Nissan GT-R has won one of Japan's most coveted awards. The giant-slaying sports car scooped Most Advanced Technology Award at the Car of the Year Japan Awards 2008 - 2009. Citing the GT-R, the Executive Committee said: as a supercar that delivers powerful performance and clean emission, featuring an advanced new body structure combining carbon, aluminium and steel, in addition to its impressive dual-clutch transmission and the world's first independent transaxle 4WD".
No doubt the 353kW GT-R has caused major waves since bursting onto the scene almost a year ago in Japan. US deliveries began in July, while Europe will follow next spring, with certain African countries lined up for the third quarter of 2009.
NISSAN GT-R WINS CAR OF THE YEAR JAPAN‘S MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd is proud that the NISSAN GT-R supercar has won the Most Advanced Technology Award, one of the highly coveted awards of Car of the Year Japan 2008-2009.
The final selection, conducted by the Car of the Year Japan Executive Committee, took place from November 10-11 at Oiso, Kanagawa prefecture. In awarding winner, the jury cited the NISSAN GT-R "as a supercar that delivers powerful performance and clean emission, featuring an advanced new body structure combining carbon, aluminium and steel, in addition to its impressive dual-clutch transmission and the world's first independent transaxle 4WD".
NISSAN GT-R has been a global success since its launch on December 6, 2007 in Japan and July 7, 2008 in North America. The NISSAN GT-R will be arriving in Europe next spring.
clean emission?? really?? umm please nissan you don't need to lie haha... i mean i love this car but after seeing that one fifth gear episode with bruno senna driving the porsche and this it really just sums up the efficiency. "half a tank of fuel gone after 20 minutes of hard driving"... that's a lot of fuel lol
still... don't care :P. this car is obviously the right choice for this award haha.
yes what _M7_ said below. You can't tell a car's emissions based off of it's fuel consumption. They are related, but not directly. I believe there is one Volvo that actually collects and re burns emissions found in the ambient air and actually cleans the air as it drives.
You cant base a fuel test based on a race car drivers hard drive on the track. This car is an animal on the track and gentle on the road to save gas. It flys through the gears in automatic mode on the road to give you the best fuel economy. This car can get 18mpg combined hwy and city. For a 3800 pound supercar!!!!
The Japanese have done it again just like when the Datsun/Nissan 240Z hit the world in the 70's and the NSX in the 80's. Power and handling at half the price of everyone else even with import taxes.
There's no surprise nissan won this award, the emissions are controlled by a catalytic converterer which reacts with the exhaust gases and removes the polluting elements.
The model has a lot of features such as aluminum/carbon/steel compound body, twin-clutch transaxle with 4WD, game-like data logger etc. The point is all of them were realized at price of yen7.4mil($74000 at moment) w/o tax. This level of price competitiveness can never be done by German nor American. I am however,not fore for the model deserves for technology of the year because it has far less sophistication specially on city driving in terms of NVH. This is what I feel through day-to-day drive in Tokyo.
They had one of these at our local auto show last year. It sat in the corner and no-one other than me even gave it a second glance. All the technology is great but in the end they are visually very boring in the flesh. I happened to see one on the road just the other day and had the same thought. Persnally, I like the looks of the original 240Z over this one.
I live in a real red neck part of the world where about half of all vehicles on the road are trucks, and when it came to an auto show here it attracted about as much attention as the camaro/challenger prototypes.
ha ha it was me. funny cus i walked into this market in chinatown one day and i saw like 50 gtr-s swimming around in a tank. seriously, im sure the designer must have seen the same thing.
I wouldn't say GT-R is the "giant-slaying sports car". Maybe if she lose some weight and she has more power. Still reckon Porsche 911 Turbo is the World Supercar. Lighter, faster and has more grip than GT-R.
And just remember the people at Nissan were more concerned about having heaps of down force and one of the lowest cd.s of 0.27 so i don't think they intended it to look better that it performs, as the chief engineer stated the GT-R have always been designed function over form.
Well what other Japanese cars could compete with the GTR at the moment? It's a super car when the the only other Japanese sports cars are Evos and WRXs at the moment.
still... don't care :P. this car is obviously the right choice for this award haha.