Overrated and Overpriced

As an enthusiast I have to give Nissan their due if all the reports are true.

and i’m sure the ZR1’s maintenance will be cheaper- rigggggggggggggggggght

$15,000/year maintenance would be a bargain for some German cars. Bring it on!

‘Performance Optimization Services’: “OK now kids, who knows what POS stands for? Wash your mouth, Johnny! That’s not what it means.”

Dodge_fanatic9,

no. you are wrong.

yes he is

Now the viper is definately overpriced in today’s day and age.

I still like it tho.

As the first guy said, over priced and over-rated.

^^…and as the 5th and 6th guys said, he is wrong and so are you.
This is the best bargain in the history of cars, if you can get one for sticker.
All these rumors about maintenance etc is pure garbage. I will buy one and drive it strictly on fine days.

Perfromance Optimization Service…POS…they screwed that up ’cause that’s just funny.

Hello Nissan dealer, just a heads up I am bringing my GT-R for a POS tunning tomorrow…LOL

I love it when people come on to automotive websites and easily claim they’ll be dropping a minimum of $70K on a car… Which is all fine and dandy of course because I’m picking up my new DB9 tomorrow, so to each their own.

Either way… we always seem to have the extreme sides of the coin here on LLN – either the blindly biased import-humpers or the equally biased domestic fanboys…

This car deserves the credit it’s due… it’s certainly not overpriced for what one gets and it’s definitely not overrated – over-hyped maybe, but not overrated…. and it’s ridiculous for anyone to make such an assertion… just as it’s ridiculous when the other side of that coin make equally ignorant remarks about the ZR1… 75% of the people on here are exactly the same – they just preach from different books.

i honestly would like to know whats overpriced and overrated about a car that costs less than every major supercar out there yet performs better, im not saying its the most sophisticated thing to look at nor does it demand the respect most people seem to want to withhold because of this hate wagon going around– but have an independent thought and take the car for what it is – an incredibly engineered offering from a factory production car company at a bargin basement price point. – its impressive to say the least and it will only ignite a fire for a new way to think about motoring. we should be proud that not only is there a company out there that provided this thing for public consumption, but also finally offered it to us in the states to get a taste. i may or may not end up buying one in the long run – id have to drive it first to see if it turns on all the right buttons – like the c6 corvette (for example) always does- but i could never fix my brain into believing that its over priced and overrated – thats just balderdash!

The GT-R today … is like the NSX was back in 1990. It made the ‘establishment’ of supercars (Ferrari, Porsche, etc) look over their shoulder. More people could get into a car that could get similar performance numbers on the track for a fraction of the price.

To the ‘brand conscious’ people on this board … I don’t care who makes the car. If it delivers what it promises … and at the price stated … this car is the real deal. The GT-R is not overpriced (find me a car from any country of origin that can produce those performance numbers at that price). One has already said … it can be argued the GT-R is overhyped … that I will say that it’s very possible … but numbers don’t lie.

Most readers here wish they could afford to drive any of these vehicles (GT-R, ZR1, Carrera GT, etc …) and each is entitled to root for whatever dream car they want … but at least be realistic and acknowledge that the GT-R (based upon every magazine article published so far) … it has some great numbers at a very reasonable price (relatively speaking).

I remember back in the 1990’s when the first Zr-1 came out. One of my all time favorite cars. It had around 400 HP (385 to be exact) weighed almost 4,000 pounds, and the cost of buying one when it debuted in 1989???? $66,000.

Dodge_fanatic9: What’s not overrated and not overpriced?

Ignore the jealous monkeys dissing this car … it owns ALL.

Suck it bitches.

“Overrated and Overpriced”

Bears repeating.

Overrated? Well, that is hard to say, but with all the hype it could be true.
Overpriced? Hell no (expect maybe with your American dealer markup crap).

The GTR will eat your kids car, your grandpa’s car and your dad’s middle age crisis car!! what’s not to like about it. Yes it may no be the best looking, but bang for buck its really up there.

Best Bang for the Buck in Supercars

Well I really hope that C&D sets everything straight. I have not heard any of this before. We all know that the U.S. spec GT-R’s don’t have the electronic speed limiter but some of the other myths being true I wouldn’t be surprised at. For the GT-R owners I hope they aren’t.

UNDERRATED and UNDERPRICED … suck it bitches.

“Nissan has been accused of “struggling” with the materials it will require every GT-R buyer to understand and sign to ensure it is covered legally in case its very capable product is misused.”

Please.

1. Not a “supercar”. Puh-lease.
2. Nissan’s are disposable, and everyone knows it.
3. This an overpriced, over-hyped car that none of you will ever own, so stop martyring yourselves.
4. It’s just ugly!
5. It’s not American. It’s not even German.
6. You can buy that little GT-R badge at Pep Boys for $4. After all, it’s the “holy” name GT-R that this is all about, isn’t it? Piss on it.
7. I can’t wait to see the first one of these wrecked online with a story of a pimply idiot behind the wheel.

A. This car OWNS everything costing twice as much.

B. Anything in its performance realm is overpriced.

C. Your bias against this monster is utter jealousy.

I’m not sure what all of you are in arms about. It’s a car that beats most Ferrari’s, for a third of the price, and actually has some road going ability as well.

And get over the comparisons between the Corvette and Nissan GT-R. Both are fast, but the Vette will never be a GT-R, and neither will the GT-R try to be a Vette.

jayjc08, they’re pissed that a “mere” Nissan can beat all of they favorite cars. They know it’s better, in pretty much every regard, they just can’t accept it.
So they throw arguments like “It’s not American” or “Nissan’s are disposable” to justify their hatred.

It’s powerful!
It looks menacing!
It’s good value-for-money!
But it’s still a NISSAN!

And when i think about Nissan, all i remember is Primera, Maxima, Bluebird, Murano!

… and when I think about Chevrolet, all I remember is Cavalier.

But I still give credit to the ‘Vette.

Your logic is as retarded as 1115’s … kill yourself.

Guys, honestly. I can’t get over how stupid this ****ing “debate” is. Most of the idiots on this forum will never own a Vette or the GTR. You’ll just soldier through life asking your wife if it’s OK to get the Accord or Camry – these track cars will be nothing more than a dream, fragments of a broken promise you made to yourself as a boy that you would one day grow up and own a sports car.

Does it matter which is faster anyways? What the **** are we expecting with 500 horsepower, a subcompact economy car? They will both be tremendous performers, in the same way 400SS’ mom is tremendous at sucking a dick.

Regardless of the maintenance cost The GT-R is a great performing car. And dare I say for the price it is an absolute bargin considering its ranked in an elite class of cars that are above $250,000 range like Ferrarri, Lambo, etc, etc.

Deanster Shut up. You don’t know. And secondly why do you care.
I right now don’t have the money for either and maybe ditto for all the LLN patrons, but that neither gives you the right to blast someone for dreaming or whatever and or who’s to say for sure I or they WON’T at some point in time have the money for one. And as for the dreamers hey its ok to dream it does’nt cost you a thing.

Hey Hit lotto and you could even get yourself a working replica of the LIS Robot. Just remember its ok to Dream, just don’t do it until your dead

Dream on FordTaurusForever…as your ****ty handle indicates, it’s Ford Taureses for you for the rest of eternity, you brokeback, double-wide trailer-living, Dorito eating mullet-sporting hee-haw queer from the south.

Go **** your whorebag mother you dog-molesting ****eater. I’ll shatter all the ****ing dreams I want fag.

Good to see that the car is not speed limited by GPS! That would have been crap for a supercar.

Bad to see that you have to buy 4 tires for one damn puncture! In this case “at the discretion of Nissan” is read “always”!

Even worse is that the car still looks like an over-designed shoebox! :p

^ Well it’s probably all the overly advanced tech on the car. With the amount of computer-controlled input the car gets, if there’s some significant uneven tire wear that would probably throw the car off quite a bit, and could be dangerous during performance driving.

“The remaining two rumors center around the buying experience, as only dealer principals, executive managers, or general managers will be allowed to sell the GT-R, and the full-disclosure content is still being finalized. ”

Every sales person is a “manager” at dealerships. At least they all call themselves “the manager”.

Full disclosure? That’s as idiotic as the stupid legal disclaimer that displays on Nav system. People will still crash these cars and attempt to sue Nissan anyway. Because they can.

‘Deanster’, ****ing hilarious.

Deanster… All FordTaurusHumper does is dream… this is the douche that thinks a Taurus SHO is more powerful than some of it’s domestic rivals like a supercharged Regal GS/Grand Prix GTP… he even went as far as to say it would “run circles” around an old Grand National…

He’s basically the Ford equivalent of one-thousand, one-hundred, fifteen ****suckers… lol.