We racking up the rumors this month … the latest rumor concerns the 2012 Nissan GT-R, which is rumored to be undergoing an update to improve power and performance. Needless to say it has undergone the mandatory test at the Nürburgring where it is rumored to have beaten the original GT-R’s 7:26 lap time! We [...]
Nissan is to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Datsun 240Z’s first SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) National Championships in the U.S. with the release of an Anniversary Edition Nissan BRE 370Z. Forty years ago, the Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) racing team successfully campaigned a Datsun 240Z to the first of two SCCA championships, [...]
The German supercar company, Gumpert, last moth claimed to have smashed the Nürburgring lap record for a production car with a lap time of just 7 minutes and 11 seconds in its Audi-powered Gumpert Apollo Sport supercar! That’s 11 seconds faster than the the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, and 15 [...]
Earlier this year we reported on Nissan testing a GT-R FIA GT1 race car in Japan, last week Nissan Motorsports (Nismo) entered the Nissan GT-R FIA GT1 race car at the Total 24 Hours of Spa endurance race at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The race car was driven by Michael Krumm of Germany, Darren Turner of [...]
Nissan UK have released a limited edition of Nissan’s affordable 370Z sports car in a stunning yellow paint with special black 370Z graphics down the sides, harking back to the 1975 Datsun B210 HoneyBee in North America, but named the 370Z Yellow! Along with the Ultimate Yellow paint job, the 370Z Yellow also gets 19-inch [...]
Just a few months ago, amidst the doom and gloom of tumbling car sales, we reported that Nissan put its GT 2012 plan on hold but it seems that things are changing, according to Auto Express anyway. Auto Express is reporting that Nissan is reviving plans for one of the models that fell under the [...]
Porsche and Nissan are at it again, trading (unofficial) lap times at the 12.9-mile Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. Nissan claimed a time of 7:29.03 for the Nissan GT-R in April last year, which Porsche subsequently disputed when they could only achieve a lap time only 7:54 with a U.S.-spec GT-R! Porsche were testing the 911 Turbo, [...]
