NxGen GT-R now the fastest car in SA (video)
The mission: become the fastest full going road car over the 1km mark. The date: 22 November 2014. The venue: ODI Raceway. The car: NxGen Alpha 16 Nissan GT-R 35...
Stelios Sissou, in a Nissan GT-R 35 Alpha 16, managed a top speed to 334,64 kph – making it the faster car in South Africa.
Stelios Sissou is a man who wants to go fast, and not just supercar fast, he wants to go fast beyond what most normal people can comprehend. So with this goal in mind he roped in local Johannesburg tuning experts, NxGen, to work their magic on his Nissan GT-R 35.
NxGen went for an Alpha 16 kit that sees over 1800hp of power being produced from the GT-R, with the car running a slightly milder state of tune and no launch control function activated yet for its first official 1km run, out it was time to line up and produce the goods.
The pressure was on as just the week before another NxGen GT-R had broken the record at the same venue and set a 1km speed of 325km/h to beat.
Without much fuss Sissou left the line and blasted his way down the strip and into the record books when he crossed the traps at a not seen before speed of 334km/h.
But this is not the end of this high performance story. Sissou and the NxGen team will be back, and this time, now that the initial testing phase is over and the first run is under their belt, the car will be run at its full performance potential in order to move the benchmark even further out of reach.
And The Citizen will be there again to bring you all the action and results…
