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Nissan Juke-R 2012. How to care for plenty of attention, although it has nothing new to offer, currently demonstrates the Japanese manufacturer Nissan. The two compact SUV was converted from type Juke in 485-hp-grenades – the project has hit the Internet.

It all started three months ago with movies on YouTube. This is an almost insane project was presented – namely, to squeeze the engine and drivetrain of Nissan’s supercar GTR in the bloated body of a little mini-SUV Nissan Juke.

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Shortly after this publication was created on a special Facebook page for the project “Juke R”. Or better in this case – so that the stone was, the more virtual car – got the ball rolling. To this day, have 2.3 million Internet users in the meantime a total of eleven videos for Juke-R Nissan looked at the Facebook fan base of the car has nearly 35,000 members.

Bored so many people so much? Motorists wait really a compact car with 485 horsepower? Or just the social media PR campaign has been successful grand? Probably a little of everything. And that one should not forget the Nissan Juke-R is indeed actually an extremely wicked device. Nissan Juke-R 2012

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The two hot-made SUVs, which have triggered the digital hype gave, that now her debut in the analog reality, on the Dubai Autodrome. The 3.8-liter V6 engine with twin turbo from the GT-R makes the carts of the fastest and strongest crossover twins in the world. 485 hp, 258 km / h top speed, from 0 to 100 in 3.7 seconds, 588 Nm of torque – when you step on the accelerator, it feels to like being thrown together with the carriage of a catapult.

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The idea of ​​making calculated from the Juke a race car was built on the edge of the 24-hour race at Le Mans and was actually a gag. Some Nissan managers sat with Michael Mallock, together with the owner of the British racing team RML, drank beer and fooled around about what is the Juke, which was indeed hochgejazzt Nissan’s mobile lifestyle, so everything could still make.

At the end of the conversation it was clear that the car should have a more extreme doping. And shortly afterwards made at times up to 30 technicians out to reduce the drive train of the GT-R by 25 inches and to press the Juke – always accompanied by a camera team to the construction progress for the YouTube-documented fan base.

Nissan Juke-R 2012. What sum of RML and Nissan invested in the project wants Mallock not betray. “Who cares what the Juke-R has cost,” says Mallock. “He is worth every Euro value, and the fun behind the wheel is already priceless.” This can be taken literally, is not negotiable because the Juke-R. It seems there would be interest. Among Internet fans, there were some that signaled acute interest. “Since the first photo was published, we get a day up to ten e-mails with serious buying inquiries,” says Mallock.