Saturday, February 4, 2012

Infiniti Says it's Mulling a GT-R Based Halo Supercar

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Is not it strange how things turn out sometimes? In March 2011 was one of our readers on the 2004 Infiniti G35 Coupe dressed to look like a Nissan GT-R is located in Quebec, Canada.

A few months later, the band big boss, Carlos Ghosn announced Hyundai version of Godzilla, but it was neither here nor there.

Infiniti Says it's Mulling a GT-R Based Halo Supercar

Infiniti Says it's Mulling a GT-R Based Halo Supercar

Infiniti Says it's Mulling a GT-R Based Halo Supercar
"If you ask me, 'do it," I said "no, I do not believe," said Ghosn But then he added: ". If the question is" no ", I would say" yes "all mature technologies are available for Nissan Infiniti. ".

Now, car magazine, the luxury arm of Nissan actually build such a model. According to the British version, recorded Infiniti advanced planning manager Francois Bancon that the company is currently looking for a production of "Halo" model is based on the chassis of the GT-R.

"This is a very good platform for only one model to use," says Bancon refers to the GT-R is a 545HP 3.8 V6, a twin-clutch transmission with all-wheel drive system, making it double the price to compete with Lamborghini.

Bancon said the decision in the next two or three years. "We have three or four proposals look now. When we launched a new Infiniti smaller, the time could be allowed to a fighter," said Bancon.

But he stressed that this is not a simple process that rebadging Infiniti precise and refined than Nissan.

"It should be softer than the GT-R, and it is very hard to do," said Bancon. "You can easily tune the GT-R to advanced, accurate results we had in the Hyundai to deliver."

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