No Nissan GT-R until 2009
4 Dec, 2007
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Nissan has a dilemma on its hands. The company has produced such a remarkable car that it has already sold out, without even hitting showrooms.
The new Nissan GT-R, which has beaten the Porsche 911 around the famous Nurburgring track, will go on sale this week in Japan. Don’t hold your breath, almost 3000 Japanese buyers have already parted with their cash.
Doesn’t sound like a big number? With only 1000 right-hand drive variants expected to be built per month, RHD versions have already sold out till early next year and, we stress, it hasn’t officially gone on sale yet.
As our readers pointed out previously, one could buy the GT-R in Japan and ship it to Australia quicker than Nissan Australia can sell the car here. But there is an issue with Nissan Australia having already registered its intentions to bring the car to Australia, ending any hope of grey-imports being road-registrable.
Realistically the GT-R will not make it here till early-mid 2009, which is a shame as our friends in the U.S. start receiving their supercars in June next year for a remarkably cheap $69,950. Australian prices are not yet confirmed but expect to be paying significantly more than U.S. buyers.
It’s not all bad news though, all the coverage of the GT-R has not been a massive hype without reason, reports from Europe have given this car enormous praise. According to Car magazine the GT-R is “quick enough to make a Porsche 911 Turbo feel unexciting. An M3 beater? Easily. M5? Think higher. This car is faster, more high-tech, sharper, more capable.”
Dear Nissan Australia, where do we sign?
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December 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
No surprise, my friends in Japan say the preorder craze around the car was/is a complete frenzy!
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December 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
“quick enough to make a Porsche 911 Turbo feel unexciting. An M3 beater? Easily. M5? Think higher. This car is faster, more high-tech, sharper, more capable.”
That is actually from Car Magazine.
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December 4th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
This just has to be the star of the next Fast and Furious movie.
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December 4th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
HEY, It’s got a simlar spoiler the FPV GTs have.
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December 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I can’t believe US is getting it so much cheaper. Why can’t we get it around the same price as well?
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December 5th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Ivan it sucks big time doesn’t it? It’s the same sort of deal with cars like BMWs, the States gets them much cheaper while we pay a lot more tax on them as well as the fact that we’re such a small market obviously.
But at least with cars like the bimmers Australia usually got better equipment like leather as standard etc. With GTR it’ll probably be close to identical standard spec globally
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March 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Re the GT-R, it is awesome, i just bought one and drove it in Japan for a week., ask me about it.
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April 16th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
don’t know what the Gov in our country to make more fuking tax in all the sport cars… so better in Japan or US they have the nice and cheap car to drive, so the GTR come in next year with $250k or more…
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
you can buy the gtr from www.internationalmotorgroup.com.au
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