Tuned Nissan GT-R Drags Two Modded R35s; It's So Close You Might Faint From the Thrills

The iconic event took place in March in Ennis, Texas, and the videographer behind this channel shared quite a few races during the initial coverage. After that, he returned to Island Dragway and visited other places like Bradenton Motorsports Park, Maryland International Raceway (MIR), and Pocono Raceway – also known as The Tricky Triangle- for both drag and roll race events.

However, it has been a while since they circled back to Texas Motorplex with action involving diverse models such as the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Mustang, Pontiac G8, Dodge Charger, Cadillac CTS-V, and the eternal Chevy Corvette. But wait, that is not all. Instead, here's a triple R35 Nissan GT-R treat.

Like most other carmakers, the Japanese automaker recently announced its US automotive market sales performance after the first half of the year. They're up 1.9% to 489,456 units after a lackluster second quarter, even though there were some positive highlights – the all-electric Ariya jumped almost 80%, and the Nissan Z was not far behind with a 50.8 increase, but the big R35 Nissan GT-R didn't follow suite.

Soon to be discontinued, the grand tourer was down more than 30%, and Nissan probably hopes to rekindle some customer affection with help from the recently announced T-Spec Takumi Edition and GT-R Skyline Edition. Those will surely be collector's items – but the R35 was born to race, of course. Well, no worries, the long-running GT-R has been an ideal tuning platform for bonkers creations that can break into the sevens at the local quarter-mile dragstrip.

In this case, the focus at TX2K24 was on a trio of Nissan GT-Rs. First, a blue example fought against a gray rival, and both clearly meant business with low reaction times and roaring displays of highly tuned performance – the videographer mentioned these monsters had 1,750 to 2,000 horsepower each. As it turns out, those predictions were probably accurate as this race was closer than hairline – 7.529s versus 7.533s at 193 mph and 173 mph, respectively.

The loser, not the victor, then proceeded to fight a black R35 Nissan GT-R example and easily showed it could do better – 7.432s versus 7.541s at over 199 mph and 190 mph, respectively. That's 320 kph for the winner, by the way! Seeing such mind-opening performances clearly makes us a little sad that the R35 is going away after so many years on the market (it entered production back in December 2007!), but luckily, Nissan will continue the GT-R saga and promises the next iteration won't be a half-baked supercar.