Jan 26
Oh the glory! Oh the wonderful paint scheme and body work on the new Nissan GTR GT500 race car. Godzilla is going racing again!
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Jan 08
The upcoming GT-R GT500 (see GT-R Back in Action) is destined to wear the new Nissan Works paint-scheme as decided upon by close collaboration between Nissan’s design team and NISMO (Nissan Motor Sports) along with feedback from members of the Club NISMO fan club. The new livery will be used by Nissan in all its motorsports activities in 2008. This will help audiences associate the GT-R GT500 immediately with Nissan.
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Nov 10
It’s been four years since the GT-R last competed in the JGTC when it won the championship in 2003. Now Nissan has been spied testing the track version of the GT-R and it looks like Batman has a new car. In all black livery, the body is completely carbon fibre, the GT-R surely fits the part as a Batmobile but doesnt need a jet engine to get it going fast. With a new 4.5 Liter V8 engine the GT-R will have 500HP and 510NM of torque. That’s plenty fast for a normally aspirated engine and without turbo lag too! Makes you wonder what they’ll use for the GT-R V-Spec and V-Spec II? Lets hope that Nissan has plans of taking on Le Mans with this car as well, as we predict it will be very competetive.
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Oct 31
Well here’s one for the F1 fan in all of us! It’s been speculated that Nissan has plans of joining Formula 1 next year. Considering that the new GT-R has an electronic manual transmission system, similar to transmissions used in Formula 1 and other high-end sports cars, and many years of success in the JGTC and successes in Le Mans racing, Nissan may already have the technology to start their own F1 team - or at least get started with help from an existing F1 team.
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