Nissan Beats Porsche? 2009 Nissan GT-R (U.S.-Spec)

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=126103

For a few seconds, you give in to the spectacle of driving a 2009 Nissan GT-R. This car attracts its own entourage and then takes you along for the ride. It's not just the Skyline mystique, either. It's the fact that even in production sheet metal, the R35 GT-R looks like a one-off concept stolen from a Southern California design studio. It has as many hard contours as a Porsche 911 has soft curves. You have the key fob, and still you ogle it.

Soon, though, you point the GT-R down an on-ramp and plant the throttle. The effortless brutality with which the 2009 Nissan GT-R gathers speed is what you'll describe to your friends — once everyone's tired of talking about the styling, that is.

What you won't tell them is that you suspect your supercar might be a sociopath. It doesn't flow around corners like your E46 BMW M3 did, nor does it transmit feedback through the steering wheel for the sheer pleasure of it.

Instead, the 2009 Nissan GT-R bends asphalt to its will. When it talks to you about tire grip, you get the feeling it's only bothering because you're part of its great plan to break free of the Earth's orbit. Should it ever achieve this, you imagine that its conversation will cease and it will simply expel you into the airless void. Until then, though, you have the conn.

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[vo7tage]

@Blueball0120 technically fiber glass is plastic reinforced by glass fibers. IDIOT.

[Advantag3]

@555tezza are you sure about 3.8sec?

Nissan GTR 2012- 2.8secs

[IPGAuto]

@calijerk310 - Porsche is my choice. The rest are so and so.

[calijerk310]

@IPGAuto are you forgetting motor trend rated it car of the year. The only probelm with the tranny was it couldnt hand the pressure of launch control. You have to remember the the 911 turbo s is an old car that has been improved upon through many generations of testing. The gt-r is new and already in 2012 theyve addressed and fixed all the problems with the car Japan> germany with reliability always. Although ill give it you.. porsche is usually the exception

[IPGAuto]

@calijerk310 - I guess.. I don't see Nissan being ranked #1 or 3rd in reliability. I don't see a GTR being more reliable than Toyota. I like the idea of having a 911 Turbo S that is the most perfect car. Fast in the straights, turns, good on gas, RELIABLE, good looking, built solid with quality materials and light weight metals. The GTR is only a few of those. Unfortunately its problems with transmissions, burning oil, problematic differentials show otherwise. Other than that its a good car

[calijerk310]

@IPGAuto why do you say that the 911 is also an awd dual clutch car.Both cars have the same dna 3.8 litre awd twin turbo dual clutch transmission. the difference the porsche is better looking but the gt-r technology is just better...

[calijerk310]

@russotragik id prefer the nissan 

[ilovecars7813]

@sunonthewindow Shut up lil bitch

[kllaus8d]

amazing driving on that road..

[sunonthewindow]

The GTR is an overpriced, plastic Datsun for stupid wankers with shit for brains.

[russotragik]

at a 150MPH crash, you will prefer stay on a Porsche or on a Nissan GTR?

[squishmittin]

why are you saying nissan like a cock?