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Old 05-03-2020, 12:22 AM   #64
DeeezNuuuts83
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Originally Posted by Skunkers View Post
If Nissan's plans haven't changed, no way in hell could the Z share the same platform. The last direction we heard is that Nissan wants the next GT-R to potentially be a world-beater. It seems their ambition is to take on the hypercar segment with the next one, not the 911.
Assuming you are referring to the 911 Turbo (which is what I had specifically stated as well), the 2021 model more or less has hypercar acceleration (0-60 in the mid-2s, quarter-mile in the mid-10s), so it'll still be one of their benchmarks, as it always has been.

If they want to take on hypercars on tracks with twisties (which also more or less has been their goal for the R35), that's a great accomplishment, but I feel like it's more important for them to sell it at a more reasonable price (or at least have a comparable performance-per-dollar ratio that the earlier R35 GT-Rs had) than to be able to chase down Aventadors, because if it can do that but at a $200,000+ pricetag (because it's going to be the higher-end Nismo variant to do that and not likely the "standard" GT-R), I don't know if it'll be a surefire success.
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