Nissan GT-R Rental in Los Angeles
This white Nissan GT-R, black interior, is based in Los Angeles, the only Nissan in our fleet and the car built for the driver rather than the valet. White is the color the model wore in the films that made it famous, so enthusiasts read it as the real one. All wheel drive delivers a launch, ideal for a weekday run on Angeles Crest Highway.
How It Drives
The GT-R's dual clutch gearbox sits at the back, connected to the front engine by a long carbon driveshaft, so from the driver's seat you feel and hear the whole driveline working before you have gone a block. Put it in R mode on the three console switches and the launch is a physical shove, all wheel drive routing the power down with no wheelspin to burn off. On Angeles Crest Highway, second and third gear come up quickly and the nose stays flat through direction changes most cars this fast cannot manage. Sixty arrives in 2.9 seconds. The transmission clunks at low speed pulling out of a parking spot, and that is normal, not a fault, the same mechanism doing its job slower.
How It Photographs
White with a black cabin is the classic GT-R combination, the one enthusiasts recognize before they read the badge, and it makes the car look larger and more purposeful than a darker paint would against the hills above Mulholland. Shoot it low and from the front three quarter to get the V motion grille and the front splitter in one frame, the white finish holding detail in flat daylight where a black car would just go dark. Parked against the palm trees on Sunset Boulevard or pulled up outside a Beverly Hills storefront, this is the car that gets recognized by strangers who cannot always say why.
Why This One
This is the only Nissan we run, and it earns its place in a fleet of Italian and German exotics on reputation alone. White over black is the combination most associated with the car in the culture that made it famous, which matters here more than with almost anything else we rent, since half the appeal of a GT-R is being recognized for exactly what it is. It is also one of the strongest launches for the money in Los Angeles, all wheel drive doing in a straight line what a lot of cars nearly twice the price cannot match off the line. If you want the GT-R experience, this white car is the one to book, because it is the one we have.
What's On This One
This is the Nissan GT-R, the all wheel drive coupe built around a 3.8 liter twin turbo V6 making 565 horsepower and 467 lb-ft, sent through a rear mounted dual clutch transmission and Nissan's ATTESA system that shifts power to the front wheels the moment the rears start to slip. White exterior over a black interior, two doors, four seats though the back two are best used for bags, and a specification that has not changed since the car left the factory. Sixty comes up in 2.9 seconds and top speed is 196 mph. There is nothing dressed up here, this is the GT-R doing what the GT-R has always done.
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