Quote Originally Posted by redrumracer
that is a completely false statement. the reason i know this is because i seen one do high 9's in the 1/4 at the dragstrip that i worked at,(Darlington Dragway) a couple years ago, and is it slower? yes i didnt deny that, but for the price of the 2 you can easily make the 3000 just as fast. and here is a vid of the car that did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OnB8y2_-8
although at a different track.
Ok, that must be have happened not to long ago, i did read the article about PRM about 4 years ago. Now you drive a miata so i'm assuming you know that cornering is just as important as going in a straight line. The 3000gt cant corner at all. It is too heavy and the chassis geometry is not set up for it. The GTR would be much faster in the 1/4 mile if Nissan took a Ford Mustang approach to building it. Instead they made it a proper car and that brought the price upto $70,000. It could cost much less if so much didn't go into making it such a good performer all around.

(I'm having De Ja Vu....have we talked about this already?)