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The upper and lower grille openings are mildly reshaped, mainly for styling but also partly to improve underhood airflow, which in turn aids in brake cooling. Extra dimples at those same bumper corners and a reshaped chin spoiler channel more air to the sides of the car, increasing the low-pressure zone underneath the nose and helping to reduce aerodynamic lift. The most obvious differences on the GT-R’s exterior are two glowing eyebrows of LEDs in the corners of the front bumpers. The bulkhead behind the dash gets additional bracing to tamp down vibrations and side-to-side racking, and the dashboard itself gets fancier stitching and a carbon-fiber appliqué for the switch plate, which was a peasantlike black plastic before. Tying the cast-aluminum front shock towers together is a new carbon-fiber brace with a honeycomb core that reduces flexing in the outermost part of the double-wall fire wall directly behind the engine. That time and money bought those few exterior changes and structural enhancements.
#2012 nissan gt r35 fast & furious edition gta s plus#
That’s what the 2012 GT-R represents: the old GT-R plus three years of time and a little-very little, because the sports-car market has been sucking wind lately-extra development money. Improvements can always be eked out with more time and budget. It’s a good thing Nissan brought along a couple examples of the 2011 model to compare against the new car during our single day of driving and track lapping.Įvery production car on the market represents a snapshot, the final spot where the engineers decided to call it a day after exhausting their development time and budget. Besides the engine, the other changes are far subtler. Tokyo, beware: Godzilla is more powerful than ever.īeyond the track sheet, you can definitely feel the R35 GT-R (12MY M/C)’s extra power, much like you’d feel being whacked from behind by a six iron.
#2012 nissan gt r35 fast & furious edition gta s full#
(The slowest GT-R time in our logs: 4.1 seconds.) The 2012 barrels through the quarter-mile in 11.2 seconds at 126 mph, almost a full second and 11 mph faster than that July 2008 comparo car. The first two runs were the fastballs.Īt 2.9 to 60, the new GT-R is 0.7 second quicker than an example we tested for a July 2008 comparison test, and it shaves 0.3 second from the quickest time we’ve ever recorded for the model. We did the cool-down but couldn’t get better times. After four launches, the computer requires a 1.5-mile cool-down cruise before it would allow the execution of any more launch-control starts. The fourth launch saw it running about 3.3 to 60. In fact, it did it twice before the clutch got hot and 10ths of a second started to pile on. Our 3859-pound test car did an honest 2.9 seconds to 60 mph on our secret high-desert test track running California 91-octane pump gas with the ambient temperature at a slightly chilly 51 degrees. Well, we can now confirm that Nissan isn’t full of it. Tested: 2009 Nissan GT-R Defies Expectations