Nissan Beats Porsche? 2009 Nissan GT-R (U.S.-Spec)

Video Title :	Nissan Beats Porsche? 2009 Nissan GT-R (U.S.-Spec)
Description :	http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=126103 For a few seconds, you give in to the spectacle of driving a 2009 Nissan GT-R. This car attracts its own entourage and then takes you along for the ride. It's not just the Skyline mystique, either. It's the fact that even in production sheet metal, the R35 GT-R looks like a one-off concept stolen from a Southern California design studio. It has as many hard contours as a Porsche 911 has soft curves. You have the key fob, and still you ogle it. Soon, though, you point the GT-R down an on-ramp and plant the throttle. The effortless brutality with which the 2009 Nissan GT-R gathers speed is what you'll describe to your friends — once everyone's tired of talking about the styling, that is. What you won't tell them is that you suspect your supercar might be a sociopath. It doesn't flow around corners like your E46 BMW M3 did, nor does it transmit feedback through the steering wheel for the sheer pleasure of it. Instead, the 2009 Nissan GT-R bends asphalt to its will. When it talks to you about tire grip, you get the feeling it's only bothering because you're part of its great plan to break free of the Earth's orbit. Should it ever achieve this, you imagine that its conversation will cease and it will simply expel you into the airless void. Until then, though, you have the conn.
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Comments :

blown tranny? this is a car that is producing more power in a 3.5L then any American manufacture can do with a 6.0 L so if anyone is going to blow its all you domestics that drive cars worth less then this PC I am using to type with.

thats not what the gtr owners are saying when they bring that junk in for a blown tranny that isnt covered under warranty cause they used launch control. can you $20k down the drain for a new tranny that you still cant ride hard?

the ZR1 has bested everything that pos could throw at it-go beat off to your paul walker poster ricerfag.

Only complant I got is that cars nowadays is getting too fat.

best bang for the buck

noo in my point of view i think the r32 is betta not everyone iz da same bro

How is the R32 better? In what way?

What do you mean "we"?

WTF 3,900 lb. curb weight? whats in the trunk...cement blocks? i drive a '97 aurora its over 17 ft long and has 4 doors and a v8 and weighs only 67 more pounds!

Z06 is garbage. GTR is the new "best" sorry chevy fans, we got you beat.