I tell you what, if i was a millionaire I would buy both cars, one for the sw@nker in me (porche) and the GTR for pure performance…

I’m assuming it’s in the gearing, which will allow the Zonda to reach 350km/h on a decent straight.

Zonda Cinque – 498kW, 780Nm, 1210kg

versus

Nissan GTR – 353kW, 588Nm, 1740kg

I really don’t understand this.

Oh and by the way, the name Cinque is pronounced “cheen-qwe”, not “sink” and it means 5 in Italian.

Let me be very clear with what I say here and now. I am a huge fan of the R35 GTR. You would have to be certifiably nuts, not to be impressed by this techno express. It’s that good, my daughter on her “L” plates could track that car.

My point about the Zonda’s extraordinary lap time at the “Ring” was more about praise for Nissan’s hero car. Any car, plane or bird, that can beat it’s lap time, is beyond extraordinary.

The Zonda is extraordinary for it’s ability to achieve race car like lap times, and then drive home in traffic to catch the 6.30pm News broadcast, all the while, in relative comfort.

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

For f*cks sake, the GTR is a 200k Japanese high performance car. Who do you think you are comparing it to a 2 million dollar exotic? Car Advice compared the times just to make a very good comparison (which is fair enough), and everyone jumps on their high horse “10 times the price for 11 second improvement around the Nurburgring”.

If track times were the only thing that people were wanting, there are plenty of machines that would smash the GTR and even the Zonda for that matter, into oblivion for way less than 2 million (Radical SR8 comes to mind).

The vehicles are in two totally different market segments, totally different machine.

Does a collector of fine art buy a “copy” of a Monet or a Picasso, done by a Japanese-built art robot in high volume, just because it looks the same and costs a tenth of the price? Of course not.

Same goes for synthetic diamonds. They look the same and “perform” the same (people don’t know the difference just looking at them, even some jewellers can’t tell), but its not the same is it?

If you can afford a 2 million dollar car that was as exclusive as hell and will turn people into blubbering wrecks as soon as you burble past them, why wouldn’t you?

If I could and someone tried to tell me that an R35 GTR was “only 11 seconds slower around the Nurburgring”, I’d probably fog up my Dolce and Gabbana Couture sunnies with tears of laughter.