“Godzilla” has been awarded the highest honour in performance motoring when it scooped the 2009 World Performance Car of the Year Award. The Nissan GT-R beat other top 3 cars the Corvette ZR1 and the Porsche 911 Carrera for the title.
The World Performance Car of the Year Award is adjudicated by a group of 59 motoring journalists from around the globe. It forms part of the World Car of the Year Awards.
The GT-R runs a 3.8-litre V6 twin turbo engine worth 357kW and 588Nm of torque. Tests conducted say it can do 0 – 100km/h in about 3.5 seconds and it is one of the fastest cars around the famed Nürburgring.
Highly exclusive cars like the Pagani Zonda R, Koenigsegg CCX-R and the Bugatti Veyron can never be considered for this award while the rules remain as they are. The rules state a car must be widely available in a number of markets and sell over 500 units per year.
Since the inauguration of the WPCOTY Award these are the cars that have won it: Porsche Cayman S (2006), Audi RS 4 (2007) and Audi R8 (2008).
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