Compared to his previous animations, this one is in its own league! I felt like some of the previous ones were repetitive and often emotionless, but this one does eveything right. Well done!
Compared to his previous animations, this one is in its own league! I felt like some of the previous ones were repetitive and often emotionless, but this one does eveything right. Well done!
The car is a Nissan and the "NISEMO" is a reference to its NISMO performance brand. But there is a bit of weirdness that being cartoonish doesn't explain. This looks like an R34 Skyline GT-R with the shape of its headlights, but that model had one-piece headlights. The front bumper also more inline with the R33 with the two square openings below the grille (and it, too, had one-piece headlights and R32s were the last generation with factory two-piece units). There are conversion kits to add the R34 headlights and fenders while retaining that unique R33 GT-R front bumper design, but those also reuse R34 one-piece headlights. The rear quarter window shape is also more aligned with the R33 than the R34 as the later GT-R had a flatter top while the R33 has a rounder blend into the B-pillar.
And the second weirdest prototype Nissan racecar to have existed. The other goes to the 2015 GT-R LM Nismo with its front-engine driving the front wheels and its rear wheels driven by its dual-flywheel Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). Both flywheel KERS transferred their energy to both axles, but the rear axle rarely worked correctly and it was far more heavy than it should have been when compared to the rest of the field it raced against. This was proven at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans as all three cars qualified in the final three positions for LMP1 and all three cars technically didn't finish. The only one to "finish" was the #22, but it didn't complete the required 70% of the race and wasn't classified. For those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GT-R_LM_Nismo
Interesting that the track map in the background is the modern version of the La Sarthe circuit that is used as the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. At the time the Jaguar XJR-9 was active, the Mulsanne Straight was a straight run until the Kink. The two chicanes were added in 1990, a year after the XJR-9 was retired for the 10.
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