Nissan GT-R News
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We often hear about the horsepower wars that are still taking place amongst a variety of automotive manufacturers. Only slightly lesser-known are the GT-R wars. This is a battle of a handful of aftermarket tuning companies that seek to push Godzilla to more and more amazing feats of speed. The latest salvo has been fired by Alpha Performance. This company produces a Nissan GT-R that pumps out 1,700 horsepower at the wheels. That's enough power to send this hulked-out two door down the 1320 in less than eight seconds. Think about what you could accomplish in that time. Not much, right? The...
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Nissan GT-R Midnight Opal Edition Limited To 100 Units Worldwide
Nissan has unveiled a new special edition GT-R sports car that will be limited to just 100 units for worldwide consumption. The new special edition is the 2014 Nissan GT-R Midnight Opal, which derives its name from the unique Midnight Opal color scheme applied to its exterior. The paint is applied...
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2015 Nissan GT-R NISMO To Pack More Than 570 Horsepower: Report
We already know Nissan is working on a NISMO-enhanced GT-R for launch in 2014, and we also know that it’s set to be the fastest road car ever launched by the Japanese automaker. But now we know roughly how much power the car will deliver. Speaking with Top Gear, Nissan officials revealed that...
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ShepTrans Builds Nissan GT-R Capable Of 8.61 Second Quarter Mile: Video
Update: The modified Nissan GT-R that recently set a record for the fastest street-legal GT-R over the quarter mile was incorrectly reported as being built by Switzer Performance. The car was actually built by ShepTrans, though it was equipped with some of Switzer’s components. Despite this...
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Sign Up For An eBay Garage And You Might Just Win A Nissan GT-R
The Nissan GT-R is a tool crafted by both wizards and engineers. Perhaps we should call them wingeneers? (Yes, I made that up on the spot--trademark pending) The car is capable of defying physics on a race track or winding road, and then can be driven comfortably on a road trip that stretches for...
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Team Galag's Custom Gumball 3000 Supercar Turns Out To Be A Modded Nissan GT-R
Just in case its street-legal Tumbler Batmobile wasn’t enough, Saudi Arabia’s Team Galag has brought along a custom supercar based on a Nissan GT-R platform for the Gumball 3000 rally taking place this week in Europe. The car is called the Team Galag TG1 and it made its debut on...
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Online automotive channel Drive has a new season of its popular Chris Harris On Cars segment and the first episode starts off with a bang. The episode sees three of the world’s best sports cars pitted against one another, though the choice of cars is a bit odd. They include an Audi R8 V10 Plus, a Type 997 Porsche 911 Turbo S and a Nissan GT-R. Nothing out of the ordinary here, right? Not quite, actually. One is a brand new car, another has just been superseded by a new model and the third has thousands of dollars worth of performance modifications. In case you’re wondering, the R8...
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Gold Medals Lead To Golden Nissan GT-R For Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt has earned the title of "World's Fastest Man". That's what they call you when you win gold medals at the Olympics and hold world records for both the 100 Meter and 200 Meter. Bolt's fleet feet have helped him run into other gigs outside of the athletic world, however. One such job...
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2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition: Priced, And A Rare Sight At The Track
Nissan has put a price on the most-wanted GT-R of the season—that's the competition-focused 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition. On this very limited edition (only 150 cars for the U.S. market), it's $115,710, or $116,710 after the $1,000 destination fee. The Track Edition forgoes the back seats...
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2015 Nissan GT-R Nismo First Details
Earlier in the year Nissan finally announced motorsport and engineering firm Nismo as its official performance partner. At the time, Nissan also confirmed the launch of its fastest GT-R yet, a new Nismo-enhanced model that would hit the market sometime in 2014. Few details were provided, although...
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Nissan GT-R Races 22,000-Horsepower Fighter Jet: Video
Drag races between cars and jets may not be the most accurate way of comparing performance, but they certainly are fun to watch. The latest pairs a 2014 Nissan GT-R with a Hawker Hunter fighter jet and sees the two face off on a runway strip in Switzerland. The stunt was organized by N_Magazine...
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Nissan GT-R Proves Its Snow Capabilities...Against An Infiniti FX And A 370Z?
In the world of supercars, there are battles and then there are "battles." This is one of the latter. In this rather dry and yet superficial look at the Nissan GT-R's snow-driving capabilities, Nissan sets up one heck of a straw man--or snow man, as it were. Testing slalom, acceleration, and...
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Bentley's exploits in high-speed ice driving are well-known--and officially recognized. But for Nissan of Europe, the official Guinness certification apparently wasn't as important as going flat-out on Lake Baikal in a bone-stock GT-R. You see, the claim made with this video is for the unmodified production car ice speed record. Bentley's ice speed record runs were made in a specially-modified "ISR," (Ice Speed Record) Continental Supersports model, in the hands of Finnish rally champ Juha Kankkunen. Top speed: 205 mph. Not long after, another Finn, Janne Laitninen, piloted an Audi RS6 to a...
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Has The Nissan Juke-R Started A Super-Crossover Trend?
The original Nissan Juke-R seemed to answer a question that few people were asking: what if you took an ordinary crossover and grafted the mechanicals of a world-class supercar to it? The end result was an unexpected hit the world over, and enough buyers stepped to the plate with a cost-be-damned...
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Nissan GT-R Nismo Coming In 2014
Coinciding with today’s formal announcement by Nissan that Nismo will become its exclusive performance and motorsport partner, was confirmation that the next model developed by the Japanese tuning firm will be a new, high-performance Nissan GT-R. Serving as the flagship of an expanded Nismo...
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2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition: Photo Gallery
A new Track Edition joins the fold for the 2014 run of the Nissan GT-R.
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2014 Nissan GT-R Priced From $99,590
A far cry from the 2008 launch pricing of just $69,850, the 2014 Nissan GT-R's base price of $99,590 significantly revises its price-performance ratio that made it such a stunning offering five years ago. At the same time, the latest prices are only about $3,000 higher than last year's, and the...
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Early Look At Nissan GT-R From Fast And The Furious 6: Video
After making a brief cameo in the fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious film series, Fast Five, the latest version of the Nissan GT-R, the R35, has been confirmed for a prominent role in the sixth installment, Fast and Furious 6, due out on May 24, 2013. But it won’t just be any old...
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Nissan told us what we could expect from its 2014 GT-R back in November, but the automaker’s fine print was accompanied by just a handful of images. Worse, the images depicted the Japanese market car, not the version destined for these shores. The automaker has since put things to right, publishing over 20 shots of the GT-R being put through its paces (photogenically, of course). Don’t expect to see big changes in appearance between the 2013 GT-R and the latest model, because Nissan opted to update the car with improvements under the skin. First and foremost are engine refinements...
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Nissan Announces 2013 Tokyo Auto Salon Lineup
Automotive news topics in January are typically dominated by the cars and concepts being unveiled each year at the Detroit Auto Show, and this coming January should be no different. However, there is another important auto show taking place in the first month of every new year, and that’s the...
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Nissan GT-R Sets New Lap Record At Road Atlanta: Video
If you're not familiar with the name, Leh Keen is one fast, fast driver, proving it season after season in the Rolex Sports Cars Series and, like you'll see here, a range of other events. As part of a NASA time trial, Keen--wearing street clothes and a helmet--piloted the TopSpeed Motorsports GT-R...
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‘Bolt Gold’ GT-R Helps Raise Over $190k For Charity: Video
An auction for a one-off ‘Bolt Gold’ Nissan GT-R plus a number of signed memorabilia from the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, has now concluded, and we can confirm that a sum of $193,191 was raised. All proceeds of the auction will go to benefit the Usain Bolt Foundation aimed at...
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2014 Nissan GT-R Preview: 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show
Few other automakers spend as much time, money and effort in honing their range-topping sports cars as Nissan devotes to the GT-R. Proof of that was seen in May of 2012, when the automaker entered a near-stock GT-R in the Nürburgring 24 Hour race, finishing first in class and 30th overall. As...
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Nissan GT-R Chief Engineer Hasn't Retired, Plans Meet With U.S. Owners
Kazutoshi Mizuno is often considered to be the father of Nissan’s range-topping sports car, the GT-R. Like all Nissan employees, it was assumed that Mizuno would retire following his 60th birthday, in accordance with company policy. Mizuno turned 60 this year, leading many to believe that...
Kurt Ernst