If you like the hissing and grunting sounds of a Nissan GT-R's 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V6, then we're pretty sure that you are going to love these two videos from Singapore showing a convoy consisting of more than 40 (!) Godzillas traveling together on the road.
The drivers are members of the Nissan GTR Owner's clubs in Singapore and Malaysia and they were heading up from the Pan Pacific Hotel Singapore to Dempsey Hill for a special meeting.
Drive through the break to watch both videos.
A big hat tip to Eric Lim for the find!
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Watching paint dry is more exciting.
Annoying.
djeeez at least get a better cam with better sound....!
I like the one with the US World War II fighter theme
If I had one I'd like to paint it with a giant Japanese Rising Sun flag from World War II, perhaps beginning in the front and running the rays of sunlight from front to back.
thats exactly someone saying " I'd like to paint it with a giant Nazi Swastika flag from World War ll..."
people really should get this straight.
LOL... YOu guys spelled my name wrongly! Btw I wasn't the camera man, it was another forum member who posted this
Lol... You guys wrote my name wrongly! Its Eric Lim... Btw I wasn't the cameraman, this vid was posted by another forum member.
Y U NO CRASH IT?
most of the cars had malaysian plates, and i dont see them everyday but GTRs here are more common than caymans and 430s combined...
Nissan hit again for their new GT-Rs. This car looks cool and watching roaring the streets are really exciting and enjoying.
Perhaps you have a point, I imagine there are still those in America, Britain and throughout Asia who associate that flag with Japanese militarism and a murderous regime, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_Flag but by and large it doesn't carry much cultural baggage in America
My great-uncle was US Marine who fought in the Pacific against the Japanese, he saw some of the most vicious fighting in human history in the southern Pacific. I never heard him uttering a word of condemnation directed at the Japanese people or the Japanese ensign. Perhaps if I pulled up in a GT-R painted with the rising sun, he might have raised an eyebrow, I can't ask him because he's no longer with us.
I'm also a Jew, whose family lost perhaps hundreds of my family members during World War II in Russia, Germany and Poland, likely sent to the Nazi death camps for extermination. I nor anyone in my family look at the Japanese Empire the same way we look at the Nazis. The reality is that neither the German or the Japanese people were able to control what their totalitarian governments were doing, and in the end became victims themselves, suffering horrifically.
Here in the states The Rising Sun just doesn't carry the same connotations that the swastika does. You would hear a lot more objections to painting a car with the Confederate battle flag, a symbol from the Civil War of the states some 150 years ago. Primarily as a result of a political faction here in America that continues to try to rewrite that history, painting themselves as innocent victims of Northern aggression, and slavery of black people as a benevolent benign answer to labor problems.
That's the thing about symbols, they mean different in different places, and the different peoples around the world. It seems some right wing factions in Japan see the Rising Sun flag as a symbol of pride, much the way many Southern whites see the Confederate flag as a symbol of their racial pride.
So maybe for you it's exactly the same, but it isn't for me.
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