oh dear... i've managed to stay off these boards for quite some time, but i feel compelled to weigh in now. usually i come out waving the porsche flag, but i cant do that here. i've got a gen-F rs and there is something about that car that forces you to try and save it knowing full well that were it anything else, skyline included, you would cut for parts. it was a rusting hulk sitting out behind a shop, but you knew it was special just looking at it, you could feel it.
when the r32 gtr came out it did beat the old 911 round the ring, but then the next 911 came out and it took the record back. the r33 gtr came out and beat that 911, then the new 911 came out and it was back on top again. things went on like this. nissan always tried to beat the previous model and never really looked ahead to what was next, but thats not whats really important. if you've ever driven a gtr, or any japanese car, you know there are lots of computers doing all kinds of work to fix/tweek things so they are just right. nissan used technology to hurl an overweight, underpowered, unbalanced car quickly round a track. porsche used engineering, physics, and a ballsy german dude to make the 911 fast. thats why its useless to defend the new 911 when comparing it to the new gtr, porsche has started using computers to make the 911 fast when, if it were truely a 911, they should have redesigned the car and made it faster.