I think this is great news! You can't grow an orchard without some land and some good dirt. This is the ground work for some really cool things in the next 2-3 years. Imagine every Nissan model having a Nismo variant that has 10-15% better performance than its rivals.

The way I see it this is a start. Le Mans in 2014 is a great goal for them to have and I welcome them returning with a true factory presence since their last appearance in 1999with the R391.

Since then Nissan has been cautious about getting into works funded racing ventures because of the cost involved and the risk.

This is a good sign. This means they have money, a plan and low enough risk to do it and possibly win. Either way, this means we as customers will benefit from the R&D that gos into their cars by way of whatever solutions and technology are developed.

Bottom line is racing feeds production, especially when your demographic is shifting to performance cars again. Which from 1999 till the past few years, Nissans demographic hasn't been performance/sports cars oriented, it's been all about the Maxima and Sentras.

Hopefully this announcement will start to get Nissan back to it's roots

thanks for the link As expected with the Japanee, the big hype is not so big. If you know the culture, you know they are not able to make massive change. Everything is subtle and in time. This is no different; unfortunately.

Seriously this is terrible news in my opinion, nothing for the 370z

the hard truth is nissan is on cruise control and just riding the clock out with the Z until the Z35.

Love these videos, their new facility looks awesome
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3...ismolemans.jpg

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9...ismolemans.jpg

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/2...ismolemans.jpg

Good to see Nissan getting more involved in racing, that way unlike some competitors, nismo is backed by heavy activity in racing and numerous victories