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2008 Nissan GT-R speed-limiter GPS enabled

December 28, 2007 by Alborz Fallah  




We can go on and on about the marvels of the new Nissan GT-R, not only is it styled to perfection, but with Porsche beating performance and the desire of every young man to own one, it has already become an icon.

2008 Nissan GT-R

But we can’t help but to share the wonders of its technology, the latest of which is a speed-limiter which is controlled by the car’s Satellite Navigations system.

The Japanese variant is speed-limited to 180km/h, which is more than you’d need, unless you want to track the car – and being a race-bred supercar, you’d be mad not to take your new GT-R on track.

2008 Nissan GT-R

Nissan of course, was aware of this, so they built a speed-limiter which is connected to the car’s GPS system, the GPS will send a signal to the car’s ECU to disable the 180km/h limit when it detects the car has entered a race track! How cool is that?

2008 Nissan GT-R

It is highly unlikely the GPS->speed-limiter system will be activated for Australian delivered GT-Rs. However locally sold variants are more than likely to have their speed-limit set higher than 180km/h.

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Comments

10 Responses to “2008 Nissan GT-R speed-limiter GPS enabled”
  1. Bavarian Missile says:

    Yep that is smart!!

  2. Duck says:

    180km!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Should have been at least 250km!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Bubba Ganush says:

    Im not to sure on this GPS thing if the satelite can track you it means someone else can. Kind of the thin end of the wedge for big brother state.

    now bracing myself for conspiracy theory ridicule lol!

  4. Mitchell Oke says:

    I’d say it means that the onboard computer is equiped with a GPS receiver and the coordinates of the race tracks, and when the GPS reports your on a track the limit is removed. It wouldn’t be transmitting your location.

  5. Watto_Cobra says:

    Don’t most GPS units only receive?

    As far as I know, a normal GPS receives signals from 3 or more satellites to triangulate your position but don’t transmit info unless they are part of a car theft/alarm tracking system.

    Unless the GTR does that, I wouldn’t worry about big brother.

  6. ImportJap says:

    Bet you Japanese tuning houses have already figured out how to remove/turn off this, and soon everyone will know how to via a youtube post or Digg etc.

  7. Cobra 302 says:

    Thats fuckin stupid, 180km/h!!! Come on no one will buy a $100,000+ car to just do 180Km/h on there faviorite piece of back road. Be all right if you could turn it off.

  8. Masynee says:

    How long before a govt in the world decides to electronically limit speeds of vehicles depending on what speed zone they are in?

    Probably only the loss of speeding fine revenue is preventing them. Then again, I’m sure the technology is not far away to issue speeding tickets via GPS tracking…

  9. Watto_Cobra says:

    I rarely speed but that would still suck. It’s so easy to accidently go 10km/h over the limit before you realise and back off.

  10. No Name says:

    There’s rumours that Gordon Browns Kronies want to introduce satellite tracked cars which limit the speed according to the actual limit. Introduce this and the value of 2nd hand cars will rocket.

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