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Jeremy Clarkson writes his review for the Nissan GT-R.

Most of the time in Clarkson's "Driving Times" articles, the first quarter paragraphs have nothing to do with the car he's actually reviewing. Unfortunately, this time its over half. And what's left is so vague you wonder if he's leaving The Times and is just coasting through his notice period.

He just goes about saying that there's too much car for him, and so he finds it boring. Clarkson does like cars that are hairy to drive rather than purely fast, so the fact that he doesn't gush over the R35 is to be expected. Still, its a lacklustre read.

Have a read anyway

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That was an excellent review by Jeremy Clarkson. It gives a closer feel to reality of what my expectations are for the R35. Even with a review such as this, it would never stop me from having one, though I think it does push the want for an orginal rb26 powered GT-R, for the roughness, for the design, for the engineering that has gone into creating such a machine.

Lets hope that when Nissan bring out the V-spec, V-spec II, N1... yadda yadda yadda Nismo, something traditionally found on the R32-34 is added to it, like a manual... haha :banana:

  lingeringsoul said:
has it gone around their run way yet?

Apparently it has. It was in the GTR blog a while back.

It wasn't official. It was a privately imported model and

i don't think the Stig drove it round.

not bad not bad.....

everyone has there own opinions. really its all about the persons driving style and taste, which in the end give the final result

EG : ''awww it grips too much'' ..... '' awww it has way too much lag for me ''..... '' awww the car smells alittle funny''

cant win everyone over

if the GTR can maintain a average of 5/10 or more for each review by diffrent drivers, then for me .... the GTR is doing very very well for 150k

$ ching ching $

The man basically says the car is too good for him...he can't find it's limits and even Shoemaker would struggle to push it 10% towards it's out edge.

He's not keen on the styling (alot have said the same on first sight).

He thinks the electrickery is too clever...in other words it keeps you safe and fast.

Excellent outcome for the GTR.

Edited by madbung

^^ Yeah its typical review by Clarkson. He has to find fault in everythin, even if the fault is one of its stand out features - the fact that it has effortless yet brutal performance and goes where you want with ease. Most ppl complain about what a car can't do, and Jeremy has complained about the fact its does things too well, haha.

For example I watched the top gear ep on sbs last night and he said he would take some really old POS classic Ferrari over the 599 GTB (which has enzo engine).... its times like this his old & eccentric views can be pointless and annoying.

That is why most people buy cars of that value tho isnt it. I mean if you wanted a cheese box to take you from a-b you buy the cheapest car to run that services your needs. When you have the money to buy these types of high end cars, you want it to make you feel something the others dont. Mr Clarkson dosnt like it because it doesnt kick the rear out and hold it there, because its been designed to go fast. Others like that.

I think Clarkson's made a conscious decision not to rip into the R35. He gave a little itch every now and then that he wants to say it's a pile of James May's s**t, but he's well aware of the current popularity of the car. It'd look stupid if he said it was worth 2/10 when all the media coverage and testing proves how quick and affordable it is.

Clarkson's always had a soft spot for the GTR, ever since the R32 came fresh from the Nissan factory. There isn't much to criticise the R35 on, weighing good vs. bad points, so he just went for the obvious achilles heel: it's kinda boring compared to the competition. IMO that point, in itself, can be discussed at length.

What do you expect from a man that has driven every performance car since before any of us had pubes, and has ripped into them like a horny gorilla when other journo's were having wet dreams over the same cars.

  R338OY said:
It'd look stupid if he said it was worth 2/10 when all the media coverage and testing proves how quick and affordable it is.

Some how I don't think he cares.

He regularly rips in to cars that other people like, because they lack that "X-Factor" he's looking for. He's the only motoring journo I know that doesn't like the 350Z. Every other journo whose reviews of the 350Z I've read, and there have been lots, have adored the car.

On Top Gear he doesn't like the Ferrari 599 GTB because its too technical and not practical. He doesn't like Porsches, and the 997 garners "respect". He adores the Peel P50, which is pretty rubbish.

Where I think he considers it failed is because he wanted it to act like a highly strung sports car at all speeds, not just when it was pushed to its limit - which I might add he thinks he didn't find.

To me this is refinement, for such a car to be able to be used as a daily driver and do this with ease, and yet still be a precise and exciting sports car at speed, what more could you ask for?

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