GTP Cool Wall: 1990-1994 Nissan Pulsar GTI-R

[Jay]

Not slow to a stock WRX of the same period. (I am aware the US didn't get them either)

 

[opladener]

Lets see...
+Small, light
+2l-Turbo engine
+4wd
-Ricer-ish appereance

Cool.

 

[Bones Brigade]

I want to like it (rather, I DO like it,) but I agree that it is way too chavtastic to be cool.

 

[pulsar278]

I gave it a sub-zero, but mainly due to the fact I have owned one for over 10 years now, and it still puts a smile on my face.

Except at the moment, as I am restoring it due to rust.

When I originally bought it, I guess it was gonna be a stepping stone onto a Skyline, but I got hooked and have never wanted for anything else.

 

[Lucas]

That car looks so freakin chav-tastic it isn't even funny.

This ^

AHAHAHAHA! No. Dear god no.

and this ^.

Seriously Uncool.

 

[J-PaP]

Seriously uncool. Enthusiast wise I'd have said cool. But assuming I am someone who doesn't know their cars they'd think it is yet another ricer hatchback with x20 subs in the back.

 

[NotThePrez]

A nice, preppy little car.

Cool.

 

[Jim Prower]

Car from when you actually had to have a 4WD model to qualify for rallying. Definitely Cool. not iconic enough for Sub-Zero.

 

[slidesquad#1]

Seriously uncool. Enthusiast wise I'd have said cool. But assuming I am someone who doesn't know their cars they'd think it is yet another ricer hatchback with x20 subs in the back.

See, this is what I don't understand. I AM an enthusiast. Why should I have to assume that I am not? I know what exactly what this car is, and what it can do, and this has a huge bearing on whether I think it is cool or not.

They're small, fun, and they look distinctive. Yeah the hood has been used on every kind of car you can think of, but to me thats reflective of those cars, not this one.

Cool.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Sleeper cars are awesome, but how sleeper is this car with that hood? Girls will think its cute, but you'll be the "friend with a cute car" and guys will think you're a douche for sticking a hood like that on a car that looks like its pushing 90 hp max.

Uncool.

 

[mafia_boy]

Sleeper cars are awesome, but how sleeper is this car with that hood? Girls will think its cute, but you'll be the "friend with a cute car" and guys will think you're a douche for sticking a hood like that on a car that looks like its pushing 90 hp max.

Uncool.

Except this pushes 250hp....STOCK.

 

[Stevisiov]

I voted cool because I loved the rare ones in rally spec. If I am totally honest though, this car was almost exclusively driven by idiots and riced up, which is seriously uncool.

 

[tankuroded]

Voted Cool. Great rally machine. What a miss in GT1/GT2

 

[TrievelA7X]

Even if they are Nissans and you can watch them rust

Except at the moment, as I am restoring it due to rust.

💡 LOL

But anything that most people have never heard of, which always entales, "what is that"? as their first question, followed by "what's in it" or "what's under the hood"? is always cool. <-- As long as it can kick some ass.

 

[TheBook]

People look and think, "Holy crap, that thing's been riced out. No way it can, you know, actually go fast."

Then they see it take off...

I rest my case. Cool.

 

[Kryz11]

SUB ZERO, I never knew this Nissan Existed. Nice power for 90s car! Also is it AWD? RWD? FWD?

 

[mafia_boy]

It's AWD Noxnoctis, uses the same ATTESA system that's in the R32 GT-R. Was known as Godzilla's baby brother.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

anti-hotlinking image removed

[GT-R fanboy]Pulsar GTi-R uses mere ATTESA (solid AWD, does not shuffle power between front and back) instead of GT-R's more sophisticated variable ATTESA-ETS.[/GT-R fanboy]

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Is that their hotlinking image? (dude saying "The ---- are you doing man?")

*checks* Oh nice.

 

[Eric.]

Leave it to Leonidae for anything to argue with a GT-R.


Mods know you're back?

 

[Rotary Junkie]

They've known for a very long time. I was worried when I saw that image but then I actually went to the location and now it's showing as it should with the Phoenix Wright "Objection!" pic. Which means it probably shows correctly for him as well... So he doesn't see the stupid hotlinking image.

 

[mafia_boy]

*image*

[GT-R fanboy]Pulsar GTi-R uses mere ATTESA (solid AWD, does not shuffle power between front and back) instead of GT-R's more sophisticated variable ATTESA-ETS.[/GT-R fanboy]

Meh. Still ATTESA to me, regardless whether it's the ETS version or not.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Yeah, the image worked just fine for me. Stupid hotlinking things.. >.<; I'll be more careful with those from now on.

 

[TrievelA7X]

Meh. Still ATTESA to me, regardless whether it's the ETS version or not.

That's because it is ATTESA. It's not like any of the AWD systems made back then very really that good anyway. Certainly awful by todays comparison.

It sounds like with the right two drivers this could best the GT-R of then in the 1/4 anyway.

0 - 60 mph ~5.42 seconds
0 - 100 mph ~15.26 seconds
0 - 1/4 mile ~13.8 seconds

Just some numbers I dug up, not sure how reliable they are. Just basing on the specs of the car though, they sound about right, maybe that's just me.

 

[slidesquad#1]

It sounds like with the right two drivers this could best the GT-R of then in the 1/4 anyway.

You could run this argument for every car ever made, ever.

 

[TrievelA7X]

You could run this argument for every car ever made, ever.

True, but I'm not meaning it in the most outrageous sense.
I'm meaning it in the less than .5 second difference, and from the numbers I have popping up, it's about a .1-.2 difference. Of course, after that, the Skyline would eat it alive.
But it looks like it bests "Godzilla" to 60 from a standstill, thanks to it nearly 1,000lb lighter weight.

 

[JCE]

Cool. Its a turbo Nissan, that automatically gets a cool from me.

 

[-ultraflow-]

230hp + 1220kg + 2.0L + turbo + 4WD = Cool

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

230hp + 1220kg + 2.0L + turbo + 4WD = Cool

Add 3 doors, practical hatchback chassis.. = win.