"sport compact car magazine"

[blight]

This past months of "sport compact car magazine" just showed the new "infiniti GT-r" They say that it will come as a 07 modle in 06'.

This may or may not be old news but i guess now it is official the gtr is no longer the gtr but a fancy g35. Oh well, i guess I know what car I'm going to test drive next year!

[nismo_power]

what the hell do you expect. its going to be based off the fm platform like the g35. the engine isnt confirmed yet but they were thinking that the engine is going be based off the rumors floating around the online car authority forums (AF, FA, nissanforums, skylinesdownunder) that it will be a twin turboed vq30 or vq32.

[VQuick]

Originally Posted by blight

This may or may not be old news but i guess now it is official the gtr is no longer the gtr but a fancy g35. Oh well, i guess I know what car I'm going to test drive next year!

It was just a G35 mocked up to be a test mule. Styling probably isn't finalized yet.

[nismo_power]

Originally Posted by VQuick

It was just a G35 mocked up to be a test mule. Styling probably isn't finalized yet.

it was a test mule, but i bet that the final version wont be far from what they showd.

[blight]

Originally Posted by nismo_power

it was a test mule, but i bet that the final version wont be far from what they showd.

well i hope so - also i wish they would go the twin turbo v8 route that would be amazing. Also they should keep up with the rest of the world also only 450 - come on now everyone else is doing at LEAST 500hp. not that hp matters its torque but come on keep up now.

Hey you guys with that 450 mark what do you think that new gtr run in the 0-60 and the 1/4 mile times? how about if it was 500? I don't know how much it ways so I don't know what it would be even to guess.

Hey does anyone have a scanner - i don't otherwise I would have posted up that article here as a pic.

[nismo_power]

dude.....why are you hating on the 450 hp, when you love the 276 the OLD gtrs are putting out? this thing will be making twice as much power, with much newer and better technology.

[blight]

Originally Posted by nismo_power

dude.....why are you hating on the 450 hp, when you love the 276 the OLD gtrs are putting out? this thing will be making twice as much power, with much newer and better technology.

well as i said 500 hp is the new thing. back them 300 or so was "the thing" 450 is going to make it underpowered in comparsion to the other cars. Handleing- well hopfully it will kill all the rest like it did before. but now that eveyone (as it seems) is going the FR torque tube setup. I don't know what they are going to do to compete with that. Also they better make it cheaper than a vette because then no one is even going to look at it then.

the viper is more expensive than the vette but has more power and performance this is why.

now the vette will be 500, so if it is going to be 450hp then it better be cheaper.

now i'm not "hatin'" (man unless your a rapper "for real yo" you should stop with that kind of lingo "dog" it makes you look dumb- i'm not trying to insult you here just some advise. For example those that say like too much are considered unintelligent- now i'm sure your not but it makes you sound as such) i'm just stating a fact of the industry- no more no less.

[nismo_power]

think about this. on an AWD car, having as much power as possible isnt always the best thing. the new GT-R will be able to spank a viper from a dig, same with the vette. awd is always better off the line than rwd. and think about this....vipers have shitty handling.

and kid, id watch who you mouth off to. im tired of you mouth spewing diarhea. you are very good at spreading false, or completly incorrect information.

[VQuick]

Originally Posted by nismo_power

it was a test mule, but i bet that the final version wont be far from what they showd.

The thing is, the new G35, using a newer version of the FM platform, will be out by the time the GT-R is launched. We don't even know what the G35 will look like, so there's really no telling how the GT-R will look.

[VQuick]

Originally Posted by blight

well i hope so - also i wish they would go the twin turbo v8 route that would be amazing. Also they should keep up with the rest of the world also only 450 - come on now everyone else is doing at LEAST 500hp. not that hp matters its torque but come on keep up now.

Maybe there will be a V8 later. Nissan has to keep something up their sleeve. Notice how they didnt go the V8 route in JGTC, but still dominated?

Originally Posted by blight

Hey you guys with that 450 mark what do you think that new gtr run in the 0-60 and the 1/4 mile times? how about if it was 500? I don't know how much it ways so I don't know what it would be even to guess.

Power for the GT-R has been rumored to be as high as 480ps(473hp).

In comparison, the Ferrari F430 has 490hp, and weighs a bit more than a base 350Z at 3197lbs. Car and Driver got a 3.5 sec 0-60 out of it, and ran an 11.7@123mph.

With the generous use of carbon fiber and aluminum(in the body and chassis), a lighter awd system, and other weight saving measures, the GT-R might not weigh much more than the 350Z either. That would especially be the case if the GT-R were based on the 350Z's short wheelbase variant of the FM platform, rather than the longer G35 variant. This leads me to believe that the GT-R could be almost as fast as the F430 off the line, possibly faster. It should have no problem beating a 911 Turbo then, unless the 997 version is radically changed from the 996(more power, less weight, different awd).

The way Nissan has been bumping the outputs of their models after a couple years, don't be surprised to see the GT-R creep up to 500hp later on.

[blight]

well as i said before i certainly hope so.

[blight]

Originally Posted by nismo_power

think about this. on an AWD car, having as much power as possible isnt always the best thing. the new GT-R will be able to spank a viper from a dig, same with the vette. awd is always better off the line than rwd. and think about this....vipers have shitty handling.

and kid, id watch who you mouth off to. im tired of you mouth spewing diarhea. you are very good at spreading false, or completly incorrect information.

um.... what false information would that be? am i missing something here? If i need to be corrected on something I had previously posted then post it. What do I care. And what do you mean "watch who you mouth off to" what are you going to do jump out of my computer screen and bite me? And I am not a "kid" thanks for the asumtion albeit it make me think higher of you.

Also you forget the awd system is always going to be heavier. this is why the high fuel dragsters have rwd so I am not so sure about that... also notice no turbos either superchargers. that is for dragging though the turbos are for those track cars.

[nismo_power]

you are aware that the skyline is ment for road racing, not drag cars. and most top drag cars use turbos anyways, so you just made an ass of yourself twice in one reply. awd system may make the car alittle heavier, but when you have all 4 wheels pushing the weight of the car, it makes it that much faster. ever wonder why you see AWD cars blow the doors off an overpowered rwd car? they dont have as much tire spin and get much much more traction. if you dont know why AWD is better, then you dont deserve to even come near a skyline.

"So say one flys over to japan. Takes a new Gtr (r34) apart and takes all the drivetrain stuff -screw the shell. Imports it to america and grafts it all to say a 32 ford or something (well just anything maybe a 240 whatever has the closest wheel base to it) would this be legal at all. Oh and when I say this I don't care about states with emissions. Also don't care about "bastardizing" a car either - I just what a quick yes or no if there is one."

after that, theres about 5 other posts that YOU made talking abuot how to get a skyline in the states, after we told you the ONLY WAY TO DO IT. and are you sure you arent some prepubscent kid? because you sure type like it.

[2of9]

SCC magazine, Motor Trend, Road and Track...i aint gonna believe that there is going to be a GTR until i see some1 driving it...(me), well rumors of the Supra too. The GTR they're making seems very spendy to buy too..

[nismo_power]

supra will be even worse. every source that ive heard about the supra from (magazines, online forums, online websites), are all agreeing that the car is going to be priced around the 100k price range.