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Supercar parade - Click above to watch the videos after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/)
It's Godzillapalooza time boys and girls! More precisely, the day before the 2010 Nissan GT-R (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/27/review-2010-nissan-gt-r-does-godzilla-have-a-soul/) had to go back, my buddy Steve asked if I could give him a ride in the Skyline. Well, he'd actually been calling since two weeks before the car showed up, but anyhow, Steve is a filmmaker and he showed up camera in hand. Our plan, quite honestly, was just a quick blast across some empty freeways and nothing more. But then we saw the exit for Angeles Crest Highway and even though it was amateur day (Sundays = dozens of motorcycles riding off sheer cliffs in front of cops) we figured Steve should see Godzilla eat a canyon. Plus, after you get a few miles up you can turn left off Angeles Crest onto Angeles Highway, a much less congested (and some would argue better) road.
What happened next is one of the many reasons I'm never leaving Southern California. Stuck behind a pickup truck is a veritable supercar parade. From front to back: Ferrari F355 Spyder, Ferrari F430 Spyder, Mothra BMW M6, Dodge Viper SRT10, Ferrari F430 Spyder. I can't say for certain, but I think Godzilla was smiling. Eventually the truck pulled over and it was on. Well, OK, we got stuck behind the slow Ferrari, but it was still quite fun.
We all stopped for lunch where we asked the drivers if the matching Ferrari shirts add 5 horsepower. Then we hopped back in the cars, but not before I announced that the Nissan would be running mid-pack. The Viper driver yelled, "Try to keep up!" Little did he know I was wearing my high performance flip-flops (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/27/jonny-lieberman-joins-the-autoblog-crew/). Thanks to Steve for filming and cutting the video: follow the jump to watch it (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/).Continue reading VIDEO: 2010 Nissan GT-R makes supercar friends (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/)
VIDEO: 2010 Nissan GT-R makes supercar friends (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Supercar parade - Click above to watch the videos after the jump (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/)
It's Godzillapalooza time boys and girls! More precisely, the day before the 2010 Nissan GT-R (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/27/review-2010-nissan-gt-r-does-godzilla-have-a-soul/) had to go back, my buddy Steve asked if I could give him a ride in the Skyline. Well, he'd actually been calling since two weeks before the car showed up, but anyhow, Steve is a filmmaker and he showed up camera in hand. Our plan, quite honestly, was just a quick blast across some empty freeways and nothing more. But then we saw the exit for Angeles Crest Highway and even though it was amateur day (Sundays = dozens of motorcycles riding off sheer cliffs in front of cops) we figured Steve should see Godzilla eat a canyon. Plus, after you get a few miles up you can turn left off Angeles Crest onto Angeles Highway, a much less congested (and some would argue better) road.
What happened next is one of the many reasons I'm never leaving Southern California. Stuck behind a pickup truck is a veritable supercar parade. From front to back: Ferrari F355 Spyder, Ferrari F430 Spyder, Mothra BMW M6, Dodge Viper SRT10, Ferrari F430 Spyder. I can't say for certain, but I think Godzilla was smiling. Eventually the truck pulled over and it was on. Well, OK, we got stuck behind the slow Ferrari, but it was still quite fun.
We all stopped for lunch where we asked the drivers if the matching Ferrari shirts add 5 horsepower. Then we hopped back in the cars, but not before I announced that the Nissan would be running mid-pack. The Viper driver yelled, "Try to keep up!" Little did he know I was wearing my high performance flip-flops (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/27/jonny-lieberman-joins-the-autoblog-crew/). Thanks to Steve for filming and cutting the video: follow the jump to watch it (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/).Continue reading VIDEO: 2010 Nissan GT-R makes supercar friends (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/)
VIDEO: 2010 Nissan GT-R makes supercar friends (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/29/video-2010-nissan-gt-r-makes-supercar-friends/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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