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Written by Paul Horell
The pinnacle Nissan GT-R is back. Here"s the latest NISMO version. And it"s been crafted with the same obsessive attention to detail as ever.It"s built on the new, stiffer 2017 standard GT-R body shell. But on top it gets freshly fettled suspension and new aero parts on every side, including the underside.The whole new front end is carbon fibre even the white-painted areas of the bumper. It"s the most precious kind of carbon, too, hand-laid so that it can be strong where needed and tissue-light elsewhere. Then it"s slowly autoclaved to harden.The engine is as per last year"s NISMO, a 600PS (592bhp) version of the epic V6, codenamed VR38DETT. Detail freaks note, GT-R overlord Hiroshi Tamura says the Americans get the full 600bhp, but we have to be content with 600PS in Europe because that"s the limit for cooling on a long, hot flat-out Autobahn stretch. In the US they can"t go flat out so they get more power.
Date written: 27 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3602
The pinnacle Nissan GT-R is back. Here"s the latest NISMO version. And it"s been crafted with the same obsessive attention to detail as ever.It"s built on the new, stiffer 2017 standard GT-R body shell. But on top it gets freshly fettled suspension and new aero parts on every side, including the underside.The whole new front end is carbon fibre even the white-painted areas of the bumper. It"s the most precious kind of carbon, too, hand-laid so that it can be strong where needed and tissue-light elsewhere. Then it"s slowly autoclaved to harden.The engine is as per last year"s NISMO, a 600PS (592bhp) version of the epic V6, codenamed VR38DETT. Detail freaks note, GT-R overlord Hiroshi Tamura says the Americans get the full 600bhp, but we have to be content with 600PS in Europe because that"s the limit for cooling on a long, hot flat-out Autobahn stretch. In the US they can"t go flat out so they get more power.
Date written: 27 May 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3602
