01-26-2011 09:01 AM
pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/coupes/" rel="tag"Coupe/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Performance/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/25/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/#continued"img alt="2012 Nissan GT-R demonstrates launch control" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/gt-r-launch-control.jpg" style="border-width:0px;border-style:solid;margin:4px 0px;width:630px;height:367px"/abr div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:10px;font-style:italic" 2012 Nissan GT-R shows off its new launch control system - Click above to watch video a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/25/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/#continued"after the jump/a/div br The a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/gtr"2012 Nissan GT-R/a is one fast supercar-slaying coupe. With 530 horsepower and 448 pound-feet of torque on tap, it sprints off the line with plenty of traction as it sends power to all four wheels. The a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/02/2012-nissan-gt-r-officially-goes-0-60-in-2-9-seconds/"2012 GT-R can run from 0-60 miles per hour in 2.9 seconds/a, and it does so with the assistance of its LC4 R35 launch control function, otherwise known as the R-Mode Start function.br br Yes, this process is surely hard on the transmission (and we're counting on plenty of transmission and warranty jokes in the comments - we've heard 'em all... and so has everyone else). So, instead of worrying about the car's innards, why don't you instead a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/25/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/#continued"click past the jump/a and check out the 2012 Nissan GT-R utilizing its launch control system to the fullest. Video starts in 3... 2... emahem/em, 60.br br [Source: a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YaV-zjswFIamp;feature=player_embedded"YouTube/a via a href="http://www.worldcarfans.com/111012530532/2012-nissan-gt-r-shows-off-its-launch-control-video?utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp; utm_campaign=Feed:+worldcarfans/Jxfz+(WorldCarFans.com)"World Car Fans/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/26/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVideo: 2012 Nissan GT-R blasts off the line courtesy of new launch control system/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/26/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/"Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R blasts off the line courtesy of new launch control system/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YaV-zjswFIamp;feature=player_embedded"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.worldcarfans.com/111012530532/2012-nissan-gt-r-shows-off-its-launch-control-video?utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp; utm_campaign=Feed:+worldcarfans/Jxfz+(WorldCarFans.com)"Read/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/26/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19815177/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a*|*a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/26/video-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/jsicb7kgbrq2r9mumuej8u6iqc/468/60#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autoblog.com%2F2011%2F01%2F26% 2Fvideo-2012-nissan-gt-r-blasts-off-the-line-courtesy-of-new-laun%2F" width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pdiv a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=-DM499vC3uc:cWslMGRvQW4:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=-DM499vC3uc:cWslMGRvQW4:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=-DM499vC3uc:cWslMGRvQW4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=-DM499vC3uc:cWslMGRvQW4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/-DM499vC3uc" height="1" width="1"
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