it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car and here's this week's winner the gt-r is somewhat of an old platform
it's been around over 10 years and they've revamped it a little here and
there, and the 2017 model brought you know a difference in the front fascia
and you know side skirts and the rear end was changed just a little bit,
overall it's kind of surprising that they're actually still selling this car
and one can be had for the Ransom of around 120,000 dollars, one interesting
thing to note about the gt-r is it's been kind of an anomaly with used car
values, when they came out you know somewhat 10 years ago, you know they're
around $70,000 to get into one and over the years the price has risen fairly
dramatically, where now you can actually get a 2019 model for around $120,000, well as
they kept raising the prices of the newer ones it elevated the used ones so
it was hard to find one less than $55,000, the car is finished in regal red
and supposedly from Nissan it has a gold actual real gold flake and was a $3,000
up charge, and it's a fairly rare color there were only 180 US spec models with
this color, coming from a Toyota Supra the interior is nice but I really
like the supra better it felt more immersive
GTRs you know the r35 model were, they felt kind of lacking in the interior and
I can appreciate the newer ones are you know taking a further step by
actually putting a stitching with the leather trim and the carbon-fiber
accents here and there, some of the controls and some on the gauges, the one
thing I really like about this car is the multifunction display, this display
was actually designed by Polyphony who if I'm not mistaken does help design
the Gran Turismo, and it has quite a few functions and features, so you go to your
boost gauge, fuel flow, a G meter, it's customizable for a lot of different formats
and you can pretty much check any parameter of the car's operating that
you'd like, and it also has this timer which of course me personally on track
day I just kind of screw around and don't really do anything constructive
but actually has a timer and then of course your controls are right here on
the steering wheel, you can sit there and start and stop and you can mark your
laps and something I've never used, but I can see it being pretty useful for that
weekend road warrior, the interior is fairly comfortable after all
nice little details, and one thing it's kind of odd
there's actually a plastic emblem on the floor mat, but it's got a nice stitching
and the interiors like I said not necessarily my favorite, but it is nice
I'm not gonna lie, there is a back seat but it's I don't know why it's here
honestly, our kid he fits and I use fit loosely
one great feature about this car is the launch control, using the launch control
you can normally a car in stock form, can have a 0 to 60 acceleration from 2.9
seconds, and to activate the system you go into r mode, so you set the
transmission, you don't necessarily have to set the suspension but I do it anyway
and the traction control, and to operate this you'll obviously find a great
straightaway, put your foot on the brake floor the car, it'll bring up to
approximately 4000 rpm, drop the brake and take off and the acceleration is
explosive, it's almost addictive and definitely something that can get you in
trouble, but I do have a friend that has one that's tuned to around a thousand
horsepower, and it just basically burns the tires off, it's not useful at
all in the higher horsepower application the car is equipped with a 3.8 liter
twin-turbo v6, and there's some pretty cool details about it, pretty
cool-looking car fiber stiffener back here, and the radiator core support is
actually made of carbon fiber, the older GTRs or the earlier r35 gt-r only produce
about 480 horsepower and I believe the 2017 Plus produced 565
one thing I really miss with this car is the fact that it doesn't have a manual
gearbox, it was never offered in the r35 model, it has a dual clutch transmission
which is the first that I've ever had, and I will say the shifts are precise
they're pretty crisp and it works well I can't dispute, that but I just missed
that extra element of banging through the gears, the car came stock with Brembo
brakes one thing about the car though is maintenance at the dealership is pretty
expensive, just a simple oil change is $250 and transmission and differential service
which has to be done every 15 to 20 thousand miles, is about two thousand
dollars, fortunately for me on a pretty good DIYer
and can knock those out without issue, the car is pretty much stock the only
thing I did was I changed out the mid catalytic converters with just a stray
through mid pipe, put a meister shaft catback exhaust
I put 2017 GTR OEM wheels on the car, and I did put a carbon fiber front lip
my family and I'm were in Japan a few months back and I was able to actually drive a
GTR r34 GTR for the day throughout Tokyo and kind of around, and it was a
fantastic experience, it was basically that Unicorn car I've always wanted and
unfortunately can't have here in the United States
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