Saw a Nissan GT-R yesterday.

Was driving out of Cedar Lake, IN yesterday and while turning out onto Route 41, I saw it out of the corner of my eye.

Damn it's huge.

There's a couple of them out here in NW AR.

Saw one this morning, although I've seen it a number of times, so not surprising.

I have seen a few of them. We have had a shop called Topspeed here in north Atlanta get their tire work and alignments done here that has a couple of GT-Rs. We actually just mounted their One Lap of America GT-R wheels and tires up last week.

No matter how much I want it to or I think it should, that car just does nothing for me.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: Was driving out of Cedar Lake, IN yesterday and while turning out onto Route 41, I saw it out of the corner of my eye. Damn it's huge.

Yeah, definitely on the zaftig side. I rode along with GTB_ZR1 in his once.....something that size has no business being that quick through the cones!

I rode in one last year. It really is amazing how fast the car is (straight line and handling) for how big and heavy it is.

The launch control is breathtaking

Put it next to a regular sized car and it doesn't look huge at all.

In reply to carguy123:

It is giant next to say a Camry. They are large cars. If you see one sitting in traffic it is obvious how big they are. They are on the scale height wise with small SUVs.

Not a car that does anything for me either, but I sure can respect the performance.

I see them a lot around here and they aren't all that big in reality. They look big when sitting by themselves due to the high waist line and body lines, but when I see them by any regular sized car I'm always amazed at how small they really are.

We had one at our high speed autocross. I think the driver was afraid of it. Didn't impress.

I've seen a few. They look better in real life, but they're still fugly cars.

We had one autocross yesterday. When sitting on grid, they're huge. Then again, my Mazda2 is a really really tall car when on grid. It was pretty amazing watching him make his way through the tightest slalom we've had in a long time. He drove the car well.

There's one here, the owner couldn't resist the urge to rice and put a body kit, big white rims and aftermarket spoiler on it. It doesn't look bad, but...it's not really an improvement.

Probably cost over $400k landed

Edit: Blurrycam pic:

Last year when I was working in Lafayette, I'd see one on the Purdue campus frequently. It was owned by a student, and he drove it year-round, in the snow, on the stock tires.

T.J. wrote: In reply to carguy123: They are large cars. They are on the scale height wise with small SUVs.

Thats not surprising when you consider all the hardware required to make a GT-R do what it does.

If Range Rover made a sports coupe it would probably be alot like the GT-R, at least on paper. But it would definitely have a prettier face

All things considered though, I wouldn't be quick to kick a GT-R out of my garage.

There are two guys with GT-Rs that randomly show up at our autocrosses. One of them is a grey one that is driven daily. It's filthy outside, and the owner drives the snot out of it. A real man. I like.

The other one is red. The owner sometimes pulls into the parking lot to watch the event. When asked why he isn't racing, his response is that he "doesn't want to break it." A pansy. I am disappoint.

I mean don't get me wrong guys, the GT-R is a spectacular machine. I just have never liked how much it it differed from the previous GT-R and it's lack of manual transmission. It has taken several years for it's styling to warm up to me and realistically the only styling ques I like are the quad taillights.

I just can't get wiggly over them. I saw one recently in Montreal and it did sound quite nice echoing around the narrow cobbled street, but NOTHING like the v12 Ferrari the next day. That one made the hair on my arms stand up before I even saw the car. Hell, I don't even know which model it was, I was too busy having an audio-gasm from the exhaust notes ricocheting around narrow street.

I saw 2 this past weekend ...at least once and usually twice per 30 min. session ... can you imagine the closure rate compared to my mostly stock D16A6 CRX ?

actually it's gets a bit scary some of the time

I dunno, that GT-R looks tiny next to this guy:

http://jalopnik.com/the-worlds-fastest-man-gets-the-worlds-goldest-nissan-493143373

A gold GTR? That looks a lot better than I would have thought.

There were two at a cruise-in Friday night. I talked to the owner of one, gentleman probably in his mid-late 60s. I had thought they were only Japan & had to wait 25 yrs to import. I was wrong.

He said this one was at a local Nissan dealership & while talking to a sales guy, the salesman mentioned he had this in the back. He took one look at it & called the boss/wife to confirm. Bought it that day.

In reply to Jerry:

The R35 GT-R has been available in the US since its introduction to the world. The previous models however were not able to grace us with their presence.

I saw a few at NASA HPDE events a couple years ago. None were being driven particularly well. I lapped one twice in a 20 minute session at Summit. I was doing 1'26", 1'25", so the dude had to have been going backwards slow.