First Drive: 2012 Nissan GT-R

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02-16-2011 10:57 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/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/driving/" rel="tag"First Drive/a/pembigJapan's Supercar Killer Comes Back Even Stronger/big/embrbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/"img alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/02/10-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd-opt2.jpg" style="border-style:solid;border-width:0px;margin:4px 0px"/adiv style="text-align:center" emstrongsmall2012 Nissan GT-R - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/em/divbrInvincible. According to Webster's, the word means "incapable of being conquered, overcome or subdued." The adjective is often used to describe something so superior that it's nearly impossible to overthrow. Want to know what invincibility feels like? Strap yourself into the driver's seat of the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/gtr"2012 Nissan GT-R/a, and then press the start button.brbrJust three years after successfully launching its flagship performance vehicle on our shores, the engineers at a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/nissan/"Nissan/a have introduced a subtly but completely reworked supercar. The engine has more power, the suspension has been revised, the wheels are lighter, the seats have been redesigned, the brakes are bigger, the chassis is stiffer and the aerodynamics have been reconfigured to improve cooling and provide more downforce. This isn't a manufacturer's token "mid-cycle refresh" to boost sales; these are changes that improve the overall drivability and performance of the GT-R so significantly that most will be inclined to consider it nothing short of a second-generation rebirth.brbrFor starters, how does 0-60 in 2.88 seconds sound?brbra href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/16/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive-review-road-test/#continued"Continue reading/a...brbrbrdivpstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/"2012 Nissan GT-R: First Drive/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/#3822536"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/01-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd_thumbnail.jpg" alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" title="2012 Nissan GT-R"/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/#3822537"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/02-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd_thumbnail.jpg" alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" title="2012 Nissan GT-R"/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/#3822538"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/03-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd_thumbnail.jpg" alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" title="2012 Nissan GT-R"/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/#3822539"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/04-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd_thumbnail.jpg" alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" title="2012 Nissan GT-R"/aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive/#3822540"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/01/05-2012-nissan-gt-r-fd_thumbnail.jpg" alt="2012 Nissan GT-R" title="2012 Nissan GT-R"/a/divbremstrongsmallPhotos copyright (C)2011 a href="http://www.drewphillipsphotography.com/"Drew Phillips/a / AOL/small/strong/empa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/16/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive-review-road-test/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFirst Drive: 2012 Nissan GT-R/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/16/2012-nissan-gt-r-first-drive-review-road-test/"First Drive: 2012 Nissan GT-R/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:57:00 EST. 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