Nissan Pulsar GTi R Review

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Nissan Pulsar GTi R
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Sparky.'s Review of Nissan Pulsar GTi R

25th May 2003

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Practicality
    2.5 stars
  • Performance
    4 stars
  • Reliability
    1 stars
Good Points

Very fast car, great fun to drive, good power to £ ratio! Relatively good handling but tends to understeer unless going dangerously fast! Relatively easily tunable but be carefull you dont melt the pistons.


Bad Points

Breaks down every other week! Gearbox is slow to shift (wrc driver says so!) Thirsty on petrol, mine is 300bhp and does 18miles per gallon, on a run! gets really hot when thrashed, intercooler is in a stupid place (above hot engine) Engine needs to be removed to perform most maintenence tasks i,e clutch. very expensive on labour to maintain unless you can do the work yourself. dont get me wrong i love the car, when its working!


General Comments

The pulsar is a nice hot hatch, it very quick and handles well also! for the money spent its well worth getting one, the only problem is, unfortunately there are just as many cons as there are pros! They just keep going wrong! read on for a 100% honest appraisal of the NIssan Gti-R

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  • bighunk on 25th Dec 2003

    Hi my pulsar GTIR has less mods like HKS SSQV BOV , AIR FILTER ..can you pls tell me , what more can i do to make it atleast 300 hp , cheers im in dubai , UAE no one knows abt the GTIR here .. i think ive got the rite car in the wrong place :p .. do reply :)