Road Strikers

The Nissan Vision 2020 Gran Turismo concept is a 2+2 sports car designed to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the “Gran Turismo 6” PlayStation racing game. Nissan unveiled the physical version of the Vision 2020 GT concept at the 2014 “Goodwood Festival of Speed”. It was created through close collaboration with the creators of Gran Turismo, Polyphony Digital Inc., the legendary PlayStation driving franchise. The 2020 Vision concept started life as a study model for young designers at Nissan Design Europe in London. The Vision 2020 GT is borrowing design cues from current Nissan supercars with extra sprint of the future for enough impressive results to engage a Nissan engineering team in Japan to make the four-wheel drive chassis with active suspension into reality. It was duly tweaked from an engineering point of view so that the aerodynamics would match the aesthetics. The design was adapted as an avatar for the Gran Turismo 6 video game along with models from...

Not everyone loved the Nissan 370Z Nismo when it landed in 2013. Maybe Nismo took that to heart, because in the intervening year or so it’s rolled it back into the workshop, done some tinkering and sent it back out into the big wide world armed with a thorough set of updates. That means the 2015 model year Zed Nismo gets altered damper rates for a more forgiving ride, tighter-hugging seats and improved sound deadening so you get less of an ear-bashing on the motorway. Nissan 370Z Nimso 2015 model year: a new look The styling’s changed too, with a jagged new nose and a smaller ducktail rear spoiler joined by shinier wheels and the inevitable addition of daytime running lights. Don’t know about you, but I think I liked the looks better before. With its droopsnout nose, GT-racer rear wing and droolworthy 19-inch RAYS alloys, the original Nismo 370 looked as if it had been plucked straight out of an underground night race meet in Tokyo, which if you have any kind of su...

The Nissan 370Z (known as the Fairlady Z Z34 in Japan) is a sports car manufactured by Nissan Motors. It was announced on October 29, 2008 and was first shown at an event in Los Angeles ahead of the 2008 Greater LA Auto Show, before being officially unveiled at the show itself.[3][4] The 370Z is the sixth-generation of the Nissan Z-car line, succeeding the 350Z. Initial release Engineering 2009 Nissan 370Z Almost every piece and component of the 370Z has been redesigned from the previous model (350Z). It is powered by the VQ37VHR 3.7 L (230 cu in) DOHC V6 with Variable Valve and Lift Control and produces 332 bhp (248 kW; 337 PS). Power delivery to the rear wheels comes through a new 7-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters or 6-speed manual transmission which features the world's first synchronized down/up shift rev-matching system, SynchroRev Match. The SynchroRev Match system is only available with the sports package. The differential offered with the Sport Package...

The ultra-fast and super expensive Nissan street-car was manufactured to conform to the Le Mans GT1 Class regulations that required manufacturers to build at least one street-legal version of the race car. Unlike many others, Nissan built the road car first and built the racing version from it. Legendary car designer & current Chief designer at Jaguar, Ian Callum who was the brain behind the Aston Martin DB7’s design, conceptualized the R390 at the Walkinshaw Racing facility in England. Priced at a hefty $100,000, only two working models were ever produced and it is unclear whether any of them were actually sold (one of them is currently housed in Nissan's own museum). Following suit with rival competitors like Chrysler, Porsche and Mercedes, the R390 was among a select few short run homologation models manufactured purely to comply with entry regulations into GT racing. Industry experts opined that one of Nissan’s primary objective behind the R390 GT1’s manufactur...

Overview: Nissan’s GT-R may be fugly to some, but as an instrument of pure speed, it’s a thing of beauty. A 545-hp, twin-turbo V-6 and astounding, all-wheel-drive grip give the GT-R supercar performance. Its six-figure price is still cheap compared with anything else so quick. Numerous enhancements over the years have made it faster and more refined, with 0-to-60 times dropping below three seconds. Want more? Check out the NISMO version with 600 hp. This car’s not called Godzilla for nothing. SPECIFICATIONS VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, 4-wheel-drive, 4-passenger, 2-door coupe PRICE AS TESTED: $151,880 (base price: $151,585) ENGINE TYPE: twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve V-6, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection Displacement: 232 cu in, 3799 cc Power: 600 hp @ 6800 rpm Torque: 481 lb-ft @ 3200 rpm TRANSMISSION: 6-speed dual-clutch automatic with manual shifting mode DIMENSIONS: Wheelbase: 109.4 in Length: 184.3 in Width: 74.6 in Height:...