Nissan GTR Car Review - Top Gear - BBC
Nissan GTR Car Review - Top Gear - BBC
Jeremy visits the Fuji race circuit in Japan to review the car that is faster than the bullet train, the Nissan GTR. Includes the Stig’s Top Gear test track speed lap.
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Content
0.03 -> really we know that this car is faster
4.29 -> round the Nurburgring than a Porsche 911
6.99 -> Turbo which cost twice as much we know
8.91 -> it's faster across Japan than the bullet
11.67 -> train but what we don't know because
13.86 -> last week I was on the public roads and
16.049 -> it was fitted with an electronic speed
17.91 -> muzzle is what it's like when you really
20.55 -> put your foot down so when the race was
23.039 -> over and I stayed in Japan for an extra
25.38 -> day to see if I could find out
29.94 -> [Music]
35.78 -> this is the Fuji race circuit there's no
39.99 -> speed limit here
41.36 -> no traffic either and best of all no
44.88 -> need to be worried by the Nissen speed
47.58 -> governor on normal roads all Japanese
53.04 -> cars are limited to a hundred and twelve
54.96 -> miles an hour but the GTR sat-nav system
60.66 -> knows when it gets to a racetrack and
64.19 -> simply turns the limiter off
66.84 -> [Music]
69.799 -> first of all I must apologize for the
72.99 -> sunglasses this is because yesterday I
74.7 -> picked up a hideous eye infection and I
77.61 -> really don't think you want to see it
78.81 -> this though I think you do want to see
80.909 -> flappy-paddle gearbox into manual then
83.46 -> we put the gearbox itself into race mode
86.52 -> the suspension into race mode and put
89.369 -> that button down to engage the launch
91.829 -> control there foot on the brake build up
93.75 -> the revs
102.63 -> it's hard to say how much power the GTR
105.479 -> develops because each engine as I said
107.4 -> last week his hand-built and each one is
110.1 -> therefore a little bit different the
126.869 -> lost control engaged I did not to sixty
129.42 -> in three and a half seconds and flat out
132.209 -> it's even more impressive partly that's
140.76 -> down to the million horsepower 3.8 liter
143.61 -> twin-turbo v6 and partly it's down to
147.54 -> the shape of the body it looks like a
151.739 -> discordant mess like Stravinsky designed
154.41 -> it but every crease and every angle even
157.769 -> on the door mirrors is there to channel
160.47 -> air to that big rear spoiler
164.8 -> the result is absolute stability and a
168.22 -> top speed of well since this track has
171.19 -> the longest straight of any Grand Prix
173.11 -> circuit let's find out
177.37 -> [Music]
186.819 -> into 6:56
195.75 -> it will eventually do a hundred and
198.61 -> ninety three miles an hour and that's
200.2 -> impressive for a car that's quiet and
202.42 -> comfortable a car with four seats and a
205.659 -> boot and it's especially impressive when
208.75 -> you think it wasn't really built for
210.129 -> straight-line speed mostly it was built
212.92 -> to miss your mind in the corners the
219.43 -> axles are assembled on hydraulic rigs
221.86 -> that replicate the weight of the car so
224.26 -> the geometry is bang-on before the
226.09 -> suspension is bolted to the body it uses
231.549 -> its your sensor and g-sensor to measure
233.859 -> actual your rate and can then adjust the
236.2 -> damp tronic shock absorbers and the
238.03 -> four-wheel drive system every hundredth
240.19 -> of a second to bring the car into line
242.26 -> with a preordained target I don't
246.579 -> understand any of that but I do
249.64 -> understand this the GTR can corner so
252.43 -> fast and so violently each wheel has a
255.879 -> special knurling of the rim to stop the
258.609 -> tires coming off
264.96 -> extremely hard to explain now this feels
268.57 -> good I mean he's probably the best word
273.23 -> the onboard readout is telling me that
275.21 -> in that last corner I generated one and
278.3 -> a fifth more sideways gravity had an old
284.63 -> rim it would stop my head really get
290.99 -> going
291.44 -> at this kind of speed do you expect to
294.2 -> feel detached from the action like
296.09 -> you're playing a video game with
297.74 -> pressing buttons but incredibly it feels
300.86 -> mechanical it feels analog it feels
303.41 -> human
305.13 -> [Applause]
310.43 -> [Music]
314.36 -> I thought when I drove the Mitsubishi
317 -> Evo 10 the other day that there was no
318.919 -> way the GTR could be worth 20 says much
322.28 -> money when I just thought there's no way
324.349 -> it can be twice as good but it is and
328.55 -> some they have he built a new car
332.669 -> they've built a new yardstick now at
339.96 -> this point I was going to tell you about
341.849 -> the incredible brakes and the turbo was
344.099 -> and how Lotus secretly developed the
346.59 -> spying of this car but before I had a
349.8 -> chance I had a bit of a problem my necks
360.18 -> just gone
362.67 -> [Music]
372.92 -> what I need is put the painkillers
376.67 -> honestly
387.889 -> hopeless old far adaptive broken neck it
391.129 -> was already weakened from endlessly
392.719 -> craning down to listen to you amazing
397.069 -> rescue service they've got their isn't
398.449 -> it I'm very pleased to see that someone
399.949 -> have brought a lawnmower yeah and have
402.02 -> been long no the dustbin lorry did put
404.06 -> the fear of God into me much like I did
406.58 -> with them actually when they took my
407.689 -> sunglasses off the problem okay
412.46 -> is the you know a lot of modern cars now
414.71 -> have those headlamps that swivel when
416.3 -> you turn the steering wheel yes do you
418.31 -> know why the GTR doesn't have that save
421.37 -> weight no it's because the motors in
423.74 -> that sort of headlamp can't keep up with
425.75 -> the speed that thing changes direction
427.52 -> honestly it's just under it corners
429.969 -> faster than electricity wouldn't it be
432.5 -> great to know how fast it will go
435.529 -> yeah problem is you think it's in Japan
438.05 -> but it isn't we've flown it 9,000 miles
441.229 -> so it can be here today in the hands of
443.479 -> our tame racing driver
444.979 -> now some say that he isn't allowed by
448.099 -> law within a hundred yards of Lorraine
450.979 -> Kelly and that he's never seen an
455.96 -> episode of Top Gear because he's a huge
458.449 -> fan of Midsomer Murders all we know is
462.589 -> he's called Bergerac
465.63 -> Danny's off now remember this 53,000 pan
468.66 -> car is monstered a 300g flour and round
471.45 -> the Nurburgring but I doubt it will do
473.25 -> that here because this is a power
474.78 -> circuit very tidy through the first
477.48 -> corner
478.17 -> Stig's neck of course made of
479.7 -> weapons-grade Italian and he's still all
486.15 -> over Elton John let's hope he showers
488.34 -> afterwards he's planted round Chicago
490.98 -> littlewiggle on the way out hammerhead
492.99 -> will the big v6 upfront drag it wide not
496.71 -> a chance
497.79 -> you're gonna have the steering
499.5 -> four-wheel drifting for Japan even
501.27 -> though he thinks it's a fictional place
506.69 -> pay to follow through the double clutch
510.63 -> gear do the tires second to last corner
516.27 -> digital car analog animal in perfect
518.76 -> harmony Gambon
533.5 -> I was expecting it to be around here the
536.95 -> Ferrari 430 the Murcielago 122 123 it
541.78 -> did it one 19.7
552.92 -> four-seater saloon car and it's quicker
556.8 -> than Carrera GT McLaren SLR genuinely
560.42 -> staggering
565.69 -> you
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFSVoVqhYw