Spy photos of the facelifted Nissan GT-R surfaced last week when the car showed up to the Nurburgring. It had a revised front air dam and reshaped rear diffuser. This week, photographers met up with a freshened Godzilla yet again, and nearly all the camouflaging tape was gone.
Up front, you can see the additional aerodynamic strakes on the bumper. If you enlarge the photo, you'll note that one bit of tape remains, likely to cover some sort of daytime running light.
Around back, the sharp-eyed among you will spot the pair of vents cut into either side of the rear bumper, again we presume to optimize air flow. Once again, both standard and Spec V GT-Rs were at the track, so these are evidently across-the-board changes for the Nissan GT-R.
m8knitbtr says:
09:13 AM, 06/29/10
The really sharp-eyed among us might notice that the wheels are of a different design as well. That's the first time I've seen those.
greenpony says:
09:54 AM, 06/29/10
I see the differences when they're pointed out... but is this something the average $80,000 sports car buyer will even notice?
e10rice says:
10:30 AM, 06/29/10
The new rear diffuser looks very interesting. I wonder if its working like the double diffusers seen in F1? Wonder if any of the manufactures are looking at the new blown diffuser used by some of the teams now. Of course McLaren and Ferrari are but wouldn't all sports cars benefit from more down force in the corners.
alman08 says:
11:02 AM, 06/29/10
Nissan just managed to make a great supercar a tad better even :)
Time for GM to wake up and make a nicer Vette.
stingray454 says:
11:28 AM, 06/29/10
I see Nissan is taking a page out of Porsche's 911 play book: small, barely noticeable changes.
"alman08 says:
11:02 AM, 06/29/10
Nissan just managed to make a great supercar a tad better even :)
Time for GM to wake up and make a nicer Vette."
Nothing to do with "waking up" alman. It's called money and time. A new Corvette was in development before GM's bankruptcy filing, but said bankruptcy pushed the due date out by at least 3 years, for financial reasons. This is not exactly a good time to be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on developing a new sports car that sells 15,000 units per year in these dark ages of few jobs and big government. Like it or not, we're in a double dip recession, and there won't be any recovery for several more years.
There will be a new Corvette by 2013. Fortunately, the C6 still looks good and is aging well, and the Z06 and ZR1 can hang with, and beat, respectively, the barely revised GT-R.
alman08 says:
11:38 AM, 06/29/10
If you want to talk economy, then GM should have just folded it up.
If you want to talk car-enthusiam, then GM needs to wake up and build a better Vette.
If GM wants to do it right, then it can certainly build the "right" Vette for the Chinese and Russian market, where many rich people will spend money on the right cars.
saynotogm says:
11:52 AM, 06/29/10
eww its still ugly. They need to redo the whole thing to make it look good.
fvgtr35 says:
12:12 PM, 06/29/10
Small, but otherwise nice update. Wonder if there will be additional power or suspension tuning behind the facelift?
tekraven says:
12:21 PM, 06/29/10
i think nissan did great job upgrading the exterior alittle bit more but they should make it looks more agressive with bigger vents and hood scoop and atleast upgrade the engine to a V8 that would sound like a monster so it can go up against the competition...
supergoji says:
12:59 PM, 06/29/10
Carbon fiber spoiler and the Tires are different as well.
bearsdkills says:
08:56 PM, 06/29/10
m8knitbtr says:
"The really sharp-eyed among us might notice that the wheels are of a different design as well. That's the first time I've seen those."
Yeah everyone noticed these aren't the same wheels. Remember this is a pre production mule, these are probably some rims they just threw on there production wheels will be different that's almost a guarantee.
dan1219 says:
05:25 AM, 06/30/10
I bet that grey tape on the front bumper is hiding LED fog lights
pradden says:
05:54 AM, 06/30/10
Is it just me, or does it look like it has (cat like) whiskers on the front now?
.....Yeah, the Corvette really needs to step it's game up.
platf1 says:
07:37 AM, 06/30/10
Still looks wicked.
Now, if they would take off 500 pounds, improve the engine soundtrack, and add a better comfort setting...
kosmo69 says:
04:55 PM, 06/30/10
what about reliability? any updates here?
why do less expensive Infiniti's have better warranties than the $80k GTR???