Nissan GT-R lowers ‘ring record – again

By David Twomey | May 16th, 2009

The Nissan GT-R, winner of the 2009 World Performance Car of the Year, improved its lap time at the renowned Nurburgring’s Nordschleife circuit, Germany, in late April to 7 minutes 26.70 seconds.

Previous recorded lap times at the ‘ring were:

* 7 minutes 27.56 seconds on April 15, 2009
* 7 minutes 29 in April, 2008
* 7 minutes 38 in September, 2007

“This record demonstrates our commitment to the continuous evolution of the Nissan GT-R,” said Kazutoshi Mizuno, Chief Vehicle Engineer and Chief Vehicle Specialist.

“We would like to continue delivering the passion and pride of ownership to our customers by improving its performance every year.”

The Nissan GT-R has won more than a dozen awards globally including Car of the Year from CAR Magazine in the UK and Car of the Year by both Motor Trend and Automobile Magazine in the US.

The Nissan GT-R benefits from a strong image and heritage amongst performance car aficionados, especially in Australia, which was the only country globally to officially retail the previous R32 in the early ’90s.

The R35 GT-R was launched in Australia, Europe, GCC and New Zealand last month. Australian customers have so far ordered more than 170 GT-Rs.

In Japan more than 5900 GT-R’s have been sold up to March 2009. It went on sale in the US in July 2008 where 2100 have also been sold so far.

The new, Nurburgring record lap was again set by Nissan Chief test driver Toshio Suzuki who visited Australia in February for the car’s official launch. The blistering lap time was achieved on Dunlop tyres in dry but dusty conditions.

A collection of automotive magazine editors, including CAR (UK) were present to witness the historic GT-R lap record.

Luke

YEEEHAA!!!!
Spitfire

Ask mummy to change your nappy Luke.
Gambler88

i wonder when and what porsches response will be this time…i’ll give them some hint, maybe tell the world media you’ll be safer in a porsches and you can pick up a hotter looking chicks than when you’re in a nissan ;p
http://www.asd.com robert

Minimally, it will take more than a decade, if everything goes extremely well, for these companies to sell anything priced close enough for mass consumption. Yet, both stand to reap huge IPO rewards with the help of government money.
Aussiecars

Vette ZR-1 still king….Think Nissan need`s to bring on the V-Spec
topdog

Lets not forget that these times in all cars are done bye topgun drivers and its well documented bye all the top drivers that the gtr is by far the ezzyest car to drive at the limits .So in real world terms like me and most of everyone else on these forums or who buys these cars you will be able to go much faster in the gtr than the corvette or the porsche cause its so much ezzyer to drive at our limits .Belive me i know pushing a porsche to keep up with a gtr in very hard requiers great skill and very big bals of steal
Confused

Such cars should simply be banned.
http://caradvise.com.au Schah7

Kia
Gee Aussiecars what sorta loser are you or should I say the Corvette ZR1
Takes an engine Twice the Size & 400kg lighter just to be competitive with the Nissan.
The Corvette is a P.O.S !
Richo

Schah7 – stupid comments mate by a sore loser, I could just as easily turn it around and say the skyrine needs a turbo and AWD just to be competitive…. oh snap!
Station Wagon

Nissan shaves 1.5 sec off Nuburgring time,that would set the IS-F’s production release date back 10 months.
Taka

Station Wagon: you mean LF-A
topdog

Theres no winners or losers there all good cars just comes down to how much cash you got to spend and what you wont or like, Richo anything can be turned around to make anyone car sound good or bad i mean you say the gtr needs turbo and awd to keep up with the corvette true, But dosent the corvette have a blower also on a engine twice the size and over 400 kg lighter when you look at that way its a miracle the gtr can even see wich way the corrvette went but no its right there on its tail,Which means there is a lot of clever enginering going on in that car,The point is thay all go about there buisnes in diferent ways and in the end there all there withen a few tenths of each other
Hayzel

The winner would always be the car with the smaller engines with output larger than bigger engines while keeping the price lower.
Richo

Topdog – your basically just re-iterating my own point mate, I only said that to point out to Schah7 that its pointless to say things like such and such a car needs this or that to keep up with this other car, when your talking about which production car is quicker round the ring a car is either fastest or its not, its not fastest because it has this or second fastest because it doesnt have that, its either fastest or its not, end of story
Richo

Hayzel – why? Surely the best car is just the best car, not which car makes the most efficient use of each cubic inch of capacity… the best car is the best car, thats it, and the best car in terms of the nurburing is whatest is presently the fastest!
Cupid Stunt

Topdog said “Theres no winners or losers there all good cars just comes down to how much cash you got to spend”

Yeh so you spend twice as much on a Porsche to find a half price Nissan in front of you.

This Nissans unstoppable and if you like this kinda performance its great. Not for me though i’d take the slower Cayman.
observer

Ya der Germans must be imploding…Japanese Blitzkrig kicks German ass on home soil.