So how does it drive, you ask? Unlike and very much like how you've imagined it to be. In its lowest gear settings, the combined heavy weight and clunky chatter of the gearbox make the chassis stutter slightly but maybe that's because every journalist who's had the car beforeus took this car to outer space and back. However, as you inch your way up the RPM band, you instantaneously forget because you are quickly thrust past earth's atmosphere inseconds as you punch the gas pedal and your evil grin widens to a huge smile. And that's pretty much where "just like how you've imagined it" comes into play. Fast beyond belief, handling so precise and controlled that you've forgotten how less of a driver you were just seconds before; now, you are legend. That's how good the GT-R is.
After two days of work with a GT-R, I gave myself a few more hours to play with it. No thrilling sprints on a closed-circuit, not even a time slip to tape on my desk at home. Just me and the GT-R, running the freeways of LA, windows down, breeze in my face and 480 hp at the tips of my fingers. I even took the long way to work the next morning to delay my departure with the car. I can't believe I stopped to sleep.