Nissan R390Gt1

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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.

Unlike many others, Nissan built the road car
first and built the racing version from it.

The R390 GT1 design was the work of Ian Callum at
Tom Walkinshaw Racing, previously acclaimed as
the designer of the Aston Martin DB7. He was
recently appointed Chief Designer for Jaguar.

At the front, Mr Callum used headlamps from the
300ZX production sports car and the distinct twin
front grilles which gives the R390 GT1 a
Nissan ‘family’ look. The R390 GT1’s long-tail
carbon fibre shape was honed during extensive
scale model wind-tunnel testing in England and
full-size testing of the actual vehicle at Nissan
Technical Centre in Atsugi, Japan.

Behind the driver sits the heart of this true
supercar – Nissan’s VRH35L twin-turbocharged
3.5-litre double-overhead-camshaft V8 engine with
electronic sequential port fuel injection which
produces 410kW at 6800 rpm while complying with
all European market exhaust gas regulations.

Getting that power to the ground from a standing
start, out of corners or in damp conditions is a
challenge and the R390 GT1 features a launch
control system and tractioncontrol which, when
encountering wheelspin, reduces power by limiting
fuel to individual engine cylinders.

R390 GT1 performance – as one would expect – is
staggering and includes a sub-4.0 second zero to
100 km/h time.

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