Why you should think twice before roll racing against this Nissan GT-R in the Garden State.
If push comes to shove, it looks like the New Jersey State Police have the horsepower to catch even the fastest criminals on the run.
Smartphone footage shared by East Coast-based Instagram account @H20Fails shows a quick vid from one of their followers showing an R35 Nissan GT-R (presumably) responding to an emergency.
Check out the video for yourself below.
It’s not clear what’s going on in the video but we can clearly make out the taillights and rear end of a Nissan GT-R sporting those yellow and white New Jersey plates.
There appears to be a handful of cars on a grassy median, at least one pointed in the wrong direction, which looks more like an accident happened shortly before the video.
This doesn’t look liket a case of a Japanese supercar pulling over a driver going triple digits (like I’d like to believe.)
In the rear of the GT-R we can see a strip of flashing cherries and berries.
“Don’t run from the boys in NJ,” the video caption reads.
A quick search on Google doesn’t bring up any stories of police in New Jersey taking acquisition of a one-of-a-kind police car built for high-speed pursuits, so that leads me to believe this is an officer’s personal Gojira outfitted with some reds and blues.
According to My Vehicle Talk, New Jersey’s unmarked police car policy mirrors whatever New York’s is and, in New York, although unmarked cars are legal only for traffic surveillance, “…police can stop you for common vehicle offenses.”
Legal Beagle expounds on unmarked police car use in New York and states that, “…unmarked police cars play an important role in apprehending people who commit criminal acts”
It reads like New York (and by extension, New Kersey) is a lot less restrictive when it comes to unmarked police cars as they can be vital to a police work’s success.
As for this Nissan GT-R, although it might be owned by the state police, I’m leaning towards this being a personal vehicle responding to police business.
More than likely this police officer was off-duty and was called to respond ASAP, and that meant using his personal vehicle (equipped with the proper lights) instead of heading to the station to get a police car from their fleet.
That doesn’t mean, if you blow by this particular Nissan GT-R going 100+ mph he won’t pull you over, with over 500 HP on tap and AWD capabilities, you can bet this Nissan GT-R owner’s going to give chase.
This also isn’t the first Nissan GT-R outfitted with the blues and tunes.
Back in 2011, Virginia-based Emergency Vehicle Installation specialists EVI Corp outfitted a GT-R with all the flashing police lights back and front for another police officer.
So be warned car enthusiasts in New Jersey, there’s a Nissan GT-R out there probably faster than you that can and will pull you over if you tempt fate.
