Just to let you know, Chris Leak is better than all of them . One more thing, I'm thinking about going to USF medical school so I'll be a fan of their team, whatever they are...and they will still be better than the Noles!

 

I'm currently at USF...we're the BULLS and our Med School is pretty good, but from what I've heard it doesn't even come close to being in the same league as UF's!!!
Leak is a good QB...it'll be a long time before USF can be considered a Florida contender, they're still slightly behind UF and WAY ahead of UCF!
The NOLES are better than ALL of the teams mentioned above

 

The Euro model says 280ps compaired to our 287hp? What is the difference between PS and HP, if any? And if there is not difference why is the euro version 7HP less than the US?

 

I've heard someone on this board give a conversion number for it, something like 0.9XX of HP is PS, but I don't know for sure. I've alwasy used PS as the same as HP. If PS and HP are the same, than the Euro has less HP because of a more restricted air inlet as Jason said earlier (think G35C).

 

1.0 PS = 0.98632 BHP

280PS and 268lb/ft of torque for the UK version

But this may just be another marketing issue, the air inlet is the same.

Euro cars weigh 3355 lbs with GT pack cars weighing 3399lbs.

You can knock 44lb's off those weights if you specify the RAYS alloys.

All Euro cars come with the aero kit and brembo brake - they also have a bigger fuel tank, cooler for the LSD, bigger radiator, oil cooler and a few other changes.

Per the UK site.

 

I'm kinda curious where the US model gets those extra 7 horeses from...but not overly worried about it

 

I rhink they are identical.

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember blueprinting, and certainly it used to be that some engines just produced more power.

Modern manufacturing techniques mean that you get a much smaller range of variances but no 2 engines will be absolutely identical.

I guess that when Nissan come to deciding on the numbers to use they do not directly translate from from one format to another but go with their market norm

So if you area manufacturer you publish the lowest normal figure, you would not wish bad press if the figures could not be achieved by reviewers. I think the RX8 had this problem. Perhaps the variance is just down to Nissan US vs Nissan EU and how they approach things.