RE: NISMO GT-R: Official
Discussion
greggy50 said:
Fit a 850bhp engine upgrade and suspect this would easily match the 918 lap time for 1/5th of the cost thats the mental thing imo. It baffles me how a car 400kg heavier and 300bhp down is only 11 seconds slower porsche must wonder how the hell they do it...
tbf alot of the price is the hybrid drivetrain etc... I reckon as a non-test mule edition for future generations it would probably around the 250.000 pound mark...RB Will said:
here is the lap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAT_c3CLHw&fea...
Terrific video. He admitted to getting some corners wrong when setting that time too. I think this car could beat the 918 with the right tyres and maybe a little more out of the mapping.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAT_c3CLHw&fea...
greggy50 said:
Fit a 850bhp engine upgrade and suspect this would easily match the 918 lap time for 1/5th of the cost thats the mental thing imo. It baffles me how a car 400kg heavier and 300bhp down is only 11 seconds slower porsche must wonder how the hell they do it...
The Porsche is designed to do more than one lap without exploding.PW said:
The desirability of the Lamborghini is just as subjective as of the GT-R. You can't have it both ways.
I'm sure some people find Stephen Hawking attractive, he is certainly a clever human being. However I suspect some twonk from One Direction probably pips him in the teen girl desirability stakes.But you're right, desirability is a personal matter. That is precisely why people should not claim that the GTR is SOOO much better than supercar xyz because it is faster round the ring, cheaper, more high-tech, whatever. They might think that, and their opinion is perfectly valid. That does not mean that everyone who disagrees is wrong!
Carl_Docklands said:
greggy50 said:
Fit a 850bhp engine upgrade and suspect this would easily match the 918 lap time for 1/5th of the cost thats the mental thing imo. It baffles me how a car 400kg heavier and 300bhp down is only 11 seconds slower porsche must wonder how the hell they do it...
The Porsche is designed to do more than one lap without exploding.In fact, given a reliability trial over a few thousand miles, if my life depended on getting to the destination, I'd take the GT-R every time.
They are strong cars.
Carl_Docklands said:
The Porsche is designed to do more than one lap without exploding.
Why would this explode after one lap? As standard it comes with a warranty etc...Also if tuned at 800 - 850bhp that is quite conservative for this engine as many have been pushed to well over 1000bhp
The Porsche would run out of electricity after one lap of the ring and actually be slower...
To reiterate. 7mins 8secs to lap the Nurburgring 
So 11seconds off the pace of the Porsche 918, that is unbelievably quick. This could be £200,000 and still would be a performance bargain.
Edit: Read the comments above after posting, I am a parrot.
So 11seconds off the pace of the Porsche 918, that is unbelievably quick. This could be £200,000 and still would be a performance bargain.
Edit: Read the comments above after posting, I am a parrot.
Edited by StottyZr on Tuesday 19th November 16:57
JDMDrifter said:
Massive Want!
What a piece of machinery, when it came out people were amazed. Look where it is now, with further tuning could we see a sub 7 minute GTR?
Easily this is only 50/60bhp more that the original and about 20 seconds faster a lap faster so the majority of the time increase has come from chassis improvements. As said with circa 850bhp this would easily beat the 918s time in my opinion and do something around the 6:50 mark which at less than £150k all in is quite frankly amazing. I have seen 0-60 quoted at circa 2.5 seconds with "only" the stock 600bhp really is an awesome piece of engineering. What a piece of machinery, when it came out people were amazed. Look where it is now, with further tuning could we see a sub 7 minute GTR?
It's just a car developed at the end of its life to go around a specific track very quickly. A fast time no doubt, but just so irrelevant. Drive this side by side with a regular GTR (up the boost on the standard car to match the power) and I doubt there'd be very much in it.
The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
PunterCam said:
It's just a car developed at the end of its life to go around a specific track very quickly. A fast time no doubt, but just so irrelevant. Drive this side by side with a regular GTR (up the boost on the standard car to match the power) and I doubt there'd be very much in it.
The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
The thing is, Nurnburning isnt just a track. It mimics the average B-road to quite an extent.. anything quick on the ring will be quick in real life too. Id say its very relevant.The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
PunterCam said:
It's just a car developed at the end of its life to go around a specific track very quickly. A fast time no doubt, but just so irrelevant. Drive this side by side with a regular GTR (up the boost on the standard car to match the power) and I doubt there'd be very much in it.
The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
By your own definition this is a race car.The GTR has always completely missed the point for me - wrong engine, wrong gearbox, wrong set of priorities (in my opinion).
Very impressive though.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by the "point"?
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