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Nissan GT-R Nismo To Be Fastest Accelerating Production Car
Nissan GT-R is already a highly respected car due to super car like performance it offers for a fraction of the price. Nissan has only improved the GT-R with every successive editions, setting a benchmark for all other cars in its price segment. But is it actually possible to further fine tune the same engine to make it perform even better? The company certainly believes so.
Car magazine Auto Express has now learnt, from a Nissan insider, that the new Nismo edition of the GT-R will be engineered to be the fastest accelerating production car on earth. The figure claimed by this source is just 2 seconds and that's to reach 60 mph (96 km/h) from a standstill!
Helping Nissan in this endeavour will be an unexpected ally, Williams. To be specific, the engineering service arm, Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE). In fact, the magazine quotes a WAE engineer as saying, "You'd be surprised at how much room for improvement there is - even with a car like the GT-R. Where you expect it's all been tuned to the maximum, it's actually easy to make big gains."
A regular Nissan GT-R runs on a twin turbo V6 engine, mated to a six speed dual clutch transmission, which is already capable of achieving a blistering fast time of 2.7 seconds to reach 0-60 mph. If that time has to reach a flat 2.0 sec we are speaking of incredible power to weight ratios. Simply put, more power and less weight. Also, the tyres will have to be grippier and the gear shift time will have to be made faster.
If Nissan will indeed pull it off then it will become THE fastest accelerating production car by beating even the mighty, multi million dollar, 1200 HP Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (0-62 mph in 2.5 s), not to mention a bunch of others such as the Ariel Atom and its likes and non-production cars such as the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento.
2015 Nissan GT-R Nismo will be revealed at the 2013 Tokyo Motor in November.
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