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Originally Posted by YMAA
Storytime.
A buddy of mine works as a Corrections Officer for a local prison. One of the inmates in his block had a rubber ball, and my friend was told to take it from him as he wasn't allowed to have it in his cell. My friend politely asked him to hand over the ball, and the inmate refused, saying something to the effect of "come in here and try to take it". In response, my friend took out his pepper spray, started shaking the can, and said "My job is not to 'see if I can take it'. My job is to take it". He got the ball.
The GT-R (in particular the Nismo) isn't built to be a driver-focused car. It's not built to excite the driver or create some monster that has to be wrestled to the ground. The GT-R isn't built to "see if it can win races". It's built to win them. For the kind of driving it's built to do, it doesn't have to care if you or its driver is bored. A trophy is a trophy.
And Randy Pobst is one of the most experienced and thoroughly vetted (pun partially intended) drivers out there, who has over 90 pro wins across multiple racing teams.. What he doesn't know about track driving probably isn't worth knowing, so you can take his word pretty much as gospel truth.
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First, I like your freind. That's how you have to roll through life, like a juggernaut.
You have the R pegged perfectly. I think that is the philosophy Nissan had as they designed it and they achieved it. It runs totally counter to my philosophy, however, where I want a car that doesn't suffer fools, expects the driver to do his job and will try to kill him if he doesn't.
I am ok with some people caring more about the result than the excitement of the process. Unfortunately, however, more and more people are like this and carmakers and legislators are as well. This means fewer and fewer "driver's cars" will be made for folks like me. Moving further, not only will there be no cars for us to buy, we shall see the move towards less and less places where those of us who have kept our old cars can drive them. I don't hate the GTR because of what it is. I hate it because of what it represents.
Signed
The guy that is probably going to pull the ABS fuse on his brand new BRZ when it gets here.