GFerg

Linked from another forum.

LexFather

The Scuderia is unbelievable and its one of the few cars I truly wish I could drive and drive at the limit. I was just re-reading on it yesterday. Ferrari and Bosch made a marriage of E-diff and Traction control where they make AWD seemingly unnecessary to come out of a corner with full grip and traction with no loss of speed without the penalty of weight.

The Scuderia is as fast at Fiorano as an Enzo. That is just ridiculous. Many reviwers state they have never had so much grip out of a corner in a RWD car. I feel so strongly about this new tech I was going to start a thread on it to help educate us some more.

Amazingly the AWD Gallardo is right behind it, and the RWD GT2 is as well. The GT-R is a sold 2 seconds behind which is an eternity here.

Seems with the GT-R, the initial reviews had it whooping everything and now it seems very beatable. I am not taking anything away from this fantastic car at all, again this is at the limit with professional drivers.

Pearlpower

iTrader: (2)

Not a fan of the GTR but as it is compared to such esteemed and established marques often this does say loads about it's capabilities. Nice job Nissan.

MPLexus301

iTrader: (3)

Exactly! The GT-R has leapfrogged so much of it's true competition that it's now being compared to the best of the best...some cars costing two or three times as much.

There is no doubt that the GT-R is the best bang for your buck sports car available now.

LexFather

No doubt. To think that car is 1/3 the price if not 1/4th the price of some of those cars.

spwolf

I read the full review in Autobild or AutomotorundSport (dont remember exactly)...

Most of the issues comes from the weight of GTR.

And I never saw the price of vehicles mentioned.


Just something to remember when next time you see Lexus crushed in European review - it will happen, every time, because Europeans are highly protective of their own cars.

marshmallo

The other thing to keep in mind is that the guy who drove these cars
KNOWS how to drive an RWD car really fast I've always thought he
was an incredible jackass, but he was/is one of the greatest drivers of all
time.

gengar

With a highly-skilled driver, the GT-R will be at a relative disadvantage because of all the technology and design that buffers the driver from the road. Keep in mind, for example, that reviewers of the GT-R complained that it artificially generates understeer during cornering - allegedly for safety reasons, according to Nissan engineers. I mean, even Autoweek said the Lexus, of all vehicles, had better driver-road interaction in their comparo of the IS-F and GT-R.