Nissan GTR Assembly Line Detailing

wow... that assembly line is amazing... i cant wait till that car is available, makes me want to stop saving for the new m3 sedan, and get on the waiting line for one of those!!
 
SpoiledMan said:
Well, it's slightly more than that but it's selling like steaming piles at this point. There's supposed to be some decent changes to it in the next couple months to try and fix that.
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I have to say, from my point of view that is a good thing. If the car is suppose to be special then it cant sell in numbers. Certantly here in London things like BMW's, Audis and Porches esp. are ten a penny there is nothing exclusive or cool about them.



There is certantly some thing special about the larger Lexus esp. with the with the "h" on the back compared to your run of the mill TD based S class Merc.



Thanks for the video!! Great stuff to see in action!!



Geoff
 
SpoiledMan said:
Well, it's slightly more than that but it's selling like steaming piles at this point. There's supposed to be some decent changes to it in the next couple months to try and fix that.
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IT NEEDS A V8



Shame they underpowered an otherwise really nice car.



Back to the GT-R, that is an amazing amount of hand assembly in addition to the impressive attention to the paint. :xyxthumbs
 
295-300 whatever. Not enough to haul the pig around. It could also stand to be bigger as there is just some identity crisis between it and the much faster and same sized TL.
 
What the heck is the matter with you guys? 300 HP isn't enough for you? 6.7 seconds zero-to-sixty? I remember some dark emission and fuel economy days when IIRC the fastest car you could buy in the US was a Rabbit GTI which couldn't even crack 10 seconds. Corvettes and F-bodies were equipped with "cross-port injected" 305's and couldn't get out of their own way, and Mustangs were still sporting an oil-cooled turbo 2.0 l I4 as the hot engine, and this was before anyone had even heard of a "carbon footprint". And you guys are complaining about this...sheesh!
 
Man, at 50k it just has to be better than it is to be a competitor. I wouldn't feel good at all dropping that kind of coin on the car when the TL is there missing only AWD (not needed here) and 15k cheaper.
 
I wasn't judging it as a bargain...I was judging what you guys think is underpowered! We have incredible riches of horsepower available to us these days...a Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, or Hyundai Sonata can all be had with more horsepower than a '78 Firebird Trans Am 6.6 TA which was a pretty potent engine in its day and perhaps the apex of performance for the period (torque would be another issue...some day I will look that up). I hardly think we are looking at a future where a vanilla mainstream family sedan is putting out that kind of power-to-weight ratio. Anyway, enough thread-jacking.
 
Aurora40 said:
That's what I thought you meant. I think many/most cars are spot sanded/buffed to fix defects. Nothing special about that.



I guess I don't get the GT-R? 470hp, 3,800 lbs, and $80k? :nixweiss
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...and a place for 4 people to sit and AWD and... It's going to kick some *** at that price. Being turbo, it's just a few upgrades away from even more power.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I thought the RL had something like 300 HP?
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Doesn't have enough low end torque, plus when you drop $50,000+ in the catagory the RL competes in, a V8 should be standard. Low 15s is just not acceptable when everyone else is well into the 14s and even quicker.



Other than the lack of ooomph when you hit the gas, it is a really nice car. Killer stereo, very comfortable seats, etc.
 
brwill2005 said:
I do not even think Honda/Acura ever even made a V8; not sure though.
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they might skip the 8 and go to a v10 for the next generation nsx but the proto is ugly and the engine is in the wrong place.
 
pt91 said:
they might skip the 8 and go to a v10 for the next generation nsx but the proto is ugly and the engine is in the wrong place.
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And the scariest part about that is that they have been producing cars that are pretty close to what the proto's look like.:nervous2:
 
on paper the gt-r is bound to do make exotic car makers take notice just like the nsx did in the early 90s. not as nce to look at but i am warming up to it.

honda is getting left behind unfortunately. maybe nissan will wake them up.
 
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