The lads and ladettes over at Road & Track believe they’ve managed to uncover some hard stats on Nissan’s upcoming Spec-V (Or V-Spec) variant of its mighty R35 GT-R. The new figures are fairly close to previous estimates, and they peg the “Victory SPECification” model as being 35kW more powerful and 9Nm gruntier, bringing total figures for the GT-R’s VR38DETT engine to 388kW and 597Nm. Peak power is now generated 300rpm lower at 6500rpm, while the peak torque range remains unchanged at 3200-5200rpm

Weight has dropped by some 90kg, which is largely attributed to the deletion of the rear seat and the subwoofers that are mounted within them. There’s no word on what other weight saving measures have been undertaken, or whether the Spec-V includes any of the trick carbon-fibre bodyparts we saw being fitted to the Motul Nismo Tokachi enduro R35 last month, but it’d be safe to say that comfort will be taking a back seat (ha ha) to performance with the harder-core Spec-V.

Unfortunately, R&T estimate the sticker price for the Spec-V will be around the $130,000 USD mark - nearly twice the cost of the base model. Will it be worth the extra expense for a car that can reputedly lap the Nurburgring in just 7:25? We’ll let you know when we find out.

[Source: Road & Track]