Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

To:

Nissan Staff

Date:

13 March 2008

From:

<H3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Colin Buckley</H3>Company Secretary

CC:

Subject:

GT-R (R35) INTELLIGENCE

By now almost all of you have had exposure to the new GT-R (R35), which is proposed to be on sale in Australia in the first half of 2009. It is a sensational vehicle for Nissan in Australia, and I know that Ross Booth (General Manager Marketing) and his team are working hard to ensure the vehicle is a huge marketing and sales success.

The fact of commercial life is that Nissan will face competition for our GT-R customers from “grey vehicle” importers, automotive workshops, and other fringe dwellers. The window from these “grey vehicle” competitors is capped to when Nissan obtains “full volume certification” for the GT-R (R35) model. We expect to have that Government certification by early 2009 (about 10 – 11 months).

We have already had a number of items of intelligence sent to me already which is heartening.

What can Nissan do to stop these “grey car importers” stealing our customers and selling R35 GT-Rs?

There are some countermeasures being put in place, but what we really need is good intelligence!

Intelligence

Your eyes, ears and contacts can go a long way to detect sales activity and promotion of GT-R (R35) vehicles by Australian or Japanese parties. We are focused on the R35 rather than older Skyline models (R32 – 33 – 34) or other Nissan models (e.g. Silvias).

I am asking for your assistance – should you find any worthwhile intelligence, please send it to the following email address: [email protected] or call me on 0397974120.

It could be photos (found or your own) of GT-R vehicles, information from friends or relatives, chat lines, blogs, car forums, names of businesses, individuals promoting GT-R (R35) sales, Internet sites of businesses, eBay auctions, etc. Almost anything related to promoting these businesses’ own sales or displays of the GT-R (R35).

If the intelligence is in hard copy, please send it to me by internal mail, marked ‘GT-R Intelligence.’

Should any of the intelligence received lead to stopping potential damage or loss to Nissan Australia, then an appropriate “reward” will be made to those employees.

I look forward to your enthusiasm and co-operation in gathering intelligence that will contribute to making Nissan’s launch and sales of the GT-R (R35) a huge success.

Colin Buckley

COMPANY SECRETARY

Tel: 03 9797 4120

Fax: 03 9797 4409

  • Replies 272
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

haha - Baron dwells in fringe's.

What the f**k do they think they're going to do?

Threaten importers?

Bust some caps in some a$$es?

They can get all the intelligence they like but at the end of the day, as long as those importing are doing so legally, there will always be people such as those on these forums who can see the potential benifit in importing privately.

Personally if i had the money to consider an R35 I would go with Nissan Aus every day of the week. But others won't so again, what are they going to do about it?

wow dude. I dont think that e-mail is for our eyes.

" What can Nissan do to stop these “grey car importers” stealing our customers and selling R35 GT-Rs? ""

hahaha umm i got an idea, how about Nissan sending a few this way ...

Edited by Zoggy

Looks like a scare tactic by Nissan as they know that emails like this will penetrate into the enthusiast scene through its workforce. There's nothing they can do as long as the cars are imported into Australia legally.

I wonder if nissan ever considered working with us fringe dwellers instead of contstantly trying to work us over? perhaps had we been included in information, and launch and treated like normal people there would be less of a market for SEVS and race only R35 GTR imports?

LOL. Hrmmmm "Our GTR buyer?" I think someone out must be poking in the right places for Nissan to be this hysteria about their GTR sales. "I still stand today, that I made the right decision to cancel my order!!!!!" Because I saw this coming from ages back and I got flamed from plenty of members here for bagging out the R35..

The most part is that, alot of the current GTR owner believes, they are the target demographics of the R35 sales, or believes they are owe in someway of lifting the GTR legend ontt the pesdestal. By way of cheaper pricing of the current car.

The email above just confirm my position with nissan and their business approach. So I will never buy a OZ. delivered R35 GTR

Because Nissan have got to get it into their head that, the GTR maybebe great and good, but it aint the be all or end all in sport cars.

The one area that will hurt the price of the current GTR is the percieved images in the general public eyes.

Scenario 1. You rolls up to a 5 star establishment and a 911 and GTR rocks up at the same time and their is only one car parking space left. I wonder which driver will be walking from further down the rd.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Given by the sheer number of questions about offset, absolutely not. If you had the information formatted this way: Space from R34 GTT hub to outer arch = 100mm Space from R34 GTT inner hub to nearest suspension arm = 90mm. (making this up) Buying a wheel that was advertised as Enkei RPZ5 Diameter 18in Width 9 Distance to arch = 84mm Distance to suspension arm = 76mm 100% of people would know instantly if it fits. They would absolutely also know instantly how close it fits too, and no questions would need to be asked. You would know you would have 16mm from the guard and 14mm from the suspension arm.
    • Ah ok, for example for the apexi ecu I heard that it's pretty limited with the information it can give you. Also not sure why Nissan used the consult port over the obd2, what the idea there was.
    • Diagnosing with and without is mostly the same. You need to know, as Duncan asked, and what conditions. Car hot, cold, idling, driving, if while driving what rpms, is when you're varying, or is it when held constant.   From there it's understanding what can be causing it. Starting with pretending all of the sensors are correct. Which means if it's going rich, why would it be thinking more air is going in than it is, and under what conditions. So things like if only when under boost, it could be be a loose intake piping joint. It's just understanding the system, and understanding when/how the problem occurs, and then if it's only occuring in specific scenarios, what can be causing it.   ECU specifically, if it's aftermarket, it'll have software you can use, for the Skylines on factory ECU, there is Nissan Consult you can use. Most ECUs have a way to get data from them.
    • How do you go about diagnosing ecu's that don't have data logging, is it more experience at that point and just trying out things that you think will fix the issue?
    • Stock O2 are basically useless beyond anything at stoich. Any misfire will also be seen as lean. The stock O2 also read a collective exhaust gas volume, not each cylinder. Sputtering and missing means not each cycle is firing, and some are. Which means even if rich, as shit, on cylinders as they miss, they'll read lean, but the cylinders that did fire will read rich, and combined, well, they can read anything from rich to lean.   Start with the basics before even going looking at sensor values.   Edit: I say the above, and that's coming from the guy with a few thousand dollars worth of scan tools sitting right beside me right now that I use frequently for my job.
×
×
  • Create New...