Nissan GT-R: $69,850
15 Nov, 2007
40 Comments 
I’d like to be able to tell you that when the Nissan GT-R lands on Australian shores, it will be available for the paltry sum of just $69,850.
Unfortunately, this is the price tag associated with US delivered models, although the good news is this figure is still USD$10,000 less than originally forecast, meaning when the Australian price is released it could be even less than originally expected.
Sales of the new GT-R are due to begin in Japan next month, with North America to follow in June 2008.
Source: AutoBlog
Rate Post: 
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...
-
Print it:
November 15th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
*****PRIMO!*****
AS usual, we get scammed with car prices
Cheers
F-0
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I’d hate to break it, but Australia probably pays 1.5 to 2 times the price for equivalent cars than the US, when currency conversions are done.
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
with the high aussie dollar we are looking at somewhere between $120-$140k I’d say.
Kinda of sad still - it might actually work out significantly cheaper to import a 2008 model since we will be able to under the import rules as Nissan are not officially selling the vehicle until 2009 here.
Please someone correct me if I am wrong on the importing.
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Yeah still its ashame it looks like shit
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
WOW, THAT’S F***ING CHEAP FOR A NISSAN GT-R!!!!
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Its Fugly as ever, an EVO X wanna be . . .
(Report)
November 15th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Chris that is true, although you will run into a small issue of the steering wheel being in the wrong place.
Of course if Nissan plan to sell the car in the UK next year as well, it might just work! You have got me thinking!
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 12:59 am
its going to be $120K AUD
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 2:02 am
GTR dominates the EvoX, AND its not a tarted up runabout - its the real deal
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 7:20 am
IF they come in at that price I’ll by two, and use one on the track! Somehow I doubt we’ll be so lucky.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 7:39 am
“Evo X wannabe” Absolutey f’ing hilarious.
Alborz, if what Chris is saying is true, could one not import from Japan, as the grey importers have done in Australia in the past? I’d say you’d be damn lucky to find one available in Japan though as more than likely demand would outstrip supply.
This is the first time the GT-R is sold as a world car, so it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out in terms of demand and supply.
It would be very tempting at AUD $120K. Problem is you are always going to have badge-whores looking down their nose at you.
Matt
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Don’t know about you, but I drive my cars for myself, not to impress anyone else. Badge snobs can look down their nose all they want. All they’ll see is a cloud of smoke :P
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 9:42 am
mikmak is right, doesnt matter what performance car you drive theres always some douche willing to take a stab. Personally I think the GTR has enough street cred to put any of the german marques to shame, and they dont charge the world for it.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I doubt that you will be able to buy the GTR from Japan first hand, unless if it is second hand.
If it is $120k, I’d rather buy an $70 evo or sti and spend another $30k-40k modifying it, and still got some spare $$$ for fuel for 10 years….
To be honest, I don’t like how the new GTR looks, although I would love to drive a front engine and rear gearbox 4wd performance car :)
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I do drive an R33 GT-R and I\’d like to think I don\’t care 1% what others think… but I know what you mean, and by and large I\’m very happy with it and don\’t really care too much what others think of the car or me driving it.
The Evo and STi are also fantastic cars. Have been passenger in an Evo VIII around Oran Park and was impressed with the ease with which it can be tossed about and made to go quickly point to point.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I highly doubt supply in Japan will reach demand so importing will be a considerable task even if you manage to buy one, stay there a year and bring it over as private (hope you can find an insurer here too). This won’t be able to be imported for a good long time.
The GT-R won’t land in Aus till 2009 or later and as Chris said, we will pay a premium for it as we have in the past for cars like the 300zx (non turbo ! $88K) and RX-7 - despite nearing parity with the US$ and being closer for shipping. An outrage, but what can you do?
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Importjap - exactly. I guess that’s the price we pay, being a much smaller market than the UK or the US. Australia has an excellent variety of cars on offer though, compared to some other developed markets.
Do you think Nissan Global were bitten by slow sales of the R32, with 100 officially imported, which is why Australia has been relegated to 2009? After all, we were the only non-domestic market to officially receive the GT-R besides the UK.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Godspeed, more than likely that sales of the 32 are what Nissan are going on with our market, though tarrifs play a part as always.
They shouldn’t be worried; sales of the EVO show the thirst Australaians (now) have for Japanese turbo performance, as well as the thriving grey import market, which includes the 32.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’ve been in talks to some Japanese expatriates here and they said the GTR is to sell for roughly 60K AUD in Japan…. Again once you live in Japan and owned it for a year.. you can take it back home… hopefully I get to go there sometime in the near future and buy a second hand for 40K AUD and ship it back for 4K AUD… 44K AUD for a GTR… sounds good!
And i laugh at the “trying to be Evo” comment… seriously, think twice… no… just think for a second.
Like I said, this GTR was benchmarked against the Porsche 911, benchmarking is not just “copying” or “matching”… its basically matching it in terms of performance and quality and build but beating it in terms of place in market and manufacturing wise. Its a very common process in the automotive engineering field.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Absolutely. Benchmarked against the 997 Turbo no less, not just the garden variety 911. Official claims are it laps the Nordschleife a few seconds faster than the Turbo.
Having said that, lap times aren’t everything of course; the journos will tell us how this thing actually goes about putting its power down. If it’s anything like the R32-33-34, it should have power that is easy to exploit, with benign handling whilst retaining all important fun factor, feel and feedback from the chassis.
Maybe I’m biased (I don’t think so) but it irks me when people call this a “Playstation car”, which implies that it does everything for you and gives you no feel or communication.
People should drive and / or do some research on a car before making dimwitted blanket statements.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I personally am looking forward to this car coming to Australia. If I start saving my pennies now I might be able to buy one in a few decades :P
This will be an awesome car no doubt. It looks great (good to see the Nissan family theme like the 350Z and V35 Skyline) and will go like a cut snake without a doubt.
I think Nissan have done a great job bringing back the icons (350 and GT-R).
I think the derogatory comments are there just to inflame and spark a flame war. No one could possibly think a 354kW, 588NM track car is a wannabe for a 206kw (officially) rally car.
Two different sticks for two different tasks.
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Nicely put Tom.
Got to acknowledge the tremendous work Carlos Ghosn has done in turning around Nissan’s fate over the last 8 years.
“Ghosn claimed that Nissan would have no net debt by 2005. One year after he arrived, Nissan’s net profit climbed to $2.7 billion from a loss of $6.1 billion in the previous year. Nissan’s [operating profit] margin has increased from 1.38% in FY 2000 to 9.25% in FY 2006.” (Wikipedia)
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
This car looks brilliant and will perform incredibly too. I dont think it will quite hit 3.6seconds to 100kmh though being considerably heavier than a porsche turbo which does high 3s. Performance bargain though as it would destroy any car in the 120k bracket. The one thing ive read that sounded odd and off putting is that the engine’s cylinder bores are plasma-sprayed. Sounds good i thought, till i read that due to this the engine requires a full tear down every 12months!!!??? Now that will make the relative bargain buying price slightly less appealing if thats the case!!!
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Yeah I read that in this month’s Motor as well and it would be interesting to hear more about this - maybe see what the guys here at CA can find out. It is especially odd considering it’s a Nissan and this sort of maintenance requirement is usually reserved for something a lot more exotic like a Ferrari
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I AGREE with SCOTT, why would you buy the GTR over a
porsche when the porsche would be cheaper and easier to
maintain!! also what happens if you didnt do it every 12
months would you void your warranty?? My opinion is buy
a new 08 wrx STI, keep the savings,goes almost as hard
be much cheaper to insure,fuel,maintain,and gauranteed
good resale!!plus much more practical to drive every day..
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
STi - fantastic machine, but I reckon the GT-R is playing in a slightly different ballgame.
I think it is to be expected that in stepping up the GT-R in terms of market scope as well as performance over the previous models, some high-end maintenance would be needed?
I am also not convinced that the servicing costs for a Porsche (of any iteration) would be cheaper than anything other than high end supercars such as Ferraris.
Lets see what further details emerge on the plasma-bore front
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
On your fuel consumption point, it also says in Motor that the fuel consumption that is claimed by nissan is in the 8’s (8.0l/100km) and the car has been developed under “ultra low emission vehicle” (ULEV) standards, and apparently “emits as many harmful exhaust pollutants as a Toyota Prius at speeds below 200km/h” ?!
Even as a GT-R owner and enthusiast I find this hard to believe - Nissan have made some phenomenal claims for the new GT-R, so probably have to wait and see. It has big boots to fill and some big claims to uphold
(Report)
November 16th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
THEY DO CALL PORSCHE THE PRACTICAL SUPERCAR BECAUSE
MAINTANENCE AND RELIABILITY ARE QUITE GOOD,,OBVIOUSLY NOT
AS CHEAP AS A MAINSTREAM CAR THOUGH..THATS THE ADVANTAGE
OF STI!! OK ITS IN A LESSER LEAGE THAN GTR,,BUT HOW MUCH
PERFORMANCE DO YOU REALLY NEED…I WOULDNT APPRECIATE MY
CAR NEEDING AN ENGINE TEAR DOWN EVERY 12 MONTHS. ID RATHER
HAVE A SLIGHTLY SLOWER MORE PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE CAR…
(Report)
November 17th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Nissan claims that when purchased, the GTR has access to service and maintenance from Nissan specialists themselves. And not just that, I’ve read the specialists are flown where ever they are to service your GTR.
I dont really know how that will work… maybe its a once off thing, like within the first year or purchase for that engine tear down, then from then on you have to order parts and get a local nissan dealer/mechanic to maintain it.
(Report)
November 17th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Godspeed and Chris both make good points.
Nissans claims are incredibly high, claims of 3.6sec to a hundred ill believe when i see but i find many companies need new computers when it comes to acceleration estimates. Like honda and its claims of the australian model civic type r doing 6.x to a hundred. It was NEVER going to go even CLOSE to that. Anyway i do believe it will do a 4dead and possibly tip very high 3s but look at a 640hp lambo that weighs less and they do 3.6secs so i think its slightly unrealistic.
Fuel consumption i think is a ridiculous claim. Maybe in top gear on a highway but i would be tipping the official consumption sticker to be reading in the 12s or 13s and id say that most people will average over that.
Porsche may be expensive to service but id hate to think that i need to have my engine pulled down hearly even regardless of cost. The chance for something to be done incorrectly is too high for me to be comfortable.
350ish kw’s is a lot but the capacity hike is also considerable, the power per litre is actually not massively higher than the r34 so surely they could have done it without the need for these rebuilds. Half the fun of the last one was knowing that you’d have a near bulletproof rocket of a car. You could put well over 350kw through them with not a drama. I just hope this was something that motor misunderstood or something??
I must say having driven a new wrx though, the new sti will be a very liveable sports car. The new wrx is just incredible having driven the last model also. Id therefore agree with chris that an sti would be (whilst not quite in the same place) the smart choice for a damn quick car with excellent maintenance costs and reliability etc
(Report)
November 18th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Well now all the guys who are driving the old taxi skylines would get a new car but with this price they never get to buy a new one only a second hand car.
(Report)
November 19th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Last Friday I put down a deposit on the GTR, found one of the “likely” dealers here in Sydney that will probably get an allocation of the cars. (Not all dealers will).
The likely price range is 150-170k.
I hope to have the car as a track/weekend driver. Having driven the Evo’s and quite a few STI’s, I am not sure you could ever put them in the same class, the chassis of the GTR was designed with rigidity and torsion strength in mind, the STI and EVO’s were only designed with their 206kw in mind (And of course the rally upgrades, but these included a roll cage to strengthen the chassis and provide more rigidity. I do not doubt that you could throw 30k at an Evo or an STI and make it fast, but facts remain that you have a car that was never designed for such power or a chassis that can cope with it. There is much more to a car than going fast. The entire GTR package (Brakes, engine, interrior) is supercar territory, just because it is made in Japan does not lessen its ability nor make it a closer relation to the STI/EVO than say to a Porsche or Ferrari.
Bang for your buck, you could not get close to the GTR with anything currently on the market.
(Report)
November 19th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Congrats Jeff. Can’t wait to see these in the flesh!
The R32, 33 and 34 GT-Rs were all based on a standard Skyline body, with significant modifications done; for example to make the body more rigid so that it can cope easily with ~500bhp for Group A racing and so on. The new GT-R by contrast is designed from the ground up to be an affordable supercar, far removed from the standard Skyline and hence does not have “Skyline” in its name. The R33 GT-R was the first production car (besides the Jaguar XJ220) to lap the Nordschleife in under 8 minutes and so it is beyond disrepute in its abilities.
The Evo and STi are no doubt super fast as well and are also to be held in high regard; somewhat in contrast to your thoughts though they were engineered for more HP than 276; the UK-only models such as the FQ300 and FQ400 Evo are still capable of containing the power within their chassis.
Bang for your buck the GT-R will be very hard to beat. Will be interesting to see what the new Lexus supercar is capable of however, although no doubt it is a more ‘prestige’ offering and will be priced accordingly
(Report)
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
This link was an interesting read on the GTR……..So I guess the same problem will occur here like the price gouging on the resent Cobra!
Heres the link
http://www.leftlanenews.com/gt.....ntrol.html
(Report)
January 10th, 2008 at 1:29 am
I love this car. Spent a fair bit of time sitting in one in Tokyo in mid december. Very sexy cars with very sexy, comfortable interiors. Everything is spaced out well and the new control switches for things like traction and suspension are totally cool.
The engine packs a punch and I believe they do an 11.2 or 11.3 standard! Throw in an exhaust and I dare say you’d be into the 10’s!
8 million Yen in japan which averages out to be around 80 000 AUD
Quite sad that’ll we’ll be seeing mark up’s of another 50%
(Report)
February 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Id rather buy the new 2008 Ford Typhoon. Just as good.
(Report)
February 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
The new F6 will truly be FPVs hero car, but hardly in the same category as this.
F6 still represents great value this landed will be as much as an M3……….$160,000
(Report)
February 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Now saying that ………Godspeed as a lover of both BMWs and owner of a GTR now what you going for…….you want a short or long straw babe?? hahahaha
(Report)
July 24th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Been speaking to a mechanic at a Nissan dealership. Once enough orders are in he, as well as mechanics from any other workshop which wants to work on the new skyline and GTR will have to go to Japan for training. Hope this results in less mechanical stuff ups, but the aprentices probably won’t be able to keep their hands off em.
(Report)
January 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
the incredible thing about this car is the fact that it’s cheap and that it is fast as anything but i have a few problems i have to overcome before i can get one: i live up in townsville and it’s damn hot, the roads are crap, and townsville is apparently the hoon capital of NQ so i woudn’t be able to drive it arond on saturday nights without everyone with a fibreglass rear wing and a bodykit to challenge me to a drag at the lights. and if i get one apparently i would have to get it down to mackay or somewhere to get it serviced. I’m thinking about moving down to brisbane, so can anyone tell me if there are the same problems in brisbane?
(Report)