most celebrated performance cars, the Nissan Skyline GT-R has developed an immense racing pedigree that includes over 200 race wins, five consecutive championship wins in the All Japanese Touring Car Championships and the unofficial lap record for a production car at the world-famous Nurb�rgring. Every aspect of the Skyline GT-R, from the aerodynamics to body rigidity, has been fine-tuned through competitive racing and 11 years of intense testing, producing one of the best race-bred coup�s on the market.
The Nissan Skyline GT-R is an iconic (at least in the markets where it is sold) Japanese sports coupe. Termed "Godzilla" by Wheels magazine in Aussie when released there in 1989, it is was rated by many motoring magazines, including the well-respected Wheels, as providing performance and handling equal or superior to that of European icons like the Porsche 911 and the Ferrari 360 Modena, at a considerably lower price.
. Its success in motor racing was formidable, particularly in the annual race at the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst, Australia, where the champion three years running was a GT-R (despite receiving additional weight penalties in years two and three due to its unbeatable performance)
he GT-R's success at Mount Panorama led to turbos and four-wheel-drive cars being banned in subsequent years
Skyline GT-Rs are often modified and tuned to produce upwards of 1000 bhp (750 kW).
Skylines of the 90s progressed from the R32 (1989), through to the R34 (2000) Production of the GT-R ceased in August, 2002 with the release of the R35 Skyline platform
"Do we really need to say anything about this car? The Nissan Skyline has become legendary"
This is one of the few Japanese supercars that can run with Europe's big dogs right out of the box
The car was so impossible to beat, it was given its own racing series
Skylines with over 600 ps roam the streets of Japan everyday, eating Ferraris and Porsches for lunch on the Wangun
"I will try to describe a fast corner in a Skyline. Don't brake, switch off your brain, and sling it in. It'll probably just go round. Either that, or you might get a bit of oversteer, but this will correct itself before your brain has even processed what's happening. Even if you're really silly with it, such as bunging it in at ridiculous speeds and jumping on brakes to unsettle it, you might get a lairy four wheel drift for a second or two before you feel the electronics tweaking the diffs, moving power around and dabbing individual brakes to sort out your stupidity. It really is an astonishing bit of kit! "
"It's amazing how one car can incite so much excitement; I'm surprised people haven't started naming their kids Skyline, Nissan, or RB26DETT"
Skyline is more deserving of a nuclear symbol than the publication before you because: 1) It's a freakin' Skyline. 2) It's a Japanese-tuned freakin' Skyline. And 3) It races in the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) under the GT500 class
Seventy-three hundred on the tach, clutch in, gear lever in first, heart racing and nothing but 1320 feet of inviting tarmac in front of the car. This isn't easy. Everything in my body tells me this isn't right. But it's the only way--no mechanical empathy here. Bang!
Lucky for us, Skylines don't care about this kind of abuse. Their drivetrains have been known to hold up to ridiculous power levels before showing any signs of weakness and this relatively low power torture test wasn't going to faze the Nissan's robust guts. Even so, the GT-R bangs off a 13.2-second run at almost 104 mph--impressive."
The Skyline name first appeared in the 1960s by a Japanese car company called Prince. Nissan absorbed Prince at a later time. By the late eighties and early nineties, Nissan re-released the Skyline GT-R as a technological de-force turbocharged, all wheel drive, four wheel steering, and Brembo brake equipped super car.
The transmission gates are accurate and easier to row than a 300bhp car has a right to. With reason since the transmission was designed both by Getrag and Nissan. Skylines are rumored to have the best traction and handling capabilities of any car. This is owed to a computer controlled all-wheel drive system (ATESSA-ETS) with limited slip differentials for each axle as well as a center differential.
Just how effective is the suspension system? For about 10 minutes, the Blackbird held the SCC slalom record at 72 mph. This is in a car that weighs almost 3,600 lbs. On street tires. Only the Lancer EVO 6 with large, very sticky prototype Pirelli DOT-legal race tires bettered the R34's speed.
A claimed 400 whp at only 1.0 bar (which sounds about right, given the hefty car's 12.3 in the quarter)
never has driving that fast been that easy. Every performance component of the car works so well that the usually apparent indicators of velocity like high speed instability and faded brakes were totally non-existant
Most remarkably (and most fun), the gas pedal provides both the oversteer and the correction. The majority of electronic stability controls on the market, like those found on Mercedes, are designed to save drivers from "dangerous" oversteer or other hairy situations. In the Skyline's case, these electronic training wheels make you a faster driver (electronics controlling torque bias both front and rear and left to right).
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