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chiroky wrote:Tk, ça jase pas fort dans le char Méchante bête, c'est quoi son prix?

simarddominic wrote:Y vont faire une version Nismo Extrême !?!??..

NISMO, Nissan’s motorsports and performance division, cut its teeth on the Z and the Juke before messing with Godzilla. In addition to two new turbos borrowed from the GT-R GT3 racer, which add 50 horsepower for a total of 595, the GT-R NISMO has a stiffer suspension setup, half-inch-wider front wheels, Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT 600 run-flats with an updated compound, more seam welding to increase structural rigidity, special bumpers and side skirts, and a trunk-mounted wing.

That’s the “normal” version, which NISMO apparently thinks is only adequate. We know this because those guys told us they want to run a sub-7-minute 10-second lap at the Nordschleife, and to do that, they’re developing an even more radical version that they’re calling the NISMO track package for now. The bun’s still in the oven, about a year from done; they’re still kicking around baby names. What NISMO does know is that the track-package car ran a time of 7:08.68 and will cost less than $200,000. That’s just 11 ticks off the $847,975 Porsche 918’s recent record 6:57 lap for a street-legal car.

To get around the Nordschleife that fast, engineers took the GT-R NISMO and replaced the front fenders, hood, exterior-mirror housings, and trunklid with carbon-fiber pieces. Single-piece Recaro seats, which Nissan claims will be available as an accessory in the U.S., replace the regular GT-R’s electrically adjustable units. The ’Ring-conquering GT-R consequently weighs a claimed 143 pounds less than the standard GT-R.

This, and not the stock GT-R NISMO, is what I’ll be sitting in for a lap. I’m riding with former FIA GT1 champion Michael Krumm, who ran the 7:08. He’s a pro, so I don’t find it odd when he straps into a six-point belt in racing garb and a full-face ­helmet. “Hang on to this, maybe?” he says, pointing to the center console. “And try not to touch me.”