(Cover story) nissan gt-r

摘要

Nissan's rikubetsu Proving Grounds lie deep in the hills of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.The area looks a lot like Germany's Rhineland region, with steep mountains covered in dark evergreens. This is no coincidence; most of Rikubetsu's road course was cribbed from Germany's famous autobahn.Word is Nissan engineers contacted German transportation authorities and took tarmac samples during an official measuring session. They won't say where in Germany they took their laser levels, but it isn't hard to guess. Dotting the 4.5-mile test track are multiple blue-and-white Bundesautobahn 48 ausfahrt (exit) signs for the German city of Koblenz—some comically pointing in opposite directions.