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The Art Of Drifting A Nissan GT-R In The Rain

Mike Spinelli — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:41:23 EST

Chris Harris says the 2012 Nissan GT-R is one of the most interesting cars in the world to behave badly in. Why? Because the car's amazingly byzantine all-wheel drivetrain fights against aggressively reckless inputs. But what if you add a dour British rain? Instant four-wheel dorifto. More »

This Chart Shows How The Nissan GT-R's Price Has Skyrocketed 35% In Five Years

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:30:00 EST

Remember when the Nissan GT-R was considered a budget super car? Yeah, not anymore. The 2013 Nissan GT-R's price has ballooned to $96,820 for the base GT-R Premium model and $106,320 for the Black Edition. That's a 35% inflation in price since this model of the car first went on sale for $69,850 back in July 2008. Godzilla's now got a price to match its girth. More »

Über Fail: $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron loses drag race to Nissan GT-R

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST

The appeal of the Bugatti Veyron is it's so fast and so well-engineered any obscenely wealthy person can hop into it and be faster than other, poorer, people. Not this guy. He appears to not understand how the vehicle's launch control works and sits there, lamely, as the guy in the GT-R blows him away. More »

How much faster is the new Nissan GT-R?

Patrick Frawley — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST

Sometimes it's worth considering how much a model-year change really matters. An updated car can be draped in hype, but what's the substance? In many cases? Not much. In this case, it's a priceless 0.184 of a second. More »

Watch supercars play Slip 'N Slide on a wet street track

Patrick Frawley — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:30:00 EST

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you rain on your track day, do as these Scandinavian enthusiasts did and make it a drift day. More »

18-year-old World of Warcraft hacker tries to sell $150K Nissan GT-R

Mike Spinelli — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST

Apparently you can make enough money selling WoWBots to buy a tuned, carbon-fiber-laden Nissan GT-R for $150,000. That's what one 18-year-old Zilvia.net forum denizen says he did, and now he's selling the car on the board. Naturally, everyone else thinks he's trolling. More »

Who paints a Michael Jackson memorial mural on a Nissan GT-R?

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:30:00 EST

Has the King of Pop's tragic passing ever been better memorialized than as this disturbingly detailed mural of Michael Jackson's life on a highly-modified Nissan GT-R? Prepare yourself for a moonwalk through insanity. More »

Nissan GT-R gets new pack for track rats

Mike Spinelli — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:00:00 EST

Isn't the 2012 Nissan GT-R already track-ready? Sure. But Nissan's new Track Pack, a 10,000-quid option for UK buyers, makes a track-day beating a bit less taxing on the GT-R's bits and a little more rewarding for whoever's driving. More »

Godzilla-powered Nissan Juke-R laps Silverstone

Patrick Frawley — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST

Nissan's in-house Juke-R project has produced two running examples of the slightly insane toad/Godzilla crossbreed. The right-hand-drive version recently did laps around England's Silverstone circuit for the benefit of journalists. More »

Watch a nine second Nissan GTR drag race a twin turbo Lamborghini Gallardo

Tom Joslin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:30:00 EST

Watching tuned high horsepower cars face off at the drag strip is, at least in our opinion, pure and simple car porn at its best. More »

Watch a rear-wheel drive Nissan GT-R outrun a 400-hp Evo

Peter Orosz — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:00:00 EST

One would think that a 400 hp Mitsubishi Evo IX would have little competition when pulling away from a traffic light. Certainly not the kind of competition that leaves it standing like a sloth observing a Saturn V. Yet that is exactly the kind of competition offered by a certain rear-wheel drive GT-R in this video, shot from the Evo. More »

Hot rodders turn Nissan GT-R into a carbon fiber Godzilla

Patrick Frawley — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EST

Nissan's GT-R does an impressive job of using monster power and tech to compensate for its considerable mass, but one California speed shop's decided that Godzilla could benefit from a radical course of liposuction anyway. More »

Nissan GT-R and CLS 63 AMG combine for 1,080 horsepower of hoonage

Raphael Orlove — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Fourteen cylinders, 1,080 horsepower and six wheel drive. It's what happens when you let our friends loose on an abandoned airfield with a Nissan GT-R and Mercedes CLS 63 AMG. More »

Nissan Juke-R is the Godzilla-powered "Super" Juke

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:00:00 EDT

The GT-R-powered Nissan Juke we first, exclusively, told you about last month now has a name: the Nissan Juke-R. Oh, we'd Juke-R. We'd Juke-R so good Carlos Tavares would chase us down with a shotgun and make us marry her. More »

Dutch driver drowns Nissan GT-R

Justin Hyde — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Remember the scene in "The Empire Strikes Back" where Yoda raises Luke Skywalker's X-Wing from the swamp? This Nissan GT-R owner staged a real-life reenactment in the Netherlands, after a misunderstanding with The Force. More »

Dealer refuses to honor Nissan GT-R eBay auction (UPDATE!)

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:00:00 EDT

Enthusiast Xou Vang spent this last weekend bidding for a used Nissan GT-R on eBay and, at $55,100, thought he'd gotten a fair price for his dream car. The dealer, Honda of San Marcos, thought the deal was too fair and reportedly said they'd refuse their deal unless he coughed up a few grand more. UPDATE: The dealership's caved under your pressure and Xuo Vang's getting the car at the initial sale price! More »

Watch the world's first eight second GTR

Tom Joslin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Last week we told you about the world's fastest R35 GTR through the 1/4 mile, built by AMS Performance. Since we last spoke about this car, the company has managed to take their 1300+ horsepower creation from a low nine second car to a high eight second car and produced this interesting video to go along with it. More »

Watch the world's fastest Nissan GT-R run a low nine second 1/4 mile

Tom Joslin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:30:00 EDT

Not only does AMS Performance's Nissan GT-R produce over 1300 horsepower at 35 pounds of boost, it knows how to use it. After watching the very impressive 9.05 second 1/4 mile seen here, it isn't too surprising to find out this Nissan is the fastest R35 GT-R in the world. More »

Watch a Nissan GT-R slam into parked cars at high speed

Mike Spinelli — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT

A possible street race between a Nissan GT-R and what looks like a Honda Civic (or just a botched pass) turns into a potential tragedy, when the two cars collide. The high-speed collision sends the GT-R ricocheting off into a line of parked cars. More »

Nissan GT-R "Agent Orange" horsepower hits 1000 HP

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Quick. What's the color of Orange Julius, produces 1000 hp on 93 octane and is named after a Vietnam-era defoliant? It's Operation Agent Orange. The famed tuner Nissan GT-R recently changed hands and took on quite an update. The color remains the same, naturally. More »

Watch a bike jump a GT-R-powered BMW doing a burnout

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

I don't know what the bike is, but the car is no less than a BMW E30 with a Skyline GT-R RB26 swap doing a wicked burnout while being jumped. It's the kind of mad collision of disparately awesome factors that make life worth living and Baseketball such a surprisingly funny movie. More »

Fire spitting Porsche upstaged by ridiculous screaming cameraman

Tom Joslin — Sun, 22 May 2011 14:00:00 EDT

If you hate obnoxious yelling and NSFW language, you can easily mute this video and watch a Porsche 993 twin turbo with its right turn signal on spit fire and drive way too fast on public roadways. If not, behold the ridiculousness of the passenger in the tailing 2011 GTR screaming about glowing manifolds. You have been warned. More »

LFA vs. GT-R vs. 911 GT2 RS v. ZR1 vs. F430

Justin Hyde — Thu, 19 May 2011 14:00:00 EDT

As a test of supercar superiority, the Japanese show Best Motoring put five supercars — the Lexus LFA, Nissan GT-R, Porsche 911 GT2RS, Chevy Corvette ZR1 and Ferrari F430 RSD — in a three-lap race around Fuji Speedway. The winner is... More »

Exciting in-car Nissan GTR track footage

Tom Joslin — Sat, 07 May 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Even if you aren't usually a big fan of in-car track footage we have a feeling you will enjoy watching (and listening) as race driver Leh Keen expertly navigates a GTR around Virginia International Raceway. The Nissan shown here during testing was built for competition in the One Lap of America by TopSpeed motorsports. The team is currently leading the One Lap of America overall going into the final day of competition today. More »

$220K gold-plated Nissan GT-R for Very Very Important (Rich) People

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EDT

Conceptually, the budget supercar ethos the Nissan GT-R embraces is at odds with the monkey-butlers-wearing-diamond-studded-cummerbunds spending philosophy of the Middle East. Thus, the $220,000 2012 Nissan GT-R VVIP was created. It's the Goldschlager of supercars. More »

The new Nürburgring production car lap time leader is a Dodge

Justin Hyde — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EDT

Nürburgring track blog Bridge To Gantry took up the mantle of sorting out which street-legal production vehicle — not track-only trailer queen — holds the current lap record. Meet the new king of the 'ring, the 2009 Dodge Viper ACR. More »

Watch the 650 HP Hennessey CTS-V Sport Wagon beat Godzilla

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EDT

When the Hennessey CTS-V Sport Wagon squared off against the Porsche 911 Turbo, some complained it was the slightly older 911 Turbo. Fair enough. Here's the 650 hp wagon against a Nissan GT-R. More »

This is a Nissan GT-R burning to the ground

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST

A group of Malaysian car enthusiasts were on the prowl when a new R35 Nissan GT-R crashed into a Golf GTI, causing moderate damage to the Volkswagen but leaving poor Godzilla a burning, exploded mess on the ground. More »

Godzilla in race trim

Tom Joslin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:30:00 EST

In its 2008 debut season, the NISMO GTR finished one-two in the first two Super GT races. It was the first time such a dominant opening performance had been seen in ten years. The previous car to do it? A NISMO Skyline GTR, of course. More »

An Insider Look at Japan’s Massive Car Auctions

Tom Joslin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:30:00 EST

Watch as the hosts of Australian online auto show "Mighty Car Mods" take an insider's tour of one of Japan's massive car auctions. How many not for US cars can you spot? (8:00 start skips non car content)[via VwVortex] More »

How To Use The 2012 Nissan GT-R's New Launch Control

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:15:00 EST

Nissan GT-R owners quickly discovered achieving the company's touted performance numbers meant using launch control, thus voiding their warranty. Nissan dropped launch control for 2010. Now it's back — as "R Mode Start." Here's how to do it. More »

How To Wrap Your Nissan GT-R In Gold

Matt Hardigree — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:30:00 EST

As if Godzilla's proportions and alien design didn't already make the car eye-catching enough on the road, someone decided it was about time to cover their Nissan GT-R in a bright gold wrap. Someone shoot the leprechaun. More »

2012 Nissan GT-R Gets Six Colors, Three Options

Justin Hyde — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:40:00 EST

The lizard wizards of the Nissan GT-R forum have the order guide for the 2012 Godzilla. Six colors, four of them extra, and choices of a rear camera, all-weather tires or floor mats. Sorry, no pink-leather Egoist for America. [NAGTROC] More »

Giddy-up, Giddy-up Godzilla!

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:00:00 EST

The Nissan GT-R may breathe fire and terrorize townspeople, but its AWD system also makes it one great sled-pulling pony. (Photo Credit: BladeWS). More »

2012 Nissan GT-R: 0-60 MPH In 2.9 Seconds

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:15:00 EST

The 2012 Nissan GT-R will rip off a 0-to-60 mph run in an astounding 2.9 seconds, according to a company test at Japan's Senda Hi-Land raceway. The outgoing GT-R? 3.3 seconds. More »

Feds Bust Importer Of GT-R Used In The Fast And The Furious

Justin Hyde — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EDT

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A former Orange County sheriff's deputy is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from illegal importation of 12 Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, including the one driven by Paul Walker in "The Fast and the Furious." [Frank4Cars/LAT] More »

2012 Nissan GT-R: 530 HP, 7:20 'Ring Time

Matt Hardigree — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:45:00 EDT

An overnight spec-drop from the Land of the Rising Sun confirms the 2012 Nissan GT-R is the Car of the Rising Power with a 45 horsepower bump, which is enough to drop the Nurbürgring time to a Corvette ZR1-confounding 7:20. More »

Is This Heaven? No, It's Fuji Speedway

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:30:00 EDT

If Nissan builds a GT-R owner event at Fuji Speedway, the Godzillas will come. [via Advan] More »

2012 Nissan GT-R To Top 500 HP?

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:30:00 EDT

The 2012 Nissan GT-R's mostly just an ugly-pretty face, as details remain scarce. Rumor has it the new GT-R will jump from 473 hp to a more Godzilla-like 500 hp. The people of Tokyo should start evacuating now. [AutoCar] More »

World's Quickest R35 Nissan GT-R Even Quicker

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:15:00 EDT

The AMS GT-R Alpha 9 already broke the 10-second barrier, and now the 900 AWHP Alpha 10 just hit a remarkable 9.33 at 153 mph in the quarter-mile for a new R35 GT-R record. Does this count as gauge porn? More »