the Nissan GTR has a reputation of being a powerhouse sports car very mechanical
very raw
we're fine though is not something the car has been known for nissan aims
change that for 2017 with a host of improvements to improve its drivability
and we spent a few days on the street
testing just if they've made this a touring car you know is it a little less
rava sports car a little better
daily driver now to experience the more hostile side of this we also took it to
the drag strip that has zero to 60 and quarter-mile acceleration certain
unwanted interior noises are greatly reduced for 2017 there's no sound
insulation front and rear plus a new acoustic windshield now where we really
hear the difference is in the significantly less gear wine in drive
train noises that you here with the windows up now if you have the windows
down you'll still hear some chatter when the transmissions downshifting but with
the windows up not as those full as it once was the transmission itself as new
programming to smooth out shifts and that is also greatly noticed it's much
smoother experience when you're just driving around town casually new for
2017 is an active sound enhancement feature now that's leveraging the
already existing active sound cancellation and it picks up engine
noise electronically augments it and then sends it through the interior
speakers now it's not a new system we've seen in other cars and it's something
I'm not typically a fan of it sounds artificial and this card sounds pretty
natural but visit when turbo v6
it is just naturally a very great sounding engine and I hate having that
fake engine noise piped through the stereo I'd rather see a true multimode
exhaust on this where you can hit a button it's quiet hit another button
allowed this has at to a degree but it doesn't have as big of a swing in tone
and noise levels as other sports the new interior is absolutely step up over the
outgoing car and especially with the four thousand dollar premium package on
the inside that gets hand-stitch leather interior and just very high quality
materials and also includes the leather-trimmed seats now seeing comfort
is about as subjective as exhaust sound preference and i'm having a hard time
getting comfortable in these new seats
there's no bolster adjustment there's no lumbar adjustment and it feels like
you're sitting on top of the seat rather than in it i wouldn't call the 2017
nissan gt-r 8 touring car
it still has raucous amounts of tire noise at highway speeds and it is a
high-strung vehicle to drive it grabs every rut in the road and tugs the car
one way or another it's not the most pleasant experience on long highway
drives also with those seats which is just not a fan of despite being prettied
up for 2017 there's still a raw sports car experience in the GTR and to
experience that we went to great lakes dragway in Union Grove Wisconsin we ran
the best 0 to 60 miles per hour of 3.3 seconds we did a quarter-mile in 11.3
seconds at a hundred twenty-one miles per hour
now the technique there was simple launch control
hold the brake hold the gas let go of the break and go like being shot out of
a cannon
launch control also known as our mode start revs engine to around 4000 RPM you
let off the brake
hold on to the gas in the car just rockets and it does that consistently
same times to a tenth of a second we ran all night
a trip to the director reminds us that even with all this lipstick on it the
GTR still does fast 7 slow
yeah