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Originally Posted by 450knotOffice

I'll add that the 997 GT2 did it in 7:32 with Walter Rohrl. So the Nissan is not the fastest out there (although it IS dollar for dollar).

There are more horses left in the engine per Nissan. And if Rohrl could've taken the GTR, might he not have gone faster than the GT2?

This just hearkens back to the gap getting narrower between the uber costly and the frugal. EVO had a comparo with a new subie and the Gallardo, where they ended up being pretty evenly matched in everything except max grunt/straight line.