Edmunds article on Daryl's "World Car" GTR!

[speedraver]

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=124992





The manufacturing sticker on the car's right side door jamb identifies it as a trans- axle- and engine- delete car body and not a completed vehicle.


This is the same car I took pix of during the Cars & Coffee on 3/1/08 in Irvine.

COSTA MESA, California — This is the first 2009 Nissan GT-R in North America outside the steel grip of Nissan itself. It's a JDM version imported by JspecConnect.com to promote the company, to maybe — maybe — add to the subtly textured drama of the fourth Fast & the Furious film and because, well, they wanted to have the first R35 in the country.

Daryl Alison from JSpecConnect.com let Inside Line take it for a ride, including a triple-digit run up the Golden State Freeway. Don't let the cell phone photos fool you; this car is staggeringly gorgeous up close.

This GT-R's current home is JspecConnect.com's Costa Mesa, California warehouse. In fact, this black R35 didn't arrive in America as a complete car but as separate unibody and drivetrain components. The manufacturing sticker on the car's right side door jamb actually identifies it as a trans- axle- and engine- delete car body and not a completed vehicle.

Fortunately, however, Nissan sells the GT-R drivetrain over the parts counter. So once the shell and the drivetrain were in hand, it was straightforward for Steve Mitchell at M-Workz to put them together. And because the R35 GT-R is built as a one-spec car for the whole planet, it already had DOT-compliant headlights, glass and other elements. So the result is a complete JDM-spec, right-hand-drive GT-R that's registered and street legal here in the United States.

Our time driving the GT-R was brief but intoxicating. The car was just as awesomely quick around Costa Mesa as it was during our exclusive first test of a GT-R in Japan back in December. But it's an amazingly easygoing car with a transmission that's simply brilliant whether it's allowed to shift by itself or the driver is using the steering wheel paddles to trigger the gearchanges. It's also ridiculously comfortable, maybe a bit too quiet, and the brakes could stop a runaway Pentagon budget.

In short, now we want one — or two or three — more than ever.

What this means to you: You can still be the first on your block to own a GT-R, but someone else is already first in the country. — John Pearley Huffman, Correspondent

Here's pix from the meet & some of this GTR as well:

GTR at the Cars & Coffee Meet, Irvine, CA! (^_^)

[dec55]

It's also ridiculously comfortable, maybe a bit too quiet, and the brakes could stop a runaway Pentagon budget.

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Hopefully the brakes as stong enough to stop runaway welfare budget too.....:lol


Thanks for the article...

[gspotter]

The only welfare the US has is corporate welfare.

Great article.

[SDGeneralCounsel]

Originally Posted by gspotter

The only welfare the US has is corporate welfare.

Obviously this is all bogus and wrong. Also, the pentagon budget is greater than our welfare budget. Hense, the breaks would be good enough to stop a runaway welfare budget.

[shabarivas]

Oh man... every time i look at it.. I want to go rob a bank...

[speedraver]

When I spoke with Daryl, he also mentioned that he has an R34 GTR as well....

Must be nice. (^_^)

[dec55]

Originally Posted by gspotter

The only welfare the US has is corporate welfare.

Great article.

Wikipedia: corporate welfare

Corporate welfare is a pejorative describing a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations. The term was coined by Ralph Nader in 1956.[1][2] "Corporate welfare" creates a satirical association between corporate subsidies and welfare payments to the poor, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor.

Corporate welfare as corrupt subsidies

Main article: Subsidy

Subsidies considered excessive, unwarranted, wasteful, unfair, inefficient, or bought by lobbying are often called corporate welfare. The label of corporate welfare is often used to decry projects advertised as benefiting the general welfare that spend a disproportionate amount of funds on large corporations. For instance, in the United States, agricultural subsidies are usually portrayed as helping honest, hardworking independent farmers stay afloat. However, the majority of income gained from commodity support programs actually goes to large agribusiness corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland, as they own a considerably larger percentage of production.[3]

According to the Cato Institute, the U.S. federal government spent $92 billion on corporate welfare during fiscal year 2006. Recipients included Boeing, Xerox, IBM, Motorola, Dow Chemical, and General Electric. [1]

Basically corporate welfare means in short, not taking all the profits of a private owned company by the government....like the commies do......

Corporations are made up of people who don't work for the government
and make their own money through hard work to produce products the the public wants.

Kinda like Nissan who makes our Infinitis...

We need more Corporate welfare to make GTRs cheaper.....

Originally Posted by Lawy'dU

Obviously this is all bogus and wrong. Also, the pentagon budget is greater than our welfare budget. Hense, the breaks would be good enough to stop a runaway welfare budget.

Defense spending at most is less than 7% GDP.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.as...20080221b.html



When I said Welfare I also meant with entitlement programs too.....



Welfare and entitlements are close to 20% and expected to go 40% GDP...

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1897.cfm

http://www.newsmax.com/weyrich/big_g.../15/64520.html


Politics aside........


I want brakes on the GTR that can stop based on that analogy of speed..:lol

What this means to you: You can still be the first on your block to own a GT-R, but someone else is already first in the country. — John Pearley Huffman, Correspondent

Congrats to Daryl Alison on the GTR.....it is a triumph of engineering and

a beautiful machine...... Have fun...

[jaspergtr]

ok, ok, ok... but i'll be the first to have a lhd gt-r on my block.

the one thing i hated about my rhd drive cars is - i always feel like an idiot when i get in a lhd car and i'm staring at the glove box, wondering, 'why did i get in on this side?'

ever jerk your wiper control handle all the way up, trying to put your floor shifting car in park?