Score That Bugatti Veyron 1, Tuned Nissan GT-R 0

If you own a car like the Bugatti Veyron in south Florida, there aren’t many places where you can mat the go-pedal, at least for long. One of the better options is Palm Beach International Raceway (PBIR), which used to be called Moroso Motorsport Park. Aside from the fact that the track is in the middle of nowhere, and has absolutely no elevation change (like every other track in Florida), it isn’t a bad facility. Its drag strip is often open to the public, and its road course can be run with an instructor or during high-performance driving events. Read more

Nissan Rolls Out New GT-R Track Pack for the Hard-Core Track Enthusiast

The folks at Nissan are now offering new Track Pack on the GT-R for those who Nissan claims want “an extra edge on the race track”. As if the Nissan GT-R was not already fast enough even when you put it through its paces on a track, Nissan turns around and makes it tad faster.

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Nissan Juke-R (GT-R tuned Juke crossover) Build Progress videos

Remember Nissan throwing around the idea of building a 520+ horsepower Juke crossover from the Nissan GT-R drivetrain? Well, that project is still happening and has progressed well. Much of the success is due to giving Nissan engineers a virtually limitless budget and unadulterated access to all of the GT-R’s mechanics and electronics which make it one of the fastest production cars on the road today.

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Video: Undercover 2012 Nissan GT-R Law Enforcement Vehicle Outfitted by EVI

No one ever takes pleasure by getting pulled over by a cop car, no matter how minor or severe the crime, unless your call-sign is “The Bandit”. If you are an avid car enthusiast, you may take pleasure seeing a new 2012 Nissan GTR in your review mirror until a series of blue and red LED lights start flashing. It seems an unknown law enforcement agency or police force on the east coast just got a new 2012 Nissan GT-R ready to put to rest any unlawful activity or speeding vehicle no matter how fast it is.

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The Two Second Club: Veyron vs. 911 Turbo S vs. GT-R Road & Track Comparison Video

If you want to make it to 60 mph in the 2 seconds range, your vehicle choices are very limited. There are only a few cars that are in the two second club and Road & Track shows us three of them and “how they go” in a new exclusive two second club video and article.

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Best Motoring’s Last Hurrah: LFA vs. GT-R, 911 GT2 RS, ZR1, F430 GT3

The demise of Japan’s Best Motoring International – Hot Version video series was almost as sad as when Toyota stopped production of the Supra in 1998. The good news is that sometimes legends die hard.

Best Motoring put together one last race pitting the most popular modern-day supercars against each other. Those cars consist of the new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Ferrari F430 GT3, Lexus LFA, Nissan GT-R and the Porsche 911 GT2 RS. If that list of supercars does not excite you then you have serious issues and may need some counseling from Tony Soprano. Hit the jump below for some Best Motoring action one last time.

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Ever See An Escalade Beat A GT-R?

I’ll admit that these videos, from Hennessey Performance Engineering, are getting a little old. Every week it seems that HPE has a new and obscenely-tuned ride to pit against last year’s Nissan GT-R. At the current rate, I predict we’ll see a video pitting a 1975 Winnebago Chieftain motorhome, tuned by Hennessey, against the 2011 GT-R by the end of May. You know the Winnebago will smoke the GT-R, but they’ll probably have to use a rolling start. GT-R fans will pan this video, saying the Escalade left the line first, and that if Hennessey really wants to brag they should run the same test using the new and improved 2012 GT-R. That misses the point entirely, and Hennessey could have used any number of cars to run against the big Caddy SUV. Regardless of any staged drag race, if you’re not impressed by a 5,500 pound truck hitting sixty miles per hour in 3.3 seconds (faster than a stock Cadillac CTS-V), I’d encourage you to check your pulse. Video below. Read more

Just How Fast Is A Nissan GT-R?

The video below contains some pretty damn impressive footage. Shot from the interior of a Porsche 911 competing in Australia’s Targa Wrest Point Rally, it shows a Nissan GT-R passing the 911, over the crest of a hill. Granted, my racing days never included time in a rally car, but I’d like to think that my simple rule against passing other drivers in mid-air helped keep me (and my car) in one piece. Listen to the gravel voiced driver point out at 0:10 into the video, “here comes a GT-R”, much the same way as he’d say “here comes a tornado” or “here comes a heat seeking missile”. I’d say the video is NSFW for language, but the driver is speaking Australian so the word is spelled differently.

It’s hard to judge the speed of the Porsche, but the driver is doing a respectable job of hauling ass. It doesn’t matter, since the GT-R walks him like he was parked, all the more amazing because the Nissan was bottled up behind the Porsche for a good seven or eight seconds. The ability to pull away with that kind of velocity is damn impressive in my book, and I tip my hat to the GT-R driver for being utterly fearless. Or absolutely insane, because the line between the two is rather blurry.

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