Nissan GTR

Proving that speed is fun in any language, Nissan's German arm recently pitted a GT-R up against an ex-Swiss Air Force fighter jet, called the Hawker Hunter. Now the idea of a car-versus-plane drag race is nothing new, but this is the first time we can recall a GT-R being involved. While this Nissan video is almost a month old, we're pretty sure you ...

The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR was built as a race car for the FIA GT Championship series in 1997. To meet homologation requirements, a total of 26 road-going vehicles were built in the following years. The rarest were the open-roof roadster models, of which only six were made. While 24 of the street-legal cars were fitted with a 6.9-litre V12, good for more ...

Ever wondered if a Nissan GT-R could conquer an icy ski slope? Well prepare to be amazed, as this stunning video captures a camo-clad GT-R tearing up the beautiful snow covered scenery at a ski resort in Kåbdalis, Sweden. The slippery ski slopes prove to be no match for the powerful GT-R, as the video shows the mighty Nissan making quick work of an ...

Have you ever noticed how NBA basketball courts appear much larger, food appears much tastier, and cars appear much slower when watching TV? Visit an NBA game and you'll be shocked how small the court is, eat the burger pictured on the screen and you'll wish you hadn't, watch a Formula 1 race and you'll think you can handle an F1 car. Well, one of our ...

When a pair of Russian pilots wanted to set a local ice-speed record, they chose a stock Nissan GT-R for the task. Roman Rusinov, a Russian race car driver, and Andrey Leontjev, a Russian auto journalist, took Godzilla to Lake Baikal and ran it up to 294.8 kilometres per hour (182.8 miles per hour) across frozen stuff estimated to be 1.4 metres ...

Any Japanese car fan will tell you that the Nissan Skyline GT-R is amongst their all time favourites. And even if they aren't fans, they still respect the legendary Nissan for what it did on the streets and in motorsports. As the most winning Touring car of all time, R32 Skyline GT-Rs were on top of the podium in Japan Touring Car Championships (JTCC, now ...

The Godzilla insanity continues with new Nissan GT-R updates because, well, fast is never fast enough. Since the GT-R's launch six years ago it has largely remained the same, save for a few technical tweaks here and there. The most substantial upgrades so far arrived in 2011 by way of engine modifications, boosting power all the way up to 545 horsepower ...

As long as there are sacred cows, there will be heretics sharpening their knives in anticipation of the butchering. When Nissan first carved into the mighty GT-R to create the Juke-R, onlookers quickly fell into two camps: those who thought the plan was sheer genius and those who believed cannibalizing a GT-R to feed a Juke was a new brand of obscenity. ...

Would you Rather is a juvenile game we remember playing as kids, and it always seemed to turn into an automotive shopping debate. The Lamborghini Veneno unveiled at Geneva Motor Show has us dusting off the old game-play to figure out what we would do with our €3-million Euros ($4.2 million Canadian dollars) at current exchange rates when our bank ...

Nissan is adding yet another tier to the GT-R hierarchy for 2014 with the GT-R Track Edition. Debuting at the 2013 Chicago Auto Show, the bruiser ditches its back seat in the quest for a lower curb weight, and a set of more seriously bolstered front buckets keep occupants planted once the going gets twisty. The Nürburgring-developed Track Edition ...