German Car Zone

Here are the results of those tests.


http://www.germancarzone.com/interna...ar-2005-a.html (Autocar Britain's Best Drivers Car 2005)


Yes, the GT-R is quite a bit heavier. And that's the problem. Note how Chris Harris, driving this very same exact car on two different occasions, has completely different feelings about it:

Drivers Republic 017:
"But you already know that the GT-R can do astonishing things with asphalt, that it conjures far more forward momentum than its 272bhp-per-tonne would suggest is possible and it changes direction so obediently you wonder if the quoted 1740kg kerb weight is a typographical blunder. It is one of only two cars I have driven that actively imposes its demands on the road surface and then actuates its mechanicals accordingly."

Drivers Republic 030:
"In the wet and the damp, and on a cold surface that denies it the tyre temperature it so needs to operate to its proper abilities, the GT-R feels every bit as big as its 1740kg weight suggests. Like the GT2, either axle will relinquish grip at any time, but the lack of traction is the most surprising problem. The main issue here is that to anyone who has experienced its extraterrestrial abilities, the GT-R is loaded with expectation - you expect it to fashion something from nothing - but a wet Nurburgring vanquishes its indomitability. It's still far more driveable than something so heavy has any right to be, but on the treacherous sections that had the GT2 instantaneously slithering a car width to the outside of the turn, a the GT-R's greater mass forces it even further to the outside of the circuit."

From C&D's test, we know the GT-R is faster in cornering than the GT2, even on the Bridgestones. We can also make that same educated guess in comparing Drivers Republic times for these two cars at Silverstone; both were very close to about a tenth of a second, but that GT-R was only a hair bit faster than a 997 w/PDK in a straight line, Harris making the comment that the customer car they drove felt much stronger. In Car Magazine's PCOTY comparo, the GT-R (on non Bridgestones) set a slightly quicker lap time than the GT2.

^^That's some Good info there. I have been stating and a few others that there are some major discrepencies in their test. But anyone blinded by 1 side will not read far enough to understand it.