Nissan recently granted Auto four fleeting days with a red 2009 Nissan GT-R. While it seems every major automotive outlet has tested “Godzilla” on the track (including our First Drive), we chose instead to keep it on the streets to see if one of the world’s most powerful and fastest accelerating cars could be domesticated by stop-and-go traffic, family errands, and carpool duty.

Of course, we only stuck to that routine for a day or two… the rest of the time was spent on the famed canyon roads of Southern California. Follow the jump to read about our 100-hour experience in the Nissan GT-R and don’t miss what very well may be the most beautiful gallery of high-res images we’ve ever published courtesy of our own Drew Phillips and all ready to become your next desktop wallpaper.

The new Nissan Cube will be unveiled the morning of November 19 at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and the automaker has begun the buildup to its arrival. The Cube now has an official website, where you can count down the days and see more on the Cube art cars that design students prepared for the ‘08 New York Auto Show, among other things. Nissan’s covering all the bases, also getting the Cube set up on Facebook and other social networking sites in the meantime.

We like the Cube a lot, and hope the new version keeps the character of the current Japanese car intact while delivering power and fuel economy geared to appeal to the U.S. buyer. We don’t think Nissan’s going to botch this, so and shoppers looking to get their geek ought to have a strong candidate from Nissan. Not that it’ll be without competition — the Scion xB, Honda Element, and Kia Soul will all be vying for peoples’ attention, too. Let the geekmobile deathmatch begin. Thanks for the tip, Turkey Pie!

The Portuguese government has signed today an agreement with Renault-Nissan addressed the marketing of electric vehicles zero-emission, for both the private sector both in the public sector. The aim is to create conditions to make electric cars cheaper in economic terms, so as to attract the sympathies of consumers.

Three are areas of intervention which will operate the Iberian country: the study (in collaboration with the Franco-Japanese group) of the local market and its demands in order to make the offer in terms more appropriate and the study of infrastructure and organization a network of recharging fittamente present on national territory; an awareness campaign on the theme of reducing emissions.

The widespread distribution of electric cars will only since 2011, and the country will lusitano for the first years (thanks to this initiative pilot) a global market leader for the ZEV. The agreement was signed in Lisbon by Prime Minister José Sócrates and the CEO of Renault-Nissan Carlos Ghosn, who has thus made important sign another blow to the future of the Group, at a distance of a few months by similar agreements with close Shai Agassi and the Israelis Project Better Place.

After we’ve had to adore the turbocharged Skyline GT-R from afar for nearly two decades, Nissan is officially selling its game-changing super coupe on U.S. shores for the first time. In a late night ceremony at a Universal City, California dealership, Daryl Alison took delivery of the very first GT-R sold Stateside – by the automaker. The event included all the pomp and circumstance you’d expect, including an appearance by notorious hot-shoe, Steve Millen. Alison, a long-time Nissan fan whose garage has housed a number of sports cars, including several 350Zs, was grinning from ear-to-ear while he got a rundown on this black GT-R in Premium trim. Not surprisingly, Alison paid sticker price ($72,900) for his GT-R, likely to be the first and last to do so as owners begin taking delivery of their own GT-Rs in the following weeks.

Tomorrow, July 5 Nissan GT-R, that the first Japanese sport has promises and then he played (stopwatch in hand) to several titolate supercar, will play its first appearance in a competition in Europe racing circuit on the wonderful British Oulton Park.

The sample, imported from tuner English RC Developments, will be entered as closely as standard in the category of specialty Club man Time Attack. What, deep down, is the main dishes of personableness, as we have seen in recent months.

Despite the major difficulties interposed by Nissan to interventions ECU on the car than the R34, it seems that RC Developments, in collaboration with fellow ECU Tech and with Americans of Cobb Tuning (responsible for the first violation of the controller) is preparing a software together with a new plant discharge as a gift to offer customers more GT-R troublemakers. There is no mention yet of power values, but according to colleagues of British Car, given the enormous potential of 3.8 V6 biturbo, is not unthinkable Aeronautics share CV 1000.

The British factory situated in Sunder land Nissan is preparing to increase their productive rhythms: the Japanese house has announced the plan that provides continuous shifts of 24 hours on 24 for machinery chains. The creation of the night shift will lead to the creation of 800 new jobs and will give an effective response generalissimos question that is facing the Nissan Quashing in the old continent.

The maneuver, the rest was improbabilities: with the arrival in August Quashing 2, difficulties in meeting delivery times could get worse still. Thanks to this decision Nissan manage to build 6100 units every week.

Coming new and interesting information about promising 370Z (of which there are proposing a reconstruction very likely made by 7Tune). The new sporty Nissan, called to collect the legacy of the much appreciated 350Z, will be presented by the end of this as a totally new and with technical improvements and mechanical able to raise the already high pleasure driving the car that will replace.

Yesterday was held in Rome presentation of Nissan GT-R, reserved for the fortunate who have already decided to place an order and get in the new garage supersportiva by Japanese 480Cv. The car was shown in static form and the cloth that covered proudly reported the time of 7.38 “obtained the Ring already cancelled and adjusted, to testify to continuous development and improvement.

The lucky owners, although they can not even drive the GT-R, have received various gifts and gadgets, but above all have booked a special helmet “griffato” GT-R: to serve in October when they are invited to Ring for a special course on driving mythical ring north together with qualified instructors to learn how to squeeze their new supercar. It seems that the expectation is still long for deliveries, probably more than a year. Probable that the cars destined for our market montino tyres Pirelli and Bridgestone not, but I know more when the Italian car dealers 4 empowered to “management” of GT-R will begin to receive copies booked.

Of the new Nissan GT-R, the world of car spoke for months. Have been made hundreds of tests. Carried out thousands of comparisons with the best of automotive production worldwide. Yet the sport at home seems to Nissan, despite size and weight, the car more effective that we can find on the market and with the best value for money. But the many records that has crumbled this controversial super-car, are sufficient to ensure true emotions to the pilot? Just to transmit the same discharge of adrenalin car as the Porsche GT3, the Corvette Z06 ol’Audi R8?

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Affilate weapons, or that you challenged: Nissan GT-R V-Spec is announced, providing the opponents the necessary time to adapt. Dante would have confined its designers in the circle of iracondi, because it is unthinkable that a car so fast and efficient can assume a more extreme version.

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