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Japan’s nutter gene: tuning, drifting and speeding

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Ben Barry, 18 August 2009 10:15

Ten years ago I got my first job on a motoring title: Max Power. Max had become the biggest car magazine in the UK after stumbling on a surprising formula: young guys like fast, lairy cars and fast, lairy women. At the millennium, Japanese cars and Max Power went hand-in-hand, and the period – flinchingly embarrassing as it can sometimes ...

Lapping the Nurburgring at 100mph in the fog

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Ben Barry, 20 May 2009 14:41

A little background to CAR Magazine's new cover story. We’d got the new GT3, sorted the Nissan GT-R, booked an exclusive session at the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife circuit. Yet there was one major component missing from our test: a driver. This posed a fairly major problem, as simply having a good driver wasn’t enough. We needed somebody who knew intimately every ...

A week in the life of a Nissan GT-R

Ben Barry, 20 May 2009 14:35

I’ve been lucky enough to follow the GT-R story pretty closely over the past two years. I got an early passenger ride in summer 2007 at Nissan’s highly secretive test circuit in Hokkaido, Japan; conducted the first independently timed laps in the UK with a private import (I drove the GT-R around Rockingham one second faster than the 911 Turbo. ...

Video: swimsuit models sideways in 370Zs

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Ben Barry, 27 February 2009 16:40

Here's a little fun for you on a Friday. What do you get if you mix three swimsuit models, three Nissan 370Zs and six smoking tyres? This highly bizarre video, as it turns out. Shot to promote the annual swimsuit-fest in Sports Illustrated magazine, it features said ladies being driven very sideways by a trio of 370Zs in a sequence ...

CAR drives a Nissan GT-R up the hill at Goodwood

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Ben Barry, 11 July 2008 15:19

‘Okay, light them up!’ Queue to drive up the famous Goodwood hill at the Festival of Speed and, just before the start line, you’ll find yourself in the tyre-warming area. Great if you’re in a rear-wheel drive car. Not so great if you’re in the four-wheel drive Nissan GT-R. The marshall clearly doesn’t understand and clearly thinks I’m a pussy ...

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