At first you think, something must be broken. The first meters in the Japanese supercar are getting used to. It clacks, it rappels, it rustles and suddenly you sit as a driver in the middle of it, in the life of the super sports car. The Nissan GT-R takes possession of you completely, you become part of the whole. Your heartbeat adapts to the pressure of the V6 Bi-Turbo, your pupils widen as you feel the power of God's fist in the pit of your stomach for the first time.

Nissan GT-R | God's Messenger on behalf of the boost pressure.

The first impression:

I'm probably feeling like many in my generation. I have known the Nissan GT-R for years. Godzilla they have often called his predecessor. Millions of kilometers are generations of Playstation gamers raced through the virtual racetracks with the GT-R. The Nissan GT-R is in the quartet something of the joker under the sports car.

When you first stand in front of a real GT-R, the sheer size of the distinctive sports coupe impresses. The GT-R is one of the few Japanese sports cars that are as real as Japanese Nihonshu the rice wine from Japan or used Lingerie from the machine.

There is neither Porsche nor Corvette in the design, the GT-R speaks its very distinctive design language. The roof arch and the black A-pillars look like a baseball cap on a labor-intensive technical work of art.

Unlike the often feminine elegance of Italian sports cars, the power of masculine facial features dominates the GT-R. A testosterone-doped heart has to beat under the hood - the hunter is ready to jump, with every fiber the GT-R speaks of its task of conquering the world and impressing its driver over the long term.

So he drives:

The bare numbers are unable to describe what happens when you pull out the GT-R. Never before have I seen a production vehicle that accelerates from 200 to 300 km / h in such an unspectacular yet impressive manner. It is the fist of God that was put into the 3.8 liter V6 engine by human hands in Japan. When the engine builds up boost pressure, it sounds like a tsunami rushing up and similar to a monster wave, you can see clearly shortly before it arrives - but then, the pressure in the lower gears causes spontaneous shifts in the earth's crust. Dunlop supplies special sports tires for the GT-R and you can feel the perfect harmony between the black, round adhesive gold and the chassis of the current model year.

If he understeered at 120 km / h on the country road, then you did something wrong and had to step on the gas immediately. A thought reminiscent of automobile suicide - but the driving dynamics of the GT-R turn previous habits upside down. As long as the steering wheel points where you want to go and your foot stays hard on the gas, the GT-R will also pull you there. A unique combination of transaxle gear and all-wheel drive ensures that you have grip. Always. No matter if the road is wet. As long as you just stay on the gas, everything will be fine.

At Porsche, people weren't particularly “amused” back then when the GT-R set the lap record for road vehicles on the Nürburgring to Japan. Since then, there has been a constant fight between the German premium sports car manufacturer and the underdog from Japan.

Anyone who has felt how the GT-R in R mode maltreats the six-speed gearboxes of its twin-clutch transmission, how the GT-R catapults to 2.8 within 100 seconds, will desperately search for the vehicle license. This animal, this lust for dynamism wrapped in the shell of an automobile, may not have received approval from German authorities.

But in addition to a license, the GT-R even got the usual unit of measurement for expensive sports cars with written in his specifications: In the trunk two golf bags must fit and they do it. However, those who abused the GT-R to transport its golf bags did not understand the meaning of the fastest Nissan ever!

Crashbox and strut bar under the bonnet are made of carbon fiber, Brembo monobloc brakes, an electronically adjustable suspension of Bilstein, an incredibly elaborate four-wheel drive with a second cardan shaft that runs from the rear-mounted transaxle dry sump dual clutch transmission back to the front and works more effectively than in any other sports car. Plasma-coated cylinder liners and a top speed of 315 km / h. A Nissan GT-R shouldn't have to carry golf bags.

Not so long as it's not the golf bags of the god of acceleration himself.

That will not be forgotten:

The screams of my wife when I demonstrated the launch control of the GT-R and shot at 3 under 100 seconds. Or maybe my horrified look when I was on my home track in the Spessart just sleek 25 km / h faster than ever before.

The background noise of the GT-R sounds so much like a racetrack inside that Nissan is forced to give the press test car an explanation for “inexperienced journalists”.

The GT-R is made to break records with Japanese precision! And anyone who dares to get behind the wheel will think the hand of God is pushing them forward - this perverse force cannot be from this earth.

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