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Article reckons it would be a Altima FWD sedan converted into a RWD with a 5.0L V8 dumped in it... why not just use a Skyline sedan with a V8 from the current Patrol/Infinit M56 that produces 420hp from a 5.6L V8? Regulations stipulate it has to be bored to 5.0L but still, would be better than an Altima surely?

Bring on the German powerhouses too, would love to see an M3 or C63 brought in. Then I'd definitely watch it.

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should piss alot of holden & ford boys off - don't forget when scaife & (can't remember other blokes name), was it richards? they got boo'd when they accepted the winners podium spot

I remember that when I was a kid. Thought it was a bit crap even back then.

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just wait till this nissan car starts winning races then all the bogan's will have a common thing to hate

holden fanbois ............... WE HATE FORD

ford fanbois ............... WE HATE HOLDEN

then it dawns on them - we both love to stand round in our thongs with our best stubbies on with a can of VB in our hands burning down port-a-loo's, we can be friends and hate the nissans!!!

holden AND ford bogans ............... WE HATE NISSAN'S... AGAIN!!

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Because the Skyline has no local market relevance for Nissan.

They will have Infiniti here in September, so it would just be based on an Infiniti G (Skyline) or M (Fuga) sedan. The car will have no relevance to anything sold locally anyway since the Altima is FWD and a V6, so I don't see why the wouldn't use a different chassis too.

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I don't get this assumption that Nissan headlights are going to make exactly the same car miraculously quicker than Holden and Ford headlights.. Or that they are going to run a Nissan motor, where are they going to fit pushrods in any of the Nissan motors?

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As far as i know COTF has no specified capacity limitation but they have proposed a parity development system for a range of capacities.

The only requirement is that it be a naturally aspirated V8. The aim was to open the field up to the Euro marques selling hipo V8 sedans.

The race car must be 4dr body with RWD and have the external appearance of the street car.

The chassis, floor pan, steering, suspension, brakes, gearbox, wheels, tires, aero, etc. are all control so the racing will remain very competitive.

More importantly it will also remain very affordable and relevant, costing < $250,000 per car.

Nissan currently run two very successful NA V8 racing powerplant programmes, one in partnership with Zytek. All the series they currently

take part in use fairly aggresive intake restriction to limit power output, this means that V8SC will be the first time we see these powerplants opened up.

From what I recall the Nissan/Zytek VK45 is capable of 580Nm and between 600 and 700hp (unrestricted) depending on race length. The VK56 obviously

takes that further and you could run similar power at a reduced cost with increased durability.

With Ford's involvement sitting precariously at the moment, the departure of one make (in a two make series) will sound the death knell for the series.

COTF is their strategy for obtaining much needed diversity in their investor pool. There really is no other path to take without killing the series.

I'm looking forward to the 2013 season. I suspect there will be some interesting reactions from the fans and one or two news making moments

if Nissan makes it to the podium.

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Gotta say, I've seen no Holden/Ford bogans up in arms over this. Maybe they haven't seen the news yet, or I'm reading all the wrong forums, but so far all I've seen is Nissan fans assuming/laughing at how pissed off the er...biased bogans...are supposedly going to be about it all. Probably not realising that it brings them down to the same level as your average "Go Ford!" or "Yeah Holden!" punter, when they start going on about it like that. Add to this, widespread ignorance of the fact these Nissans will be nearly identical to their Ford/Holden counterparts...and us Nissan fans start looking pretty stupid...like the drunk morons who perpetuate the existing V8 supercar fan stereotype. So, thanks! :(

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As far as i know COTF has no specified capacity limitation but they have proposed a parity development system for a range of capacities.

The only requirement is that it be a naturally aspirated V8. The aim was to open the field up to the Euro marques selling hipo V8 sedans.

In Auto Action, V8 Supercars were quoted as saying they wanted to stick to a 5L displacement, but this wasn't a rule yet. I think they're keeping their options open at this stage.

Gotta say, I've seen no Holden/Ford bogans up in arms over this. Maybe they haven't seen the news yet, or I'm reading all the wrong forums, but so far all I've seen is Nissan fans assuming/laughing at how pissed off the er...biased bogans...are supposedly going to be about it all. Probably not realising that it brings them down to the same level as your average "Go Ford!" or "Yeah Holden!" punter, when they start going on about it like that. Add to this, widespread ignorance of the fact these Nissans will be nearly identical to their Ford/Holden counterparts...and us Nissan fans start looking pretty stupid...like the drunk morons who perpetuate the existing V8 supercar fan stereotype. So, thanks! :(

You sir, need to go to the Kelly Racing Facebook page and see all the Holden bogans going nuts about it. Some of the stuff.. geeze... they need a sit down.

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i gotta say its good to see kelly racing apparently have full backing by nismo japan in building their new cars!

and at the end of the day, with the COTF program the series will be very tight with so much being controlled, that even more so then ever it will be down to drive ability not so much the better car.

would be awesome to have a nismo/ motul car in the field!!

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