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Much like then Datsun did in 1971 with the classic 240Z, Nissan has done it again with the 2009 GT-R. At $70,000 this car eats Z06's for lunch and does circles around Porsche Turbos costing upwards of $125,000. In fact Road & Track tested these exact three cars, while the Corvette and the 911 lapped Buttonwillow at just over 2 minutes and 2 seconds, the Nissan accomplished the same lap almost 5 seconds quicker. A race course is truly the way to test the dynamics of a car, and by race track I don't mean the ovals NASCAR fans go crazy over. You see a road course type track with complex turns of various radii and some extended straightaways for high speed runs is what really separates the stallions from the herd. These types of courses allow a driver to fully test the handling limits of a car while also extracting the most out of the brakes when coming into a tight turn and what the go pedal does when blasting out of a turn or overcoming the wind on the straights.
Some other impressive numbers: the GT-R goes 0-60 in 3.4 seconds (only the superexotic Bugatti Veyron and Ferrari Enzo do it quicker), the Nissan can run through the slalom at 73.4 mph (faster than that aforementioned Enzo).
The GT-R is perhaps one of the most advanced cars in the world and proof of this is that fantastic lap time mentioned above while the car has the same horsepower figure as the Porsche 911 turbo yet weighs 250 pounds more than the German supercar. The Corvette has 25 more ponies than the other two, but just can't put the power to the pavement as the advanced all-wheel drive GT-R does. The GT-R is about to revolutionize the sportscar world.
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