Renault megane R26.R should so be the car of the year its a horible shame we dont have the Megane R26.R in the states we dont even have Renault you people in the UK are luckey that you get all the sporty buck banging hatchbacks we got allot of good ones in the USA but not as many good ones as you have in the UK and europe.

'SIGH' If only cars in the USA werent so expensive these days LOL Roffle mayo.

They are cheaper just jokeing.

very pointless Joke.

i dont think a $99,000 car (NSX-R) that did a 7:56 at the Ring was overpriced. but i get what yer saying.

Well according to honda they cannot afford to stay in the F1? Although their sales have been steady in the world market, i do wonder about their ability to build anything to do with racing as you are correct that their F1 performance could not even come close to the big boys. Can NISSAN prove its worth in F1??

The old nsx was way overpriced even though it was a decent car,but with the price and performance of the GTR if the NSX doesnt come close to all that Honda will definitly come second in the japanese performance game,especially when in F1 Honda won one race in five years.

the reports say the new NSX will have a V10 TT engine with power being between 500 and 600bhp. and considering the NSX will be doublee the R35's price it better beat it. so i wouldnt be too proud if i were you bout having the nsx beat a 3908lb 480bhp car round the ring when it will have much more power an d weigh a lot less AND being double the price.

last time i checked the NSX was canceled!!

History will be made when the 2010 NSX comes out and does circles around the GTR. You will remember this, i guarantee it!! Acura way more racing experience.

@Andrew - Id go with the GTR, but maybe wait a year or 2. Let them work the bugs out of it. In the long the the GTR should have way more potential then a WRX. Plus the GTR is part of history!

Whats the best choice for me?

1- Buy a GT-R ($70)
2- Tune-Up my WRX 07' ($50)

The problem with any driving test is who is driving, how was the car set up, weather conditions, low fuel, fulltank, we could only speculate but all of these cars are great cars we can appreciate.

Can you beleive the fast lap time of the new vette at nurburgring considering it was driven by a geeky engineer.I would put it ai sub 720 time with a real driver.

If all wheel drive is all that why do no open wheel racers use it and did you see the dodge viper do a 722. at nurburgring , oh yah.

listen men both porsche and GTR ARE FANTASTIC CARS very close on tracks but my personal view is porsche does'nt like the fact that a nissan taxi making manufacture has made a advance motor whether its easier to drive or not you have to give credit where it belongs the legend is real GTR

W0o0dy: the test in Vairano between gt2 and gt-r has been done under very close conditions if not in the same day and the driver was alain prost. the time gt2 did in that day is quite remarkable and totally unexpected (at least by me) considering that Prost couldn't drive a gt3rs faster than 1.18 in another (more favourable) circumstance. i would have expected a time about 1 second faster than the gt-r, rather.
i am afraid that would be more of less real difference between the two cars in dry conditions.
i agree than there are too many porsche supporters around the forums, maybe due to the fact that magazines like sportauto are too much credited for.

is there any advantages in having awd and or to rwd???

@Fastestlaps: i meant a comparison where both cars were actually driven on the same circuit under exactly the same circumstances....

I hate to say it but it seems some people that are active on this site seem to have a bit too much love for Porsche and make no bones about favoritism.... too bad, the nature of the site is that it is really objective, but it seems its not.

puttin all dat aside the GT-R is (Pretty Much Unbeatable)..id take the GT2 tough..lol

W0o0dy, clock on "Which is faster" on top right corner of the page and then select GT2 and GT-R. You will notice that in three tracks GT2 is faster. How straight or biased these test were? As straight and as biased as those were GT-R won.

@fastestlaps: "Oh it did? What tests are that then?" Where did you see straight comparisons between the GT-R and the GT2, that the GT2 won?

There was an EXO X in the test but the car isn't in the Fastestlaps database.... I think it was the EVO X FQ360 which lapped in 1:06.40

the rx8 doesnt have any torque to begin with..lol

I don't think that RX8 is not handling well, it lost because it has no torque in lower rpm especially if you compare it with turbo cars. The track was a little bit wet so 4wd cars had the advantage. I'm not saying that GTR isn't faster than GT2 but the conditions were against Porsches car. Once more the LP560-4 was proven itself and the fat RS6 was only a bit faster than the tts which has less than 1/2 of it's power!!!

Did Gumpert Apollo start production this year? or was it in producton alread? I wonder why is it included in the "Performance car of the year 2008"

If you didnt know Fastestlaps has the WIF option (which is faster) on the upper right hand corner which compares the laptimes of both cars