Nissan GT-R Wins CoTY Japan Most Advanced Technology Award
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carcrazy1234
clean emission?? really?? umm please nissan you don't need to lie haha... i mean i love this car but after seeing that one fifth gear episode with bruno senna driving the porsche and this it really just sums up the efficiency. "half a tank of fuel gone after 20 minutes of hard driving"... that's a lot of fuel lol
still... don't care :P. this car is obviously the right choice for this award haha.
November 12, 2008 8:53 pm
Joe_Limon
yes what _M7_ said below. You can't tell a car's emissions based off of it's fuel consumption. They are related, but not directly. I believe there is one Volvo that actually collects and re burns emissions found in the ambient air and actually cleans the air as it drives.
November 12, 2008 9:38 pm
carcrazy1234
whoa really? (about the volvo thing)... do u know where to find that article??
damn why don't they put that into production lol that would be a big hit
November 13, 2008 12:26 am
Joe_Limon
http://www.automedia.com/Volvos_Concept_for_Cleaning_the_Air/dsm20030601vc/1
November 13, 2008 1:48 am
pzigly
You cant base a fuel test based on a race car drivers hard drive on the track. This car is an animal on the track and gentle on the road to save gas. It flys through the gears in automatic mode on the road to give you the best fuel economy. This car can get 18mpg combined hwy and city. For a 3800 pound supercar!!!!
November 13, 2008 5:35 am
eddie
The Japanese have done it again just like when the Datsun/Nissan 240Z hit the world in the 70's and the NSX in the 80's. Power and handling at half the price of everyone else even with import taxes.
November 12, 2008 8:58 pm
_M7_
the emision are controled by the catalitic or wherever you say, egr and all that things...not for how many fuel you waste
November 12, 2008 9:13 pm
mortz
There's no surprise nissan won this award, the emissions are controlled by a catalytic converterer which reacts with the exhaust gases and removes the polluting elements.
November 12, 2008 10:06 pm
Hiromichi
The model has a lot of features such as aluminum/carbon/steel compound body, twin-clutch transaxle with 4WD, game-like data logger etc. The point is all of them were realized at price of yen7.4mil($74000 at moment) w/o tax. This level of price competitiveness can never be done by German nor American. I am however,not fore for the model deserves for technology of the year because it has far less sophistication specially on city driving in terms of NVH. This is what I feel through day-to-day drive in Tokyo.
November 12, 2008 11:49 pm
flyerbry
They had one of these at our local auto show last year. It sat in the corner and no-one other than me even gave it a second glance. All the technology is great but in the end they are visually very boring in the flesh. I happened to see one on the road just the other day and had the same thought. Persnally, I like the looks of the original 240Z over this one.
November 13, 2008 12:59 am
Decypha
Well it was at an Autoshow around here not to long ago and I couldn't even get close; I only really caught a glimpse of it.
November 13, 2008 3:47 am
Joe_Limon
I live in a real red neck part of the world where about half of all vehicles on the road are trucks, and when it came to an auto show here it attracted about as much attention as the camaro/challenger prototypes.
November 13, 2008 3:53 am
Bremen_Koenigsegg
Well, duh. Of course it would win a technology award. It still looks like a burn victim.
November 13, 2008 4:24 am
lucifa
i think whoever said it looked like a catfish was on the money. and agreed, it's hardly a surprise..
November 13, 2008 8:00 am
michelin901
ha ha it was me. funny cus i walked into this market in chinatown one day and i saw like 50 gtr-s swimming around in a tank. seriously, im sure the designer must have seen the same thing.
November 15, 2008 3:50 pm
American-Rules
I wouldn't say GT-R is the "giant-slaying sports car". Maybe if she lose some weight and she has more power. Still reckon Porsche 911 Turbo is the World Supercar. Lighter, faster and has more grip than GT-R.
November 13, 2008 9:36 am
kimbo
lighter - yes, but faster? where? :D more grip? what that supposed to mean? :D
November 13, 2008 2:55 pm
mortz
No way the 911 has not got as much grip as the gt-r and no not even as fast as the gt-r, its been proven plenty of times world wide
November 13, 2008 4:23 pm
mortz
And just remember the people at Nissan were more concerned about having heaps of down force and one of the lowest cd.s of 0.27 so i don't think they intended it to look better that it performs, as the chief engineer stated the GT-R have always been designed function over form.
November 13, 2008 4:26 pm
GanSan
Well what other Japanese cars could compete with the GTR at the moment? It's a super car when the the only other Japanese sports cars are Evos and WRXs at the moment.
No brainer.
November 13, 2008 7:09 pm
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