Aside from the side profile, that concept is hideous.

 

I rather like it, looks like a sexier Maserati GT.

 

I think the concept looks pretty good. The nose and tail need work. I would like to see smaller wheels as well. Still overall it's quite nice. It looks much better than the GT-R!

 

 

Sure it is. Because I'm stating MY Opinion. This is a message board, not the market. I'm stating IN MY OPINION this car is not worth it. I stated of course they would make it a limited edition because this car has a very limited market (probably the people with more money than sense) IN MY OPINION. People can say what they want, agree or disagree on a message board.

 

You're such a clueless dolt. After all that was explained, you still failed to grasp the simple concept. It's like explaining gravity to a 2-year-old because he/she cannot physically touch it.

Let me try one last time:

THE SPEC V ISN'T $160K JUST BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHTLOSS!!! HESUS!!! Its total upgrades cost well over $70K, including the said brake system. They didn't add much more power but they integrated a turbo boost system for a quick burst. Nissan did its research and felt its potential CUSTOMERS IN JAPAN, i.e. RICH JAPANESE ENTHUSIASTS, did not require additional power over the regular GT-R, so instead, Nissan opted to take its handling and braking to an unbelievable level - a level that beats 99.999% of street-legal production cars. Beyond that, the rich Japanese enthusiasts would buy this for collectibility purpose as well; some may track the car once in a while.

If you still don't understand the above, then you don't deserve to be a homo sapien, but a primate.

Again, Nissan is catering its special Spec V to its rich Japanese enthusiasts, not you power-hungry American (singular, to refer to Fanman) who ONLY sees power increase and NOTHING else. What about the $70K in non-power upgrades? Don't they count for anything? Even without much power increase, the Spec V would demolish 99.99% of street-legal production cars on a roadcourse.

 

I'm a Japanese and have a tendency to like (or defend in certain cases) Japanese automobiles...oh no!!! Call the presses! That is unheard of and outrageous!!! A Japanese liking his/her native country's products or autos. OH NOESSSSS!!! THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!

My anti-Japanese reference had nothing to do with the GT-R, but from years of observation of your and others' comments and attitudes.

Sake, the argument with that anti-Japanese dolt stops right here!!! /discussion.

P.S. If you wanna see real "fanboism", go to Mustang and Camaro forums. They are a million times more extreme than I. They call Japanese autos via racist names and like ONLY American autos, whereas I also like German, British, Italian, and some American autos; moreover, I don't call American autos with racist names. So, besides the fact of being Nippon, I'm on a Japanese auto site, so my fondness (or fanboi as you call it) for Nippon autos isn't the most unthinkable.

 

I think people have a problem - at least I do - with the brakes price being quoted at $50K [of the price difference], when the CCB option on cars like a Gallardo Super L or F430 are $16K, and the ZR-1 Brembo sourced CCBs (15.5"/15" monsters) are about $12K over-the-counter (~$9K street price).

Even Porsche only charges ~$9K for the [P]CCB and even with the ridiculous replacement costs you could swap out rotors for ~$16K (I realize there a subsidizing of sorts for options).

It's like Nissan came up with a price, then reverse engineered it using the brakes as the major cost difference. I would rather have seen them say X amount for performance updates, and $30K limited availability surcharge vs. trying to itemize the cost (it makes it kind of silly).

I mean for that matter I kind of have an issue with the "regular" GT-R brake prices, but at least the cheaper options have been clarified by parker (an actual owner). I still have a GT-R on the radar so that kind of maintenance cost is a factor.

 

The $50K is the total cost of the brake system, not the price difference, as I might have misquoted. Still, that's a HUGE upgrade over the regular model's. Yes, $50K brake system is a lot of money, but we don't have to worry about that, as only the few rich Japanese enthusiasts will gladly have that burden (something tells me they wouldn't worry either).

For the record, my problem wasn't that because someone expressed his own opinions, but when someone cluelessly said the car costs twice as much for just a 132-lb weightloss; that, simply, is ridiculous. It costs twice as much because of the $70K in upgrades, not just the weightloss alone.

 

[QUOTE=Steponme,May 19 2010, 10:08 PM] You're such a clueless dolt.