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EDITOR'S BLOG
You might have thought that the big news at the recent launch of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue game for PlayStation 3 would have been the arrival of Ferraris on screen for the first time. Yes, at the London underground car park launch venue for GT5 Prologue, there were several real-life Ferraris on show but they were completely upstaged by... a Nissan. The car off which the covers were being swished was, of course, the sensational new Nissan GT-R R35.
This was the first time it had been seen undisguised in the UK and the press scramble reflected the widespread excitement for this new supercar icon. Now I know first-hand what all the fuss is about, having just come back from driving a GT-R through the Nevada desert. All I’ll say is: it’s sensational. So quick, so rewarding yet so forgiving. It's just one of the stories in the June 2008 issue of the mag, which if you missed it is available at Back Issues
Finally, at the risk of name-dropping, I happened to share a flight last week with Nick Fry, CEO of the Honda F1 racing team. Not only was he very open and honest about Honda’s F1 progress – not all of it smooth going – he also said that he’d owned just about every model of Honda over the last few years, from a Civic diesel to an NSX. In countless miles of driving, he’d never suffered a single mechanical issue in any Honda. Now if only that faultless Honda reliability could translate to F1…
Chris Rees, Editor Japanese Performance
