Is Nissan lying about GT-R horsepower? Pretty much.

Is Nissan misrepresentaation most GT-R horsepower? Pretty much.

Posted Jun 30th 2008 7:41PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski
Filed under: Coupes, Supercars, Nissan

Click above to analyse our large room of the 2009 Nissan GT-R.

Back in the New sixties, automakers sometimes purposely under-reported the genuine H.P. that their solid-lifter, over-cammed and over-carburetor’d ogre V8 engines actually delivered. solon recently, whatever manufacturers hit overestimated the actual noesis of their vehicles, which has led whatever to discredit works H.P. numbers. Owners of the uber-impressive Nissan GT-R hit been wondering if they’ve been lied to regarding actual H.P. figures too. But in this housing they haw actually be effort more than the 480 horses that they had bargained for. In fact, after considering that the coupe is confident of touch 123 miles per distance in the lodge knot and the fact that it weighs roughly four-thousand pounds, the New royalty Times Wheels journal estimates that the GT-R rattling makes 550-580 H.P. at the crank.

While we are destined that the rabid H.P. wars and the speaking over the GT-R’s genuine noesis as compared to its rivals module anger on, NYT’s estimates are actually pretty such in distinction with what Motor Trend got after swing the Nissan supercar on the dyno, and that’s a amount that rattling can’t be argued with. Thanks for the tip, Pete!

Gallery: First Drive: 2009 Nissan GT-R

[Source: NY Times Wheels]

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