Nissan has hit back at suspicions raised by Porsche this week that the record Nurburgring lap time set by the GT-R supercar was achieved in anything other than a standard showroom-specification car.

The matter has reached top brass at Nissan, with its European spokesman at the Paris motor show today confirming the matter has gone ”quite high” up in the company.

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Porsche has accused Nissan of cheating in the GT-R’s record bid at the Nurburgring racetrack.

Porsche has just run its own back-to-back tests with the Japanese company’s GT-R supercar and says it could not get within 25 seconds of Nissan’s claimed record time of seven minutes 29 seconds in April.

It also found its 911 Turbo and GT2 were both quicker than the GT-R. Read more

Acura’s replacement for the NSX is still more than two years away but a number of key details about the car have already been circulating the web. The styling of the new car will be very similar to the Advanced Sports Car Concept from last year’s Detroit Auto Show selling for USD160k. Read more

The GTR saga continues, the guys over at Road & Track magazine have got their hands on the specifications on the highly anticipated Nissan GTR V-Spec and they have spilled the beans. Figures stand at 520 hp @ 6500 rpm, 440 lb.-ft. of torque all the way from 3200–5200 rpm, 1640kg, and earlier reports have confirmed that it laps the ‘Ring quicker than 7:25, that’s faster than a Porsche 997 GT2. Read more

When you’re born to race, you do it whenever you can, but if you’re a retired seven time Formula 1 world champion, you do it every way you can. That’s exactly what Michael Schumacher has been up to recently, racing motorbikes in Germany at one time and falling off them at another time, but that’s not all. It helps to be credited with resurging the most succesful team in Formula 1 ever, Michael is now one of the leading developers for Ferrari cars, almost personally fine tuning every new model that rolls out of Maranello. But things are not that flowery all the time. Read more

One of the most celebrated cars of this decade, the Nissan GTR is a car that embodies everything a supercar should be. Basically annihilating its competition, it arrived at the world stage a champion, a legend and a benchmark for all future supercars. So what more can be done for a car that has basically accomplished everything there is for a car to accomplish? Aesthetics. Read more

Just in case you haven’t been paying attention, there is a war going on here. A showdown between the American King and Japanese Godzilla on the famous public racetrack in Germany, the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

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First unveiled earlier this year in Chicago, BMW makes its return to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) starting 2009 with a new race-ready 485hp V8 BMW M3. After one year of development, the fourth generation E92 based M3 racecar, set out onto the track for the first time, and this video captures the moments. Read more

Toyota to join touring car races?

German ADAC Procar Team Geipel Motorsport have built the new Auris T-Sport with the view of entering a two two-car team in the 2009 WTCC. Read more

Who would have thought?! Has the Nissan GTR been beaten already? Well, there goes GTR’s bragging rights!

So quick after claiming the fastest time around the Nurburgring, the GTR appears to have lost its top dog status to the new 2009 Corvette ZR1.

The ZR1 has lapped the Ring in a time of 7 minutes 26 seconds, with anticipation of faster times if the weather was better during the record breaking run! Read more