The use of high purity nitrogen in the automotive arena is set to filter down from the racing world to public production cars when the sporty 2009 Nissan GT-R makes its US debut in June, with every car arriving in the country with nitrogen-filled tyres.
Each American-market vehicle comes equipped with Bridgestone RE070R high performance run-flat summer tyres, Dunlop SP Sport 600 DSST run-flat summer tyres or Dunlop SP Sport 7010 A/S DSST run-flat all-season tyres, all exclusively developed for Nissan and the GT-R, which was first released in Japan in 2007.
The automaker says no Nissan dealership will be certified to sell a GT-R unless it can provide access to nitrogen, in order to maintain the tyres’ top factory-issue condition.
Nissan has selected the PurigeN98 high-purity nitrogen tyre inflation system as a recommended accompanying product and PurigeN98 President Robin Pearl commented on the increase in use of nitrogen, “Nitrogen is emerging as the latest consumer trend in the auto industry – especially for high-performance vehicles.”
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