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funkymonkey Grand Master

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good god, does wheels ever write their own material?

that's almost word for word what autoblog had up on their site a couple of weeks ago.

scathing Grand Master

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what do you guys think!

I think that Wheels, and I guess Autoblog, have no idea what they're on about.

It’s reporting that an unofficial hand-timed 7m 38s shows the GT-R’s skinned the Turbo’s official 7m 40s, making it one of the fastest production cars to ever loop the Nurburgring’s notorious Nordschleife.

Word is, Nissan’s booked the Ring for the rest of this week, with three GT-R mules circulating a minute apart and hell-bent on howling under the Carrera GT’s official 7m 30s. You’d also have to guess that Nissan’s quality driver lineup – said to include Dirk Schoysman, who famously broke 8mins at the Ring in an R33 GT-R – won’t be unhappy if it snakes under the legendary Walter Rohrl’s unofficial 7m 28s Carrera GT yardstick.

The "production car" record doesn't belong to the Carrera GT at 7:30 though. It belongs to the Radical SR8, at 6:55. Which means the GT-R is still over half a minute away from the record. The SR8 is produced as a turnkey product in production volumes, and is street legal, so "track day special" focus aside it still qualifies under the definition of "production road car".

Somehow I doubt its going to find that half a minute before TAS. The GT-R doesn't have a hope of reclaiming the production car record at this rate.

N1GTR Grand Master

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^ Personally, I'm waiting to see what Mine's will do with it if they get their hands on one

They did an R32 in 1993, the R33 after that, and then the more well known R34 - id say that they are planning on getting the new GTR when its available to them :blink:

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