Sex On Wheels?

[Primordial]

29 days 15hrs and 7mins now

[sh@un]

it'll prolly be shit

how could it possibly live up to the hype

[Primordial]

I'm sure the performance will be hardly better than a relatively modified R34GTR. It's not not quite in supercar territory so its almost certain that it wont live up to the hype.

For the money it's a damn good buy for a standard car (even if its not quite able to show the Porka turbo whats what, its still under half the price!). As always, you could spend the same amount of money and modify the crap out of an R34GTR and get something that will be quicker everywhere, but its just not the same as having the latest and greatest model/variant/facelift model etc

[sh@un]

this ~$125K price that's being bandied about seems kinda hard to believe

[mass_iv]

i really dont see how the new GTR will go for that price... i mean u have the r34 gtr m-specs and NUR's going for more then that????

i really think they will be around $150-170k mark

[NISMO]

Who said that the rb26 would be in the same form it was 18 years ago, its like anything with age you make improvements.

ive got nothing against this new beast. but i think it should go by a different name. the GTR finished production in 2002 for a good reason.

its like a tv series, if you make to many shows people loose interest, sure the first few years may be great, but then the writers struggle to come up with new ideas and it becomes boring.

at the end of the day all im saying is a great new car should have a great new name, and maybe in the years to come this could be looked at as another one of nissan's greats.

Dude are you serious?

Please tell me you're not one of these people who think the GTR name started with the R32. The GTR name has been around much longer than that, and it took a break after the C110. It's had several different engines which aren't RB26's. The RB26 engined GTR was stopped because it was an old engine that was struggling to meat world emission standards and didn't fit into Nissan's plans to make the GTR a global car. Kinda like the SR20 turbo'd silvia's.

For all we know this new engine will be the RB26 of the modern era. It is already known that the car will out perform any previous GTR's by lightyears (in factory spec).

Yes the RB26 is a great motor, but the motor in the new GTR is developed from the VQ35 line which is the only motor to make the Edmunds worlds 10 best motor's list since the list started, and I'm pretty sure if it was a choice between an old RB26 and the new motor 99% of people would take the new one every day of the year.

Of course if the new motor becomes plagued with problems and the new GTR is a donkey please ignore the above

[Primordial]

Yes the RB26 is a great motor, but the motor in the new GTR is developed from the VQ35 line which is the only motor to make the Edmunds worlds 10 best motor's list since the list started

Did you mean to say that the VQ35 is the only motor to make it on the list every year since it started?

It'd be a very short list otherwise

[Duncan]

Steve from Just Jap has ordered one for Targa next year, will be interesting to see if it is as difficult (impossible) to race as the Porsche turbo and gt2 are.

re importing....until Nissan decide to import them they are available to import via SEVS (once the intial complaince is worked out). For instance S15 can be imported from Japan if they were built between their jp release and and their Aus release date. And of course rally import can be done at any time

[NISMO]

Did you mean to say that the VQ35 is the only motor to make it on the list every year since it started?

It'd be a very short list otherwise

haha thanks Jon.

[Abo Bob]

Who said that the rb26 would be in the same form it was 18 years ago, its like anything with age you make improvements.

ive got nothing against this new beast. but i think it should go by a different name. the GTR finished production in 2002 for a good reason.

its like a tv series, if you make to many shows people loose interest, sure the first few years may be great, but then the writers struggle to come up with new ideas and it becomes boring.

at the end of the day all im saying is a great new car should have a great new name, and maybe in the years to come this could be looked at as another one of nissan's greats.

And it finished production in 2003.

[NXTIME]

This information was borrowed from another forum:

"The following is the detailed information re: new high-performance car.

Other information except front face, rear and interior will be disclosed by Nissan PR on 26th or 27th September.

The car model is CBA-R35 and the name is "NISSAN GTR".

GT-R 7,770,000JPY (ex. TAX etc)

- Dunlop Sport Tyre

- Crome Colour Coat Rays Forged Aluminium Wheel

- Fabric Seat

GT-R Black Edition 7,927,500JPY (ex. TAX etc)

- Bridgestone Potenza Run-flat Tyre

- Black Crome Colour Coat Rays Forged Aluminium Wheel

- Fabric Seat

GT-R Premium Edition 8,347,500JPY (ex. TAX etc)

- Bridgestone Potenza Run-flat Tyre

- Dark Chrome Colour Coat Rays Forged Aluminium Wheel

- BOSE Sound System

- Thacham Cat1 Alarm

- Leather Interior

Factory Optional Parts

- Bridgestone Potenza Run-Flat Tyre

- Thacham Cat1 Alarm

- BOSE Sound System

- SRS Driver and Passenger airbag with Side Airbag System and Cartain Airbag System

Body Colour:

Ultimate Metal Silver

Titanium Grey

Dark Metal Grey

Super Black

White Pearl

Red"

[DJ Brave]

The thing that makes me moist is that when they release this beautiful yet aggressive looking beasty to the world, (hopefully) the price of the R34 GTR's will drop just a bit further and fall into the reach of someone extremely deserving of one.

Like me.

*Starts to rock back and forth while chanting*

Midnight purple 3 V-Spec, Midnight purple 3 V-Spec, Midnight purple 3 V-Spec, Midnight purple 3 V-Spec....

[NXTIME]

Midnight Purple 3 R34 GTR V-spec

[NXTIME]

Dissappointed that they won't have a blue R35 GTR. Maybe they are leaving it for Nismo or other factory special editions

[NXTIME]

So, according to the above info, JDM 2008 GTR's will be between 8-8.5 million Yen. This is about $90KAUD raw in Japan. If this was to be SEVS or grey imported it would be around the $125K mark on road.

[DJ Brave]

Midnight Purple 3 R34 GTR V-spec

HEY!! That my chant!! Get your own!!! :laughing-smiley-014:

[NXTIME]

You never clarified which MP you wanted...2 or 3 . There is a big difference

[NXTIME]

Also, UK Nissan dealers have estimated that the 2008 GTR will be on sale from £55K with the following (unconfirmed) spec:

V6 3.8twin turbo producing in excess of 470bhp, 420lb/ft at 6700 (thats a bit specific!!)

Manual/Paddle shift

Active Four Wheel Drive

ABS

Brembo 6 pot front, 4 pot rears

UK car fitted with extra oil coolers (just like with previous cars!)

Rear diffuser

Viscous LSD

Internal Display Unit for Gauges (mfd)

19/20 Inch wheels, Bridgestone RE070 tyres

Sat Nav - optional

Climate

Electric Windows

Wide Angle HID headlights

4 seats

Leather/Suede seats

Bose sound system

Airbags (I'm only quiting what they wrote!)

Choice of 6 colours

Thatcham 1 Alarm System

UK Delivery September 2008

[DJ Brave]

Hows your beast going Charlie? You should've come down to TEXI for some fun last week mate. We had a ball!!

[NXTIME]

It's not going. Only place it's going is back into the workshop for some more mods

Hopefully be back before December for some fun before going back into workshop for some race-orientated mods