Nissan GT-R SpecV First Independent Tsukuba Circuit Laptimes Reported

WHAT THE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......................

was the drift king drifting the car and getting lap times of 1:02.4?

Are the MY08 and MY09 times puplished by nissan? cause they seem to have a messed up stopwatch... i mean, it gave them a 7:29 for the nuerburgring :P

Isn't each engine handmade, allowing for some differences in power output for each individual vehicle? Maybe they tested some "more powerful than average" MY08 and MY09 cars and a "less powerful than average" SpecV. I'm not sure what the standard deviations on the HP and torque in these cars are..just speculating

the only explanation for this I can think of is that the car wasn't run in and had very low mileage. This can make HUGE difference.

Well, I don't know what every1 is complaining about, he obviously drove the car with his best Drift King ability, so a result of 1.02.4 sideways when the MY08 & MY09 did it with test-drivers who knew the car well, and had months spent doing laps in it, ONLY did 1.01 going forward... Besides, it looks a bit like...

This article has been up for over an hour, and still no sign of 'Vette-Trolls? WTF? Where's the "See, a ZR1 will eat this jap-crap!!!!!!!111oneone" in a whiney voice we've all grown to enjoy?

So the SpecV is different from the standard GT-R in what important way? Weighing sixty kilograms less and employing ceramic brakes but producing the same amount of power is not what I would consider a "hotted up GT-R." Depending on how much (or how little) braking is done on the circuit, it does not seem like this car should be decidedly faster than the standard version. After all, what is 60kg in a 2+2 coupe? While I don't agree it is in reality slower than the standard version, I certainly don't believe it is worth the premium. They didn't even have the sense to up the power! I'm sure there is a good reason for this... does anybody know why?

**** the GT-r get a ZR-1 and sleep tight

We will have to wait for more test for better reference and comparisons, I'm sure they wouldn't have the spec-v slower than the standard gt-r, still early days yet.

But, huh, wha, but, waaaaaaaa! Say it ain't so, yo. It's funny how the GT-R kiddies had to wait for the ZR1 trolls to show up for over an hour when you know dam well the GT-R trolls would of been here faster! Well kiddies, you do have that and only that with which to claim superiority over the ZR1! HA!!! The "Being Faster Trolls" trophy awaits you in the trunk of your brand new $161,000USD ($46,000 more than a loaded ZR1!) GT-R unSPECtacularV. I already see a lot of excuses, but not to many of you will admit to being shamed by Nissan and all the false reports that were started by the GT-R kiddies all over Blogs everywhere. 7:25 at the ring by track side hand held stop watches which was a made up time through the blogs anyways, and never happened! The GT-R is still a terrific car, but like every manufacturer around the world they go to far at times and come up with an over-priced version of the original! Then there are companies like Chevrolet that get it right with cars like the ZR1 that when you look at it now is a very reasonably priced Super Car compared to the GT-R SpecV's $161,000USD and the fact that the SpecV's performance is not even up to the standard GT-R's puts it in the "Not for that price" category. Stop making excuses and live with it. The GT-R SpecV was not designed to out due the GT-R on the track, but to give it the "looks" of a Super Car the GT-R falls short of....The black anthracite wheels, more Carbon Fiber and Ceramic rotors all do the job but leave the car short on performance. I read someone here say Nissan needed to work things out and it's to early to go by these marks......um, no. This car has been run around the Ring more than the standard GT-R and has had more R&D done on it than anything Nissan has produced since the Datsun days!

This shows one thing very well. Driver skill and experience with the car is perhaps the single most powerful aspect when putting down awesome lap times. No wonder why Porsche drivers couldn't just hop in and get a perfect ring lap.

I watch Best Motoring every month and the magazines track times are based on normal style driving. They purpose is to record the fastest time...no there is no drifting. The "Drift King" happens to be a competent race car driver. He got the name "Drift King" because he would show off with his drifting as fan service at races.

I've seen best motoring video of the my08 and my09 1:01.888 and 1:01.343 on that same track. Also in the Best Motoring test crew Keiichi is one hell of a driver. You should see the Sti vs Evo test they did (mind you its the Jap Sti not the Crappy euro spec one, the Japs engine may be only 2 litres but it revs to 8k rpm and is more powerful.) In Keiichi's hands he decimated the evo x's. I dont think the driver is the problem here. could it be that the V spec was not properly aligned when they tested it? Hmmm can't wait for the answer

With this scenario I say the best out of 5. Because it's all a bit weird to me.

Thats what you get when you talk smack to Porsche lol. The nissan GTR is a great car but the spec v is a waste of time and money...

You see, the GTR is such an awesome car, that it is even better than it's top spec version !

afterace lol you got it right on the money ZING ZING ZING!!! lol

they said the spec v will have 520 bhp... now it's 480, in other words...stock? thats stupid...

THE BRAKES!!!!! I just remembered that the new Spec-V uses ceramic discs instead of the steel on the standard GT-R. Maybe the brakes weren't hot enough for the test. That is the only explination. Everything performance wise on here is the same except for the suspention and the brakes. Ceramic brakes should stay on race cars!! Go back to the steel and slot them if you want to upgrade them. That will probably knock off $20k from the pricetag too!!