Fast car, faster drone
After all that work, work, work before the launch of the revised 2017 Nissan GT-R and its Nismo version, Nissan engineers got creative and geeky for the GT-R Drone.
They say it's one of the most fast-accelerating first-person view drones in the world, and it has to be, especially when the car it's chasing wears the GT-R badge.
Two teams worked to develop the drone's custom design, which thanks to a low-drag canopy and a race-tuned config, can torpedo from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 1.3 seconds. That's about the same time an NFL football player needs to execute a flawless field goal (from snap, to hold, to kick).
Now, for the technical stuff. The GT-R drone uses four propellers put in motion by 2000kV XNova motors sitting on a race-grade Sky-Hero quadcopter frame. But that's not enough to outpace the GT-R. Sure, the drone is faster when it comes to sprinting from a standstill, but its top speed of 185 km/h (115 mph) can't beat the GT-R's 315 km/h (196 mph) max velocity.
All Nissan has to do now is provide some sort of landing pad for the drone, so that Godzilla can carry its flying sidekick wherever it goes.