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For the price tag, honestly, I was expecting them to do much, much more than just that. Dissapointing. Ah well. I look forward to taking this bugger on round the 'course with two cylinders and a turbocharger less. Even today the Lotus principle(of light weight and low peak figures allowing for better overall performance) holds true. Nismo and Autech could learn from this.

I'd rather go for the optimum power-to-weight, with the design specification being drawn up around both wet weight CG AND polar moment of inertia before engine output. That basically means THE smallest, square-stroke, production alloy block available which will fit into the smallest and lightest platform that will accept it regardless of branding.

Holy ginormous pictures, Batman! I have to scroll just to hit the reply button! razz

Sorry Robin, I just didn't know how big it was going to be. My broswer tricked me. D;



rego?

Yes that is a very very very low sump, if I had one of those I'd probably go to the trouble of making a sump gaurd, I want to make one for my Alfa, because it actually sticks out infront of the car. O_o
Why not turn to the dark side and get one?

Tell me about it. The first time I drove a high-powered RWD car, I spun out.

Same here LOL.



It seems to be reversed from RWD, the way to catch it. Unless it's that bloody Civic that Chris from Centerline went and did up for lift-off oversteer a few years back: I SWEAR the damn thing goes sideways just like a Sprinter on both bald back tyres and crack!

So they made it faster and, by the looks of it, outfitted it with some horribly ugly wheels. Honestly, those look like the ones we sell to the customer with the '91 Ford Taurus that thinks they look phat - whatever that means. The base GT-R wheels look much better than those, and I don't even like those, either. The car needs LMGT4s, or those new LMZ5s they just released for the 370Z. Those look infinitely better.

Also, this Spec-V looks even more like a spaceship to me than the original. I can't help but think the designers at Autech were playing Halo when they came up with these renovations, infiltrating the Truth and Reconciliation to save Captain Keys from the Covenant menace. That's not a car, it's an alien battle cruiser from the planet Vorb, home to creatures with no knowledge of automotive design.

I'm disappointed; utterly disappointed. Drive this car through a nursery and it will make babies cry. Okay, here's what I really think about the car. Autech's taken the GT-R and done to it (cosmetically) what any good for nothing, driver's seat fully reclined, backwards hat with the pricetag still on it wearing thug could do. They've riced it out, son.

To think, Nissan's chance to seat themselves in the throne of world dominating glory and they came up with THAT. I don't even know how fast it is yet and I'm already angry, just by how it looks!

Anyways, I've already established that if I were given the opportunity to purchase a car for $100,000 it would be the Corvette ZR1. It's purer, plain and simple. If I suddenly took the helm over at Nissan headquarters, I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd take that glorious drivetrain and put it in a proper car like the Z.