We keep hear­ing about the GT-R’s return to rac­ing, but now the cov­ers are off.

Nihon­car have just posted fan­tas­tic pics of the new in a return to cham­pi­onship rac­ing at Suzuka!

�Check it out right now!

[Source: Nihon­car via Nissan]

A crawl of the blo­gos­phere brings this awe­some video of the Nis­san GT-​​R doing the Nur­bur­gring in just 7:38, 2 sec­onds ahead of it’s 380KW Ger­man rival, the Porsche 911 Turbo. What a week it’s been for the new GT-​​R!

What’s also cool about this, is theres an inside view! Check it out below.

And while you’re doing so, com­pare that lap time to these:

• 7:38 — Nis­san GT-​​R, 480PS/​1720kg, 26,600 Meter Timging Sep­tem­ber 2007
• 7:40 — Porsche 997 Turbo 480PS/​1565 kg Wal­ter R�hrl
• 7:40 — Mercedes-​​Benz SLR McLaren, 626PS/​1768 kg Klaus Lud­wig (Auto­Bild 07/​04)
• 7:40 — Bugatti Vey­ron 16/​4, 1001PS/​1888 kg (Wheels mag­a­zine Aus­tralia, 12/​05)
• 7:41 — Man­they Porsche GT3 M410, 413 PS/​1320 kg (160.868 km/​h), Lucas Luhr (Auto­bild 07/​04)
• 7:42 — Porsche 997 GT3, 415 PS/​1440 kg, Wal­ter R�hrl (Auto­mo­bil 05/​06)
• 7.42 — Corvette Z06 (Jan Magnussen)[2]
• 7:42 — Ford GT, 550 PS/​1521 kg (as indi­cated by Octane mag­a­zine, 11/​05) (news release, pictures)
• 7:43 — Lam­borgh­ini Mur­cielago (Auto­car mag­a­zine 02)
• 7:44 — Pagani Zonda S 550 PS/​1280 kg (sport auto 02/​05) 7:46 — Porsche 996 GT2, 462 PS/​1450 kg (sport auto 06/​01)
• 7:46 — Jaguar XJ220, 3.5-litre V6, John Neilsen.
• 7:47 — Porsche 996 GT3 RS (sport tyres) [cita­tion needed]
• 7:47 — Fer­rari 599 GTB Fiorano,620PS/1690 kg (sport auto)
• 7:47 — Lam­borgh­ini Mur­cielago LP640 E-​​gear (sport tyres) (sport auto 01/​07)
• 7:48 — Porsche 997 GT3, 415 PS/​1440 kg (sport auto 07/​06)
• 7:49 — Hel­mut D�hne, Honda VFR750R

[More times here]

[Source: Youtube via Autoblog]

Yes, for the first time, the Nis­san GT-​​R will be sold directly into Australia!

As con­firmed on CarAd­vice, Nis­san Australia�s boss Shinya Han­nya has said that all strings will be pulled to get the GT-​​R dow­nun­der before 2009 (We cer­tainly hope so, but we’re look­ing for more like 2008, Mr Han­nya!). No other infor­ma­tion on localised spec­i­fi­ca­tions (if any are in the works) are cur­rently available.