Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Nissan, First Drive
3 days, 3,000 miles, 1 GT-R: Inside Line's Godzilla road trip
Photo courtesy of Inside Line
According to our friends at Inside Line, there are seven U.S.-spec Nissan GT-Rs in the country at this moment. They have secured one of them, a white pre-production car handed over by Nissan's engineering team. (That's it above with IL's 308 long-termer.) With editors Scott Oldham and Ed Hellwig at the wheel, that car will get driven 3,000 miles over the next three days, and they're going to share the wealth! For added coolness, they'll bring the whip to a few selected Inside Line readers along the way, where the lucky fans will reportedly get to take Godzilla for a spin around the block. If that's not reader-love, we don't know what is. The entire trip's being blogged (and possibly vlogged, it seems) at Straightline, so check in over the next three days to follow their progress. It should be a good read. Here's hoping you get accustomed to that "comfort" mode, guys.
[Source: Inside Line]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John R 4:17PM (3/26/2008)
What's the rent to live in that garage?
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Drewds 4:19PM (3/26/2008)
The GT-R looks pretty nice in white. Unfortunalely, the 308 in the picture makes the picture look bad.
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stefan 4:34PM (3/26/2008)
The R35 looks awsome.
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TriShield 4:35PM (3/26/2008)
Edmunds Long-Term blog is one of the best out there. It gives excellent insight into what it's like to actually own the vehicles in their fleet and it's constantly updated.
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daz 4:38PM (3/26/2008)
I agree, the GTR in white looks great.
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nardi 5:46PM (3/26/2008)
I think the GTR (which I like but not for its looks) makes the 308 look even prettier in this pic. Forget the thirty years between them the 308 is an arse spankingly pretty car.
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Gooch 6:55PM (3/26/2008)
@ Drewds:
Uhhh... the 308 is a design ICON. What are you talking about?
@ Nardi:
Well said. Well said.
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500 7:30PM (3/26/2008)
Through his terrible typing, I thought Drewds simply meant that the mere presence of the 308 made the GT-R look bad.
Kevin White 10:40PM (3/26/2008)
Gorgeous. The red one I mean.
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hans 4:13AM (3/27/2008)
you actually can just walk into the garage. I used to work for a software company that was in the same building as edmunds (its the yahoo center in santa monica now).
edmunds moved across the street to the "water garden" complex. its pretty expensive. but edmunds parks all their test and review cars with all the other office cars. they even do that photoshoots down there sometimes (i saw them doing it for an Z4 M coupe once)
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Menny 9:05AM (3/27/2008)
Scott must be grateful that his brother Steve works for Nissan PR...
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