Nissan GT-R would you give your 17 year old one?

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that is a very good question, and whoever is getting this is very,very lucky. the GT-R, i think i can safely say, is a supercar, so as a 17 year old, i would say YES GIVE ME ONE NOW, but if i was older and more sensible, i would say NO.

look at it this way, and how my australian government looks at it. when a person is on there P-Plates, there are a number of strict rules, from a limit on the amount of power you can have (GT-R brakes that), no turbo at all (breaks that one too, in fact it has 2 turbos.....) and no more than 6-cylinders (wow, it didn't break one). so if you proposed this question to my government, they would probably faint. and i would have to half agree.

the GT-R, as we all know is a super car, it is faster then some ferraris, faster than a porsche turbo, or GT 2, laps the nurburg. in record time, etc. but we also now it is one of the most high tech cars on the planet, with some of the best grip and cornering ability in the world. whether this makes it safe is probably a given, NO. with a questionable amount of power....(look at the power to weight, and compare it to the acceleration times)...... ability to drag and drift with the best, and looks to die for, this car is NOT FOR SOMEONE IN THE AGE BRACKET YOU ARE DESCRIBING!!!

if he has been driving for a few years, has a better then normal license, and is a politician.... then maybe, but i don't think that is the case. please mate, use a little logic on this one.

Nissan Gtr Years

Are you brain-damaged?

This is the exact reason why every teenager that challenges my FC3S RX-7 ends up in an accident, because they have no idea how to handle the car. I also carry my cell whenever I do, so I can call 911 and get help on the way. So far, no fatalities yet.

Honestly, giving any teenager with such a fast car is like handing a 13 year old guy some porn and telling him not to look at it. That kid has no business in a GT-R unless he can pay for it himself with the money he earned by working at a real job. And even then, I'd STILL set the limiter to 60mph and 3000rpm untill the kid had some wheel-time under his/her belt.

It's like what Robin Williams said about the National Guardsmen posted at the Golden Gate bridge: Be bery bery qwiet, we'we wooking fowr tewwowists.

Sorry i got to say these are all very girly cars. And any mustang newer than 1970 and with a engine smaller than a 351ci ( VERY GIRLY) no matter the color. I'll take any BIG BLOCK car of the 60's to early 70's even if its pink. My manly car 1979 Nova 454ci BBC 500hp, 550fbtq,3300lb,8mpg ,T-350 tranny w/308 gears, 0-60 4.9sec,1/4mile 13.1sec @110mph in second gear at 4,943 ft above sea level, top speed 140 give or take. 2 seats no ac,no heater 2 years to build on spear time totel cost of build $7k. Been driving for 3 years with out one issue ( rear tires seem to not last very long). PS buy a beater and build your car ( cheaper and way more FUN than any thing you can buy theese days)

What the heck. A new GT-R R-35 Scyline are you crazy. First of all it has a least 480 hp 0-60 in around 3.5 secounds. Butt load of money . Import car from japan. Usally illegal in the united states. to fast for a 17 year old, unless he's a goody good and is really responsible. I woundnt if it is his first car.

honestly im going to say something different than everyone else is saying and I say that it doesn't exactly mean he is going to kill himself. I am 15 going on 16 soon and i own a nissan 300zx that has close to 300hp and can go probably 160, i have seen it go 150 and had more to go.i drive this car almost everyday and not that im driving or have driven it 150 mph I usually go pretty slow for the main reason that im too scared to actually drive it fast. In this kid's case i think it would be the same situation because there comes a point where your car goes so fast it just is not fun anymore just scary. He may drive it fast a couple times to test it out but once he finds out how fast it really is then he will most likely be dead or never go that fast again due to fright. Although this is my opinion if it were my kid and even if I did have the money, I wouldnt have him driving a new gt-r just because it is that fast and it only takes one little mistake to get severely hurt or end up dead, but if this kid is a snobby rich kid like I would think he would be with that cash then I would think he would be pretty responsible. Also if you give someone a .44 magnum it doesn't mean they are going to shoot it but if they do it only takes one shot for someone to get hurt or killed.

Do you get my metaphor?

YES! I grew up back in a time when a hot rod was a hot rod and I had a few cars that I probably should not have had. It's really a wonder I am alive, because I "had" to find out how fast it was. These cars they build now are a whole different breed of racers than the old 67 Goats and Super-sports of my time. I have a good friend in Greensboro, N. C. that bought his son a Mazda RX-7 for his graduation and he wrecked it and is now in a wheel chair for life. He was trying to outrun the law in it and lost control at about 130 mph. He is lucky he's not dead. Didn't have the car but about 4 months before he totaled it.

I am right there with you.

It makes absolutely no sense.

A 17 year old will never appreciate what that car is.

He is looking at it as a way to impress his high school friends and mommy and daddy are terrible parents that don't even know they are encouraging him to live at home for the next 15 years.

When you hand him the keys, tell him that you will be very disappointed if he doesn't get laid at least 5 times in the next year because of the car.

I'm thinking the kid will be fine with the car. Unless he is a complete idiot, its definitely as bad as giving him a gun. I'm 17 and I actually drove a GT-R the other day that was putting 750+ hp to the rear wheels and I had no problem driving slow in it.

I think it is safer to give a 17 year old a loaded 44 cal magnum because they would likely have more respect for it than the Nissan GT-R