Watch A Honda NSX Destroy A Nissan GT-R In Two Drag Races

A drag race between the second-generation NSX and a GT-R should be close, but these two straight-line battles from Car Wow go a different way...

Really, this drag race should be very, very close. Both of these Japanese supercars are similarly porky, and in terms of power, there’s very little in it - the Nissan makes 562bhp, and the Honda 571bhp.

But, the Honda has a trick up its sleeve: a trio of electric motors - two for the front axle, and one attached to the 3.5-litre V6’s crankshaft to perform a torque-fill function. In other words: bye bye turbo lag.

It’s thanks to this setup that the NSX hooks up tremendously well off the line, and does so consistently. During the standing-start race and the rolling-start run, it has no trouble beating the GT-R, and by a huge margin.

Still, the front-engined Nissan certainly wins on value - its mid-engined compatriot costs nearly twice as much…