Since it was Mikael Persbrandt's future GTR that we had the pleasure of testing during a day in Gothenburg, it seemed natural to take a turn at the Gothenburg Raceway down on the banana pier. An incredibly fun concept that is hard to understand why the capital doesn't have something similar. The course is located right by the Götaälvsbron on the Hissing side. Even though the GTR is as big as a block, it feels very easy to handle in the curves and even here the power shoots more than you could wish for. Here, Nissan has chosen to put on a pair of 20-inch puncture-free tires filled with nitrogen gas. This is because nitrogen gas does not expand during heating, which is a consequence of hard driving. The 380 mm brake discs from Brembo keep exactly what they promise and heavy braking happens as calmly as slowing down when walking, it's just the brain that doesn't keep up.

That the Nissan GTR feels big is no illusion, it is gigantic and if you place the Audi R8 behind the GTR, it is completely hidden in the silhouette of the GTR. Even inside the GTR everything feels big, a bit like sitting in an SUV, you look down on people in other cars. Personally, I don't think it should be like this in a sports car, but as previously mentioned, it obviously does not affect the GTR's competence. In the Audi, you sit low and the entire cabin feels tight and incredibly well built. What I didn't become friends with, however, were the chairs. These were of the Gran Turismo style and I often missed standing sideways. A couple of shell chairs would really have been preferable. 

The GTR seats provide good support and you feel that you are sitting properly when turning. However, everything feels plastic in the coupe, not at all the German quality of the R8. In GTR, however, you are offered an almost TV game-like control in the form of a display where you can see all possible information about the car while driving. Info on everything from consumption, charge pressure, g-force, gear info, gas reaction, etc. This is really fun to follow and how to treat the car.

So if you look at the above mentioned things, the race is very even between these two cars. and then it's time to bring up the two main souls to choose between Audi R8 V10 or Nissan GTR. Appearance or price tag. The price of these two cars differs noticeably, an Audi R8 V10 costs close to 1.5 million kroner with some extra equipment and a Nissan GTR costs a little over 800 thousand kroner. There is a big difference in price for two cars that are quite equivalent without a doubt. But then we come to the other aspect, the appearance. The Audi R8 has beautiful sports car lines that most people get started on, and when you come for a ride in an R8, there are few who don't stop and take a long look at the car. The Nissan, in turn, is, as I said, as big as a truck and has vulgar shapes with a yard wall at the end. Few who don't know would turn around to take a second look at this car. So the question quarter year simply, Wallet or design, that is the question?