: Nissan Nismo... Hakone Test Drive

After the press days, Nissan kindly invited a number of journalists to a "test drive day" with all their models, and especially the complete Nismo range.

For those of you who are not familiar with Nismo, know that it's the abbreviation of NISsan MOtor sport, and they fill their days with all the "Super Sport" stuff at Nismo.

On the menu we have:

- MARCH S-tune Complete
- FAIRLADY Z S-tune GT (Z350)
- NISMO R34GT-R?Z-tune
- NISMO STAGEA
- NISMO X-TRAIL
- NISMO MURANO
- NISMO WINGROAD

(In the order they appear in the gallery)

We did not have the opportunity to test each and every car, but we had to chance to burn some rubber in the FAIRLADY Z S-tune GT. As we were inside of the car, we were not able to take static pictures of the car. Anyway, the whole experience can be described with one word: mindblowing! Cyril Drevet (of "Turbo") was in the NISMO R34GT-R Z-tune, a Skyline with more than 500bhp, and the first thing he said after he got out of that machine was: "A ludicrous thing, this car!".

So here are some pictures of our day at the track with these machines...

And a BIG thank you to Nissan France and their press team, and to the "Turbo" team of M6 for inviting us to this event.

Posted on 24/10/05 By G-A.G