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Fifth Gear Reviews The R35 On 25th Feb


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Hey im a Nissan lover from way back, but perhaps its a boring review of a boring car. I mean it sounds crappy, is very stable...and it was privately owned. So...good review of a boring car???

Give the thing some pipes and a button that turns off all the gizmos and see how balanced the thing is. Its like the modern super fighters, without their computers the things wouldnt fly let alone perform the way they do. The computers make them, dont complement them. Thats what i am feeling about the R35.

Not trying to sound like a hater....but its about what i expected it to be, very complimentry review for a great performing car. Just like years ago when Top Gear, Clarkson, Harvey and Burns all test drove a bunch of cars (911, 575, Elise, 3000GTO etc) and the R33 was fastest...yet didnt even make the top 3 or talked about that much. Brilliant cars dont make for good fun...not always

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Clarkson loved all all the old Godzillas. There is no reason why the R35 should be any different. Its faster, built better, handles better, light years ahead in technology and is priced similiarly (taking inflation into account).

yeh, i remember clarkson doing the other reviews on the GTR's and that one JUN did they tossed a bunch of cash at and he said other than the gauges the car was an animal.

i do think the fifth gear review was alittle boring for a car that had huge expectations from the media/public, setting the times it did on the nurburgring was quite impressive, they way they hiped the adds up and at the start of the episode was like it was a new amazing car that we had never seen before, but then the review came and i felt alittle disapointed with his review. felt alittle rushed.

but thats my opinion.

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It was a privately owned car.

No doubt everyone is waiting on Clarksons review because he will say what you want to hear.

Thats what i think :D Ppl would say its an excellent review of Plato had a big hand feed and creamed over how good it was. He gave the car a big rap....perhaps he just wasnt as fan biy about it as many loyal Nissan folk woudl have liked. :)

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How the F... did you all miss the most important part of hte review... Did you SEE the downshift ... it wasnt high revs but they creamed the shit out of allot of expensive dsg's.... Made me quite horny

Sounds a lot better in the flesh... The audio should have been setup to hear the engine note better too as it was too quiet in the episode.

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