Is The Mercedes-AMG GT R Quicker Than A Nissan GT-R?

This video from Car Wow intends to find out who makes the better GT-R: Nissan, or Mercedes?

21 Dec 2017

These two cars may almost share the same name, but they’re conceptually rather different. The Nissan has an all-wheel drive system, whereas the Mercedes powers the rear wheels exclusively. The former car has a V6 while the latter opts for a V8, and, err, one has a hyphen in the name and the other doesn’t.

But which is quicker? The Japanese car should easily grasp victory in a standing start race given that it supposedly does 0-62mph in three seconds dead - 0.6sec quicker than the official time for the AMG - but we all know how optimistic the GT hyphen R benchmark acceleration figure is.

Plus, on the rolling start race that comes up next in this Car Wow test, the Nissan’s all-wheel drive system is less of a factor, and the braking test - well, that’s anyone’s guess.

Place your bets, then press play.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Kind of expected a result like this. GTR gets a better launch but then RWD gets you the top speed.

When RWD kicks in:

the ONLY good GTR I know

Or this…..

This one as well

High time for Nissan to replace it… After all the GT-R is technically 10 years old…

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Exactly

Who knows, they could reveal the new one any time soon

Well, Nissan really seems to like to keep their cars as old as possible (exception made with their SUVs): I mean look at the Frontier, which has not really changed since 2006; the 370Z, which is pretty much the same since it was launched; the GT-R, which saw its price climbing constantly since almost 10 years (it was about $81k brand new in 2009: now it starts at $125k), etc..

Not surprising they ended up with Mitsubishi (and that’s coming from a guy who loves Mitsubishi and saw four Mitsubishis going in the family).