Nissan GT-R 3.8 V6 Black Edition review

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Nissan GT-R 3.8 V6 Black Edition Road Test

Test date 06 May 2009 Price as tested £62,550

For Blistering acceleration, brilliant brakes, dry-weather grip

Against Inconsistent wet-weather handling, very firm ride, it's too heavy

This is a road test you may expect to have already seen, thanks to a stream of unofficial (and, indeed, semi-official) imports of Japanese-specification Nissan GT-Rs last year.

But we prefer to road test a car only once it has been priced and when proper UK-spec cars begin to cross the border. In this case that’s just as well because, as we will explore later, there are a couple of subtle differences between the GT-Rs we drove last year and the red 2010 model-year car you see on these pages.

In 473bhp grey-imported form the GT-R caused quite a stir; it demolished pretty much every challenge we laid before it last year, including being crowned the winner of our annual Best Driver’s Car shootout last autumn.

The official, 478bhp UK-spec car we’re testing is the range-topping Black Edition, which has a list price of £59,395 and for which no options are offered (the entry-level 3.8 V6 costs £56,795). This means it’s better value for money than cars that are seemingly as fast, and it can outperform cars of a similar price. Seems too good to be true. So is it?