Nissan's V8 Nismo GT-R

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

The Nismo version of the GT-R built for the Japanese GT series doesn’t have much in common with it’s road-going cousin. In fact, the only piece the two cars share is the roof. But really, who cares? There’s some great footage of the weapons-grade machine tearing up the track here, and Race Engineer Ricardo Divila provides some interesting info about the car’s specs in this clip, though he never tells us why Nismo went with a V8 instead of using the car’s famous six. Anybody have an idea?