Friday, July 18, 2008

GTR Only A Tenth Quicker Than An Enzo, Officially Slow.


It's not official yet, but Wikipedia had earlier posted a Top Gear Track lap time for Nissan's super car with back seats, and if it's true, it's astonishing. The car seems to have equalled the Maserati MC12's time of 1.18.9. To put that in perspective the Ferrari 430 Scuderia, Porsche Carrera GT, and Lamborghini are all an identical 9/10ths slower, and even the mighty Ferrari-Enzo-Ferrari lags by a tenth of a second. Britain will have to wait until Sunday to see if it's all real. The rest of us will have to wait another hour for the footage to be up on youtube.

We'll all have to wait a bit longer for Stig to get his hands on the ZR1...

**UPDATE**: Well, it turns out that in the best traditions of Wikipedia, the Top Gear Time for the GTR was in fact, not a fact at all. Still, a time in the 1.19s is nothing to sneeze at. Clarkson seems to have liked the car as well, at least until it broke his neck. For the full power lap, as well as Jeremy's gooey-eyed review of its on-track capabilities, there's the youtube box below.

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