My first day at my new job is on Monday and I don't know which car to drive. Should I take the very old but trusty and reliable S2k I bought in 1999 and turboed a couple of years ago, or the gunmetal GT-R I bought yesterday?

The GT-R paint is utterly flawless. Flawless in the kind of way that only seems to exist for a few minutes after you get a brand new car before some rock chips the paint or something else happens to it, and I don't know if I can bear the thought of it sitting in the office parking lot out of my sight all day.

The S2k hasn't had flawless paint in almost 10 years, and I long since stopped obsessing over it. In this pic it sits in the background looking forgotten and betrayed, but jumping back into it after driving my GT-R all day reminds me of how much fun it is to row your own gears all the time. That's fun, but the GT-R brings a kind of fun that really cannot be described unless you get to drive it yourself. I know there are many critics on this forum both for and against the GT-R, but this thing puts a smile on my face that almost hurts.

There are plenty of fast cars in the world and everyone has secret dreams that they are afraid to share with others for fear they will remain forever unfulfilled. When your dream and a fast car become one in front of your house, it makes your whole world just that much brighter.

 

This post seems to be more to brag then anything haha.

So tell us. How does your GT-R compare to the turbo'd S in performance?

 

you bought a 80k car the day you got a new job?????

 

take the S2. the GT-R has a weak tranny so you'd better savor every mile of it.

 

I guess it could seem that way, but I just wanted to share my enthusiasm more than anything else and I truly have not decided what car to drive and decided to throw it out there for fun.

My S2k is mildy turboed as I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Its the Greddy kit and my car makes about 100 more hp than it did stock. It sounds much faster than it is with the aftermaket exhaust and loud blow off valve along with the gear whine of the 4.56 gears, not to mention all the other noises you start to hear when you pass 145000 miles in a car. It's an engaging and immersive driving experience, especially with the top down. The car will always be fun to drive, even with the GT-R as an option for me.

The GT-R is a beast anytime and anywhere in the rev range. It shoves you back in the seat and digs into the pavement with a rabid eagerness that my s2k cannot match. The most amazing thing about the GT-R is how light the car feels. The car is heavy at 3800 but it feels alot like driving a 2800 lb S2k with WAY more power. I can corner harder and faster and carry way more speed along some of my favorite roads around here in the Gt-R. It's built to go fast, but it has fantastic road feel. I feel as much if not more of what the road is doing under the tires as I do in the s2k. The car is so tossable it almost appears to break the laws of physics.

Except for not being able to row your own gears the old fashioned way, any experienced s2k driver should be able to leap into a GT-R and drive with absolute confidence. The GT-R inspires confidence in the driver. Sure it has lots of tech helping you out, but its secret is that the tech never lessens the fun or dulls the experience. Even learning to shift with paddles brings a new kind of fun.

I'm also very much a tech gadget nut. I had grown tired of the austerity of the s2k interior and I longed to push buttons and see some cool stuff going on in the cabin. I just LOVE the GT-R interior. It matches my personality and felt like home the instant I sat in it for the first time. I'm not always driving fast or running on a track. Sometimes I just want to chill and listen to some music while cruising. The car is just as happy loafing around like some Benz as it is hurtling into corners like an s2000.


I'll get it out to a road course in the summer which should also be a blast.

 

Excellent question. I financed this car while technically unemployed, as my last contract (I''m a programmer and consultant) ended 3 weeks ago, and I accepted a new offer only last week. You would think it would be hard getting financing without actually having a job, and you would be right. I managed to get financed based entirely upon what I USED TO DO.

I was approved based on nothing more than good credit and my W2 from last year. I would have sworn before I started that I would fail, but thankfully I was wrong.

I only bought it right now instead of after starting my new job, because its a GREAT time to buy a car in this market. The dealers are practically trying to give away cars. There is no markup on GT-Rs in this market if you come to the dealer prepared.

 

so you got a new car when you were unemployed?

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do people really wonder why our economy is the way it is?

but yeah you are right its a gr8 time to buy a car.

 

Congrats on the GT-R. I would rock the hell out of the GT-R and save the S2k for another day. :-)

 

I'd bring the GT-R to work.

 

i'm glad that the credit market is learning from it's mistakes in the past!


jk, but congratulations on the GT-R!

if i were you, i'd drive the s2000, just because i wouldn't want to be "flossin" in the GT-R, but if people at the new job are rollin' porsches/astons/ferraris/lambos, then i'd switch up and drive the GT-R