Porsche Accuses Nissan of Cheating

[MrX]

Sour grapes or legitimate complaint? That's the question we're left pondering after reading that Porsche believes Nissan must have cheated to record its 7:29:03 lap time of the famed Nürburgring race circuit.


Porsche accuses Nissan GT-R of cheating the 'Ring - Autoblog

 

[Michael Delaney]

The GTR is an awesome car, and if I had $70K it would be my first choice of cars to own. Any lap at the Nordschleife under 8:00 mins is awesome, and under 7:30 is absolutely incredible.

It is my opinion that a few of the cars in the "Production Vehicle's" lap record list do not belong though. A car with real race buckets/harnesses, roll cage, comp tires, and very high ft/lb spring rated coilovers should not be considered production vehicles.

Nürburgring lap times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[KillJoy]

Cheating or not, that is still an incredible car. It would be lame if they really were cheating though.

I'll just buy both and not worry about it.

 

[vanbells]

I'm sure Nissan had a better driver on a close to production car.

 

[HORUS]

The GTR is an awesome car, and if I had $70K it would be my first choice of cars to own. Any lap at the Nordschleife under 8:00 mins is awesome, and under 7:30 is absolutely incredible.

It is my opinion that a few of the cars in the "Production Vehicle's" lap record list do not belong though. A car with real race buckets/harnesses, roll cage, comp tires, and very high ft/lb spring rated coilovers should not be considered production vehicles.

Nürburgring lap times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you had $70K you'd have a really hear time buying one for that much anyway. My buddy paid a little over $96K for his. Passport Nissan had 2 of them at one time and both of those where over $85 after dealer markup. Just saying.
Although if you walked in with $70K CASH that might work too.