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Was that really a Porsche dedicated forum? It has a Australian developed Camaro at the top right hand side of the page.

A little bit harder around the ring though with its changes in elevation, or so ive heard. Its a bit like Bathurst.

Two different quotes and two different interpretations. Now if you believe that using cut slicks would enable the GTR into the 7:30 then your dreaming. We shall see when the first production GTR actually tries to tackle the ring, whether or not its as fast as the CGT.

Link please

Suspicion conformed.............. Direct from the GTR chief engineer Kazutoshi Mizuno RE: TOKYO 2007: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT

Exactly thats why some publications even go as far as buying/renting a showroom car just to test them. Even if they used the setting for production models, you have to remember that these three development cars have been tuned individually (unlike the cars that come straight off the production line).

Look you mint not like what im saying and thats totally understandable, but that lap isn't how European publications time their laps. Even Jeremy Clarckson and Sabine (scary German chick) uses the bridge to gantry timing method. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg4a1rc4Xjk Just by looking at the GTR video, you would clearly notice that the lap was incomplete.

I cant believe no one has commented on this before. That was a total CON!!! The Bridge to Gantry looks something like this no compare the START/FINISH to the Nissan GTR Sorry guys but the lap's not valid, even when you discount the fact that Nissan wasn't using a production car and an independent tester.

Actually the fastest is the SSC Ultimate Aero TT. The quickest in everything else including acceleration and stopping would be the Ultima GTR. Both cars use a twin turbo Chev V8, so pretty basic engine. The SSC har over 1000hp which is important for top speed runs while the GTR has around 740hp.

Probably getting them in 2008 but is still regarded as a 2009 model year.

Those numbers are still pretty optimistic.

Probably not much, aparently they have one of the worst Cd of any current sportscar...... From Autoweek

The current R34 looks to be a better buy with better looks and around the same performance as the new GTR.........well a 15 sec difference around the ring anyway. Earlier, Mizuno-san (Nissan GTR engineer) had offered some lap times from the Nordschliefe for various cars driven by the German magazine SportAuto. Those times are driver-dependent, track-knowledge-dependent, weather-, traffic- and bunny-crossing-the-track dependent. But Mizuno suggested the GT-R could get anywhere from 7:44 on up, with most laps coming in between 7:55 and 7:58. So he suggested the GT-R's strong suit was that it offered "the best cost per lap time." For whatever that's worth.

Allot of cars are changing into auto, straight line might be faster, but still recon that a manual would be better in a track with lots of corners...........this is coming from an auto driver :-).

Seems its a bit heavier than the 1740kg