Nissan GT-R 2013 Video Review

'Video-game-like' is how we've heard the Nissan GT-R driving experience described on many occasions. The description is apt, especially when you're out on the track. This is a car that's so astonishingly fast  -- 0-100km/h in 2.7 seconds for the current 404kW version -- that you can become bleary-eyed before you reach its ragged edges.

With its deft all-wheel-drive system, racecar-like dual-clutch gearbox, and the magic of R-Mode Start (launch control) -- plus a starting price tag of around $170k -- the GT-R already makes some of the top supercar performance in the world look quite attainable. And at the Tokyo Motor Show this past week, Nissan upped its game, unveiling unveiled a new, Nurburgring-record-setting 2015 GT-R NISMO model that makes 441kW and incorporates a long list of improvements gleaned from GT3 racing.

We're still waiting to see how that pans out over a number of instrumented tests (an LA Auto Show presentation, Nissan teased that its 0-100km/h time would be a seemingly impossible two seconds), but in the meantime we were among just a few journalists from around the world to get the chance to drive the 2015 GT-R NISMO on the track in Japan -- and sample the regular 2015 GT-R Premium model on the road.

Read the full Nissan GT-R 2013 review.