The Nissan GT-R NISMO is the king of the hill for the Japanese brand. Given its performance and precision, it’s hard to capture it on camera. When it comes to filming Godzilla, only another Godzilla can keep up.

The 2020 Nissan GT-R NISMO is the summit of the storied car from Japan. The engine has been upgraded, its aerodynamics tweaked, and weight shaved by using exotic materials (hurray!). But how do you film it for commercials" Turns out the best way to film a 2020 GT-R NISMO is with another GT-R.

Awhile back, I wrote about the Ford Edge camera car and its technical specs. Well, this is like that, only much less boxy and much, much faster. I’m not sure I fully agree with Nissan’s contention that “only another GT-R can keep up with a GT-R” but let’s go with it.
The Perfect Platform

There’s this guy, Mauro Calo, and he’s a pro driver and automotive video expert known for working on big-budget blockbuster movies and automotive TV shows. And Mauro thought using a GT-R as a camera platform made perfect sense. So did Nissan. The company helped him find a “suitable” GT-R (I’m guessing lightly wrecked), from which Calo and his team fitted a custom tubular affair to the chassis. This scaffolding?s whole job was to hold the carbon-fiber gimbal mounting system which could fit a number of different cameras.

?When I started to think about developing a high-performance camera car, I quickly realiz...