Nissan GT-R vs Drift Scion tC’s

Motor Trend picked an interesting set of cars to put up against each other in a single test, an all wheel drive Nissan GT-R , and a couple of rear wheel drive converted Scion tC’s. The Scion’s normally compete in the Formula Drift series. The GT-R, we normally see on the streets.

Check out the video. The Motor Trend videos have really been improving. I like what Ed Loh is doing with the videos he is putting together.

The numbers, since they did test the cars. 135 mph is huge mph for the Rockstar Drift car.  128 mph out of the four cylinder RSR car is not a bad number either.  Considering drift cars are setup to spin the tires as much as accelerate, they both turn decent quarter mile times.

	2010 Nissan GT-R	Rockstar Scion Drift tC	RSR Drift tC
Horsepower	485 hp	650 hp	450 hp
Torque	434 lb-ft	500 lb-ft	380 lb-ft
0-60 mph	3.5 sec	3.8 sec	5.0 sec
Quarter mile	11.9 sec @ 120.1 mph	11.3 @ 135.6 mph	12.5 sec @ 128.8 mph
Braking, 60-0 mph	103 ft	114 ft	160 ft
Lateral acceleration	0.98 g	0.87 g	0.90 g
MT figure eight	24.4 sec @ 0.81.g	25.4 sec @ 0.80 g	26.2 sec @ 0.72 g

Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/features/performance/112_1001_nissan_gtr_vs_scion_drift_tcs/index.html#ixzz0eXXbufUB

Source : Motor Trend