Donut King GT-R Ready for Targa

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By George Skentzos | April 12th, 2008

The new Nissan GT-R’s first private onslaught on the Targa Tasmania rally crown is about to begin, with the Donut King GT-R entry prepped and ready to go.

Driven by Donut King CEO Tony Alford and co-driver Karl Farmer, it will be competing against the best supercars in the world including Jim Richard’s Porsche 911 GT2, a Corvette Z06 and a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera.

The Donut King entry has received a full Mine’s performance kit which includes larger 400mm rotors, an ESTA Full Spec Suspension III kit and a titanium Silence-VX Pro Titan II exhaust setup.

The guys at JustJap in Sydney have also cracked the Japan-spec GT-R’s speed limiter with a Mine’s VX ROM.

Coupled with a full roll-cage, Sparco racing seats and a significant weight-loss, the Donut King GT-R is easily one of the fastest cars in the world today.

Source: GTRBlog Photos: Nick Lowe

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So this is what my hardened arteries have paid for? Ha Ha Ha
MrGriffon

id punch a hole in that donut anyday
Andrew M

on paper this would have to be the winner.
i am surprised that they couldnt find any smaller sponsors to fill the paintwork though.

perhaps the only one to stop JR????

JR in this would be unbeatable.

would be inteesting to hear what weight they culled
Phill

Amazing car the new GTR,its a car thats performance defys its weight.This one’s a pink beast
http://www.caradvice.com.au Anthonia

what are the rules with Targa T. What can you ad, what can you not ad?
Duck

There making faster than it already is!
Grant

can this CEO actually drive? he better, otherwise this is a waste
Gergovorov

it seems stoopid that they have to rely on aftermarket ecu’s etc to crack the speed limiter etc… why cant nissan just make it easy for people to do the inevitable to the GTR’s???? ie. work them off their tits
o

well nissan in japan does you go to a dealer and they unlock it then after the track you musst go back and pay 1800$ for a compulsory safety check and event hen it can only be driven unrestricted on racetraks monitered by GPS
RoFlmaTiC

Haha so much for the 7 layers of metallic paint! All for it to be painted over with hot pink :-p
CoconutPhotography

Looks sick!
Richo

Sorry but it won’t win… the guy ain’t a professional racer, he is a gentleman racer and nothing more. Targa Tas is more driver then car. I remember a couple of years ago Brocky in a lightly modified monaro, a car that should NOT be able to compete with porsches and GTR’s and EVO’s etc on targa roads, managed to be second to only JR in his AWD porsche on one of the longest WET stages. Why? Certainly not cos of the car he was driving, it was all down to the driver.

As awesome as this car is/looks, it won’t win, not even close
Duck

Anti-Spam word Nissan!

Does anybody know what type of car is behind the Nissan GT-R in the first picture?

Because i see a few of them around the coast.
Stevo

Duck – it is a Nissan S-Cargo.
http://www.myspace.com/tjantilag Tom Jakovljevic

0 – you are incorrect.

The GTR runs a GPS based limiter – when id detects that you are inside a race track it removes the limiter. Afterwards you need to go and get it serviced.

The issue with this is that the Jap spec GTR only has Japanese maps loaded – so it will never think its on a race track on Aus – hence why they need the ROM to remove the limiter.
mistertwo

This might be one of the fastest cars in Australia, that doesn’t mean it is one of the fastest in the world. You only have to look at the new Caterham with a 2.4 V8 Supercharged – 0 – 100kph in 2.4 seconds and over 370kW. Perhaps fastest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mitch

Info on the driver

www dot performancecarracing dot com dot au/teams_Drivers/12_TonyAlford dot aspx
Allan

absolutely love the car…but not in this colour. had the opportunity to sit in one last week in tokyo, but unfortunately couldnt drive it…lol.
Duck

^^^Was it very nice to sit in? Good build quality etc?

Im thinking that it would be, but i cant comment for that i havent sat it one.
Allan

first impressions were that it was a pretty big car. interior was very nice and built quality was good. I liked all the buttons, and gizmos you can play with….good for when you’re stuck in traffic jams…lol.
Allan

how much is it estimated to cost when it goes on sale in Oz?
Duck

$110,00-$140,00 estimate