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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/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continued"img alt="2012 nissan gt-r at nurburgring" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/03/gtr-ring.jpg" style="border-width:0px;border-style:solid;margin:4px 0px;width:630px;height:317px"/abrdiv style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;font-style:italic" 2012 Nissan GT-R takes on Nürburgring - Click above to watch video a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continuedhttp://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/"after the jump/a/divbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/nissan/"Nissan/a loves spending time in Germany. We imagine that Nissan engineers have passports emfilled/em with German point-of-entry stamps. However, they#39;ve likely only spent time in one specific area: the village of Nürburg, Germany.brbrWith the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/gtr"GT-R/a now producing an extra 45 horsepower for model year 2012, Nissan went back to the Nürburgring last October with it#39;s updated super coupe to see how much time it could shave off the old car#39;s best lap - a blistering 7m 26.7s. The result? With a new lap time of 7:24.22, how does a hair quicker than the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/maserati+mc12"Maserati MC12/a sound?brbrThat time doesn't just place the 2012 Nissan GT-R ahead of the Maserati. Other cars with slower times include the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pagani+zonda"Pagani Zonda F Clubsport/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ferrari+enzo"Ferrari Enzo/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/porsche+carrera+gt"Porsche Carrera GT/a and a host of other expensive, hard-to-pronounce exotic machines, at least a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_lap_times"according to Wikipedia/a. Since there is no official governing body that records Nürburgring lap times for production cars, it#39;s hard to say which ones really do have the lowest lap times. From what we can tell, the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/27/unofficial-dodge-viper-acr-laps-ring-in-record-7-22-1-w-video/"Dodge Viper ACR/a and a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/28/corvette-zr-1-knocks-four-seconds-off-ring-time/"Chevrolet Corvette ZR1/a are still quicker than the 2012 GT-R.brbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continued"Follow the jump/a to watch the run for yourself, which we just found on YouTube for the first time today, but note that the driving action begins around the 3:09 mark.brbr[Source: a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK62yyQ33_U"Youtube/a via a href="http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1057292_video-2012-nissan-gt-r-posts-7m-24-22s-nurburgring-lap-time?utm_source=twitterfeedamp;utm_medium=twittera mp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MotorAuthority2+%28MotorAu thority%29"Motor Authority/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVideo: 2012 Nissan GT-R shaving 2.48 seconds off 'Ring time/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/"Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R shaving 2.48 seconds off 'Ring time/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:58:00 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.youtube.com/watch?v=HK62yyQ33_U"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1057292_video-2012-nissan-gt-r-posts-7m-24-22s-nurburgring-lap-time?utm_source=twitterfeedamp;utm_medium=twittera mp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MotorAuthority2+%28MotorAu thority%29"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19890545/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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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/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continued"img alt="2012 nissan gt-r at nurburgring" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/03/gtr-ring.jpg" style="border-width:0px;border-style:solid;margin:4px 0px;width:630px;height:317px"/abrdiv style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;font-style:italic" 2012 Nissan GT-R takes on Nürburgring - Click above to watch video a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continuedhttp://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/"after the jump/a/divbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/nissan/"Nissan/a loves spending time in Germany. We imagine that Nissan engineers have passports emfilled/em with German point-of-entry stamps. However, they#39;ve likely only spent time in one specific area: the village of Nürburg, Germany.brbrWith the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/gtr"GT-R/a now producing an extra 45 horsepower for model year 2012, Nissan went back to the Nürburgring last October with it#39;s updated super coupe to see how much time it could shave off the old car#39;s best lap - a blistering 7m 26.7s. The result? With a new lap time of 7:24.22, how does a hair quicker than the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/maserati+mc12"Maserati MC12/a sound?brbrThat time doesn't just place the 2012 Nissan GT-R ahead of the Maserati. Other cars with slower times include the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pagani+zonda"Pagani Zonda F Clubsport/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ferrari+enzo"Ferrari Enzo/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/porsche+carrera+gt"Porsche Carrera GT/a and a host of other expensive, hard-to-pronounce exotic machines, at least a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_lap_times"according to Wikipedia/a. Since there is no official governing body that records Nürburgring lap times for production cars, it#39;s hard to say which ones really do have the lowest lap times. From what we can tell, the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/27/unofficial-dodge-viper-acr-laps-ring-in-record-7-22-1-w-video/"Dodge Viper ACR/a and a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/28/corvette-zr-1-knocks-four-seconds-off-ring-time/"Chevrolet Corvette ZR1/a are still quicker than the 2012 GT-R.brbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#continued"Follow the jump/a to watch the run for yourself, which we just found on YouTube for the first time today, but note that the driving action begins around the 3:09 mark.brbr[Source: a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK62yyQ33_U"Youtube/a via a href="http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1057292_video-2012-nissan-gt-r-posts-7m-24-22s-nurburgring-lap-time?utm_source=twitterfeedamp;utm_medium=twittera mp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MotorAuthority2+%28MotorAu thority%29"Motor Authority/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVideo: 2012 Nissan GT-R shaving 2.48 seconds off 'Ring time/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/"Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R shaving 2.48 seconds off 'Ring time/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:58:00 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.youtube.com/watch?v=HK62yyQ33_U"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1057292_video-2012-nissan-gt-r-posts-7m-24-22s-nurburgring-lap-time?utm_source=twitterfeedamp;utm_medium=twittera mp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MotorAuthority2+%28MotorAu thority%29"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19890545/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-shaving-2-48-seconds-off-ring-time/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a
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