Nissan GT-R News

Seeing the red and blue lights in your rearview mirror can cause a bit of mild terror. Were you speeding? Did you signal when you changed lanes? What did you do wrong? Now, if you're an actual serial bad person, maybe there's a serious reason for a cop to be on your tail. If that's the case...

AMS Performance hasn’t been sitting idle after clocking a world-record setting 7.14-second quarter-mile time with its monstrous Nissan GT-R build. Following that record last November, AMS and driver Gidi Chamdi have done it again. The 2,500-horsepower AMS GT-R invaded the dragstrip to go for...

The current Acura NSX is an interesting vehicle. It's a sort of budget hypercar in that its not wearing an ungodly price tag (relatively speaking) yet it packs the combination of electric motors, batteries, and a gasoline engine that you'll find in some of the world's highest performing vehicles...

The third and final race car for the 2017 season of popular Japanese touring car series Super GT, the Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500, has been revealed. The will compete in the premier GT500 class alongside the new-for-2017 Honda NSX-GT and Lexus LC GT500 race cars, which replace the respective NSX-GT...

You know the name AMS Performance. It's the tuning company turning out insanely powerful and wickedly quick Nissan GT-Rs. You also probably know the name Gidi Chamdi, as we wrote about him and his Lamborghini Gallardo when he used it to hit 240.64 mph in a half-mile airstrip run, securing himself...

Nissan today announced pricing for the 2017 GT-R Nismo in conjunction with the 12th Annual Japanese Classic Car Show in Long Beach, California. The track-oriented Nismo is priced from $176,585, a large step up from the $111,585 Nissan charges for the GT-R Premium model. CHECK OUT: 2017 Nissan GT-R...

The Toyota 86 (formerly Scion FR-S) is a wonderful little machine. It's a rear-wheel-drive sports car that's affordable, approachable, and a ton of fun. Still, it could use a bit more power. When I say a bit, I mean another 50 horsepower and it would be perfect. When Street FX Motorsports of...

There are few cars more complex and sophisticated than Godzilla, also known as the Nissan GT-R. Our friend at Engineering Explained, Jason Fenske, has a knack for making the most complicated topics far easier to understand, and his latest project is dissecting just how the GT-R puts its 565...

Nissan is in the car business, but it has commissioned a special drone that is capable of keeping pace with the high-performance GT-R on a racetrack. The GT-R Drone, as Nissan is calling it, was designed by World Drone Prix Champions. Its most impressive spec is that it can reach 62 mph from a...

Heavily modified high-horsepower drag cars put a lot of abuse and strain on their parts. There's so much energy going through many components that it's not unusual for something to give up and call it quits. That's what happened to the rear end on a Nissan GT-R packing a reported 2,000 horsepower...

Nissan has announced pricing for the 2017 GT-R, and it's getting more expensive. The first model to be offered, the Premium, will start at $111,585. That reflects the $109,990 base price plus $1,595 for destination. The outgoing Premium model started at $103,365, so the price has increased $8,220...

Nissan used the Nürburgring as the backdrop for the unveiling of its 2017 GT-R Nismo, where the automaker is competing this weekend in the racetrack's annual 24-hour enduro. The latest GT-R Nismo, which saw much of its development at the Nürburgring, goes on sale later this year alongside...

Update: This post has been updated with a new video. Nissan has drifted its way into the record books—the Guinness ones—by drifting a GT-R Nismo at a staggering 189.49 mph. Not only did the custom GT-R nearly hit 190 mph, it did so at a 30 degree angle. MUST SEE: R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R...

We recently brought you a time-lapse video of Prodrive building an Aston Martin Vantage GTE race car for the World Endurance Championship in under 60 seconds. Now we have a similar time-lapse video showing fellow British motorsports and engineering squad JRM building a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 in less...

The R34 GT-R, the last of the actual Skyline GT-Rs, is one of the most epic cars to ever come out of Japan. Popularized through the Gran Turismo video games series and then later by the Fast and the Furious movies, the R34 is a cherished car and a rare sight in most parts, so it’s...

When you've got a sports car to promote, having the "world's fastest man" on hand isn't a bad thing. Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt is Nissan's "Global Director of Excitement," and he's also a fan of the GT-R. So what does he think of the refreshed 2017 model unveiled last week at the 2016 New...

Last year, we shared a video showing the team at AMS Performance taking its Nissan GT-R to the quarter-mile dragstrip and setting a new world record. The Alpha Omega GT-R blitzed down the strip in just 7.48 seconds. The trap speed was in the low 190-mph range. It's an insane show of speed for a car...

The Nissan GT-R, an R35 to those who know their GT-Rs from their Skylines, was unveiled to the world in 2007 and on sale in the United States the following year as a 2009 model. Almost a decade on the GT-R is still once of the fastest cars in production thanks to continual updates over the years...

The divide between mass production and hand crafting has reached the world of mainstream car brands, albeit only for a few select models. One of these is Nissan's GT-R. Earlier this week at the New York Auto Show, Nissan took the wraps off of an updated version of the R35-series GT-R, which in...

Nissan today at the 2016 New York Auto Show showed the most extensively updated GT-R since the car debuted in 2007. Performance fans will care that "Godzilla" adds 20 horsepower, but it also gets an extensively updated interior, a new infotainment system, and revised styling front and rear. The...