larger than the 09-11. They are running caliper temperature strips to monitor temperatures. |
Past GT-Rs have come across as remote and almost aloof devices, keen to exclude the driver from the action and relegate him to a directing role, but with this car we felt much more part of it, a talent that may or may not make it a quicker sports car. And being an involving driving machine makes it substantially superior to its parent.
This is an interesting statement. It seems to be that journalists prefer to say a car like a GT-R is boring, because it can be driven fast easily. Everyone has their individual preferences for how a car drives, but a good majority of people that review the GT-R say it drives itself. Most consumers seem to want to take this as a derogatory statement, I see it as a positive thing. On the track, a fast car should be easy to drive, or perhaps "boring." I have driven a lot of GT-R's, and I have driven a lot of cars, and I really wonder how you can call a GT-R boring or aloof. Read some GT-R reviews from the R32 though the R35, and see what you think.
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Edmunds Inside Line
1 comment:
Some people are just stupid, they like to criticize the design intent of the product. They only think a car is exciting if it is a handful, very difficult to drive, only a professional race car driver can drive it fast. But guess what, most sports car owners can't drive, they want a easy to drive car to enjoy themself. Very few actual owners want a challenge. Is like how every journalist criticize all Lexus as a boring isolation chamber, that is the design intent, that is what people want from a luxury car! Lexus is the best selling luxury car brand in the U.S. People just like to criticize what it is not, so stupid.
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