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Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R shaving 2.48 seconds off 'Ring time
Nissan loves spending time in Germany. We imagine that Nissan engineers have passports filled with German point-of-entry stamps. However, they've likely only spent time in one specific area: the village of Nürburg, Germany.
With the GT-R now producing an extra 45 horsepower for model year 2012, Nissan went back to the Nürburgring last October with it's updated super coupe to see how much time it could shave off the old car's best lap – a blistering 7m 26.7s. The result? With a new lap time of 7:24.22, how does a hair quicker than the Maserati MC12 sound?
That time doesn't just place the 2012 Nissan GT-R ahead of the Maserati. Other cars with slower times include the Pagani Zonda F Clubsport, Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT and a host of other expensive, hard-to-pronounce exotic machines, at least according to Wikipedia. Since there is no official governing body that records Nürburgring lap times for production cars, it's hard to say which ones really do have the lowest lap times. From what we can tell, the Dodge Viper ACR and Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 are still quicker than the 2012 GT-R.
Note that the driving action begins around the 3:09 mark.
Nissan loves spending time in Germany. We imagine that Nissan engineers have passports filled with German point-of-entry stamps. However, they've likely only spent time in one specific area: the village of Nürburg, Germany.
With the GT-R now producing an extra 45 horsepower for model year 2012, Nissan went back to the Nürburgring last October with it's updated super coupe to see how much time it could shave off the old car's best lap – a blistering 7m 26.7s. The result? With a new lap time of 7:24.22, how does a hair quicker than the Maserati MC12 sound?
That time doesn't just place the 2012 Nissan GT-R ahead of the Maserati. Other cars with slower times include the Pagani Zonda F Clubsport, Ferrari Enzo, Porsche Carrera GT and a host of other expensive, hard-to-pronounce exotic machines, at least according to Wikipedia. Since there is no official governing body that records Nürburgring lap times for production cars, it's hard to say which ones really do have the lowest lap times. From what we can tell, the Dodge Viper ACR and Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 are still quicker than the 2012 GT-R.
Note that the driving action begins around the 3:09 mark.
