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2009 Nissan GT-R Acceleration Test

bankhead submitted on 03/31/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 6:42 PM
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2009 Nissan GT-R Acceleration Test

Okay, we've strapped Japan's latest monster car to a four-wheel Dynojet dynamometer and tortured it into giving up a 430.6-horsepower rating at the wheels. That translates to between 507 and 574 horses at the crank depending on how much power one assumes the drivetrain is siphoning off in the form of mechanical friction (heat) and hydraulic pumping losses. Judging by the heroic acceleration numbers this two-ton Terminator has been credited with by various testers around the globe, it's tempting to peg power near the top end of that range, but a charge up the Angeles Crest Highway and numerous brief blasts along public roads suggest this is no 570-horse beast. Rather, we expect this car's performance will be explained by more than mere horsepower alone, and a day on the runways at El Toro Marine air station should tell us all we need to know.

INITIATING LAUNCH PROCEDURES

The sun is shining, the air is a comfortable 66.9 degrees, humidity is SoCal-low (30 percent), and the car has essentially been sitting still for about two hours when we line up for the first full-on acceleration run. Programming the GT-R's launch control mode requires toggling the transaxle and shock absorbers mode switches up for "R" race modes and the stability-control switch down for off, then engaging the manual shifting mode via the shifter lever. Hold the brake, floor the throttle, revs climb to 4500 rpm -- hold on, they're hovering at 2000. Hmmm. Somewhere in that sequence, the transmission has popped itself back to "normal." To make sure the driver never accidentally engages this mode, one of the switches always has to be reset upon completing the sequence. Ah, there's 4500 rpm. Then simply side-step the brake and...

WE HAVE IGNITION

BAM! The GT-R leaves the line like an arrow from a cross-bow. From the outside, the rear tires spin for a little over a foot, the fronts never visibly slip. The acceleration screen on the center dash confirms the test equipment's assertion that longitudinal acceleration of at least 1.0g persists for almost two seconds. No wonder the forged-aluminum rims have little knurled ridges to keep the tire beads from slipping. Despite the big gs, the car doesn't squat much (Launch Control does NOT loosen rear jounce control to induce squat like many such systems do). Comparatively little thrust is sent to the front wheels, at least according to the center-console display. The rear wheels spin, then 25 percent of the torque gets routed forward (just half the max available), front torque increases to 37 percent briefly during the 1-2 upshift, then trails off to the typical 2 percent. Speaking of the 1-2 shift, the car is accelerating so fast that the tachometer has trouble keeping up, and the driver has to signal for an upshift slightly before the needle kisses the redline to avoid a time-consuming bounce off the rev-limiter. Read Article

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TurboSpyder - 4/1/2008 9:57:40 AMView My AgentSpace

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The benefits of four wheel drive.

"Its trap speed of 120 mph is neck-and-neck with the Porsche 911 Turbo's, but at least 20 different models we've tested can top that figure. Perhaps that's the revelation here: Nissan's everyday-usable supercar is at its most super at everyday speeds. Beyond 110 mph the mythical beast becomes increasingly mortal, as illustrated in this graph."

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TurboSpyder - 4/1/2008 10:02:56 AMView My AgentSpace

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And short gearing.

"The Nissan GT-R's overall gearing (including tires) is among the shortest in supercardom. The Porsche 911 Turbo that served as the GT-R's performance target spins gearing that's taller by an average of 10 percent in the first three ratios, while the Corvette Z06 it competes with most closely on price averages 40 percent taller in the same three gears. Short gearing effectively increases the engine's "leverage" but results in more frequent shifts, which can add time (the Z06's 0-to-60-mph trick is hitting 60 mph in first gear with no time-consuming shifts)."

STJ88 - 4/1/2008 9:58:52 AM

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The R35 is insane fast.

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07G35J - 4/1/2008 10:02:21 AM

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They don't call it "Godzilla" for nothing!

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TurboSpyder - 4/1/2008 10:07:36 AMView My AgentSpace

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What's the top speed of the GT-R?

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KZ258 - 4/1/2008 10:13:30 AM

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im pretty sure its 190mph

Ingenieur - 4/1/2008 11:16:25 AM

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Impressive acceleration numbers. And for the price point, it's even more so. Car and Driver's numbers are actually more impressive:

http://www.nagtroc.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=22125

Then there's the GTR's handling. It's 5 seconds a lap faster than the Z06 and 911 Turbo.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/download/0508_ct_OnTrack.pdf

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autopro - 4/1/2008 11:23:35 AMView My AgentSpace

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Get ready they will be scraping several amateur drivers off the road with this much power.

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EL34 - 4/1/2008 11:42:15 AM

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Damn I just realized how beautiful this Nissan is :-)

It just hit like an April fools day joke :-O

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EL44 - 4/1/2008 11:52:12 AMView My AgentSpace

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have you looked at yourself in a mirror before?

07G35J - 4/1/2008 11:54:39 AM

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And I just realized how brilliant and relevant your comments are.

It also hit me like an April fool's day joke :-O

GTR35 - 4/1/2008 12:04:15 PMView My AgentSpace

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lol, I'm starting to like this EL34 guy. Lets give him a break, he's just trying to be accepted by everyone. He doesn't need to agree about how great the GTR is because we all know and he knows that it's the most revolutionary car to have come out in about two decades now.

Need4Speed - 4/1/2008 4:00:23 PM

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I've been waiting for an article like this.

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ThierryHenry14 - 4/1/2008 5:19:23 PM

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Did anyone catch the line where it says without launch control, the 0-60 is knocked back by .8 seconds. Electronics really helped a lot.

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lexusrox123 - 4/1/2008 6:19:56 PM

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GIMME ONE OF THOSE GT-R'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3.2 0-60 TIME??? HOLY CRAP!!
sorry, my emotions got a hold on me for a second...

Ahem, regarding to the matter of EL34, he's a total cretin (dolt, dunce, etc.) who shouldnt even be on this forum, but like gtr35 said, he'll learn eventually

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EL34 - 4/1/2008 6:24:20 PM

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I call'em how I see'em.

Happy April Fools day peep head ;-)

AdHominem - 4/1/2008 7:13:56 PM

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Only the most insecure people attack the man instead of the argument. WEAK INDEED. EL34 expresses his opinion with wit and never goes after the writer even though he is insulted constantly. A Class Act.

lexusrox123 - 4/1/2008 8:45:39 PM

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AdHominem, thanks for your april fool's joke!!

i loved it!! ; ) im sure the others do as well..

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lexusrox123 - 4/1/2008 8:46:39 PM

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am i right??

Matthew1 - 4/1/2008 10:34:06 PM

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No.

S2000VS911 - 4/2/2008 12:10:43 AMView My AgentSpace

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saw the Silver GTR in autoshow, look much smaller when compare to photo. really mean & sexy. Japan tuner painted it on Lambo Orange & leave A pillar black, beautiful !!! really want to know how much ...

http://2009gtr.blogspot.com/2008/01/harrison-orange-r35-gt-r.html

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GTR35 - 4/2/2008 6:23:45 PMView My AgentSpace

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Thanks for the link, it is stunning!

abcd - 4/2/2008 3:14:52 AM

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when porsche 911 and gtr were test in that same time on that same dyno they obtained very similar results in horsepower:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/03/13/nissan-gt-r-meets-the-dyno-997-porsche-turbo-and-e92-bmw-m3/

at last japanese carmakers gave up this stupid 280 hp restriction . they have been doing great sport cars for years but they had less power then european sport cars and they wasn`t appreciate .

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huu76 - 4/5/2008 1:57:24 AM

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Meh, what the Japanese can do with 4 and 6 cylinders, the Germans can't match even if they had 23 of'em. (Porsche is exempt).

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JTRacer - 4/6/2008 7:08:48 AM

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So if such performance can be done with $70-75k.. why do 911TTs cost $125k?? Why would anyone pay $50k more for a badge??

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