Tag Archives: GT-R

Official: 520-hp Nissan Juke-R is no joke (w/ Video)

Just before the end of September, we brought you news of what became know as the the Super Juke – a Nissan Juke powered by the engine from the Nissan GT-R. It is now time to officially meet the fastest, most exciting crossover in the world – the Nissan Juke-R. Developed for Nissan by RML [...]

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Rumor: 2013 Nissan GT-R to get 570-up, updated to the transmission and suspension

Rumor: 2013 Nissan GT-R to get 570-up, updated to the transmission and suspension

Since 2007 when the global GT-R was released, Nissan has been working on improvements and tweaks for the model. After last year’s power upgrades from 3.8-liter turbo V6 to 530hp, the automaker is still looking for ways in can upgrade the 2013 GT-R. Nissan announced at a Nurburgring press event that it will be adding [...]

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Report: Nissan of Europe working ‘Super Juke’ with GT-R engine

Report: Nissan of Europe working ‘Super Juke’ with GT-R engine

Automobile manufacturers will often create one-off concepts or prototypes that are so ridiculous, you’d wonder even why they did it in the first place. And this bit of news is somewhat similar. Nissan of Europe is supposedly in the works of creating a unique one-of-a-kind high-powered Juke crossover. Ok, high-powered. So you’re probably thinking a [...]

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Video: Road&Track’s 2 second club war with Veyron Super Sport, GT-R, 911 Turbo S

Video: Road&Track’s 2 second club war with Veyron Super Sport, GT-R, 911 Turbo S

Automotive magazine Motor Trend’s latest video featuring an 11 sport car drag race was quite an enthusiast crowd pleaser. Magazine Road&Track is now looking to create the same viewing pleasure with three cars that cost a whole lot more than all the 11 car’s in Motor Trend’s video together. The company took the Bugatti Veyron [...]

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Video: Nissan GT-R crashes into water-filled ditch

Video: Nissan GT-R crashes into water-filled ditch

There’s just something about watching supercars ended up in sticky and wet situation. What you see here is a Nissan GT-R that crashed into ditch filled with water in Amsterdam, Holland. According to reports, the driver of the Nissan GT-R was returning from a local track event when he lost control of the GT-R. The [...]

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After a lot of shadiness, dealer says it will owner $55,100 winning bid for Nissan GT-R

After a lot of shadiness, dealer says it will owner $55,100 winning bid for Nissan GT-R

One lucky bidder is getting an eBay amateur mistake honored in their favor. A 2009 GT-R was listed well below Kelly Blue Book with no reserve, and was won by a bidder named Xou Vang. Vang won himself a 2009 Nissan GT-R with 36,000 miles on eBay Motors, one that has a Blue Book value [...]

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Nissan CEO: Infiniti could get a GT-R based supercar

Nissan CEO: Infiniti could get a GT-R based supercar

Infiniti CEO Ghosn has recently shared some mixed messages recently in regards to the company having plans of its own version of Nissan’s awesome GT-R. Ghosn comments “Are we going to do that, I would say ‘no’, I don’t think so…If your question is ‘could we do that’, I would say ‘yes’. The idea of [...]

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Bugatti Veyron what? AMS Alpha 12 Nissan GT-R gets 1,309-hp, runs 1/4 mile in 9 secs

Bugatti Veyron what? AMS Alpha 12 Nissan GT-R gets 1,309-hp, runs 1/4 mile in 9 secs

AMS Performance has given the Nissan R35 GT-R an awesome nine second tune called the Alpha 12. Part of the allure of the drag racing world is taking something ordinary and figuring out how to blow your competition away with it. Drag racers spend so much time and money on any and every car you [...]

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Kazunori Yamauchi to race at the 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race

Kazunori Yamauchi to race at the 2011 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race

Kazunori Yamauchi, the maker of Gran Turismo for PlayStation, has quietly returned to real-world racing. Yamauchi was recently spotted at the 4-hour ADAC Reinoldus-Langstrekenrennen Nurburgring VLN race in a Nissan GT-R. As you can tell from the picture above, the GT-R used by Yamauchi is inspired from the GT500 ‘Stealth’ GT-R from Gran Turismo 5. [...]

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Report: Next Nissan GT-R upgrade coming 2012 with 30 extra horses

Report: Next Nissan GT-R upgrade coming 2012 with 30 extra horses

When Nissan released the latest version of its Skyline successor, the GT-R, it was instantly a great hit offering near-supercar performance for nearly a fraction of the price. However, with its success came criticism as Nissan’s claims of beating the benchmarked Porsche 997 Turbo were hard to replicate in the real world. As a result, [...]

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