Thursday 26th April 2007

GTR testing at the 'Ring

GTR news 2: A hard days work...

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Love these images. Look in the background of the picture on the left: what a great job eh, lapping the 'Ring in a convoy of prototypes for the next and eagerly anticipated GTR. What, you get paid as well?

You go first. No, you go, no you...

Just one more lap...

 

[swoll]

May have been posted before, but heres a short vid of the new Skyline testing at the Ring.

Love the flames on the overrun!

New Skyline GTR at the Ring (YouTube)

[haggle]

i just have this image of Adam sat in PH towers watching the ring web cam with popcorn

[scotty_917]

in the middle of the first photo it seems to be a Porsche 997 Turbo .....Nissan's aiming high....obviously!

[rimmer]

its a hell of a job driving round the nurburgring for a living trying to break/tune a car

[road_terrorist]

scotty_917 said:

in the middle of the first photo it seems to be a Porsche 997 Turbo .....Nissan's aiming high....obviously!

Well they are quite similar in mechanical spec. Both six cylinders, both just over three and a half litres, twin turbo, with RWD biased complex all wheel drives systems.

The main difference's are that one has the engine at the front and the other is at the back and one engine is flatter in layout than the other.

[Stu R]

scotty_917 said:

in the middle of the first photo it seems to be a Porsche 997 Turbo .....Nissan's aiming high....obviously!

They've used porsche as a benchmark in the past. Not really aiming that high by using them imo but it's a useful tool for comparison I suppose

[scotia_steve74]

If you watch the vids of the Nissan, the Porsche seems composed and flat through the bends with little tyre noise whereas the Nissan is less so.

Still a good motor though it looks!

[zebedee]

scotia_steve74 said:

If you watch the vids of the Nissan, the Porsche seems composed and flat through the bends with little tyre noise whereas the Nissan is less so.

Still a good motor though it looks!

Is that you Yoda?

[Stu R]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tg2mLUAFXQ

quick shot of it without the masking all over the front. Sounds interesting.