Comments on: Nissan GT-R: $69,850

By: James

James — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:59:30 +0000

WELCOME TO THE MOST OVERTAXED ECONOMY IN THE FREE WORLD…

By: tunerlover

tunerlover — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:50:53 +0000

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?

By: TommyGun

TommyGun — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:06:24 +0000

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.

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:24:36 +0000

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

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:22:03 +0000

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

By: BK

BK — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:24:09 +0000

Id rather buy the new 2008 Ford Typhoon. Just as good.

By: Mika

Mika — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:29:23 +0000

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%

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:09:07 +0000

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-r-pricing-out-of-nissans-control.html

By: Godspeed

Godspeed — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:20:25 +0000

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

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:34:21 +0000

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.