This is the Nissan Juke-R. If you’ve not been playing at home, Nissan has taken its, frankly quite ugly, Juke crossover, ripped the guts out and stuffed in a GT-R drivetrain. The twin-turbo V6 has been pegged back a bit to around 480hp (the latest GT-R now has 540hp) but that doesn’t seem to have negatively affected the driving experience.
After the break you watch Autocar scribe Matt Prior enjoy his time behind the wheel of the Juke-R on an empty track. He reckons it is brilliant. The engine, suspension and handling all get the thumbs up. The Juke has a shorter wheelbase than the GT-R and Prior says that helps make the Juke-R more alive and agile.
At this point in time the Juke-R is only ever likely to be a concept model. That said, we applaud Nissan for taking us on this journey. It’s daft, utterly pointless and that’s what makes it so great. A major manufacturer just having a bit of laugh. There should be more of it.
Oh, actually, we’re not sure if a mother could love that face.
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Fantastic. It looks like the love-child of a Suzuki Swift and a SR-71 Blackbird. I’d buy one in a heartbeat it they ever made it.
It at least looks better than the current GT-R, which evidently was sat on by Godzilla.