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Written by Ollie Kew
We"ll not beat around the bush: a Nissan Qashqai has done 237.6mph. Faster than the top speed of a standard McLaren F1. Considerably quicker than the take-off speed of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. And only slightly more aggressively nippy than most self-entitled school run types bolshing their way through traffic in their jumped-up hatchbacks This unlikely speed hero is the work of Severn Valley Motorsport. The British tuners have been tinkering with this particular project for almost five years, after someone noticed that the old Qashqai+2 model had a wheelbase near as dammit bang on the Nissan GT-R"s. A transplant was performed, and along the way, the GT-R"s 3.8-litre, 542bhp bi-turbo V6 was boosted to develop 1,100bhp. In 2014, Top Gear drove the SVM Qashqai-R, and declared: "Punt it from anywhere in the rev range and - giving the turbos a moment to draw breath - it kicks you in your kidneys, not so much launching you down the road as firing you into orbit. SVM has also programmed a feature which holds the engine"s revs while you"re driving to build boost. Then, while flooring the accelerator, you press the button, the turbos are unleashed and the world rushes backwards in one fell swoop."
Date written: 24 Apr 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11605
We"ll not beat around the bush: a Nissan Qashqai has done 237.6mph. Faster than the top speed of a standard McLaren F1. Considerably quicker than the take-off speed of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. And only slightly more aggressively nippy than most self-entitled school run types bolshing their way through traffic in their jumped-up hatchbacks This unlikely speed hero is the work of Severn Valley Motorsport. The British tuners have been tinkering with this particular project for almost five years, after someone noticed that the old Qashqai+2 model had a wheelbase near as dammit bang on the Nissan GT-R"s. A transplant was performed, and along the way, the GT-R"s 3.8-litre, 542bhp bi-turbo V6 was boosted to develop 1,100bhp. In 2014, Top Gear drove the SVM Qashqai-R, and declared: "Punt it from anywhere in the rev range and - giving the turbos a moment to draw breath - it kicks you in your kidneys, not so much launching you down the road as firing you into orbit. SVM has also programmed a feature which holds the engine"s revs while you"re driving to build boost. Then, while flooring the accelerator, you press the button, the turbos are unleashed and the world rushes backwards in one fell swoop."
Date written: 24 Apr 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11605