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Matte Black GT-R

James — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:16:47 +0000

I recently saw these photos that made me drool. I’ve owned a black sports car and I told myself I’d never do it again because black is impossible to keep pristine. The paint Nissan has is shitty on a good day, orange peel times a thousand.

Then I saw this matte black GT-R and I dropped my jaw. This car is pure sex. At first I was curious, how would someone do this? I found the owner of this fine ride and asked him. He told me that to have his car painted this way, it’d cost him $2300 but if he had his car wrapped, it was only $1700.

So what is wrapping exactly? In short, the wrap your entire car in a predetermined color or design. 3M created the technology, and if/when you get bored of the color, you peel it off and you have your brand new still, just needs to be buffed/waxed. So yes, you could buy a white GT-R (like what I will be buying) and then matte the car for a few years. The film protects against chips etc, you can’t tell it’s a film if it is professionally installed either. Washing it is easy, no waxing needed.

Click to go larger. These are the biggest ones I could find.

Thanks To Vanq for the kick ass photos. The GT-R is owned by Lung in Singapore. Lung’s wrap on his GT-R was done by a Singapore company called Genconcept.

High Resolution Nissan GT-R in Red

James — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:26:17 +0000

This is easily my dream car. Well.. this and the Audi R-8. I love the Nissan GT-R though, it’s seriously bad ass, not as sexy as the R8, but any car that can do 0-60 in 3.2 and run the Nurburgring in 7:29 is more than ok with me. Click for high res.

Someday, I shall own one. Quote me on this.

Nissan GT-R 7:29 at Nurburgring!

James — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:03:49 +0000

Nissan recorded a time of 7:29 around the Nurburgring recently with their newest car offering, the GT-R. The GT-R will be available in North America in June/July if you’ve got deep pockets. This car is my wet dream, it’s also usually my current desktop. (see top right corner of page to see if it is right now).

The time of 7:29 is incredible in every way, to put that time in perspective… the Bugatti Veyron, a 1001 horsepower all wheel drive supercar, did the ‘ring in 7:40. The Veyron goes for one million dollars + if you can find one that is. The GT-R, $70,000. Not a bad deal hey?

Anyway, a lot of gear heads and Chevy fan boys that are pissed the GT-R is laying waste to their ZR-1 and pretty much every other North American car offered. they’re calling bullshit, saying the 7:29 isn’t real. Nissan has photos and video, although they haven’t released the video yet… but they will and we’ll have it when they do.

Here’s a great behind the story look at the amazing time, and what Nissan did to achieve it.