Another reason to stick with GM cars...

Apparently the Nissan Corp. has ruined the fun of aftermarket tuners on the latest GT-R high performance street sportscar in Japan. The ECU is set on a hair trigger and balks at many aftermarket performance upgrades as well as non-factory installed tires and wheels through the run-flat detectors.

But more ominously, the onboard navigation system watches your speed via GPS and recognizes popular racetrack locations. You must scroll through a series of menus and agree to disable the 180kph (111mph) speed limiter. Then after thrashing it on the track, you must take it for a $1000 Nissan High Performance Center safety check or the warranty is void.

Big Brother is your co-pilot.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.11.html

That sucks, I was looking forward to the GT-R when it comes stateside here soon.

Anything is hackable folks, though it's not on my to do list. Meanwhile, I would like to add one of the previous generation GTR's in to my garage space. Shame the ricers ruined the reputation of them and they still cost so much. And try finding one that was driven by an old lady to church on Sunday.

Cheers,
Ross

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Originally Posted by GMPX

And try finding one that was driven by an old lady to church on Sunday.

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That's easy, any seller will happily tell you that theirs was indeed driven by an old lady or man ... ;)

And only on Sundays... ;) ;)

Actually, having just been in FL - F-Body-drivers mostly only seem to drive their cars on weekends, in contrast to the loads of C5/C6 drivers around there ... I'd say during the week it was a 10:1 ratio of Corvette to ANY F-Body ...