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  • I want this car so badly!

  • I want this car!

  • "brisk acceleration" understatement of the century

  • It's spelled NISSAN not freakin NEEESSAN - Say it right!!!

  • love the look of this car.......looks like a train!!!!

  • add the AMS ALPHA12 package and bugatti ss & porsche cant even compare.

  • @cheethabeast as if the porsche cant already compare

  • nissan should make limited production, fact they make it every year with so many of them see in the street evenghouth probably beat anything in the street.

  • @0mega101 what the fuck did i just read

  • Love everything about this car except the looks...please Nissan, make it look more like the lfa.

  • @xulisvoosmuas i read that Nissan focused on displaying Japanese culture in the gt-r's styling

  • Best Car in the world !!!

  • 2013 gt-r 0-60 in 2.7 on pump gas :)

  • WORST AUTO MAKERS = India, China, America, Russia

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy either you are trolling, or have your facts completely wrong.

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy Cough* Those are countries last time I checked *Cough

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy and France!

  • @InhumaneClient that's not true

    

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy lol america is included? haha I agree though :)

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy you forgot korea

  • @S1ick10292 NO !, Korean cars actually have really good quality ! - better then American cars !

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy True but not true

  • @HistoryHmoobGuy im sorry but america doesnt belong in there, thats such old news

  • the big companies charge a lot because they can. If Nissan charged 300k for the gtr no one would buy it cuz it's a relatively new car. watch in maybe 20 years the GTR might cost 180k.

  • @IndentV the GTR has been around for quite some time now

  • put a V8 in that bitch

  • i prefer the old gt-r mags

  • 1 problem wit this same pro wit the new McLaren MP4-12c its too technicalfeels like it desnt have the soul and passion tat ferraris and lambos hav

  • @steven68301 Shut up and go back to school. You have time to type it out also. You are on Youtube wasting time!

  • COME ON GUYS ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY :P

  • not only nervous...Jealous, too.

  • its a great car in a straight line but suffers in handling because of the weight and 4WD

  • @Mikedelike you should inform yourself about the Nissan GT-R r35 before you`re writing such crap! This car is faster than most other supercars 200k< Example? 7:24.22 Nürburgring Nordschleife!

  • @Mikedelike lmao its best known for its amazing handling, the top speed and acceleration is just a bonus. do you actually know anything about this car?

  • @adz94wally have you driven the car? no but i have and i know what im talking about just because it may be your favourite car doesnt mean its perfect.

  • @Mikedelike ive never driven the car a doubt i ever will and its far from my favourite car, but i do know things about it, its handling is 1 of its best characteristics, ferrari took the whole car apart to try and find out how nissan had made it so quick around corners despite its weight but their engineers couldnt figure out why and as far as i know they still dont know how its so fast......

  • @adz94wally Perhaps the should have brought a bunch of IT grads and teens that spend too much time playing PlayStation

  • @gotmatt2 your point is?

  • @adz94wally That the computers do everything, a company that makes real driving machine may find that hard to understand.

  • @gotmatt2 well i still think that a computer is only as good as its designers and gotta say congrats to the Nissan IT techs for creating a spectacular system.

  • @adz94wally hence my first point.

  • @Mikedelike ... if ferrari say its a fast car i think they probably know what their talking about so for you to say its handling suffers because of its weight and its (very advanced) 4wd system is just stupid.

  • @adz94wally just shut up man i never said it wasnt fast, isaid the handling isnt great because of how heavy it is and if you knew anything about cars you would know that 4WD cars suffer from understeer because the power going to the front whells makes it much harder to turn.

  • @Mikedelike i still dont understand how you can say the handling suffers, its probably one of the best handling cars on the market because of its 4wd system, when the front wheels sense understeer the ECU shifts the power to the rear wheels to reduce it, if the ECU senses oversteer it shifts the power to the front wheels the reduce it and it does this 100s of times a second, on a normal 4WD car you would get understeer but this isnt a normal 4WD car.

  • @Mikedelike The car is known for it's handling. You must be crazy to think it's handling is bad or even a little bad.

  • the 2013 is even better

  • 0.89 g? Thats crap, even 2 tonnes cts-v got 0.90. At least this car is as fast as shit.

  • I'm not a GTR fan... but dang they out did themselves this year! An this car is cheap!

  • Get a better driver MotorTrend..

  • @rotarypsi Yeah, these mags put 16 yr olds in the seat lol

  • Don't instigate shit people. This is a Ferarri and the Corvette is a plastic Lamborghini.

  • @falaqdad15

    Corvette isn't plastic there bro.

  • love this dam car

  • 2012 gtr is 110K not 91.

  • @Alexgotnicebody no, it really is 90k look at the other motrent video on the side >>> with the drag race beween the gtr, z06 and gt500. Price as tested was 90k.

  • @Alexgotnicebody 2012 gtr premium runs $89,950

  • @QrazyQracker13 you are right. i was thinking of different gtr. the 2013 black edition.

  • lie isnt 2.9 seconds is 2.7 seconds

  • Gtr is a joke and is like playing a video game!

  • @mikennamorato Zr1 is lame and its like totally slower! gtfo..

  • @QrazyQracker13 I agree the the zr1 is a plastic bathtub. By the way the 2013 is sadly going to be 7,000 dollars more.

  • my husband and I are always going back and forth on which we love more the 911 - or the GTR

    maybe we should just buy them and race each other? lol

  • Most of the negative responses hatin on the GT500 or American engineers fail to understand the view of the average American driver. The GT500 is muscle car with some track handling capabilities! We want to press the gas pedal and do 3 shift throws to get to 0-60 seconds. Even though the GT-R is an awesome value for the money, I would not want to spend a minimum of 5 hours learning how to set up a GT-R to go 3.0 seconds!

  • greekfenah is a hater. prob a dumb fucking redneck hating on everything that's better made by better ppl. 50s are over pal. its ppl like you that the u.s. auto makers rely on so they continue to pump out crapp and say its american whilst its being made in mexico or canada. Nissan has a plant in the u.s. made by so called americans.

  • @nismofury hes not a hater.....said a very good point....different cars for different purposes

  • mmmmmm i would fuck her

  • Anyone Who says American Engineers suck Have no Clue what there talking about. Different Cars Designed for Different Purposes. Frankly I don't give a dam if your GTR has the fastest 0-60 Time, I Will buy the car that makes me happy. And I know for Damn Sure id have more fun in a Vette than a GTR

  • my dream car

  • 2.9 seconds!

  • wheres the o ins Nissan?

  • More beter the old model

  • dear motor trend,i love the picture quality !!!

  • As a proud owner of this amazing Nissan I must say that I'm a little confused that they waited until the 2012 model year to re-input the launch control. It realy makes any average joe look like the stig on steroids for launches.

  • With all the dick waving going on here, let's not confuse automotive engineers with those of other specializations. Engineers who design space shuttles, nuclear reactors, planes and bombs for the military, etc. are not the same ones who work on sports cars in Detroit.

  • Lexus Who?? 

  • Just imagine what a $300,000 Nissan Supercar would be like...SCARY

  • @tom11zz884

    It would probably travel through time.

  • @blakout9t4 loool so true yu never know with the japanese

  • To me, the Nissan GT-R is really a poor man's Ferrari or Porche 911 Turbo. Only these 2 Euro Super Car, and the Corvette would play in the GT-R's league. All this for around $90k? Not bad.

  • @76carmel 2012 GTR is faster then Porsche and Lambos and all those other overrated cars.. GTR isnt a poor mans car, it is an amazing car all around.

  • @SugaryPrince It just goes to show with the statement Nissan is making, with a car less than $100,000 can make an AMAZING car, that will put those ridiculously priced supercars to shame, still being a hand made car, and probably easier to drive as well.

  • @SugaryPrince

    I'll agree, the Porsche, Lamborghini, and Ferrari is more of a status symbol in the world of sports cars. I'll take this GTR over anything.

  • guys the american fanboys r gonna get mad when i say this: JAPANESE AND EUROPEANS KNOW HOW TO BUILD CARS, AMERICANS SHOULD JUST STICK TO MAKING PLANES...... COZ THEIR CARS SUCK ;D

  • @Thebmwisthebest ALLELUJA!!! And I thought I was the only one with this logical notion of thinking. I even get dry heaves when I start to hear of those new 'Ford' innovations and such at 0% financing and such. Same goes to the wannabe Koreans with their ever shitty and truly worthless Kia and Hyundai. That's when you actually go American, is when someone offers you one of those garbage heaps.

  • @ThePachCode :)

  • this car is bad ass forreal....

  • i agree the car should have more brain then muscle

    thats the way of life :D

  • There are tons of people running low 11s on zr1s. and they trap around 10 mph more in the 1/4 mile. Which means up top, youd be more than raped.

  • Dear Nissan,

    I want you to know that up until now, all I have is a '92 Sentra SE-R. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining because I do love my car to the last bolt.

    But please, please. If you happen to come by Mr. Godzilla in his spare time, could you ask him to come mate with my car? I would love to have even his half-blood offspring.

    Pretty please?

    LOL! XD

  • welcome back to the "red top" nissan engines (=

  • mannnnn i want it :I

  • @CharlesV27

    I love the GTR, but don't be stupid. AWD is what gets it done and AWD will never show up in a muscle car simply by muscle car culture and design.

  • Boo Ghaaa TEEE!!! WTF...

  • I said GOD DAMN! God damn, god damn...

  • i love the gtr, but people need to stop bashing on ZR1s, i love both of them, although i might never be able to afford it. just imagine if ZR1 had AWD and launch control........yeah.....it'll raped the gtr.

  • @fhhs05 The thing is, I've been to a lot of GT-R videos and always see some dumb Americans posting ZR1 is way better than that shitty pos.

  • @ClubbySuperCharged Ja all american are have to much proudness to execpt that for examble a Porsche goes faster from 0-60, or 0 - 120 , I think the Topspeed isnt the important when its no Supercar, the acceleration is the important by Sportscars

  • @MrPatschn Sir, I couldn't agree more since Americans loves doing 1/4 mile.

  • @ClubbySuperCharged If they love it so, why are they then so stupid an build cars where the motor is in the front and then rear drive? They cant love Drag races. No traiction control nothing .

  • I WANT A BLACK ONE PLEASE!!

  • @morpheusmann thats what she said

  • Gotta love all the American haters........only thing I gotta say is......2010 Dodge Viper ACR Nurburgring new lap time of 7:12.13 come back and talk shit when your little Automatic POS Jap car betters that time. Eh who am I kidding never gonna happen...

  • The GTR is unbelievable quick, it just bogles your mind by seeing it go flat out and when your brain ctop melting down then you realise that even fast ferraris aren't that fast next to GTR you stop and think why would anyone buy porshe or ferrari and the answer is the brand because nothing else comes close. GTR is for other cars what was "Blackbird" for aeroplanes and it cost hell of a lot less than german or italian cars.

  • BEAST !

  • Japanese engineers (NISMO) > American engineers (GM)

    PROOF: Japanese engeneers managed to make a 3800 lb, 3.8L Twin-turbo V6 car accelerate faster than a 3,352 lb, 6.2 L Supercharged V8 while carrying two children on the back seats

  • @CharlesV27 Goes to show you that American Engineers still have a long way to go to catch up with the Japanese engineers...The sad part is The American engineers have to make a super car by having a super huge displacement engine that sucks gas...the Japanese engineers, on the other hand, seem to know all of the little mathematical and scientific secrets that allows them to do more with less...go figure.

  • @tom11zz884 Kind of Ignorant seeing as "American Engineers" put men on the moon and robots on mars and engineered the technological military marverls that made America an empire... So I think American engineers are more than proven already.

    The only thing that makes the GTR so damn fast is the electronics plain and simple... American sports cars mainly the Corvette are built solely with drivers in mind... Two polar opposite target markets.

  • @Greendude33 if this were true, they would not have implemented launch control, traction control etc in the zr1. so much for "built soley with drivers in mind". you are wrong.

  • @innie721 Those with the exception of Launch control are called SAFETY FEATURES.

    Traction Control with the touch of a button is off in a ZR1. Not something an experienced track driver wants. And Launch Control is only for amateurs, pros dont need it.

    FYI the fastest supercomputer on Earth is the Raytheon system developed in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the F/A 22 Raptor Stealth Fighter. Civilian supercoms dont even compare..

  • @Greendude33 wow you really didnt research the supercomputer did you? nevermind, i guess google is too much of a challenge for you.

  • @tom11zz884 sucks gas? GTR= 16/23mpg. ZR1=14/21mpg. Do you think anybody that has the money to buy either one of these cars cars about 2mpg? Its not like the GTR gets 30mpg just b/c its a japanese V6, dont assume things. 

  • @tom11zz884 Don't think for a minute American engineers suck. The GT-R has AWD and a paddle shifter transmission. The VR engine inside the GT-R weighs 620 lbs. The "bigass" LS9 in the ZR1 weighs 530 lbs. ZR1 is RWD and uses a 6 speed manual. Like I told the other top commenter, it all balances out in the end. It doesn't mean American engineers suck.

  • @elr456 That's why american engineers suck =))

  • @tom11zz884 ford has less displacement and more hp then dodge and chevy and if we put a twin turbo in a 3.7 v6 with sticky tires that would be a canibal mustang

  • @tom11zz884

    dont forget german engineers too

  • @tom11zz884 true..but they are FINALLY starting to catch up..for example..the new Mustang Boss 302...very good car..faster than the BMW m3 in most instances

  • @CharlesV27 its called AWD, and who gets to 130 faster? thats acceleration, lol.

  • @CharlesV27 I prefer the GTR, its a better car but its AWD system gives it a advantage in 0-60 times, if the Corvette ZR1 was AWD, it would be faster.

  • @CharlesV27 No the software engineers made the GTR fast... American software/electronics are still superior to Japanese. I/e Apple,Microsoft,IBM,Intel etc... Let's not forget the worlds fastest supercomputers and processors are also American not Japanese.

    American auto manufacturers have all the electronic resources available that any Japanese company would have it's just that Corvette or Viper buyers do not want them in their cars.

    Business 101:you build what the customers want.

  • @Greendude33 uhh the worlds fastest supercomputer is made by fujitsu, who are japanese, look up "K computer", and your "superior" american technologies are just researched in the US and made in China (apple, intel, microsoft) look up Foxconn, so no, americans do not have "all the electronic resources available". stop talking shit. judging by your profile you are clearly pro-american anyway, so no doubt you will not face the facts.

  • @innie721 American corporations manufacture in China simply b/c you can pay 100 Chinese workers the exact same amount it would have cost them to pay one American in the US. Not the best of scenarios for some industries but it keeps my iPod and Nikes cheap so what. Fact is any American car manufacture can load their cars with computers to make up for the lack of driving talent in many but the target market of American performance cars do not want them in their cars. Thats just simple Economics

  • @Greendude33 simple economics.. whos economy is in the shit right now? oh, americas. looool.

  • @innie721 Last I checked it was most of the Industrialized World having economic problems not just the US...

    Careful with those stones in that glass house...

    As for that CIVILIAN Japanese computer it couldn't process fast enough to run one system on the F-22, and the Raytheon is also compact enough to be fitted on a military aircraft, try that with any japanese computer.

    Maybe that's why the JDF buys American fighters oh and so does your Military go figure...

  • @Greendude33 lol it even says on the Raytheon website how much processing power the computer has in the F/A-22, and it comes nowhere near the power of the K computer, a fraction. im embarrassed for you, you were clearly born stupid, were you perhaps dropped as a child? its not hard to use google.

  • @innie721 Oh Im sure highly classified F22 Avionics info is just posted everywhere isn't it... You're an idiot the US military's contractors do not post weapons and electronic system data for just anyone to see... You only embarassed yourself by exposing an obvious lie you just made to try to support your weak argument. What is know however is that its close to the equivelence of 5 Cray Supercomputers (source Popular Mechanics) which we know calculates faster than any known civlian system.

  • @CharlesV27 GM = gay master

  • @CharlesV27 bullshit. A zr1 with a good driver will smash a gtr. The numbers are always skewed by some jackass behind the wheel. The corvette requires drivers skill. The GTR is just pressing on the gas.

  • @CharlesV27 America built the nuke and put people on the moon with the processing power of one of todays watches. Suck it

  • @christoabbe Didn't they rely on German immigrants to do all that? =)

  • @jaymum23 Yup, and other immigrants looking for a better life. There isn't an American race.

  • @christoabbe

    Don't confuse PHYSICISTS with ENGINEERS. They are a completely different breed. Vitually all good 'American' engineers today are immigrants.

  • @sagespiff I'm not an uneducated idiot. Both were necessary for those projects, I doubt physicists could engineer the Apollo spacecraft or the Lunar Module. America is a land of immigrants, anyone from any country can come here and become American.

  • @CharlesV27 Do you really think that American engineers, the only people who have put people on the moon, are incapable of making a fast car? Is that why the lingenfelter corvette could do 0-60 in under 2 seconds? Why would if someone can actually afford one of these cars, I don't believe they have the slightest care of how much gas it uses.

  • @CharlesV27

    omg pathetic kid grow up 

  • @CharlesV27

    NISMO are tuners you idiot , engineeers right ? gtr's engine weighs like 600 lbs zr1's 500 , fuel economy gtr 2012 16 mpg , zr1 14 mpg , gtr is heavy as fuck too coz of it's awd system

  • @CharlesV27

    without launch control and AWD(which makes it heavy ) it's junk great car for pussies though ,

    zr1 2011 7.19 2011 around nurburgring , 2012 gtr 7.21 its barely faster than z06

  • @CharlesV27 Well because the Nissan GT-R has AWD and a paddle shifter transmission. ZR1 is RWD and a 6 speed manual. It all balances out in the end. That doesn't mean American engineers suck.

  • @CharlesV27 It's called AWD.

  • @CharlesV27 You have to take into account that all of the good American engineers end up working for Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed, and Raytheon. That's why America's planes are better than anyone else's, but its cars aren't.

  • It looks like it was beaten with an ugly stick lol other than that, it's pretty badass!

  • Those figure 8 average times are insane...

  • 2012 GTR is so ugly there is something different about it but I will take the 2010 GTR less power but still fast

  • JAPAN > AMERICA

  • @drzreggaeton617 ?? In what? Deficit as % of gdp? gnp? Earthquakes? Nuke accidents? Recession length? Give me a break, bozo...

  • @marcomariaz26 I think he meant average life expectancy for the Japanese was larger than average life expectancy for the Americans. As we know, all the Americans ones are larger than all the Japanese ones except for it.

  • in a few years no CORVETTE can touch a NISSAN GTR AND WITH A BASE MODEL GTR,,,,,,, CORVETTE FAN ALREADY CRYING LIKE HELL the NISSAN GTR ENGINE IS GETTING BIGGER EVERY YEAR THE PERFORMANCE IS GETTING BETTER EVERY YEAR WHAT ELSE CAN I SAID GM COMPANY GOING TO HAVE PROBLEM KEEPING UP LOL. NOT JUST THAT JAPAN GOT THE V8 NISSAN GTR IN A GT500 RACE IN JAPAN LOL TOO BAD NISSAN DON'T WANT IT TO COME TO THE U.S.A OR SOMEBODY GOING TO CRY LOL

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  • This thing would be in a junk yard within 2 years that's why Nissan wasn't around in the 1960's it was datsun, if the corvette zr1 had better traction that car would have no competition

  • @FalloutFanatic51 XD ignorant post ignorant post :P

    Just cos Nissan WAS Datsun its going to be in a junk yard? rofl

    so in that case GM was bankrupt aswell... and that makes the corvette more than likely to end up in a junkyard

  • make the stuttgart, munich and maranello undoubtly nervous....lol

  • id get it black on black, fully loaded, 0 miles, and id send it to ams and have them put an ams alpha 12 kit in it, then id tint the windows and maybe put a sound system in, that would be the sickest gtr out there end of discussion. Lol

  • Whoever was driving this during the video is fucking beast. 2:20

  • @dandamansrandomvids running 15s or something

  • oh dear, how can they make a review about such an awesome car sound so boring!?! stop reading off a script and droning on about stopping distances, get out there and drive the f***ing thing! ^^

    other than that, nice review - but I'm flicking back to Top Gear...

  • At 1:39, 0-60 ecstasy! It is like being in a roller-coaster I bet. If I had the money, this would be in my garage. This test forgot the skid pad?

  • I heard from somewhere that there's going to be an R36 GT-R.

  • A lot better, but still needs some work before I'd buy! The looks just is not there, but butter........

  • Weight cut onlly 41 lbs? Jesus man taking out the spare tire and tools would reduce more weight!! This thing is still a fat ass, good thing it has a monster motor.

  • @thehacker660 Sorry i don't have GT games and sorry im not into the rod unless your speaking of the little one women have but i have a thought you might not know about those!

  • Damn i get butterflies in my stomach every time i watch GTR videos... What's wrong with me!?!?!?!

  • nm

  • does the nissan gtr have a clutch pedal by the brake?

  • @velcro62 lol no its an automatic

  • @xCarzHD ok thanks! but i was wondering how could someone drift in a GTR? im guessing you cant.. :/

  • i was wondering how could someone drift in a GTR? im guessing you cant.. :/

  • @velcro62 well you can still drift in an automatic car but it wont be as good and considering is AWD not doesnt help ethier but you ebrake then massage the pedal you can still drift type in on youtube Nissan GTR drifts