PistonHeads has written plenty on the new fast Nissan, and it seems that these days you can't open any of the car magazines without seeing a GT-R looking back at you. But CARandDriver.com decided to put the GT-R to the test, but not against its rivals, this time it was competing against itself.
Nissan claim the GT-R delivers 480 bhp and can cover the 0-60 sprint in 3.5 seconds, the quarter- mile taking a shade longer at 11.8 seconds. Impressive stuff for a car weighing 1,740kg.
Magazines were claiming independent 0-60 times of between 3.2 and 3.4 seconds, so CAR and Driver decided to get 5 GT-Rs together and see what they recorded on the track and on the dyno.
When they tried the first GT-R, provided by Nissan, they recorded 0-60 in 3.5 seconds and the quarter- mile in 11.5. So pretty much on the money then, but what happened when they tried another two cars? Surprisingly, these cars recorded significantly slower times, so had the evaluation car been tweaked in some way? Something wasn't right.
Another car was tested, this one recorded times similar to those claimed by Nissan so it was time to strap it to the dyno. This car, the fourth tested, produced 415 bhp at the wheels, so allowing for a drivetrain loss - estimated at 20% for a four wheel drive car - that equates to 519 bhp, or almost 40 more than claimed by Nissan.
As the results were inconclusive, a fifth car was rolled onto the dyno, this one produced identical figures to those claimed by Nissan, but delivered 420bhp at the wheels, so over 520 bhp.
We don't know what to make of it all. Is it another attempt to rubbish the GT-R, or a genuine problem showing that not all GT-Rs are the same? Make up your own mind by seeing the full report, and by reading the response from Nissan here