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Originally posted by Rob_Sutherland:
1) Every person that I know that has owned one no longer does. They all got rid of them.
2) Every person I know that owned one has had moderate to severe mechanical problems with them. Mostly driveline issues like new gearboxes or differentials.
3) Reading on the interwebs and hearing 3rd party stories driveline issues (very often) and electrical issues (less often) are way way too common.
4) The gearbox hunts too much and can be clunky. Not Lamborghini clunky but still irritating.
5) Dealing with Nissan as a GT-R owner for warrantee work is apparently often a hassle as they always think you are abusing the car.
6) Nissan has withdrawn warrantee coverage from people purely because they used the launch control too often.
7) The car is 96% of the time utterly boring to drive. The other 4% of the time unless you’re on a track or know there is no one around it’s illegal to do what you're doing. It’s a car that only feels alive when you’re really on it and really on it in 2nd gear is a ticket, 3rd gear is jail.
8) You will not be able to talk your way out of any ticket. Cops will hate you on sight. You can be a veteran with a purple heart and a silver star driving 5mph over and a cop will ticket you with glee.
9) It is massively fast for your first few laps of a track but the car can’t keep the pace. It overheats, the tires go off way to quickly, the brakes fade, it’s just too heavy for a full day of real performance work.
10) The exhaust note is terrible and obnoxiously loud and you can’t get away from it.
11) It only attracts negative attention except from boys aged 13-26. Seriously people will give you looks of disgust on an at least weekly basis.
12) Every ricer and bro will try to race you at every stoplight.
13) The fit and finish of the interior is of Nissan quality. Wonderful for an Altima, not for a now $100k ++ car.
14) They were ~$60K when the first came out, not much has changed with the car except it’s now more than $100K.
15) I find the seats uncomfortable.
16) It's ugly.
1) it's a one trick pony car. but damn it does that one thing good
2) see #1.. too much launch mode since it's what it does High rpm, drop the gear and fucken launch!
3) see #2..
4) see #1
5) see #2
6) oh i see you understand #2
7) see #1
8) take the whale spoiler off the car
9) see #1
10) And damn can you feel it too!!
11) no comment
12) see #11
13) see #1
14) this is probably the main knock on it for me
your 15 and 16 is subjective so i wont comment =)
but basically rob's rebuttal boiled down to 3 answers
if i were to buy such a car, i'd literally just sit at stop lights and wait for rice boys to want to race me =)