RE: TOKYO 2007: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT

[Hendry]

Article says its an auto, but ten refers to clutches. Are we really having to explain to Jonny Smith the difference between an automatic gearbox and an manual box with automatic selection?

[Beefmeister]

Shitola, thats a lot of cooling!!!

[golders]

I think is great, I would just love one of these.

Even if I won Million on the Lottery and could afford any car I would
have one of these as my everyday fun day. (maybe a Ferrari for Sundays)

[golders]

Yes Please: (some great pics here of the GTR)

http://www.netcarshow.com/nissan/2008-gt-r/

[Harry_GT2]

One word: Awesome!!!

[Al 450]

jking said:

The engine is designed to cope with 1.6g lateral acceleration....it can do this for about 5-8 seconds before the oil pressure drops too much....it would have no problem with 1.3g continious lateral acceleration, but I suspect normal road tyres would struggle to deliver this for too long!!!

If the car is capable of so much lateral G then shouldn't the engine be dry sumped?

[ScoobieWRX]

What are those tyres in the cutaway pic? They look a bit like Bridgestone RE070's but they're not.

Edited to say....

According to the article it runs on bridgestone runflats. I have looked on the bridgestone site and can't find any runflats with that tread pattern. They are closest to the RE070's in pattern, very close in fact, but Bridgestone don't make that tyre in runflat so they must be concept tyres of some sort as has been said.

Edited by ScoobieWRX on Saturday 27th October 01:45

[EDLT]

They look like the sort of tyres that get fitted to conecept cars to me, they might even be the ones that were fitted to the origional concept car.

[Razo]

Al 450 said:

jking said:

The engine is designed to cope with 1.6g lateral acceleration....it can do this for about 5-8 seconds before the oil pressure drops too much....it would have no problem with 1.3g continious lateral acceleration, but I suspect normal road tyres would struggle to deliver this for too long!!!

If the car is capable of so much lateral G then shouldn't the engine be dry sumped?

It's actually a new system that incorporates fuctionality of both wet and dry,

"Other technical innovations include a thermostatically controlled air-cooled type oil cooler system, for greater cooling efficiency. The engine oil is cooled by oil cooler system and in extreme cornering - of which the Nissan GT-R is easily capable - a scavenger pump maintains turbocharger oil flow. A collector tank inside the fuel tank always stores enough fuel to maintain fuel flow even under strong g forces. The oil collecting structure inside the engine is optimized by a lateral wet and dry sump system, which helps secure stable oil collecting and oil pressure in various driving scenes.The engines, like the transmissions, are all hand made. One craftsman hand-assembles the entire engine. The dedicated engine builders work in a special Nissan GT-R 'clean room' area of Nissan's Yokohama plant."

I reccomend having a read through the GTR press site as it contains a very detailed overview of all the cars features and innovations,

http://press.nissan-global.com/PRESSKIT/NISSANGTR/...

I am very impressed with what they have done with this car and would love to own it.

[Beefmeister]

Er, steady fella, you'll have an embolism getting all worked up like that...

Now repeat after me - 'Its only a PH story, its only a PH story...'

[golders]

and relax

[spitfire_steve]

If it will cost £65k in the UK and only £33k who would buy one from a UK Nissan dealership? I am sure it will cost much less then £32k to import one yourself. My grey import was only a few grand on the import costs (transport / SVA etc), granted this was 12 years ago, but still it has to be better then £32k

[RobPhoboS]

You guys are more than welcome to buy me one thanks.

[gtoblue]

Big difference between UK spec and Jap spec.....number of oil coolers to be precise and other bits and pieces like the radio and sat nav. Uk spc 34's demad much more money than imports and they may even be moer differences that Nissan will obviously hve to explain. We don't even really know the cost of the car yet so lets just wait and see

[Blue Meanie]

I'm sure someone will bimble along and say it has no character!! Stunning car! Methinks I would have one at the drop of a hat, along with the new lexus/supra, if they ever get around to building it!!

[spitfire_steve]

You may be right gtoblue, There are Big difference between UK spec and Jap spec's. Normally the Jap spec car is fully loaded and upto half the price but generally lacks a rear fog light and UK sat nav. Not really a problem IMHO, nothing a small outlay can fix. I am keen to upgrade to this level and would happly pay £33k for a jap spec car, the Great British rip off price is OTT when compared like this.

[Sparky69]

scoobieWRX the tires are bridgestone potenza's specialy designed for the car.

[IL TORO FURIOSO]

Looks awesome and seems it will give any supercar a run for its money.

I cant help thinking we are getting majorly ripped off with the price £30,000 difference? how can anyone justify that?? its the same with anything "GREAT" britain have to pay over the odds for everything.

But still at £65,000 its a performance bargain when you think about its nearest rival

Porsche 997 Turbo = £95,000?

[Funk]

Surely it wouldn't cost £30k to spec up a Jap one to UK spec? Fog light, nav etc - cheap and easy to do. Why would the UK car have more oil coolers than Japan as someone mentioned above?

That's a hell of a price difference, I can see people importing their own from Japan rather than buying a UK car.

[Polrules]

I thought all Jap spec cars were limited to something like 112mph (Mine certainly was) and will only have sufficient cooling to meet this speed??? Would cost muchos to get the extra cooling gubbins that us Brits will enjoy as standard.