2011 Wrx Sti Sets New Nurburgring Lap Record!

[GTRAAH]

Somewhere slower than an R1 and faster than an Aurion.

Like it makes a toss of difference anyway. Surely there are more important ways to determine a car's performance potential than a single figure (which conveniently happens to be the GTR's strong point)

Lets just say its around the same 0-100, 20 years difference, With all those extra new racing body bits advantage on the Wrx, I wonder how much extra you would need to transform the GTR into a new age racing machine without touching the engine. And what time it would get.

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i think that if you got an old gtr to meet all the emissions laws, same safety rating, etc of the new wrx, i think you'd find it would possibly be slower than it is now. i think that if you allowed the new wrx to be modified to the old standards, it would be noticably faster than the standard one, as well as an old gtr.

it's all well and good to play the old "it has 20 years newer technology" card, but a lof of the technology is to make it less polluting and more fuel effecient.

or for example, look at the new gtr. it is faster than the old gtr, but it has a bigger engine and a fancy gearbox. yes it is noticably faster round the ring than the older gtr (although there are still doubts over the time), as well as it's rival the 911, but at what cost? it has to be serviced every time you leave the garage and if you use half of the features that nissan fitted it with your warranty isn't worth the paper it's written on. i'm sure that any manufacturer could build a brouchure spec car (a car that performs good on paper and in reviews but is a pain to actually own), but very few of them do. they sacrfice a bit of speed for ease of use.

[GTRAAH]

I dont by it! Doubt that it makes much less polution then a stock standard brand new Gtr of the shelf. Its mainly the wear and tear of the car that makes it more smelly down the track. And that all those new emission laws things will slow the car down dramatically, MAYBE a few micro seconds.

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my point is more that getting an old rb engine to meet current emissions may possibly knock a noticable amount of power out of it (without redesigning, which may then give it more power than it originally had). the reason why a lot of the old engines stopped being produced was because getting them to meet the new emissions laws was going to be hard, so instead they just engineered new engines.