Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Had the GTR on track today. Managed a 1M 04sec lap, thats 6 seconds quicker than my Z. Car had nissans track geometry. Still convinced I'll beat that time in the Supra. Despite the hype, I personally dont believe the Nissan 7m 29 sec time in a supposed stock motor on the ring. I think tricks were pulled. I will keep you posted next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobD Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I think Porsche was arguing that also, there was a video posted up here not so long back on it the bloke was saying that Porsche had bought a stock R35 and with one of there own test drivers couldnt get anywhere close to the supposed time Nissan had put out , Porsche evan put track tyres on and still couldnt get the time! In response Nissan said that Porsche needed better drivers Still a very quick and extremely well priced car though ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Will be great to see what results ya get in the Supe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I think Porsche was arguing that also, there was a video posted up here not so long back on it the bloke was saying that Porsche had bought a stock R35 and with one of there own test drivers couldnt get anywhere close to the supposed time Nissan had put out , Porsche evan put track tyres on and still couldnt get the time! In response Nissan said that Porsche needed better drivers Still a very quick and extremely well priced car though ! You guys should read last months review in Car Magazine! They tested it round the track...and you got to remember if a Porsche came back and said yes it did manage to do it in 7:28 then they would look pretty stupid! After all the test reviews, you can not get a bigger car pound for pound! Remember the Top Gear track and Jeremey said it wont do too well on this track because it is a power track? An it only came in half a second slower then a £850k Bugatti Veyron! You a lucky man Chief to have both! Or at least drive the R35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 You guys should read last months review in Car Magazine! They tested it round the track...and you got to remember if a Porsche came back and said yes it did manage to do it in 7:28 then they would look pretty stupid! After all the test reviews, you can not get a bigger car pound for pound! Remember the Top Gear track and Jeremey said it wont do too well on this track because it is a power track? An it only came in half a second slower then a £850k Bugatti Veyron! You a lucky man Chief to have both! Or at least drive the R35 it was faster than the buggati:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supradriver Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 In response Nissan said that Porsche needed better drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 (edited) Nissan have lied to me about lots of things. 1. delivery dates - they kept changing 2. price of parts - giving me massive quotes with large round figures 3. warranty - as time went by it changed to "drive it like Granny" and dont track it 4. tyres - you can only buy from Nissan @ £600+, actually tirerack.com can do for $373 5. servicing - variety of prices 6. Imports - "IF an import car is plugged into our machine, it will shut it down and we loose our dealership". I know a guy with an import who they put a light out for and chanrged him £120 per hour! 7. You cannot take the car home on a trailer unregistered, we would loose our dealership. 8. IF you want to put someone elses name on the tax book when new you must pay the dealer a £1000 fine as Nissan will fine the dealer, and they use Nissans system to tax the car when new so they will know and they check every car. 9. "The paint finish will be superb", the plastics are a bad match. 10. "The on board computer can tell if you have been to a track and keeps record of every gear change and parameter of the car while being driven". Middlehust have said thats total balls. NISSAN - stick with selling Micra's, you cant sell £50K plus cars, your service and lies are awful. Never again. Edited June 22, 2009 by Chiefgroover (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Nissan have lied to me about lots of things. 1. delivery dates - they kept changing 2. price of parts - giving me massive quotes with large round figures 3. warranty - as time went by it changed to "drive it like Granny" and dont track it 4. tyres - you can only buy from Nissan @ £600+, actually tirerack.com can do for $373 5. servicing - variety of prices 6. Imports - "IF an import car is plugged into our machine, it will shut it down and we loose our dealership". I know a guy with an import who they put a light out for and chanrged him £130 per hour! 7. You cannot take the car home on a trailer unregistered, we would loose our dealership. 8. IF you want to put someone elses name on the tax book when new you must pay the dealer a £1000 fine as Nissan will fine the dealer, and they use Nissans system to tax the car when new so they will know and they check every car. 9. "The paint finish will be superb", the plastics are a bad match. 10. "The on board computer can tell if you have been to a track and keeps record of every gear change and parameter of the car while being driven". Middlehust have said thats total balls. NISSAN - stick with selling Micra's, you cant sell £50K plus cars, your service and lies are awful. Never again. Oh my, talk about big brother watching you..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 damn! why the hell would you spend all that money then for a supposed super car if you cant drive it the way you want! thats ridiculous. Nissan seem a bit edgy then i guess, might there be any faults? insult to japanese reliability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_have Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Nissan have lied to me about lots of things. 1. delivery dates - they kept changing 2. price of parts - giving me massive quotes with large round figures 3. warranty - as time went by it changed to "drive it like Granny" and dont track it 4. tyres - you can only buy from Nissan @ £600+, actually tirerack.com can do for $373 5. servicing - variety of prices 6. Imports - "IF an import car is plugged into our machine, it will shut it down and we loose our dealership". I know a guy with an import who they put a light out for and chanrged him £120 per hour! 7. You cannot take the car home on a trailer unregistered, we would loose our dealership. 8. IF you want to put someone elses name on the tax book when new you must pay the dealer a £1000 fine as Nissan will fine the dealer, and they use Nissans system to tax the car when new so they will know and they check every car. 9. "The paint finish will be superb", the plastics are a bad match. 10. "The on board computer can tell if you have been to a track and keeps record of every gear change and parameter of the car while being driven". Middlehust have said thats total balls. NISSAN - stick with selling Micra's, you cant sell £50K plus cars, your service and lies are awful. Never again. I still want one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbloodyturbo Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 If thats all the cr@p you have to put up with I'd rather just buy a porche and be done with it, atleast when you hand your money over to Mr porsche the car is your to do whatever you want with it, not get told how to tax it or how to drive the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignum Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Which track did you take it round? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 Which track did you take it round? Kirkistown, 1.51 miles long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 10. "The on board computer can tell if you have been to a track and keeps record of every gear change and parameter of the car while being driven". Middlehust have said thats total balls. This isnt impossible and is easy to do so why lie about it. Doesnt it de-limit itself when on a circuit, therefore if it knows where you are, I am guessing it uses GPS. I would also assume that the ECU in the GTR has a lot of logging capability so all the other functions are no big deal. I would hazard a guess that there is some truth behind that statement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 This isnt impossible and is easy to do so why lie about it. Doesnt it de-limit itself when on a circuit, therefore if it knows where you are, I am guessing it uses GPS. I would also assume that the ECU in the GTR has a lot of logging capability so all the other functions are no big deal. I would hazard a guess that there is some truth behind that statement Middlehursts have admitted to a customer i have spoken to that its nonsense, and they cannot give that amount of detail. The car has NO limiter, i recently got 192mph out of it while out of the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Middlehursts have admitted to a customer i have spoken to that its nonsense, and they cannot give that amount of detail. The car has NO limiter, i recently got 192mph out of it while out of the country. I presume the limiter is removed when it leaves Japan? Due to the speed govenering all Jap cars are 112mph limited surely and the GTR is not exception. I would personally think if you spoke to a Nissan Dealer sales person they would hardly know much about the GTR as bulk of the sales would be like the Micra and Primera etc. Though the tech guys at the top end should know what they are talking about. I believe data like this can be logged as mentioned above it is pretty easy to do this! Oh big brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsportcars Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Seen you going round kirky yesterday Ernie after speaking to you. It may be slower than the supra but it didn't look it. Does look very tidy though on track. I'll have to torture you for a run out the next time. Gav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 Seen you going round kirky yesterday Ernie after speaking to you. It may be slower than the supra but it didn't look it. Does look very tidy though on track. I'll have to torture you for a run out the next time. Gav. IF it goes back, it EATS tyres lol, anyway 4wd is boring and for women, gays and small childern lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 The car has NO limiter, i recently got 192mph out of it while out of the country. That will be your favourite stretch of autobahn I'm guessing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 That will be your favourite stretch of autobahn I'm guessing lol...........of course ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Someone on RMS has linked some pics from the day Ernie http://www.flickr.com/photos/39210123@N06/sets/72157620021459085/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefgroover Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 Someone on RMS has linked some pics from the day Ernie http://www.flickr.com/photos/39210123@N06/sets/72157620021459085/ Thank you Jim, they are nice..............velly nniicceee........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 If you're worried about tyres you should check out the IS-F, Evo said they got nearly 20k our of a set of rears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsportcars Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I was looking at those pics earlier too. There are a couple of mine in there as well....woop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I was looking at those pics earlier too. There are a couple of mine in there as well....woop... Back to Kirky for the next one then bud?? Saw that you had been preparing (well) for last weekend's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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