If you’ve been following Godzilla’s swath of destruction through the automotive landscape as closely as we have, you may have noticed something fishy. It’s no secret that the car weighs a ton (damn near two tons), but despite its girth and advertised 480 crank-horsepower, the GT-R has managed to decimate the Corvette Z06’s numbers to 60 mph and through the quarter mile repeatedly. How the hell is that possible? Car & Driver, the folks with the resources to answer a question like that, managed to wrangle a handful of the Japanese monstrosities for a jaunt on the dyno. What’d they find out? Exactly what everybody suspected — the GT-R isn’t putting out Mothra-like 480 crank ponies. No, it’s definitely crankin’ around 520 Godzilla like horses. One car laid down 420 horsepower at the wheels, and once you factor in the near 20 percent loss of power via the drivetrain, that bumps the actual crank power to over 520. Damn. That only makes the $70,000 for the all-wheel drive gorilla/whale all the sweeter. [C&D]