The Nissan GT-R is something like a poor-man's supercar – and there is nothing wrong with that in our book. It has beaten/embarrassed vehicles costing several times as much on more occasions that we can care to remember.
However, sometimes we tend to forget that being fast is as much about the car as it is about the driver. Case in point, a friendly road race between an SP Engineering-prepped Nissan GT-R and a Ferrari 458 Italia.
While the driver of the Godzilla has no problem tearing apart Maranello's V8-powered supercar in a straight-line duel on the highway, it’s a completely different story when the two cars enter a twisty side road… Watch the video for yourself after the break.
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There's a reason why Nissan use a particular wheel, tire and suspension setup which most tuners have no real regard for. While the Ferrari 458 feels better and may provide more thrills, it's slower around just about any track than the GT-R.
We may also need to consider driver talent in this equation. It's one thing to push the pedal, it's another to properly race round a track.
BUT, a NISSAN never gona be a FERRARI .
Y'all are morons in saying the GT-R fails miserably. You fail miserably.
Well, other than the fact the GTR driver is clearly not giving it everything on the twisty road. If he were, the 458 wouldn't catch it on the short straight sections (since we just saw how the Ferrari was decimated on the straight).
While I'm not the GTR's biggest fan, it would walk all over the Ferrari on a track, country lane or drag strip.
Regarding the second point, the Nissan is precisely supposed to be the car to make the driver count less considering all the electronic driving systems. Altough to be fair the Ferrari isn't short on those either...
Big fan of both cars but this was inevitable. GT-Rs are great pieces of engineering, where as with most other car companies, Ferrari included they are competing with themselves in the sense of improving their cars on their past cars. The 458 being the new F430. Not saying that's bad but its just done differently and as a result you two different cars.
Choosing a GTR over a Ferrari would be like choosing Godzilla over Georgia Palmas.
Im a track guy and at the end of the day the gtr was not driven the way it was suppose to be, nor was the 458, ether way the guy in the 458 is making up these yellow lines, they are there, but using the full width of the track is the smarter thing to do, i fill like thats just something for him to down the gtr, I am a porche owner and i just hate when people make up anything to be spite full, lets just say that I have been around the track in a 458 and a GTR, hands down the GTR would win and has won, its just to much of a crazy car, just give credit were it is due, and to be honest the 458 is a cool looking car but is no f50 in looks.
The GT-R is Japanese not American. Its mind-blowing on curves. Ask me.
Loved that loser comment... Hahahaha... "... he is driving over the double yellow line!... "
nice car...bad nissan driver.
Look at the car body and suspension in motion, this is clearly due to GTR's driver's experience.
Nice I did not know who Georgia Palmas till you should me the light... thank you but still I would have both the cars and Georgia Palmas..
if you can buy a Ferrari 458 I think you can buy a GT-R the Ferrari for the weekend and the GT-R for the track days..
True, the Nissan is supposed to help (more than the 458), but then again, it doesn't really drive itself does it now? :D
all of u are forgetting 1 thing how does anyone know if that GTR is not modded at all??
Hmm, isn't the Ferrari driver crossing the double lines as well?
Agree
nothing's wrong with the car, just a lousy driver, probably a female,...old,...just got divorced, and on drug.
The GTR is tomorrows supercar, the Ferrari is yesterdays supercar. Both drivers are terrible in this video. The only people who drive Ferraris either hire them for the day or live with their parents, if you want a real drivers car you'd buy the GTR.
The gearbox and brakes overheat on the GTR on long racetracks as the Ring,the Ferrari's dosen't.
I think GTR's driver was not as good as Ferrari's..
Correct title:
"Nissan GT-R DRIVER smacks Ferrari 458 DRIVER on the Highway, but fails miserably on a twisty road."
But I don't get it, where he "fails miserably"??
what a racist.. "shitty china man driver" lol
If the Nissan driver is good enough in taking those curves, I will probably bet on Nissan GTR. The acceleration of Nissan is powerful than the Ferrari pertaining on that video.
Driver fails by constantly crossing into oncoming lanes. These are public roads not a race track.
GTR fanboys should all watch this to see how bad it handles
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