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Porsche 911 GT3 RS reportedly laps the 'Ring in 7:33

Another day, another Nurburgring time report! These posts are fun for a wide variety of reasons, not the last of which is the outpouring of love and understanding showered upon me whenever I link to my pal Jack's fascinating article on what 'Ring records really mean (hint: not much). Still, what is good about Nordschleife times (and the reason why we report on them) is that it gives you a good general idea of how a car performs under the most adverse and challenging conditions possible (barring weather). Green Hell, it's said, is a bitch. ... Read more →

Tokyo 2009: Godzilla Refined - Nissan shows revised GT-R Chris Paukert

Without much fanfare (okay – zero fanfare), Nissan has rolled a tweaked version of its home-market GT-R onto the show floor here at the Tokyo Motor Show. While you're not likely to ...

Nissan GT-R reportedly set to receive suspension and aero upgrades, SpecM confirmed Noah Joseph

The GT-R is already one of the most devastatingly fast cars on the market, but the speed-hungry record-breakers at Nissan aren't about to rest on their finely calibrated laurels. According to a ...

Texas tuner developing turbocharged V6 Camaro to take on GT-R's 'Ring record Jonny Lieberman

Must. Beat. Godzilla. For some reason. Here's the skinny. A tuner company called East Texas Muscle Cars is fitting a couple of turbos to a 2010 V6 Camaro in order to "beat" the 'Ring time laid ...

Nürburgring Rapid Response Nissan GT-R: World's fastest fire engine Jonny Lieberman

If there's one performance metric that's pure marketing hype, it has to be a vehicle's Nürburgring time. Our good pal Jack Baruth brilliantly debunked this ever-growing myth. In case you ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1967 Nissan Prince Skyline 2000GT 4 months ago on Autoblog

Long before Michael Jackson named two of his sons Prince, there was a Japanese manufacturer that went by that name. Actually, they were initially called Tachikawa Aircraft Company (builder of the Pearl Harbor-attacking Zeros) but then changed their name to Prince before changing it again to ...

VIDEO: 2010 Nissan GT-R makes supercar friends 4 months ago on Autoblog

It's Godzillapalooza time boys and girls! More precisely, the day before the 2010 Nissan GT-R had to go back, my buddy Steve asked if I could give him a ride in the Skyline. Well, he'd actually been calling since two weeks before the car showed up, but anyhow, Steve is a filmmaker and he ...

Review: 2010 Nissan GT-R - Does Godzilla Have A Soul? 4 months ago on Autoblog

Being an automotive journalist is like being a male porn star. We're little more than Piloti-shoed buffers between the reader and the objects of their lust, and really, no one cares about us. Still, you only get one chance to make an initial impression, so my first review here on Autoblog had ...

VIDEO: Tuned Nissan GT-R grenades tranny at the drag strip 11 months ago on Autoblog

The Samurai Speed Nissan GT-R you see above (the one on the right) is a total bad ass. With over 600 horsepower and several other performance-enhancing tweaks, it can do a 10.5-second quarter mile run at a ridiculous 128.42 mph. Samurai Speed has obviously tested Nissan's notoriously finicky ...

Review: 2009 Nissan GT-R 1 year ago on Autoblog

Nissan recently granted Autoblog four fleeting days with a red 2009 Nissan GT-R. While it seems every major automotive outlet has tested "Godzilla" on the track (including our First Drive), we chose instead to keep it on the streets to see if one of the world's most powerful and fastest ...

Is Nissan lying about GT-R horsepower? Pretty much. 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above to view our massive gallery of the 2009 Nissan GT-R. Back in the late sixties, automakers sometimes purposely under-reported the true horsepower that their solid-lifter, over-cammed and over-carburetor'd monster V8 engines actually delivered. More recently, some manufacturers have ...






Autoblog Podcast #155: 'Twas the night before LA...

Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert go over some LA Preview action and quietly whoop it up on the podcast.

 
 

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