The 2017 Nissan GT-R | Chris Harris Drives | Top Gear

The Nissan GTR r35 is now officially an old car, but tell me it still doesn't have a presence. Power is now up to 565 horsepower thanks to revised ignition timing and increased boost pressure. On the outside there are many small aerodynamic adjustments that reduce lift and i. I consider the attractive interior, there are many changes that help negate the aging process, but the GTR now feels old next to the latest German rivals, but never underestimate these things, they have a habit of always surprising you. This one is also very, very tanned and I am quite tanned. Have you ever tried driving a Nissan GTR slowly on public roads?

It's really really hard because I don't know many cars that get you going like Godzilla just wants to go fast all the time this car is almost eight years old. old, the increase is for the

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model year and it's not that significant, there's a little more power and I think a foot more talks, it looks a little different, it's a little more effective and it looks better inside, but the great news is that they have softened the car a bit, so now the standard suspension mode is actually quite flexible and they have made the car much quieter inside.

Muskies call it NVH, that's noise, vibration and harshness and frankly while the old gt-r for me was a pain in the ass. neck, a car I didn't want to live with on long trips, this one is now really comfortable, that's right, it's a slightly soft GTR and I like that because I'm a little softer, it's okay to drive the GTR on these beautiful open ones. Roman roads, but we really have to take it to a circuit. The skin in question. For me the GTR has always been an enigma because people talk about its straight line performance, that's what it's famous for, doesn't it need a chip? it has a thousand horsepower and look how it does nothing two hundred and in four and a half seconds and it's quite a party trick and it was the first of the modern generation of twin-turbo supercars with a dual-clutch transmission, this thing was eating 911 turbos In 2007 2008, almost nine years old, I drove one of these incredible cars for the first time; this one now has 565 horsepower and a little more torque and it had some aerodynamic tweaks and I think they've done something really great with the ride comfort, like I said in the On Road it's now more usable and the MBH is better, so it doesn't hurt your ears, but on a track the enigmatic quality for me is that the chassis is so interesting, this is a four-wheel drive vehicle that is so smart that it goes from juggling torque and it makes you go fast and therefore you throw it back and forth and sometimes fight the driver.

I've always found it a lot of fun to go into battle in the gt-r Bret Land. Today is nice and slippery and I instinctively find myself being a Wally, I don't care about lap times, what I care about is trying to put the thing at silly angles and see how it wants to respond when it wants to throw, talk about what I can do to work with that, sometimes I work against it and hopefully Lassa. The fear of the GTR is so completely crazy that I once attended a lecture given by Mizuno-san, the father of this vehicle, who in turn was ready to chat about some pretty crazy ideas about the vehicle's dynamic attributes and what mattered. , for example, I wanted to knead the fact of this thing.

It weighs approximately the same for the moon, it's no coincidence, he felt that the mass gave it traction because it helped to dig the sleepers into the road surface and the only thing this car doesn't lack is its traction on the road, it's incredible and of course the differentials and the The way they set up the chassis means it hides its mass on the circuit very well. He shouldn't be able to do the things he does. How much does it weigh? The BMW 5 Series is a huge vehicle, but it feels so agile. It's not this fast direction, but I love dropping in.

I really do, so let's go into a corner and see what happens, give it a sigh, look at that rear wheel drive almost and then I hit the gas, it

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it straight, here we go. an example, great third throttle, great steering, no gas, straighten out the moment I press the accelerator pedal it just moves and then you have this amazing feeling of the bow rising and those sticky Dunlops taking the performance out of what it is a wet service in a way, I think not. another car can match and then there's the sound, it has a really distinctive sound from the inside and outside, a kind of rush of air, like it's doing something, it's almost changing the molecular structure of the air coming in, it makes it amazing, deeply, accounting. vehicle too, sometimes people have accused us of being a little Japanese, a little bland, boring and lacking personality.

I can't think of any car that has more personality, an idol, it clicks and rattles and when you start it, you drive from a standstill. It makes all kinds of strange noises and purrs and hisses and hums and I love it. I can't believe he's so old. In reality, of course, you can also drive it in a straight line, at which point you will be surprised. Level of grip you can achieve with this new slightly softer suspension. I think it helps because it gives me a little more wrong feeling against traffic, I work on bumps better, but the braking performance is fantastic, the engine still pulls a little angular.

At the top end now of what it used to be and still makes a fantastic noise, it's a really very fast car. I mean, you can compare this to all your latest metal and it would still be there or there and normally at this point. We pulled all these gubbins from the onboard camera, we've recorded it and then I go out and we try to slide around the corners to get the exterior shots, but they match what I'm saying inside the car, but the GTF that has challenged that. I want to get this up and running today so you can see the process of trying to get it to work, but to be honest, I don't know what's going to happen.

You could go into the corner the first time in third

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at 70. 80 miles per hour and you could understeer in a straight line or you could do it right and you could oversteer. What we want is a lotus dish, so obviously we make a couple of straight passes, but trying to shake the car, I don't know. if he's going to try to right himself too quickly that's what I love about this some people find it frustrating but I really don't know what he's going to do and you have to respond quickly if you make this entry wrong when it says then then you have to phone in this hand and ask for forgiveness, it's okay, this is the first part of the earth now we have two thirds fourth ears, we get along well, stay to see his photo, now I understood there and then it's giving me enough to be there.

So next time I'll probably slow down a little bit, add a little more steering angle on entry and be more brutal in that weight transfer when I want to back off because the GTR's Stasi will give you powerful oversteer and give you a boost. out of oversteer also to hit them both which is more common, the neighbor was very strange in the park, a man, let's get into it a little bit because if I back up there, she straightens out and goes again, so I want that constant slide. I have it. to go I said it's a little drier than the last few minutes, I know what I have to do, we care a little more about speed and then we could glide well and consistently, that will give you the full shot we are looking for, speed is your friend when it turns on slowly there she goes there she goes power bank talk about always room what's up at about 75 going out at 90 miles per hour and a dry track on the output mic take a look at that take a look at that from the outside and see what it looks like, it's going to look fantastic because there are leaves and a slippery nursery and there's something dry on the way out.

Can you need me to chatter? I just need to watch a single car in slow motion.