Australian Nissan GT-R sales storm
November 6, 2008 by George Skentzos
The Nissan GT-R has caused a sales storm in every country which it has made its showroom debut – and Australia is no exception.
Since orders opened less than a month ago on October 9, more than 100 examples of the iconic GT-R supercar have been pre-sold as customers rush to secure their own piece of performance bliss.
Priced from just $148,800, the GT-R is exceptional value for money considering the performance benchmarks it has been compared to – and outpaced.
It will be available from just 11 exclusive Nissan High Performance Centres spread across each capital city when it officially goes on sale locally next April.
Nissan Australia has experienced a surge in interest since local pricing and specifications were announced prior to the Australian International Motor Show.
“The early customer reaction is fabulous and we have secured enough production to ensure that no-one who wants an R35 GT-R will be disappointed.”
For those who were perhaps reluctant to wait in line for a new GT-R, Nissan Australia has managed to secure 200 units for 2009 with just over half already accounted for.
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Funny how Holden charges the same amount for that HSV thats never been tested anywhere other than the parking lot.
irang the dealer in brisbane to place an order for one and i was told that i would need to front up with $10 g deposit now(fair enough) and that all up i would have to fork out $170g when i queried him why this was ten grand more than the advertised price he tried to convince me that no i was mistaken and that it was and has allways been 170g he emailed me the info and on the nissan broucher it said 152g + on roads for premiun edition and on roads do not came to 18g from what i know so i’ll just wait and see as had only taken 9 out of 19 orders so far
Yes Harminder Singh some Nissan dealers are charging outrageous \”Delivery\” fees.
You cannot buy one for anywhere near $148,800
There is no doubt the Nissan dealers are taking the mickey. The STi dealers did the same things when the new STi came out, priced at over 71K on the road in NSW, and now look. You can buy a demo Spec R for 57K driveaway with 7K on the clock. The same will be true of the Evo. These ‘extra’ costs are ludicrous. I cannot understand how the new car industry is still permitted to advertise the cost of the car without disclosing the whole price. They should be forced to advertise full drive away cost in the state in which it is registered.
I love this car! Fantastic and wonderful.
Cheers
Vincent
Godzilla is back..bring it on!!!
I agree with Flying High. They should advertise full drive away costs, just like airlines are now forced to advertise full ticket and taxes/fuel costs.
Although I would get an M3 instead of this. I heard the GT-R is extremely high maintenance. Also, if you disable the TCS (traction control), any warranty is void!!! So much for the superfast launch….if the gearbox breaks, that’s $30k out of your own pocket.
Flying High and Ivan, the reason the dealers need to advertise new cars without the on road costs is because the manufacturers acvertise the list prices of their cars nationally and the on road costs vary from state to state in Australia and the reason why they can charge over the recommended retail price is exactly that, it’s “recomended”
Nothing wrong with making a profit occasionally especially in our industry. Remember when you had to pay $1000 for a Sony PS3, now they are $600. It’s business, it’s called supply and demand.
Its just supply/demand at work.
I remember the origonal MX5, people where selling there place in the wait-q!
Dont know if the will manage to sell the fully 200 units in 09′, but all things considered i would say NISSAN would be stocked with that!
I wouls still buy a demo 911 or demo Cayman, I DONT CARE THAT THE GTR IS FASTER,,,,,,DONT CARE OK!
Cheers
F-0
Still cant beleave this car costs as much as a commondore go figure. The holden guys are charging wayyyyy to much.Good on gtr i say giving people 911 performance for so little money.I would love to buy 911 but thay are so out my price range even seconed hand way over what i can afford.But gtr very close to my affordabilty
Boggy – as I said “full drive away cost in the state in which it is registered”
In just about any other industry, it would be completely unacceptable that a person calls a retailer, asks for a price and is told to come-on-in and we will talk about it.
It is a shame that so many crap car-salesman/dealerships spoil it for the so few good ones.
Flying High – You have a good point. Surely somethings could be changed about how the prices are advertised. Maybe both the RRP and the driveaway price in it’s state.
My apologies Flying High i missed that. Victory we have tried that in the past and we had people confused and or going to another dealer that only advertised list price thinking they were cheaper it was just as annoying. Both ways have their pros and cons…
Ivan, $30K for a new gearbox for a GTR is not bad considering the car.
I hear the DSG gearboxes in VW Golfs are $15K if they pop. Half or more the price of the car in some circumstances.
GTR retail price in jap r cost 30% less if Aussie $ r strong. How come in Aus dealer charge heaps? I dont think shipping cost and tax cost that much.
this car looks nice and by the lokks from the specs goes great too. i’d love to drive one.
Kakoi, blame the Rudd Government for the 33% Luxury Car Tax for that one.
I can’t wait to see this thing driving around :D
It is a pitty that Ruddy put that 33% tax on “Luxury Cars” :|
Is he trying to make it so that he is the only one with a Luxury car? :(
The premium in silver colour adds to $164,400 with taxes and rego, the dealer delivery is 7K-8K since they say its 172K on-the-road. It is the most expenive car wash and vacuuming in the world hahaha. I still want to see how they can justify the dealer delivery costs, its not like they don’t already earn their fair share of money when the car gets sold.
Which ever way you look at this, the GT-R will not be some precious, rare car so the price will plummet pretty quick, especially with Nissan bringing the new model every year. Series II is already being sold in Japan, great, and we still get the leftover Series I’s. Its a car and a half but I still reckon it’s 20K overpriced in our market.