Nissan Beats Porsche? 2009 Nissan GT-R (U.S.-Spec)

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For a few seconds, you give in to the spectacle of driving a 2009 Nissan GT-R. This car attracts its own entourage and then takes you along for the ride. It's not just the Skyline mystique, either. It's the fact that even in production sheet metal, the R35 GT-R looks like a one-off concept stolen from a Southern California design studio. It has as many hard contours as a Porsche 911 has soft curves. You have the key fob, and still you ogle it.

Soon, though, you point the GT-R down an on-ramp and plant the throttle. The effortless brutality with which the 2009 Nissan GT-R gathers speed is what you'll describe to your friends — once everyone's tired of talking about the styling, that is.

What you won't tell them is that you suspect your supercar might be a sociopath. It doesn't flow around corners like your E46 BMW M3 did, nor does it transmit feedback through the steering wheel for the sheer pleasure of it.

Instead, the 2009 Nissan GT-R bends asphalt to its will. When it talks to you about tire grip, you get the feeling it's only bothering because you're part of its great plan to break free of the Earth's orbit. Should it ever achieve this, you imagine that its conversation will cease and it will simply expel you into the airless void. Until then, though, you have the conn.

Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: May 9, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Author: InsideLineVideo

Length: 00:03:08
Rating: 4.61
Views: 418743

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Video Comments:
Kostrider12 (November 18, 2008 at 7:14 pm)
Maybe you should support your industry, which is a good one. As for me, my country doesn't have industry so i can buy whatever i like. But if you insist 1= Japan 2= USA 3= Germany 4= the rest. And for your time thanks.
fenixvictorious (November 18, 2008 at 2:59 am)
The Nissan GT-R has 473 hp, is very close to the 480 hp´s from the 911 Turbo, i think that is more fun drive the Porsche because the car transmits you more, the Nissan is so much computer...
juliantb7777 (November 18, 2008 at 2:41 am)
Even though anyone would love to have a porsche logo on their car, and would probably want the porsche, this car kicks ass!!! and for 76,000. thats amazing. Great job Nissan.
gonzales8765 (November 17, 2008 at 8:57 am)
370hp 3.6 seconds? You are clueless.
mytujuan (November 17, 2008 at 3:45 am)
All this above is for soheel 4 ass. ja ja ja
mytujuan (November 17, 2008 at 3:41 am)
RELAX little baby cry no more please.
take abook and educate yoursell go to the school and smell young pussycat to be happy forever like my he he he.
carl206rc (November 16, 2008 at 6:25 am)
let's see
porsche or nissan?
...porsche of course!
369121518210 (November 15, 2008 at 11:45 pm)
The guy who said you wouldnt pay 170G for this your an idiot.

This Gt-R fully loaded is $76,000.
Compared to a fully loaded dodge viper, Wich is slightly faster, Cost around $112,000.

Although this car is great, It has the nissan 370z as competition, with its standard package that has 370hp and goes 0-60 is 3.6 seconds.
604h22a (November 15, 2008 at 11:12 pm)
damn its just sticks to those curves
lozorov (November 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm)
Good deal! Enough about the aesthetics people, this car has performance that leaves expensive Vipers and Corvette ZR-1 scared and shitting in their pants!