alloy

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/defa...?storyId=24584

-asymmetric suspension set-up for RHD market - World first for production road car
-power hike to 550/560
-Shave 8 seconds off 'Ring time

GTR moves the game forward again

CREWJ

Wow, even faster now.

stilover

I said these threads would start.

LEO-RS

So you now have the bronze model GTR

Good on Nissan for moving things forward but I cant help feel I'd be extremely pissed had I just forked out £73k for a MY11, they should have left that car to run 2yrs before facelifting again in my opinion. MY11 values should plummet though as the sensible option would be <MY10 to MY12, who wants the car in the middle?

No doubt, yet crazy more performance (Not sure how much tuning potential these new cars are going to have though if all 3 models are using the same blower)

Trout

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That's almost as quick as a TT-RS

Incredible

SPEN555

Yeah that's on paper.

My scoob does the ring in 3mins according to my calcs

Trout

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My Porsche does it in a much more realistic 5m 30s...



...on GT4

An0n0m0us

Been in the Datsun showroom today and whilst dropping off my Pathfinder dribbled all over a dark blue GTR which my 6 yr old Son wanted me to buy

Are the gear boxes still considered a consumable part and 15k to replace or was that all an urban myth?!

Camoscooby

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I'm off out to sell a kidney.....................................

alloy

I have the original GTR, for which there is no substitute.

Well documented that Nissan would continually develop the car and there would be yearly revisions so i should imagine folk aren't too bothered....tuning potential is still the same as previous models, all that is different is the % gain over stock....

alloy

Mostly myth, yanks were breaking gearbox with the original LC, since they changed the LC its just the odd one of the early cars that have suffered solenoid issues (mine was first Euro car to have a gearbox failure )

stilover

This is one of the reasons why I never really wanted an Evo. Buy one, and within 12 months it's out of date, and residuals hit hard.

john banks

The Evo was one of the best residuals I've ever had. I lost about £3k a year on that from 6 months to 3 1/2 years old, my M3 on the other hand was dropping about £1k a month. In between each model number change about every 2 years there were a few MR variants, but like on the GTR the changes were evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Any Evo 7-9 are not wildly different to each other as a launch day R35 isn't much different to the later models, and the residuals on neither are bad.

Dave Thornton

Or wait until the people who must have 'the latest thing' have got it out of their system and then join the party. I've never lost more than £3k a year on a car, new or secondhand.

sti-04!!

Anders_WR1

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Doesn't bother me one bit, I'll have enjoyed my MY11 for 9 months and been on track three or four times by the time that model hits the shores. If you wait for what's just around the corner you'd never buy anything...

I was at the Nissan event at Silverstone on Wednesday where Mizuno explained the tweaks on the MY12 engine in detail, but I'll respect the confidentiality he asked us all for. Details will be public next week

Hope to see you on track some time

Anders

stilover

Can't be that exciting engine mods. 10BHP.

Jurno. What did you do to the engine?
Nissan. Changed the panel filter. This alone gave us an extra 10bhp.
Jurno. Oh.

Anders_WR1

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The Flux capacitor should make it interesting

Dingdongler

Yes but it won't be covered by the warranty if you launch the car ( the same launch control used to set acceleration times for magazines) and will require an IMF bailout to pay for it.

New dilithium crystals will also need to be flown in from the outer rim after every track day