Nissan Gt R Lm Nismo

After a poor debut, Nissan has announced that it will not re-enter its innovative GT-R LM Nismo prototype in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship.

After some redesigning and change in plans, Nissan will be entering the radical, front-drive GT-R LM Nismo in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship after all.

Nissan is shelving its return to the World Endurance Championship so that it can test and work out kinks in the GT-R LM Nismo racer.

Sportscar365 reports that Nissan is having meetings in Japan to determine the fate of the GT-R LM Nismo racer after a challenging Le Mans debut.

In this latest Nismo Universtity video, Nissan explains the radical approach it took in designing the GT-R LM Nismo, all to the benefit of aerodynamics.

Jay Leno has the radical Nissan GT-R LM Nismo in his garage to see what the Japanese automaker has in store to challenge the LMP1 class at Le Mans this year.

Nissan is fielding a third GT-R LM Nismo at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, featuring a retro livery that pays homage to the R90CK that took pole position in 1990.

Nissan attempts to explain why it's ignoring decades of convention and bringing a front-wheel-drive car to the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The relatively tame 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 in Nissan's radical Le Mans prototype is earmarked to power the next iteration of the road-going GT-R. Just don't expect the same 700-horsepower hybrid assist.

Nissan Nismo team reps talk about the design of the GTR LM Nismo endurance racer for Le Mans, skipping the first two races of the season, and failing a crash test in this video.

One spectator at the VLN endurance race at the Nürburgring in Germany this weekend has been pronounced dead after the No. 23 Nissan GT-R went airborne at the Flugplatz section of the track.

The Nissan GT-R LM Nismo will not make its competition debut until the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Nissan is withdrawing the racer from the first two events of the World Endurance Championship to focus on testing.

Nissan's test of the new GT-R LM Nismo at the ultra-bumpy Sebring circuit was brought to a halt after 68 laps because of a problem "with the engine mounting."

It doesn't get much stranger than the front-drive, 1,250-horsepower hybrid Nissan GT-R LM Nismo, revealed at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show as the factory announces the rest of its driver lineup for Le Mans this year.

If you were wondering what that unusual-looking racecar was that appeared in Nissan's Super Bowl ad, here it is: the front-engine, front-drive, hybrid Nissan GT-R LM Nismo - ready to tackle the top class at Le Mans and in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Jalopnik got photos and video of the Nissan GT-R LM testing at the Circuit of the Americas, and it's wilder than we imagined: it does have its engine in the front, it apparently uses that combustion engine to power the front wheels while its KERS unit powers the rear wheels, and total system horsepower for the racer "is a conservative 2,000 [hp]."

This rendering of the Nissan GT-R LM endurance racer to race in the top LMP1 class in the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans was supposedly based on reports from people who actually have seen the car. The engine supposedly fits underneath that long nose at the front, though behind the axle, for a novel mid-engine design. The brand promises to have a very different looking racer, and this would certainly fit those criteria.

Nismo, the motorsports and high-performance arm of Nissan, has a lot of racing success to celebrate in its history and possibly even bigger accomplishments to look forward to. The company is commemorating its 30th anniversary with a video looking back at its most important milestones from each year of its past.

For those wondering why Nissan named its coming Le Mans Prototype the GT-R LM Nismo, colliding the two worlds of sports car and prototype racing, an article in Autocar might have the answer. The deeper union is explained by saying that the next-generation GT-R will use "hybrid techno

The Nissan Zeod RC hybrid racecar is certainly cool with its pointy looks, we're excited to see it run, but it isn't built to win races so much as push boundaries. But we might not have too to wait long for one of the Japanese brand's vehicles to claim an overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well. The company is announcing the GT-R LM Nismo racecar with a two-car,