Nissan GT-R 3.8 V6 Black Edition review - verdict

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Nissan GT-R 3.8 V6 Black Edition Road Test

Test Date 06 May 2009 Price When New £62,550

Verdict

Fast and, yes, quite furious. Performance comes no easier, yet it’s possible to be left a little cold by the GT-R at first. It doesn’t feel special to sit in, and it’s hard, harsh, loud and clinical in the way it goes about things. On a 20-minute test drive it may not worm its way into a potential buyer’s affections.

Partly that’s because of the efficiency and effortlessness of its performance. It goes at the dry-weather pace of a 430 Scuderia or 911 GT2 with nonchalant ease, its engine is as smooth at 6000rpm as it is at 2000 and its gearbox shifts with totally undramatic efficiency. The longer you spend with the GT-R, the more you uncover new movements in its dynamic repertoire and the more visceral, thrilling and alive with feedback and response it seems. There are hidden depths to its brutish, frill-free performance. The longer you have it, the more you want it.