Ariel Atom faster than Nissan GTR around top gear track

 

It ought to be one of the fastest around, it being practically a motorcycle.

 

GTR is in some pretty fast company though, tieing the 430 scuderia.

 

Thats an apples to oranges comparison if I ever saw one.

 

yes yes it is admittedly hence my jester.

They are both cars though well technically

 

 

If that car were not made by Nissan and didn't look like hell both inside and out it would make a real run at the Aston range for my dream/lottery car.

 

I watched it the other day.
The GTR just EATS the track.
Pretty cool to watch the stig just take it to the carwash...and give it the wax.

 

The GTR is the automotive equivalent of the F-16 fighter plane. Like it or not, it has put the world on notice that in the very near future, everybody is going to need serious electronic hardware controlling every aspect of the vehicle to remain competitive......at least when building cars within the same price range and beyond.

 

Just goes to show a lightweight "simple" car can still beat the heavyweight complicated car around the track. Two opposite extreme approaches to high performance - but at what point is the GT-R driver still driving the car?

 

for the sake of a drivers car I hope you are wrong

 

....So do I.

 

Depending on whether or not it is fully defeatable. Like it or not I doubt anyone can turn off all the GTR's Gismos and beat it's times. Sliding the rear looks cool but if the tires are spinning it's wasting power that could be directed to the front for greater power out.