Nissan GT-R SpecV First Independent Tsukuba Circuit Laptimes Reported
The following news will either disappoint or delight some Nissan GT-R fans. The new GT-R SpecV is slower than the standard GT-R. In fact, it"s slower than both the MY08 and MY09 cars. Good news for standard car owners, bad news for those who have or are planning to shell out the equivalent of ¥15,750,000 for a SpecV.
Japan"s Best Motoring publication has gotten a hold of the mighty SpecV and they wasted no time in heading for the Tsukuba Circuit to test Nissan"s claims for themselves. To make matters interesting they put legendary racer Keiichi "The Drift King" Tshuchiya behind the wheel. Even he could not beat the MY08 and MY09 times of 1:01.888 and 1:01.343 respectively. The car could only manage a best time of 1:02.4. Best Motoring says the conditions under which all three cars were tested were similar.
The SpecV weighs 60kg less than the factory car. It"s powered by a 3.8-litre twin turbo V6 with 480hp (353kW) and 434 ft-lb of torque. No explanation is forthcoming on this pressing issue yet, suffice to say perhaps the upcoming issue of Best Motoring in which the car was tested will provide some answers.
Source: gtrblog.com
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WHAT THE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......................
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by Sedaer | February 25, 2009 8:24 PM
was the drift king drifting the car and getting lap times of 1:02.4?
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by Joe_Limon | February 25, 2009 8:26 PM
Are the MY08 and MY09 times puplished by nissan? cause they seem to have a messed up stopwatch... i mean, it gave them a 7:29 for the nuerburgring :P
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by trinity | February 25, 2009 9:03 PM
The Nurburgring is not a drift track. It"s a race track where real drivers go to do some real driving. However fun drifting may be, it will never appear on the Nurburgring for very good reason. On that note, what is the Nurburgring lap time for the Spec-V? The "Ring time is the only one that really matters because it is the only track that tests every single aspect of performance of a car.
As for the reason why these lap times are slower, I think it"s because Nissan decided to build a car that goes forward, not sideways.
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by dbehmoaras | February 25, 2009 9:24 PM
just because they used someone called "The Drift King" doesn"t mean he drifted around the track.
i think i agree with trinity. Nissan tend to exaggerate their times or use non production tyres and the like so they come out with faster times than others would. i find it hard to believe that a competent driver would be significantly worse than a Nissan test driver just because they "know the car better".
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by sub39h | February 25, 2009 11:51 PM
Isn"t each engine handmade, allowing for some differences in power output for each individual vehicle? Maybe they tested some "more powerful than average" MY08 and MY09 cars and a "less powerful than average" SpecV. I"m not sure what the standard deviations on the HP and torque in these cars are..just speculating
Edited by user on February 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM
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by jko2001 | February 25, 2009 9:07 PM
Handmade or not, it shouldn"t be slower than the base version. this should make for some fun arguments. interesting.
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by iconic | February 25, 2009 9:25 PM
the only explanation for this I can think of is that the car wasn"t run in and had very low mileage. This can make HUGE difference.
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by kimbo | February 25, 2009 9:23 PM
Well, I don"t know what every1 is complaining about, he obviously drove the car with his best Drift King ability, so a result of 1.02.4 sideways when the MY08 & MY09 did it with test-drivers who knew the car well, and had months spent doing laps in it, ONLY did 1.01 going forward... Besides, it looks a bit like...
Edited by user on February 25, 2009 at 9:42 PM
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by vilivo | February 25, 2009 9:41 PM
This article has been up for over an hour, and still no sign of "Vette-Trolls? WTF?
Where"s the "See, a ZR1 will eat this jap-crap!!!!!!!111oneone" in a whiney voice we"ve all grown to enjoy?
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by 350Zed | February 25, 2009 9:41 PM
See, a ZR1 will eat this jap-crap!!!!!!! 3.2 to 60mph!!!!!!!1111111111111
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by kimbo | February 25, 2009 11:19 PM
Winnar!!!elevnty BTW, you wouldn"t happen to be Der Kimbo from AWOT and FOT, would you?
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by NauAudiS4 | February 26, 2009 1:09 AM
So the SpecV is different from the standard GT-R in what important way? Weighing sixty kilograms less and employing ceramic brakes but producing the same amount of power is not what I would consider a "hotted up GT-R." Depending on how much (or how little) braking is done on the circuit, it does not seem like this car should be decidedly faster than the standard version. After all, what is 60kg in a 2+2 coupe? While I don"t agree it is in reality slower than the standard version, I certainly don"t believe it is worth the premium. They didn"t even have the sense to up the power! I"m sure there is a good reason for this... does anybody know why?
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by Bremen_Koenigsegg | February 25, 2009 11:23 PM
**** the GT-r get a ZR-1 and sleep tight
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by hussaint | February 26, 2009 12:19 AM
We will have to wait for more test for better reference and comparisons, I"m sure they wouldn"t have the spec-v slower than the standard gt-r, still early days yet.
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by mortz | February 26, 2009 1:15 AM
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