Video: Watch Nissan’s New GT-R In Testing
Who are these Nissan guys and girls? It seems that the forthcoming GT-R will be one of the most photographed pre-production cars of all time. Now we can say that it might be one of the most videotaped, too. Car Magazine’s website has edited down some spy footage into the above clip. Take a look to watch and hear the GT-R on road and track.
We’ll see this car debut at the Tokyo show in October of this year.
Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has confirmed that the new GT-R will be built at Nissan’s Tochigi factory in Japan, with the engine sourced out of Nissan’s Yokohama plant. Even at this late stage of the game, with the finished car less than 12 months away, and with mules widely seen testing at Germany’s Nürburgring, a thick blanket of secrecy still hangs over the exact spec of the new GT-R, and insiders say only a small handful of top Nissan people really know the car’s engine capacity for sure.
Japan’s well connected grapevine, however, remains convinced the new GT-R will run with a 3.7-liter DOHC twin-turbo V6, producing around 450 brake horsepower and torque of 366 pound-feet.
Combined with state-of-the-art electronic all-wheel drive, this is a formula that’s Nissan’s devised to take on and defeat the Porsche 911 Turbo, and for tens of thousands of dollars less.
Media visiting the opening of Nissan’s new global design studio in Atsugi, Japan, had another chance the see the GT-R PROTO, the 2005 Tokyo Show car that points very closely to the shape and form of the coming GT-R, the first the legendary Japanese GT-R breed to be developed for global release.
While the GT-R PROTO was displayed on a turntable at last October’s Tokyo Show, on this occasion, it was down on the floor and for the first time, one could truly appreciate just how big the next GT-R will be.
While the R32, R33 and R34 Skyline GT-Rs from 1989-2002 that built up the modern GT-R legend were relatively compact for their speed and class, the coming GT-R is much, much bigger, with a really broad, muscular, take-no-prisoners profile.
On the naming front, Nissan has decided that GT-R will be the world name for the car. It’s then up to individual markets whether to tag the classic ‘Skyline’ on as well. So in North America, Nissan looks set to go with the simple badge: GT-R.
+ WINDING ROAD: Spy shots of Nissan’s GT-R in testing. Click here!
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