LAST AUTO NEWS – NISSAN TO PORSCHE: NEED DRIVING LESSONS, CHUMPS?
Last Auto News –
There’s a action brewing in the dainty apple of alien supercar achievement measures. Last week, Porsche accused Nissan of cheating. Now Nissan is smacking back.
After Nissan claimed that its GT-R set a record-breaking time on the acclaimed Nurburgring analysis clue in Germany, Porsche engineers bought one – and said they couldn’t alike the feat. They declared that Nissan accept to accept acclimated non-stock antagonism tires in adjustment to accomplish its jaw-dropping 7:29 lap time.
Australia’s CarsGuide reports, “Nissan is continuing close on its affirmation to the assembly car lap almanac at the Nurburgring.” The aggregation is “offering video footage attempt by the Japanese annual ‘Best Motoring’ during the accelerated runs,” insisting that the video shows the car able with Dunlop SP Sport 600 DSST CTT tires, one of two types of annoy accessible on new GT-Rs. It is possible, Nissan concedes, that Porsche purchased the lower-performing Bridgestone Potenza tires accessible on the GT-R, which are “not as quick on a clue as the Dunlops.” And, CarsGuide notes, “In a back-handed bang at Porsche, it has offered active tips for anyone aggravating to get the best from a GT-R.”
Pointedly, the automaker did not action admission to abstracts from the GT-R’s different “black box,” which annal so abundant abstracts anniversary time the car is apprenticed that some barter accept annulled their orders, aflutter of the Big Brother-esque after-effects of a car that keeps abundant annal of their driving.
In a account republished by Jalopnik, Nissan says, “We are acquainted that several auto makers accept purchased the GT-R for their own testing and evaluation. Like all GT-R customers, we acclaim that any auto maker affairs a GT-R should chase the recommended altercation procedures, account schedules and aliment to ensure the best achievement from their car. In addition, we action achievement active courses for -to-be and accepted GT-R owners to advice them get the best achievement from their car. We would acceptable the befalling to advice any auto architect with compassionate the abounding capabilities of the GT-R.”
We anticipate Stuttgart’s brusque response.
Research the best alien sports cars with U.S. News’ car rankings and reviews.
Related with this news LastAutoNews.com's other car news
