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ZilviaBot
01-21-2011, 11:50 AM
01-20-2011 02:32 PM

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupe/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Performance/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/#3581684"img alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/03-2012-nissan-gt-r-630op.jpg" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;margin:4px 0px"/abr div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;font-style:italic" 2012 Nissan GT-R - Click above for high-res image gallery/div br The a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/gtr"GT-R/a obessives at NAGTROC managed to secure a copy of the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/30/paris-2010-facelifted-2012-nissan-gt-r/"2012 Nissan GT-R/a owner's manual and discovered that a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/nissan/"Nissan/a has reinstated the formerly emverboten/em Launch Control feature for the 2012 model. But this time it's called something different.br br img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/gt-r-r-250.jpg" style="border-width:0px;border-style:solid;margin:4px;float:right"The new name is R Mode Start Function and the screen cap on the right lists off what you need to do to click of 0-60 mph runs in the low three-second range - or even the high twos, according to some preliminary reports.br br After several reports of transmissions and half-shafts grenading themselves soon after the GT-R hit U.S. shores, Nissan a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/nissan-drops-launch-control-from-2010-gt-r/"removed the L.C. feature/a for the 2011 model year. This revised system seems to do the exact same thing, although the 4,000 rpm rev-limit is significantly higher than the last version and the ECU limits the start function to four consecutive runs before its disabled to protect the GT-R's twin clutches and the rest of the transmission's oily bits.br br br divpstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4"2012 Nissan GT-R/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/11/03-2012-nissan-gt-r_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title=""/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/11/16-2012-nissan-gt-r_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title=""/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/11/13-2012-nissan-gt-r_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title=""/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/11/14-2012-nissan-gt-r_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title=""/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-4/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/11/15-2012-nissan-gt-r_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title=""/a/divbr [Sources: a href="http://www.nagtroc.org/files/2012-Nissan-GTR.pdf"NAGTROC/a (PDF warning) via a href="http://www.2009gtr.com/2011/01/more-2012-nissan-gt-r-information.html"2009 GTR/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/20/report-launch-control-is-back-on-2012-nissan-gt-r/"Launch control is back on 2012 Nissan GT-R/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/20/report-launch-control-is-back-on-2012-nissan-gt-r/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19808975/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/20/report-launch-control-is-back-on-2012-nissan-gt-r/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xTQ3RlcrmaSC-u2nlbXasb8snWI/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xTQ3RlcrmaSC-u2nlbXasb8snWI/0/di" border="0" ismap/abr a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xTQ3RlcrmaSC-u2nlbXasb8snWI/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xTQ3RlcrmaSC-u2nlbXasb8snWI/1/di" border="0" ismap/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=sndxGUw_KSs:mwJFTWkdeV0:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=sndxGUw_KSs:mwJFTWkdeV0:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=sndxGUw_KSs:mwJFTWkdeV0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=sndxGUw_KSs:mwJFTWkdeV0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/sndxGUw_KSs" height="1" width="1"

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chiboy002
01-22-2011, 01:40 AM
is it just me or does everyone see all the links?

Pandapants
01-22-2011, 05:22 PM
I dont see it either. I thought "launch control" was a "get out of the dirt" feature.

simmode1
01-23-2011, 09:48 AM
is it just me or does everyone see all the links?
Nah, it's not just you. Zilviabot's been tripping for a while now...