I thought that you all would get a kick at this posting on the comp.risks forum:

Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:58:56 -0800
From: Clark Family <cclark@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Nissan GT-R sports car recognizes racetrack coordinates and aftermarket parts

Apparently the Nissan Corp. has ruined the fun of aftermarket tuners on the latest GT-R high performance street sportscar in Japan. The ECU is set on a hair trigger and balks at many aftermarket performance upgrades as well as non-factory installed tires and wheels through the run-flat detectors.

But more ominously, the onboard navigation system watches your speed via GPS and recognizes popular racetrack locations. You must scroll through a series of menus and agree to disable the 180kph (111mph) speed limiter. Then after thrashing it on the track, you must take it for a $1000 Nissan High Performance Center safety check or the warranty is void.

Big Brother is your co-pilot.

 

i had a R32 GTR some years back and half the fun was the amount of mods you could get for it. isnt it renault that owns nissan now? if so we can blame the F$KING FRENCH! LOL

 

Big Brother indeed !! There is no place to hide.
Mere mortals can't be trusted to think for themselves

 

Ewwwww. That stinks. And I thought our cars had too much big brother in them. Yikes.

 

I find this a bit difficult to believe. A couple of publications have already done road tests of the GT-R and none mentioned having to scroll through anything to over ride the standard 111mph limiter, and the car blows that speed away in the 1/4 mile alone.

Something is fishy here.

 

Roger that... We had one at the test facilty doing well over 120 in the 1/4

 

sounds like a total downer, but then again what's the price tag. I think I'll stick with the prooven Zo6,

I bet that motor in the GT-R is being pushed to the breaking point, with thier power output...

 

I think Nissan is a Mexican car company now, so you'll have to blaim the CEO, Jose

 

max, it's just not the same without Greg Gore.

 

Guess I'll have to mark that one off my list... .
NO RICERS!

 

Close; it's a Brazilian French-man.... Carlos Ghosn.

Just as bad if you ask me.

 

I saw one of these things in Las Vegas last week parked in a Casino's parking deck. My Daughter thought it was some kind of "Ricer" that had alot of aftermarket body work hung on it.LOL.
It had Tenn. Manufactures license plates.
Vegas-X-Fire took some photo's of it, I'll see if he can post them here.
It looked like it was all business, but like I said before, I'd never trade my GTS for it.
In all honesty, I don't think I'd trade my Crossfire for it either, unless I could turn right around and sell it, then buy 3 more Crossfires.

 

good i would take a c6 over the skyline anyday

 

I'll let you guys know how they are after a wreck as I found out last week that Nissan called and chose the shop I work at as their exclusive repair facility(in Nevada) for the new GT-Rs. It should be interesting to tear them apart and see how they hold up in a crash. I'm sure; like all high hp cars, they will be wrecked quite often.

 

one has already been wrecked not stateside though.

 

Yeah I also heard that when my friend came for a drink. He was in Las Vegas that time. Geez.