Nissan GT-R Meets American Muscle in the Boonies

With sophisticated all-wheel drive and twin-turbocharging, the Nissan GT-R represents a complicated approach to achieving its fast-car status. On the flip side, Vietnam War-era muscle cars like the Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Dart Demon approach their fast-car status simply with a lot of power and not much else, leaving the complication to a talented driver who must be skilled at harnessing a hopped-up small block or Hemi’s raw horsepower and torque. Conversely, a GT-R driver can flip on launch control and just go.

The video below shows you those diametrically opposed muscle-car and modern-supercar worlds coming together in a series of drag races. The contrast that results is fascinating: the GT-R, modified to 560-horsepower, goes about its business with a quiet, cool and confident élan — the muscle cars go about their business in a more entertaining barbaric and “unbusinesslike” manner.

via [1320video]