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Proceed. You may begin placing your Skyline orders now. If you live in Japan and have about 8.35 million yen. Japan's car enthusiasts have Skyline GT-R emotions equivalent to an American's feelings about the Corvette. For the upcoming Nissan supercar, the name is shortened.
Read about the GT-R anticipation here.
GT-R.
Three letters and a hyphen that will soon convey 'serious performance'. Japanese brochures have been seen on the internet revealing that the Japanese consumer can choose between three trim levels and six colours.
He or she will have to let Nissan choose the engine; there are no optional upgrades. That'll be rough with a 3.8L twin-turbo producing somewhere around 550 horsepower. There'll be no transmission 'choices' until a regular manual tranny is offered some time after the first production wave. The sequential manual with paddle shifters will have to suffice.
Nissan tops Porsche at The 'Ring.
You can see the ever-aggressive previous-gen Skyline GT-R in the photo above, with a fellow icon from America, the Corvette Z06, generations of the iconic and European Porsche 911 Turbo also pictured.
- Nissan Skyline Gt-r Station Wagon Mash Up With Stagea Body, Previous Gt-r Engine And First-gen Gt-r Front End
This isn't the first time we've seen a custom-made Nissan GT-R Station Wagon - check out this gem with the new R35 GT-R front-end and the M35 Stagea body- but it's certainly one of the weirdest creations put together yet. Made by Japan's...
- Classic Find: First-generation 1970 Nissan Skyline Gt-r Coupe S45
What looks to be a pristine (or fully restored) example of the modern day Nissan GT-R's granddaddy, a 1970 Skyline GT-R Coupe S45 with only 89,000 kilometers or a little over 55,000 miles on the odometer, is up for sale by a Japan-based dealer. There's...
- Pre-orders For Nissan Gt-r In Japan Exceed 2,200 Units
Japanese enthusiasts have been blown away by the all-new GT-R as in less than two months since Nissan started accepting pre-orders, 2,282 buyers have signed in for the 473 Hp AWD Coupe, exceeding by a factor of 11 the planned monthly sales total. The...
- 2008 Nissan Skyline Gt-r Testing At Goodwood Festival
With all the commotion yesterday on the BMW 1-Series Coupe, we kinda forgot to post this picture featuring the 2008 Nissan Skyline GT-R or simply GT-R that was spotted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend. The prototype was driven in the Supercar...
- Porsche Slower Than Nissan - Allegedly
GT-R carries with it strong connotations for the Nissan/Sony/Gran Turismo crowd. In all my living days, I've only seen a handful of Nissan's Skyline GT-R. They've all been right-hand drive, just like every GT-R in existence. Sony PlayStation...
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LIVE IN JAPAN? GET YE TO THE NISSAN STORE
Proceed. You may begin placing your Skyline orders now. If you live in Japan and have about 8.35 million yen. Japan's car enthusiasts have Skyline GT-R emotions equivalent to an American's feelings about the Corvette. For the upcoming Nissan supercar, the name is shortened.Read about the GT-R anticipation here.
GT-R.
Three letters and a hyphen that will soon convey 'serious performance'. Japanese brochures have been seen on the internet revealing that the Japanese consumer can choose between three trim levels and six colours.He or she will have to let Nissan choose the engine; there are no optional upgrades. That'll be rough with a 3.8L twin-turbo producing somewhere around 550 horsepower. There'll be no transmission 'choices' until a regular manual tranny is offered some time after the first production wave. The sequential manual with paddle shifters will have to suffice.
Nissan tops Porsche at The 'Ring.
You can see the ever-aggressive previous-gen Skyline GT-R in the photo above, with a fellow icon from America, the Corvette Z06, generations of the iconic and European Porsche 911 Turbo also pictured.
- Nissan Skyline Gt-r Station Wagon Mash Up With Stagea Body, Previous Gt-r Engine And First-gen Gt-r Front End
This isn't the first time we've seen a custom-made Nissan GT-R Station Wagon - check out this gem with the new R35 GT-R front-end and the M35 Stagea body- but it's certainly one of the weirdest creations put together yet. Made by Japan's...
- Classic Find: First-generation 1970 Nissan Skyline Gt-r Coupe S45
What looks to be a pristine (or fully restored) example of the modern day Nissan GT-R's granddaddy, a 1970 Skyline GT-R Coupe S45 with only 89,000 kilometers or a little over 55,000 miles on the odometer, is up for sale by a Japan-based dealer. There's...
- Pre-orders For Nissan Gt-r In Japan Exceed 2,200 Units
Japanese enthusiasts have been blown away by the all-new GT-R as in less than two months since Nissan started accepting pre-orders, 2,282 buyers have signed in for the 473 Hp AWD Coupe, exceeding by a factor of 11 the planned monthly sales total. The...
- 2008 Nissan Skyline Gt-r Testing At Goodwood Festival
With all the commotion yesterday on the BMW 1-Series Coupe, we kinda forgot to post this picture featuring the 2008 Nissan Skyline GT-R or simply GT-R that was spotted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend. The prototype was driven in the Supercar...
- Porsche Slower Than Nissan - Allegedly
GT-R carries with it strong connotations for the Nissan/Sony/Gran Turismo crowd. In all my living days, I've only seen a handful of Nissan's Skyline GT-R. They've all been right-hand drive, just like every GT-R in existence. Sony PlayStation...