The Nissan GT-R is pretty fast and nimble, but the Japanese automaker has now devised another vehicle that’s even quicker and more agile. That’s right, it’s a drone.
Created in partnership with Tornado XBlades Racing, the GT-R Drone packs four 2000kV XNova electric motors juiced by a 1400mah lithium-polymer battery pack. Of course that’s nowhere near as powerful as the 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 in its automotive counterpart, but then the remote-control quadcopter only weighs 700 grams. So while the latest 2017 Nissan GT-R only takes 2.8 seconds to reach 62 miles per hour (100km/h), the GT-R Drone does the same in just 1.3 seconds.
As you might have guessed, the car will outpace the drone eventually, as the former will top out at 196 mph (315km/h) and the latter at only 115mph (185km/h). But the drone bests the car with a much tighter turning circle at 30 cm instead of 12.2 meters.
The question is, which one is faster around a lap of the 1.2-mile road course set up at Silverstone? You’ll just have to watch the video clip to find out.
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