Anyone else reading Motor Trend/Automobile and reading the long term Nissan GT-R review?

Less then praise. They are up to about 24,000 miles.

So far:

5 inspections
4 oil changes
Four Wheel alignment
Replace trans fluid, diff fluid, air filter, and coolant.
Total for above = $2865.75

Replace tires = $1650 per change (not including winter tire cost)

at 17,777 miles driveline vibrates - bad bearing in the bellhousing - cost to repair unknown but will take at about 2 weeks to repair.

at 21,950 miles "all kinds of rattles and vibrations coming from driveline"

at 22,872 miles brakes squeal is "unbearable". Cost to replace discs, pads, fluid, & labor $7346.00

That is almost $12,000 in wear and maintenance (not including the unknown cost to replace the driveline bearing) in 24,000 miles.

Drivers are also complaining about it being a very noisy car - "cant have a normal conversation at highway speeds, poor seat support.....
Not a rave review.

Great car on paper but with these kinds of problems and at those repair costs the GT-R just headed to be another garage queen.

 

I have raced a GT-R at the track a couple of times. His best was a 12.1 to my 12.2. He beat me, but not by much considering I could buy 4-5 SRTs for what he paid for his. LOL Ohhh..... and I beat him once by 3 tenths. He had a bad launch.

 

You could buy one with his repair costs if he drives it for 30k miles or so lol.

 

Yeah, they said a while ago, that the initial design wasn't very robust, but they have fixed some of the issues for next years. It's a nice car, I just don't like the interior.
-Steve

 

With an auto and launch control, how in the world do you have a bad launch LMAO

 

He told me after the run that he smoked his tires on the launch. In reality, his daddy has more money than sense. Oh, and his daddy was there watching also.

 

That's why an extended warranty after the initial one expires always comes into play, just like our cars.

 

I would bet the brakes and the bearing (clutch) are wear parts and not covered. (just like our cars)

 

I would still take one....