Rendered Speculation: Nissan GT-R Le Mans Edition with 600hp

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by Thami Masemola
November 10, 2008 10:48 PM
Filed Under: Artist Renderings, Japanese, Nissan, Rumours, Supercars

Nissan GT-R is expanding its already impressive repertoire by not only upping performance and spec for the upcoming GT-R V-Spec, but they have an even more potent ace up their sleeves. Best Car magazine say their "inside info" points them towards the direction of a very limited edition Le Mans Edition. Nissan is making a competition car, from which a street-legal version shall spawn.

Already an LM edition Skyline GT-R R33 was built in the 1990s, and was painted only Competition Blue. It was in commemoration to the car that took part at Le Mans 24 Hours. Beauty it was that, so we anticipate something of a sweet deal on this GT-R as well.

Suspected force will come from the car's tried and tested 3.8-litre V6 which will delve a bit deeper past the standard 480hp (353kW) into something said to be a scathing 612hp (450kW). Additionally the usual upgrades will apply: sharper, bigger brakes, new body kit, suspension and aerodynamic changes. The GT-R has already proven its pedigree among the finest on the planet, so we can only imagine what an LM Edition will come to. I wonder if it has been benchmarked against the 911 GT2? Or was that the V-Spec?

 

Source: Best Car via Carscoop.blogspot.com
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Wouldnt it have to be naturally aspirated to be an LM edition? Otherwise it's just a name, and nothing more.

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by radmeister | November 10, 2008 11:10 PM
holy jeeezzz... smack me hard!!! hahaha this is just INSANE. and who cares if its just a name radmeister. stop being so picky.

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by carcrazy1234 | November 10, 2008 11:18 PM
a name on a really good car

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by Motor_Yakuza | November 10, 2008 11:18 PM
Those Japanese robots have gone insane on power! This can take on a 911 GT2 anyday.

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by Tuner_Mad | November 10, 2008 11:20 PM
they can even have a 1000 hp Nascar edition I lost intrest in it

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by out4ride | November 10, 2008 11:34 PM
V-spec will take down GT2, this will take down Carrera GT, Enzo....lol...

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by abugatti | November 10, 2008 11:42 PM
then the f70 will tear down this, the zonda r will take down the f70. and those cars manage it with nice interiors (well, with the obvious exception of some ferraris). i just don't get the hype with the gt-r. very good car, yes. very good around the nurburgring, yes. but against a ferrari? beating it by a few seconds on one track doesn't seem to be a fair trade off for the other advantages a ferrari/lambo/pagani, in my opinion. there world is not encompassed by the nordschliefe...

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by Lucifa | November 11, 2008 11:10 AM
Well DUH the GTR LM and F70 are in different classes. The F70 is a supercar, this is a high-peformance Super-GT car.

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by Tuner_Mad | November 11, 2008 9:28 PM
what a car even the standard gtr is one of the best but this 600bhp lm edition would be so deadly

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by wallace089 | November 11, 2008 1:00 AM
the thing is nissan has played down the horse power on the actual GTR so are they doing it again with this and could it be closer to 650 or 700??? looks awesome though! i wish nissan would epmloy a decent interior designer so that the cars would be complete the 350, 370, the GTR are all awesome looking cars but the interiors are so boring and cheap looking and i might even say the GTR's already looks bout 5years old and dated....may be that because the original gtr concept car is about 8 years old

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by peterjames7 | November 11, 2008 1:44 AM
The GT-R is designed function over form, it looks like it does for a purpose and that's to give as much down force as possible at higher speeds and also be as slippery as possible hence the 0.27 cd

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by mortz | November 11, 2008 5:45 AM
when is v-spec coming? I haven't heard for a while..

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by samuelzeus | November 11, 2008 4:11 AM
I want 7 GTR LM...1 for every day and have that poer every day in diferent colors JAJAJAJAJAJAJA Ferrai, please go home and try to made a real car this time JAJAJA. I´ve also thougt nissan "powerless" the street car...In 1986 F1 use to have 1200hp whit 1.5 V6 twiturbo...just thin IN REAL ENGEINERING HERE

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by _M7_ | November 11, 2008 5:04 AM
I'm sorry, what's "JAJAJAJA"? It's really eating me up not knowing...

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by Decypha | November 11, 2008 7:51 AM
its the spanish way of saying "hahaha" lmfao

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by carcrazy1234 | November 11, 2008 7:44 PM
Thanks :D

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by Decypha | November 11, 2008 7:50 PM
450Kw, wow - Audi and Merc need blown V10 and 12 engines to achive such high power. Well done Japan =- i take my hat off but i suspect Gemany will respond.

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by Wisp | November 11, 2008 9:09 AM
This is still a speculation, until it is confirmed as offcial. I thought the germans had the Twin turbo flat 6 called the GT2?

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by 122 | November 11, 2008 4:11 PM
Yeah but that's not 450kW... look the Germans could do it too if they wanted to, heck the Koreans could do it; the chinese could too... it's not amazing.

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by Decypha | November 11, 2008 7:43 PM
the new racing GTR's in the japan racing league dont use the 3.8TT engines. they use the 4.5 V8s. so this may be a possible engine choice "if" they actually get into Le mans

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by crisgq | November 11, 2008 1:59 PM
To tell you guys the truth i think this may do more harm than good to the GT-R, The car's problems arent power, it's the suspension being a bit too soft, ride height a bit too high, brakes that are in no shape or form close to the competition, and a fat and heavy ass. I would bet that an untouched engine, with 400lbs shaved off, better carbon composite/ceramic brakes with minimum an 8 piston caliper, an Ohlins suspension, and a lower center of gravity would be faster than the same old fat GT-R with more power. That's like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. You add fat ass + bad brakes + soft suspension +600hp and you have urself a mess on the track.

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by Radmeister | November 11, 2008 2:49 PM
Also, everyone is quick to forget that so far the GT-R has only really beaten the Porsche Turbo, because that's the only car in the same power category, seating, and awd. The supercars it has beaten are 8-10 years old, if ferrari put the FXX on the nurburing it would beat the GT-R not by seconds but by over a minute. It's a great car but it's not as godly as everyone makes it out to be, hell it's more problematic and expensive to maintain than a Ferrari, until the GT-R i thought that was impossible.

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by Radmeister | November 11, 2008 2:54 PM
Not being biased or anything, but 911 is its rival and its intention was to beat it around the nurburging. Not just that, it was built to be a useable, driveable car that is relatively comfortable - that is real world performance.

I'm no rocket scientist, but making comparisons of cars lapping in the nurburging with a FXX(which is practically a racing car) and a nissan GTR (super fast road car) is completely absurd. They are totally different cars and you would be expected for the FXX to go faster in the hands on a competent driver.

Like it or not, the GTR is a completely rapid car. and to clock a 7:29 and to come seconds behind real supercars such as zonda is quite godly.

I'd like to see evidence that its more expensive to maintain a GTR than a Ferrari.

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by 122 | November 11, 2008 4:08 PM
i'd agree comparing a gt-r to a ferrari of any kind is stupid. but as the gt-r-ophiles seem to be obsessed with track times, i think radmeister has a point - ferrari still wins on a track; if you can compare the gt-r to an enzo you can compare it to the FXX, and the FXX would wipe the floor with just about anything on the planet, save maybe a mclaren f1 gtr (which "supposedly" did a six minute something lap of the ring)

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by Lucifa | November 12, 2008 9:13 AM
Isn't an Enzo service like ?3 000 a pop or something like that? I really doubt the GT-R could have service costs even near that price but hey I could be wrong...

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by Decypha | November 11, 2008 7:49 PM
And that was supposed to be 3000GBP...

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by Decypha | November 12, 2008 7:07 AM
sory, but a gt2 is more more beautiful than a gtr, it's faster, stronger, and you just like the way of a porsche(tuner 9ff,a new edition with 670HP and one with 910HP coming soon...this 670HP 0-100km/h=3,6s, 0-200km/h=6,2, 0-300km/h=25,8 grrr

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by giga_games | November 11, 2008 10:28 PM
The GT-R has lost much of it's shine for me, I'm sorry to say. This sort of tat doesn't help.

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by Airbag | November 12, 2008 12:43 AM
so pretty much the le mans version makes the normal gtr model rendered useless.

yay more horsepower is the answer, now we have endless amount of wheelspin. yay!

In three years time nissan will be releasing 1500hp gtrs.

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by gumball | November 12, 2008 4:45 AM
Decypha:

Yeah thats the enzo a 1.4 million $ car, compare it to an F430, it is VERY close, if your tranny goes or the diff on your GT-R you are looking at over 20k, its an expensive car. On another note the service on the Enzo doesn't have to cost 3000GBP, most of that is from the Oil which is 72GBP/L, it uses F1 oil. You dont have to use the most expensive brake pads on earth either.

122:

Why can't we compare it to the FXX? It is practically road legal, the EDO MC12 is the same car and it's road legal. I guess because it's not 8 years old we aren't allowed to compare it to the GT-R? I think the McLaren F1 LM did a 6.28 on the nurburing back in the 90s, and that car is road legal. The Gumpert is much faster too, the GT-R came at the right time in the game, that's it. It's like entering a boxing match with someone that just ran a 50Km marathon. They came between models from the top makers and won vs. 8 year old technology. When the F70 and the new Murcielago, and the Zonda R hit the track it will no longer even be in the top 10 times.

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by radmeister | November 12, 2008 4:28 PM
I guess well have to wait and see what the v-spec and this addition is capable of, speculation is that the V-spec in its early production did the nurburgring in 7.25m so if that's anything to go on, and don't forget that Nissan will try and go faster and they already have the right tools to do the job,

Good for us car fans as car manufacturers focus on top speed, safety, efficiency, acceleration and handling etc its only going to speed progress up and in the end there's no such thing as THE BEST but only to an individual requirement and their model of the world. Well that's my opinion anyway.

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by mortz | November 15, 2008 12:02 AM

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