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Much have been said about the Nissan GT-R’s impressive acceleration prowness. With its weight of over 3,800 lbs, many pundits were saying instead of the circa 480 bhp that Nissan claims the twin-turbocharged V6 engine pushes out, that figure could be in the region of 530 bhp. After all, how else can such a hefty car get from 0 to 60 in under 4 sec depending on surface and use of launch control, this just seem impossible.

All the hoo hah about Nissan over boosting the turbo (something that’s quite easy to do) is now laid to rest. What causes all this uncertainty is there wasn’t an accurate way to measure driveline losses, until now. A new type of dyno is able to measure this loss and as a result a GT-R was strapped one more time and put through its paces.

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Although Nissan has the know how to build proper sports cars, the GT-R comes to mind, but somehow when they try to make a Coupe out of a sedan, seems another Japanese maker seems to beat em to it.

Watch the following video to see how 2 evenly matched sports coupe gives very different driving results.

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