The Nissan GT-R can now lay claim to being one of the fastest production cars in the world after GT-R chief test driver Tochio Suzuki completed the famous Nurburgring circuit in Germany in just 7 minutes 29 seconds. According to our records, this puts the GT-R in second place for fastest laps by unmodified production cars just behind the Pagani Zonda F which posted a time of 7 minutes and 27 seconds last November. The time completely destroys the GT-R's previous best lap of 7 minutes 38 seconds achieved last year in slightly damp conditions.

Kazutoshi Mizuno, Chief Vehicle Engineer for GT-R said “At last year’s testing, we were frustrated by the conditions at the Nürburgring, always believing that the GT-R could go under seven minutes 30 seconds, the GT-R proves it is among the fastest mass-production cars in the world. We set out to build a multi-performance supercar accessible to anyone, anytime and anywhere – I believe the GT-R has delivered that promise.” The world can now look forward to a response from the GT-R's main competitor, the Porsche 911 Turbo whose best time stands at a lowly 7 minutes and 40 seconds

 

Mind bogglingly fast.

 

I wonder how many hours of track practise their test driver has gone through. It would be cool to see if Sabine could get it around any faster

 

 

+1.....

 

This crap is like the plague...migrating from one forum to another.

Nissan tries and tries for months to get a legitimate sub-7:40 lap time, and then POOF!!! 10 seconds GONE! This news comes despite the fact that the 7:38 time was accomplished by a pre-production car car on slick cuts...despite Nissan engineers admitting that the car is really a low to mid 7:50's car. Yet people continue to believe this psycho babble...

Gotta love the credible source too...

Nissan Europe News Bureau

 

Nissan should be congratulated for bringing a SuperCar to market in the $70k range where only Chevy with the Z06 was prior to the GT-R. I bet others will take notice and offer choices in this price range. Only fly in the soup is the price of oil. Just like in 1973, if the price goes higher, Car companies will shift production to economy cars again overnight, so get them while you can, there is no guarantee the horsepower war will last forever.