2022 Nissan GT-R T-Spec (inc. 0-100) review: Is this the best GT-R to date?

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It may be one of the oldest platforms on the market, but Nissan has fine tuned the Nissan GT-R over the years to culminate in this. It's the end of the Nissan GT-R in Australia because of side impact laws, but does this still represent good value for money in this day and age? Paul Maric hits the road to find out in the 2022 Nissan GT-R T-Spec!  Hardness tester results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More Nissan content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/nissan More Nissan GT-R content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/nissan/gt-r  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 01:19 Interior 05:25 Infotainment 07:13 Safety Tech 08:30 Practicality 09:22 On Road 12:49 0-100 km/h 22:29 Verdict 24:27  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #nissan #gtr #review #tspec

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. So I'm constantly bringing you reviews of utes and SUVs, but today I thought

00:05 we'd do something a little bit different. This is the Nissan GT-R, and from the end of 2021,

00:10 it's no longer allowed to be sold in Australia because it doesn't meet side impact safety rules.

00:15 Fun police getting involved in everything that we do. This here is the T-Spec, which kind of

00:20 bridges the gap between the standard GT-R and the bald-tearing Nismo version. It's priced at just

00:26 over $250,000, but if that's too expensive, the whole range kicks off at a little under $200,000.

00:32 But I don't know that you will pay that second hand. I flicked through a used car listing for

00:39 GT-R. These are selling for around a million dollars. Well, they're listed for a million

00:44 dollars. I have seen them change hands for about 600 grand. So there is a huge amount of demand

00:49 for these at the moment. This competes with things like the Porsche 911, the Audi R8,

00:55 the BMW M8 competition. There's a few other sort of random competitors in there, but they're the

00:59 sort of main ones that it's competing against. Today, we're going to do a detailed review of

01:04 this car. If you do want to skip ahead to other parts of the review, you can use the time codes

01:08 up on the screen there, or if you're on YouTube, scroll down and use the chapters below. And if

01:11 you haven't done so already, subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon. That's going

01:15 to tell you every single time we drive cars affected by the fun police. Let's talk exterior

01:20 design. So you've got four external colours to pick from. They're all 1500 bucks. This is kind

01:25 of a personal favourite of mine. It has a lot of heritage within this and it's called Millennium

01:29 Jade, and it absolutely pops here on the GT-R. I think it just looks absolutely schmick. Now,

01:36 this car's been out for ages, and despite the fact it's been out for ages, I think it still

01:41 looks nice and aggressive. I had the chance to drive the Nismo version of this at the launch

01:47 in Germany, and I think that takes it up to another level with all these bits cut out of it

01:51 and stuff like that. But I'll run you through the T-spec changes in just a second, but it does sort

01:56 of bridge that gap between the regular one and the Nismo. So down the front here, you have a big open

02:01 grille, as I get rid of these flies, where the cooling comes through. You've got a twin-turbo

02:05 V6 petrol engine in there and it needs a lot of cooling, especially given this car will do over

02:10 300 k's an hour. So it is some pretty serious equipment. Now, up the front here, instead of

02:14 a Nissan badge, you've got a GT-R badge and just next to it, T-spec, so that'll signify that this

02:19 is different to a standard GT-R. And then down from that body colour, you've got this sort of

02:25 brushed aluminium style design, bit of piano black and then another gaping air hole down the

02:29 bottom here. So pretty awesome looking setup, and this car is very aggressive, especially when

02:34 it's coming towards you. You can definitely tell it's a GT-R, the design is synonymous with GT-R.

02:39 Over here on the headlights, you have a set of LED headlights, indicator built into that top

02:45 section there. And if you have a look at the bonnet here, you have functional cooling vents

02:48 along the top there too, and then headlight washers as well. Now, around the side here,

02:52 we have a set of 20-inch forged alloy wheels. So T-spec gets this gold design. I reckon that

02:59 looks seriously cool, really just suits this Millennium Jade colour as well. This particular

03:05 spec also gets the Dunlop SP Sport Max tyres. So this is effectively a semi-slick, so you want to

03:11 be driving in very dry conditions when you're going out for a fang. Behind here, you've got a

03:16 set of giant Brembo carbon ceramic brakes. These are from the Nismo, so they measure 410mm at the

03:23 front, 390mm at the rear, six-piston caliper. Again, at the Nismo launch that I was able to

03:28 attend in Germany, I had a chance to hold this, and it is incredibly light when you think of a

03:33 road of that size. You think it's going to be really heavy, but it's light to hold, and you

03:36 can see that when you reduce unsprung mass on each corner of the car, that's going to increase the

03:41 pace you can do, and also improve the handling as well. So, really cool setup, and I'll be keen to

03:45 see how they perform when we go out for a bit of a drive. Now, up the top here, you've got another

03:49 GT-R badge, and then there's also a vent built into this little section just here to direct air

03:55 out of it. You don't have an indicator built into that wing mirror. I thought I'd show you this.

04:00 So, this is kind of the OG of this type of door handle, right? They use this on Tesla cars now as

04:05 well. Basically, push in here and then pull that door handle to open the car, so really nice setup,

04:11 and you've got a button there to lock and unlock the car with a proximity key. Come around the back.

04:15 Now, T-Spec also gets this carbon wing, and I love that it's exposed carbon as well, so everyone

04:21 that you're driving past can tell that it is a carbon wing, and of course, look at the rear. This

04:25 is kind of just synonymous GT-R design with those taillights wedged into there. Another GT-R badge,

04:32 T-Spec there as well. Now, I wanted to tell you a quick story about the exhaust, as these flies

04:38 infest my face. It is a titanium exhaust, and they have used titanium exhaust before on these, but

04:43 when I was at the Nismo launch in Germany, I had an interesting chat with Tamura-san, who

04:49 effectively said people didn't know it was a titanium exhaust until it heated up and went

04:55 that blue colour. So what they did is, for the tips, they actually made them permanently that

05:00 colour, so that you could actually tell it was a titanium exhaust, and you didn't have to wait for

05:04 the car to get warm. So, it is funny how the functionality of a titanium exhaust being lighter

05:10 is overridden by style when it comes to everyone needing to know that your exhaust is actually

05:15 titanium. Tell me what you think about the design. Is it too old now? Do you think it still looks

05:21 good despite its age? Let me know what you reckon about the Nissan GT-R down there.

05:25 So, we are inside the GT-R. Let's start off with the key, so it looks pretty familiar. You've got

05:29 GT-R up the top there. Lock, unlock, and boot, and then on the back of the key, it's blank. It's a

05:35 proximity sensing key, so you just push that little button on the door. Once you're inside,

05:38 you have a start/stop button down here. So, let's talk about the styling. So, yes, this does feel

05:45 quite dated because this car is old, but if I'm honest, I actually think it still looks pretty

05:50 cool. They've really, I guess, classed up the interior. They haven't gone to town on digital

05:54 screens and all the sort of stuff that you'll find in a lot of cars today. Like, you think Audi R8,

05:59 for example, you've got that big backlit display. It's all very high-tech and fancy, whereas this

06:04 just sticks to what it does best, which is being a performance car. It gives you analog gauges

06:09 ahead of the driver. This stuff here, which we'll go through when we go for a drive, but it is just

06:14 straight to the point. Then, what they've done here, especially with the T-spec, you can see

06:17 there's Alcantara along the dashboard, the A-pillar, along the roof there as well with that

06:21 stitching. Really nice setup. And then the T-spec as well gets these green leather inserts along the

06:27 doors, this centre console, and I just think it looks, I just think it looks cool. So, yeah,

06:33 that's my opinion on this. It is old, but good old. Now, in terms of the touch points. So, soft

06:39 there and soft there, which is kind of typical Nissan. How soft is it? Well, we've got our

06:43 durometer, we've tested the main surfaces in this cabin. If you want to see how this car compares

06:48 to others, have a look at the link in the description. Build quality. So, this is all

06:53 really, really sturdy. I've found in the past with some of these cars, especially the older ones that

06:58 I've driven, they've actually held together really well despite their age. So, that is good. Doors,

07:03 see what that sounds like. Sounds nice and solid, and it's cool that the door handle is just this

07:10 little thing here that you pull up. So, yeah, not a bad setup in the GT-R. Now, let's talk

07:14 infotainment. So, this is a pretty basic infotainment system. It's an eight-inch display.

07:19 You have shortcut buttons either side. You also have this little toggle down here to switch between

07:24 menus on the move, just to make life a little bit easier. But, inherent to all of this, you have

07:28 inbuilt satellite navigation. So, it's just a pretty sort of basic and straightforward setup.

07:35 You don't have any smartphone mirroring, so no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto is available. And

07:40 then, in terms of audio, you have an AM and FM radio, and that's all plumbed through an 11-speaker

07:46 Bose-branded sound system. Pretty good sound system, so if you do like your beats, you can

07:50 turn it up if you're sick of listening to the exhaust. Probably the most exciting thing about

07:54 this is the function menu. This is where you'll see all of your driving information, such as your

08:01 engine temperatures, the torque split for the all-wheel drive system, and then you can flick

08:05 through the menus to get G-Bubbles boost. It really is just, how do I say this? It really is

08:11 just like an old-school implementation of the gauges that you used to see strapped to cars

08:17 growing up. So, I love that it has all this stuff. It is ultimately pretty pointless if you're just

08:21 driving around just in a stock car, but I think it's good that it has it. It just adds a bit of,

08:26 I don't know, it just adds a bit of customness to this GT-R. Now, let's chat safety. This is going

08:32 to be a very short discussion. This has like barely any safety technology attached to it.

08:37 You've got your standard airbags, the front, side, and curtain airbags, but you have no AEB,

08:43 no lane departure warning, no blind spot monitoring, none of that stuff. So, it is

08:47 pretty basic in that sense, and I guess it's just a symptom of having to spend lots of money to

08:52 integrate that technology and it kind of not being necessary in a car like this. Brands like Porsche

08:57 and Audi have moved to integrating these systems into their cars because they're constantly

09:02 evolving. So, let's hope the next generation of this comes with all of that safety tech.

09:07 But in terms of parking, you have front and rear parking sensors and a reverse view camera. I'll

09:12 show you what the camera looks like. It's really not very good. It is super low resolution, but you

09:17 do get those guidelines to give you an idea of what's behind you and which direction the car's

09:22 heading in. So, let's talk about practicality. We'll start with your connectivity. So, you have

09:26 one 12-volt outlet hidden just here next to the steering wheel. In the center console here, you

09:31 have another 12-volt outlet and then two USB ports and an auxiliary port. Then in terms of storing

09:37 your phone, it can live here in the cup holders without too many dramas. And what about your

09:41 coffee cup? Well, here it is. You've got two tiers of cup holder here, so you can pop it in that one,

09:47 which means coffee is easy to extract. Then you have a slightly deeper one as well. Of course,

09:52 with our bottle, that means a deeper one easily fits into there without any dramas. There are no

09:56 teeth though, so that might move around a little bit. There also isn't really a great deal of

10:00 storage inside the doors. You can fit a small bottle like that, but it's not really sort of

10:04 built to hold too much. In terms of other storage, you have a center console here that you can easily

10:10 pop a few little bits and pieces in, and then you have a glove box as well. Although there isn't a

10:14 great deal of room there, but I do love the fact that you get this leather-clad GTR book for your

10:19 manual. And there's also a switch over there that disables the boot lid as well. So if you do need

10:24 to leave the car with a valet, you can basically switch that off, lock this with the key, and then

10:28 you can't get into the boot. Now, in terms of comfort, you have dual-zone automatic climate

10:34 control. The seats, so the seats are electrically adjustable for the driver and front passenger.

10:39 You can go forwards, backwards. You can also move the backrest forwards, backwards. You can

10:43 lift the seat as well, go up and down with the front portion of it. You also have heated seats,

10:49 so there's a little switch down there to activate that. Seats themselves have got that green finish

10:54 on them. Alcantara in the center there, and then they're perforated on the outer edges.

10:59 These hug you in really nicely. You've got these little sleeves in here for, you know,

11:03 four-point harness as well if you ever want to go down that path inside your car.

11:06 It has all of that functionality. The steering wheel offers both tilt and reach adjustment,

11:12 but it's kind of unique. You've got two little switches here, one for your tilt, and you'll

11:15 notice the cluster moves with it as well, and then you have another switch there for your reach,

11:21 which is pretty cool. And then in terms of our reach test, all of this stuff is easier to reach

11:25 while you're driving. Now, this is normally the bit where I would get in the back and show you

11:29 how much leg and headroom there is and stuff, but that's probably not going to happen. So,

11:33 this is a bit like the 911 in the sense that you've got two seats there to make this a four-seater,

11:39 technically, but you're probably not going to use them. They're kind of emergency use only,

11:43 but it is good space to store little bits and pieces if you do need to. There isn't a great

11:47 deal of legroom here if you do have this seat quite far back. But you do get a couple of creature

11:51 comforts. So, you've got a cup holder just there in the centre. You've got hooks on the sides there

11:56 to hold like a jacket or something like that. ISOFIX points on the two seats, plus a big subwoofer

12:01 for the sound system. So, let's talk about cargo space. I don't expect it to be big, but let's see

12:06 what it looks like anyway. Look, that's actually not terrible. It has a really high boot lip,

12:12 but 315-ish litres of cargo space. Now, I don't have our suitcase, but we've got this camera bag.

12:19 It's sort of more than enough to fit something that size in there, which I think is pretty

12:24 reasonable. In fact, I reckon you could even fit a set of golf clubs in there. I'm not a golfer,

12:29 but yeah, I think this is the type of car that you want to be able to take to the golf club and,

12:33 you know, whip your clubs out, go for a hit, whatever golfers do. I like this as well. There's

12:38 like a leather pull here to bring the boot down as well. So, instead of having to grab this,

12:43 you can just pull that down and away it goes. So, yeah, not a bad setup there.

12:48 Now, normally what I would do is we'd be driving as we got to this section, but

12:53 I wanted you to hear this. Have a listen to this.

12:54 Everything sounds so mechanical with this car, and the reason for that is that the engine is up

13:03 the front here, but the transmission is down the back. It has a rear transaxle and basically sits

13:08 back there. There's a shaft that runs down to the transaxle, and then another one that runs out of

13:12 the transaxle over to the front axle, because this is permanent all-wheel drive, and that's all done

13:18 via a clutch. So, I'll explain how that works in a second, but you hear a lot of mechanical stuff

13:22 here, and as I shift this into drive, you can just hear everything happening there as the car

13:29 is ready to take off. So, it is really cool, and that's probably one of the things I love about

13:35 this. It's not quiet, it's not sort of technical in that sense. It is very mechanical, and it feels

13:40 incredibly raw. So, let's hit the road, and we'll start talking about the engine.

13:44 All right, so we are now moving. Let's talk about the engine. So, you've got a 3.8-litre

13:53 twin-turbocharged V6 petrol engine. It makes 419 kilowatts of power and 632 newton metres of torque.

14:02 It is just such a good amount there, especially in a vehicle like this. Look, it does weigh a little

14:07 bit, so it's about 1700 kilos, but it's more than enough to get it up and moving, and you will

14:12 definitely feel it once you're on the move. And it's all mated to a six-speed dual-clutch

14:19 transmission. Back when this was launched, this was one of the first cars, or the first sports

14:23 cars on the market that actually had a dual-clutch transmission. They were kind of the OG of the

14:27 dual-clutch, and in that sense, it feels a little bit old school. So, it's not quite as felt as

14:32 something like a 911, but when you do sort of start rifling through the gears, it can actually

14:36 increase the pace of gear shifts using these switches down here that I'll run you through in

14:40 a second. How does it all feel behind the wheel just in your standard driving mode? Well, it's

14:45 actually pretty civil. So, when you are in and around the city, it's sort of doing everything

14:48 that it needs to do. With the ride, it is pretty firm when it's in its standard mode, but you can

14:53 slot it down into comfort, and when it's in comfort, it's actually surprisingly good. It has

14:57 adaptive damping, and that means that when it is in that comfort mode, everything is much softer.

15:01 It does have more body roll if you do get stuck into it, but it does mean that potholes, speed

15:06 humps, and all the kind of stuff that you'll spot in and around the city are dealt with much easier

15:10 than they would be if this was just a straight sort of fixed suspension setup. So, I briefly

15:15 touched on the engine and the transmission. At the back there, you have a one and a half way

15:19 limited slip differential. That means that when you do have throttle load, it's acting as a limited

15:24 slip differential, but then when you're off throttle load, it's half acting as a limited

15:29 slip differential. So, a one-way LSD is only on throttle load, and then a two-way LSD is on and

15:34 off throttle load that it's acting as an LSD, and that means that when you are sort of doing turns

15:38 and you're not on the throttle, it's still giving you some of that limited slip, but it's not fully

15:43 locked like it can be on a drift car, for example. It generally uses a two-way LSD. But up the front

15:48 there, it's an open differential. So, when it does pulse torque to the front axle, and it can do up

15:52 to 50% of torque to the front axle, 100% of torque to the rear axle, it means that you are getting an

15:57 open diff, and then if it does need to restrict wheel slip, it does that using the brakes and a

16:02 sort of torque vectoring system. Now, let's talk fuel economy. Nissan claims an average fuel economy

16:11 of 11.7 litres per 100km. The reason I'm not going to show you the fuel economy here is this

16:17 particular car was trucked to the proving ground, so its entire life with us has been driving around

16:23 the proving ground, so it's done no highway driving, no sort of city driving in that sense,

16:28 in a real city. So, we won't bother looking at that, but this is a performance car. You would

16:33 expect it to sit around the 12 or 13 litre per 100 mark if you are driving it as a daily.

16:38 So, what's it like in terms of noise? We'll dial up the speed just a little bit here to

16:44 country driving speeds. Look, there is a fair bit of tyre noise coming into the cabin. With

16:49 those semi-slicks, it is transmitting pretty much everything into here, especially on course

16:54 chip roads. So, if you are using this as a daily, it is worth just keeping in mind that it's not

16:59 going to be the quietest place to be seated in the world, but ultimately, if you have the stereo

17:03 turned up, it's not that bad. You do also have a switch down here to limit exhaust noise. So,

17:07 give that one little flick and all of a sudden, out of the back, it goes nice and quiet. So,

17:12 you can either go loud or quiet, depending on what mood you're in.

17:15 Let's quickly talk about these switches down here as well. So, you have suspension mode,

17:22 comfort, normal and R. You also have drivetrain mode in R or normal. And finally, you have

17:28 stability control in standard R or off. To access the R modes, you just push and hold the switches

17:34 until R lights up. And speaking of which, we're going to go for a little stab here. So, I'm going

17:38 to pop this into R for drivetrain, R for stability control, and then we'll pop it into R for

17:45 suspension. I'll put this into manual mode, which is across here. I'm using paddle shifters for

17:50 everything now. Dial back a couple of gears here for our corner. I'm loving that noise,

17:57 a little bit of overrun there. Oh man, this is absolutely epic. I'm genuinely lost for words.

18:15 This is insane. Man, okay. So, a bit of a backstory. When I went to the Nismo launch in

18:21 Germany, we went straight onto an autobahn and we're sitting on 300 k's an hour, straight out of

18:28 basically the hotel to the track. And then we drove the cars on the track. This car has been

18:33 engineered over the years to become this incredibly capable track missile. And while

18:39 something like a 911 is a point and shoot, a lightweight machine, this just feels next level

18:46 in terms of the punch you get in the back as you lay on the throttle. You've got that induction

18:51 noise coming out of the engine and it has so much traction mid-corner. Let's roll onto the throttle

18:57 here. Far out. It is an absolute missile. Even in the R mode here for the suspension, it's not

19:05 overly firm. It's not like it's back jarring or sort of doing your head in as it's driving. It

19:10 really is just nice and sensible and relaxing. Steering feels good. It could be a little heavier,

19:16 I think. It is sort of fairly light, but it does feel just exciting behind the wheel. And that

19:22 all-wheel drive system, I think that if you were to lose traction in this, you would have to be

19:27 doing some serious speed. Even the gearbox, it is so nice and fast that when you go to pick up

19:34 the throttle, it is seriously cool stuff. Despite the age of this car, it still puts a massive smile

19:44 on my face. Let's talk about these brakes. So obviously, if you're capable of doing like 300

19:53 Ks an hour, you want to have decent stoppers. Before they're warm, they're not great, but as

19:58 you pile it into a corner and you're sort of attacking that pedal on the way in... Sorry,

20:04 I can't help myself. Yeah, when you're attacking the pedal on the way in, it has a lot of pedal

20:08 feel. And as you sort of start getting gradually harder onto that pedal, it pulls up the car

20:15 incredibly well. And with those semi-slicks, because you have so much rubber on the road,

20:20 you have enough grip there to pull this thing up in a real hurry. With the carbon ceramic brakes,

20:24 they don't necessarily stop quicker than a car with steel brakes, but they give you repetitive

20:29 stops. So if you are attacking a racetrack, you can basically hammer these brakes as hard as you

20:33 want, and generally they won't fade, or it'll take them much longer to fade. And they also last

20:38 longer than a standard set of brakes as well. So that is one positive to that. They are more

20:43 expensive to replace when they do go, but for the most part, you're actually getting a much

20:47 better driving experience because you're able to just constantly hit that pedal and know that it's

20:52 going to feel the exact same every single time. All right, let me put this all back into quiet mode,

20:59 and let's talk about what this is like just sort of driving normally. Visibility-wise,

21:05 clear visibility down the front there. It is a big car, but it doesn't feel all that big behind

21:10 the wheel. It sort of is very sort of easy to drive in that sense. Visibility out the rear is

21:14 great. The spoiler does sort of eat into that vision line a little bit, but it's not too bad.

21:18 Visibility out the side is good as well, but keep in mind you don't have any of those blind spot

21:22 monitors or anything like that. You actually perhaps sit a little bit higher than I would

21:26 have liked. I would have liked to be able to sit a little lower in the seat, but for the most part,

21:30 it's fine. I personally think that for me as an average driver, this feels very exciting to drive.

21:36 It's not quite as point and shoot as something like a 911, but it still is incredibly exciting

21:43 to drive despite the age of the chassis. With a professional behind the wheel, and I've done

21:48 hot laps in these as a passenger, man, it has so much grip, and has so much traction and mechanical

21:54 grip as well, that it really just sits on another level in terms of Japanese sports cars.

21:59 Now, let's quickly talk about this thing here in front of me. So I love when we're driving,

22:02 just being able to have a look at some of these menus, seeing our braking forces,

22:06 our acceleration forces, seeing where the torque is being distributed, whether it's all going to

22:10 the back or to the front. It really is just an awesome little menu to have, and you don't have

22:15 time to look at it while you're driving, but it is good to have a little bit of a peek down here

22:18 when things settle down a little bit, so I do love that it has that.

22:21 So let's talk 0-100. Nissan claims a time of 2.7 seconds, and it's actually a fun process

22:33 to enable launch control on this car, so I'll just come to a stop here.

22:36 What you do is, everything goes into R mode, but I've found that it gets a faster launch

22:43 in the sense that it tucks down when the suspension is in comfort. So that's drive,

22:47 train and stability control in R, suspension in comfort. All you do is hold the brake and

22:51 the throttle, the revs go up to about 4000 rpm, and then I just sidestep the brake and we

22:56 shoot forward. So let's give this a shot and see how we go. There's the revs, let go of the brake.

23:01 Oh man, that is like sick inducing. You know, normally with an EV, when you do that,

23:12 you sort of get all the rush and all that sort of fun stuff, but in this, you hear the noise and it

23:18 kind of, I don't know, it just gets faster. With an EV, you get all of that sudden acceleration

23:23 and then it tapers off. With this, it's kind of, it hooks up and then once it hooks up,

23:29 it slingshots you forward like just an absolute rocket ship, so that will never get old.

23:35 Now, I'll quickly touch on this as well, exhaust sound. So

23:47 as you sort of go back through the gears, you do hear

23:52 a fair bit of noise coming out of it, but a lot of it is just induction noise and then

24:00 a little bit of squealing there from the brakes. You don't really have all the barks and the pops

24:05 that you get in some other cars with dual clutch transmissions. And look, I think that's fine.

24:09 I've seen stacks of these cars that have aftermarket exhaust. You stick one of those

24:13 on this and your whole neighbourhood will know that you're driving a GT-R. So yeah,

24:17 that is worth keeping in mind. If you do want all of that raw sound and emotion, this is

24:21 more just about delivering power and torque to the ground as opposed to making a big racket about it.

24:26 So the Nissan GT-R. Look, I grew up with GT-Rs. Well, I didn't actually own any GT-Rs,

24:33 but some of my mates did, and they were quite an iconic car in my teenage years.

24:37 And this, to this day and age, to me is such an appealing car. Like it may be old,

24:41 it might be dated and all that sort of stuff, but it puts a huge smile on my face and it just

24:45 feels like a driver's car. A lot of the new cars like the M8 Competition are just so fast, but

24:50 not quite as engaging as something like this that just sticks to a sort of pretty easy and

24:55 traditional formula. So yeah, look, this puts a big smile on my face. The flies definitely don't,

25:00 but I think that if you are wanting to buy a piece of history, now is the time to be getting

25:05 your name down for one of these, because later on, who knows, this will be hybrid or electric or

25:08 something like that. Today is the day that this is a twin-turbo V6 and it puts a big smile on

25:13 Paul's face. So let me know in the comments section below, have you bought a T-Spec? Have

25:17 you got an R35? Or even the Nismo OnOrder? That thing is like next level altogether. Let me know

25:22 in the comments section below. What do you think about the rules about side impact and this being

25:27 killed off in Australia? Let me know what you think down there. Now, if you did enjoy this video,

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25:38 But until next time, take it easy.

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