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When Nissan set to build one of the world's greatest sports cars, who knew that the GT-R with its girth would be one of the quickest cars on the planet? To keep this brief, the GT-R is simply an astonishing piece of engineering, even if its transmission is likely to grenade at some point.

But what was even more fascinating, is when a skunkworks project took the GT-R's essentials and made it work with the company's compact SUV, the Juke's, body. Soon there were videos making their way around the 'net of the Juke-R destroying Lamborghinis and Ferraris as if they were standing still.

Now there's a Juke-R 2.0 and the GT-R NISMO, which is the most hardcore GT-R ever built.

So, which one is quicker in a straight line?

Autocar's Matt Prior met up with Nissan and one of the company's LMP drivers to sort out this matter.


A couple of weeks ago we thought the 542bhp Jaguar F-Type AWD might just have enough power to de-throne the internet's darling Nissan GT-R. It didn't.

We've gone away scratched our heads and decided this time to play a wildcard, with the Juke-R 2.0.

Disatisfied with the 485bhp V6 in the original Juke-R, Nissan has this time used a Nismo engine from the GT-R production line and bolted it in to this 2.0, meaning it now produces the same 591bhp and 485lb ft of torque as the GT-R Nismo. This is your pound for pound fight of the year.

In the right corner, at the helm of the Juke-R 2.0 we have Matt Prior, and in the left corner, none other than Jann Mardenborough, Nissans GT Academy winner.






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