Happy New Year to you all. So what’s the deal with the image above? It’s Nissan’s Corvette-munching, Porsche-stomping, Ferrari-hunting GT-R. This beast of epic automotive iconery has had one of the most hyped and, if I dare say, excessive marketing campaigns in automotive history. It is yet another chapter and generation in a long line of supercars-for-the-common-man originally designed for Japanese royalty almost forty years ago. In previous generations this car’s proper name was the Skyline, the GT-R designation going only to those cars bearing 300+ horsepowered, twin-turbocharged, all-wheel-driven perversions of a powertrain. Nothing’s changed really, with exception to the gorgeous body you see before you and the change from inline-six to the more common V6 configuration. The twin-turbos remain. The all-wheel-drive system remains. If you wanted to purchase the previous generation (GT-R34), you could expect to pay $100,000+ for an average example, as it had to be imported from the motherland of the rising sun. This beast, available to the U.S. in mid-2008, can be had for less than $60k. Yes, that’s right, less than $60k. In the mean time, here are a few interesting facts (if by interesting I mean hilarious and by facts I mean ficticious lies) about the 2009 Nissan GT-R(35)… as found on GTRFacts.Com.
- According to Japanese legend, if a GT-R does a donut on your lawn your next child will have unlimited prosperity.
- In order to get accurate power readings from the GT-R, a dynometer has to be recalibrated to Unicorn Power.
- Examination of Laguna Seca photos shows tow cable between GT-R and pursuing Porsche 997 Turbo: “My fastest lap ever,” says Porsche driver.
- The United States Census Bureau predicts 14,580 inner city kids born in 2009 to be named “Skyline,” “GT-R,” or a combination thereof; GT-R expected to be father in most cases.
- 7 minute 38 second Nurburgring lap time actually run on snow tires; included coffee break at Adenauer-Forst.
- Toyota kills LF-A supercar project: “What’s the fucking point,” asks anonymous Toyota engineer.
- Chief engineer behind GT-R revealed: it’s the ghost of Ayrton Senna.
- After being presented with GT-R, Toretto agrees Spilner has provided ten-second car.
- The GT-R doesn’t run on conventional fuel, but rather the tears of children.
- It has now been discovered that the solo from Stairway to Heaven is actually the GT-R’s exhaust note.
- It turns out Einstein was wrong: E=GT-R.
- Nissan GT-R engineer J. Christ wrote in his blog related to his work with the physics-bending car, “My dad didn’t help me. Honest.”
- An anonymous GT-R engineer has let slip that the car was originally supposed to be the second coming of Christ until the design team realized that Japanese people don’t believe in him anyway, so they did the next best thing.
