First time I hear about Nissan R390 GT1

[JOKER]

I never knew Nissan had this car.

That's a sweet looking super car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_R390_GT1

[GFN-G35]

was it production? like it wasnt just for lemans?

[Locksmith]

Sick nissan.

[JOKER]

Originally Posted by GFN-G35

was it production? like it wasnt just for lemans?

Originally for Le mans but this particular one is a road car.

Not sure how many of them were made but they were made street legal.

[GFN-G35]

thats awesome kinda like the CLK GTR....

[JOKER]

Made in 1998
V8
550 hp
6 speed

[GFN-G35]

very cool!

[JOKER]

Operantly only two of them were built.

The fastest and most expensive Nissan road car ever developed was created to comply with the Le Mans GT1 Class regulations which required manufacturers to build at least one street-legal version of the race car.

http://www.cartype.com/page.cfm?id=1...ph=all&dec=all

Sucker cost a mill too

http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/A_5172...wsarticle.html

[GFN-G35]

i never new that! is that why the CLK GTR had to be built as a street legal car too?

[CrazyRuskie]

you're JUST NOW hearing about this? Wow... I thought you heard about EVERY car!!

[JOKER]

^I do now.

[rkesh88]

i was wondering about it, i remember when someone had posted a link to like a million pics of a nissan car storage facility. there were like 10 pics of it.

[FlSHRFun]

Knew about it for a while... sick car. Pretty sure it's street legal. Very few were made... if not just one. I remember watching a documentary of Nissan and the lucky host got to drive it.

[bruddahmanmatt]

FWIW, the R390 competed at a time when FIA GT1 (and later LMGTP and LMP) was actually fun and exciting to watch. In addition to the R390, 1998 saw rivals Toyota competing with its GT-One, BMW with it's V12 LM, MB with it's CLK-LM, Panoz with its Esperante GTR-1 and Porsche (who went on to win) with its 911 GT1.

Now it's just Audi beating the crap out of the privateers. Here's hoping the Pescarolo crew who lost by just 4 laps in '06 and the Peugeot boys who came close in '07 can stick it to those arrogant Germans who had the nerve to sandbag the '03 race so Bentley's EXP Speed 8 could take the checkered flag.

/rage