Quote Originally Posted by alpine_xj
This is worth looking into though. Nissan has given out cars for testing that made significantly higher numbers than baseline GT-R's that you would get if you went to a dealership. People shouldn't jump to conclusions or anything, but unless the driver of the GT-R was trying to get a slow time a 25 second difference is huge. If Nissan gave GT-R's making higher numbers to Car and Driver, why would it be so far fetched to say they didn't do the same for Top Gear? You never know. I'm not going to write Nissan off just yet but this could end up holding water if it's looked into more.
Oddly enough, now that you mention it, the car Top Gear received was in a "wreck" and was given back to nissan before sent out to Top Gear.. so it is possible! lol. Either way... for some of you to say that top gear isn't a viable source of information as far as a cars performance, you're an idiot. The 10 minute segment clarkson does is worth ****, entertaining at best, but the stig segments are always good, and pretty accurate at juding a cars performance.