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“There’s no shortage of Ferraris, Lambos and Porsches in Dubai. And I like the fact that my Nissan is faster than most of them!”
Clearly we’re not talking about any old Nissan here. We’re talking about one that packs a whalloping 485hp, a 3.8l twin-turbo V6 and a 310kph top speed. We’re talking about the Nissan GT-R.
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Granted we’ve featured the GT-R a few times on crankandpiston, most of which have been spent pondering the effectiveness of tyre squeal on our heart rates and the forbidden pleasures encapsulated in buttons marked ‘traction control’. Yes, the GT-R goes like stink. But what is it like to live with on a day-to-day basis? That’s where crankandpiston follower Nick Jollie comes in.
Nick only bought his 2009-model GT-R at the beginning of the year, but has known for quite some time that he would one day own one.
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“I’d always wanted a GT-R…well, actually, I always wanted a Skyline GT-R, ever since I used to race them on the Xbox while growing up! The legacy is one of the main selling points, isn’t it? Back then it was a car that did 0-100kph in 4.5s – ridiculously fast! – and can now do it in 3.4s, or something like that. Just insane speed, and I found that amazing!
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Undoubtedly the Nissan GT-R – with its sizeable oomph and muscle car character – has found a solid foothold in the Middle East. And though large numbers continue to roll off the production line year-on-year, the model’s popularity makes tracking down one of good quality harder than you may think, as Nick ably discovered.
“Finding the right GT-R was hard. I tried Automart, on dubizzle.com, and I went up to the Al Aweer used car market. I looked everywhere but wasn’t massively impressed with what I found. So I put up a ‘Wanted’ add, and an Emirati gentleman who’d owned his from new contacted me and said, ‘do you want to have a look at mine? I’m thinking of selling it’.
“He brought it round for a test drive, and I remember driving it quite gingerly. My previous car had been a Honda Civic Type R, so it was a big step-up from that both financially and in terms of performance. I was a bit nervous to put my foot down! But that was the one I ended up buying.”
