Last month Nissan was at the Nürburgring finalising preparations for the launch of the 2012MY GT-R. Apparently this video was filmed at the same time and shows ‘Godzilla’ has reduced its Ring time to 7 minutes 21 seconds. Not quite down to Nissan’s 7:20 target time, but pretty handy nonetheless. Or is it? It’s been [...]

Below you can see two great clips featuring the Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 Turbo being thrashed around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Well, great if you speak German that is. Otherwise you’ll just have to enjoy the pretty pictures and enjoy the work of the D:SF camera crew. Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that these clips [...]

Accidents happen at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. We all know this. And, thanks to the Nissan marketing machine, we all know the GT-R can make its way around the Ring in double quick time. So, what better car to use for a Rapid Response Vehicle than Nissan’s “Godzilla”. Essentially you’re looking at the world’s fastest fire [...]

Footage of the Nissan GT-R’s most recent “record” time has now made it on to YouTube. At the wheel is Nissan Chief test driver Toshio Suzuki and you can see clearly from the clip that he had a job on his hands, fighting what appears to be some pretty savage understeer at times. Check the [...]

Back in April a factory assault on the Nordschleife saw the Nissan GT-R set a new fastest lap. The new time, set late in the month, was an impressive 7 minutes 26.70 seconds. This marked a slight improvement over their earlier effort in mid-April. However, the press statement announcing this grand news was only released [...]

Unofficially, at least, the new Porsche 911 GT3 still can’t match the Nissan GT-R in a hot lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. According to reports on the internetz Porsche über driver Walter Rohrl recently took the GT3 around the Ring in an open session, shared with other manufacturers, and posted a best lap time of [...]

Hot off the presses, Nissan is claiming a new Nürburgring Nordschleife record for the GT-R. The new time is 7 minutes 27.56 seconds. The new time was set almost one year to the day after the previous best time of 7 minutes 29.03 seconds. With Nissan planning another assault in the next 24 hours, there [...]

Nissan Australia Managing Director, Dan Thompson confirmed that Nissan will be returning to the Nürburgring for a new assault on the Nordschleife in April 2009. He made the announcement as part of his speech during last Friday’s media day at the Melbourne International Motor Show. His comments were also repeated in the press release announcing [...]

Some people have all the fun. And driving a Nissan GT-R around a snow covered Nordschleife sure looks like fun. This really is a thousand miles away from my world at the moment, here in Australia the temps are hovering around 35°C. Ironically, this clip runs for almost the exact time of the GT-R’s famed [...]

Details of Nissan’s GT-R Spec V were released today (see AUSmotive for full story). Along with that announcement comes this video showing the Spec V in full flight around the Ring. No mention of lap times though. While some details have been confirmed, nothing official has been mentioned on increased power figures. The modifications made [...]

Nissan’s Nordschleife-busting R35 GT-R is about to get better. The upcoming V-Spec has been confirmed by Nissan and speculation suggests February 2009 for an official release, although nothing has been officially announced. It has been suggested, though, that the GT-R V-Spec could be revealed at the 12th annual Nismo Festival to be held at the [...]

A few days ago a Porsche official made the extraordinary public claim that Nissan cheated when setting the GT-R’s amazing lap of 7 minute 29 seconds around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. And now Nissan is fighting back defending its honour. At a recent preview of the 911 Cabrio August Achleitner, the 911 product chief for Porsche, [...]

This clip is straight from the ‘lucky bastard’ category. As a resident of Nürburg and Nordschleife instructor, Dale Lomas from RSR Nürburg already lives a life that would make many envious. But recently he has been adding to his daily ‘chores’ by assisting Nissan’s GT Academy with their duties. Bastard, haha! Source: bridgetogantry.com

It seems as though Audi is the first German manufacturer to set its sights on reclaiming bragging rights at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Following the much hyped times of the Nissan GT-R (7:29) and the Corvette ZR1 (7:26) Audi reckons their upcoming V10-powered R8 will be able to better the times set by these intercontinental upstarts. [...]

Well, this is the third clip I’ve posted showing the Nissan GT-R’s 7:29 Nürburgring Nordschleife lap, but it is definitely the best. This one, spotted on GTRblog.com, features audio that is much better and the small Nordschleife circuit layout out super imposed on the lower left of screen always makes such footage a favourite. There’s [...]