Next Gt-r Still A Maybe For Australia

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  Rezz said:

Nissan (Infiniti) have done that already. The new V36 Skyline/G35 is a Lexus IS350 and BMW 330 competitor now, in the true sense. I posted up something about it in the Japan section.

Yeah, there's a Road & Track review I read. Even though the G35 is faster, they still gave it to the BMW for being a slightly more responsive vehicle or something.....

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  Duncan said:

in fact Hornsby still have their GTR sign up after all this time....didn't really help them.

Its been taken down in the last few months. Drove past there some time in the last 3-4 months, and notice that the GT-R logo has been replaced with a red Nissan one.

[Duncan]

*looks at my garage wall*

I know

[700HP-GTR33]

So........who is going to put a GTR35 next to a Tiida in a showroom?

Still think their having us on.....we are never going to be able to purchase one out of Nissan in Australia.

We have such small numbers to move and we are such a large Country, the logistics don't pay.

I mean what are they going to do with the second hand Jap.ones they have to sell after 5 to 7 years .

I am waiting for an old Japanese executive to drive mine around for 5 years, breaking in the motor nicely

and Nissan to have addressed all the teething problems with it during this time.

Then I will buy it at Auction and land it in Australia for around $50K........2013(So what I have a gtr now)

So anyone still looking at buying one for 200K and having to sell it after 5 years for 50K ...

[R33GTRVSPEC]

So who are the dealerships that have waiting lists for the new GTR? Can someone PM me some info on who to contact, I would feel like an idiot walking down to the local Nissan dealer and having them ask WTF am i going on about. I will be trading in the R33 for one of these when they come out.

[Duncan]

walk into any dealer, I am sure they will be happy to take a deposit from you.

[gts4diehard]

R34s were $125000 NZ in 2001/2 from the Nissan dealers which I think was just over $100k in $Au at the time. Here at the time R34 GTRs were $150k AU. So if it comes in through Nissan it should be cheaper than what the importers would initially bring it in for.

Not that I expect the next GTR to be cheap but it may not be as dear as everyone expects.

V35 infinitis/skylines - 3.5 AWD sell in the US for $30 - $33K which works out at $37-$41k Au, which would be pretty competitive here for sure.

http://www.edmunds.com/new/2006/infiniti/g...266/prices.html

http://build.infiniti.com/configurator_inf...07:g&bs=g35

Edited December 6, 2006 by gts4diehard

[SS8_Gohan]

NZ has no car industry to protect, hence the taxes/tariffs/import duties, whatever... are practically non-existent compared to what we pay on our cars here. Even have to pay a luxury car tax over ~$56k, which the GTR will also attract.

So even if Nissan oz sold the R34 GTR here, it would still be would have been a lot more expensive compartively than NZ.

Will still be $150k+

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  gts4diehard said:

V35 infinitis/skylines - 3.5 AWD sell in the US for $30 - $33K which works out at $37-$41k Au, which would be pretty competitive here for sure.

Yeah, but there's no way it would go for that price. We don't have the US' economies of scale to get those kinds of prices.

The 350Z is USD$33K in the US, and AUD$67K here. They might get more volumes bringing in the AWD Skyline, since its a mainstream family sedan and not a 2 seat coupe, but you still probably won't get much change from $60K.

That said, if the Liberty GT and Mazda6 MPS can sell at that price, I think an AWD Skyline would be a good buy at that price.