The Japanese automaker Nissan was on hand at the 2009 Miami Auto Show, and although they unveiled the new Rogue Krom crossover, it was a pearl white Nissan GT-R that caught our eyes as the centerpiece of their booth. Although this particular GT-R is nothing more than your run of the mill $80,000 super car killer, the hamburger logo did announce some new specs for the 2011 model that includes the highly anticipated Spec V model that takes Godzilla’s on track antics to new heights, and an even quicker lap time around the Nurburgring.
Usually when you say Porsche GT3 RS the first thing coming to your mind is a cool fast car painted in a combination of black and orange. But how does this combination looks on a Nissan GT-R for instance. Apparently this Singapore owner wanted to find out, or he is really wishing for a GT3 RS.
Besides the paint combination, the Nissan Gt-R also features a lot of carbon fiber components: diffuser, the rear wing, the hood and the spoiler. Also the spoiler is much larger than on a standard GT-R and the factory outlets no longer exist.
After seeing this images one think is for sure: we will still take the standard Nissan GT-R!
The Japanese automaker Nissan has just unveiled the updated GT-R at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, this new spec GT-R is basically the same super car that has been undergoing continuous development since it went on sale back in December of 2007 with a few more performance enhancing upgrades. The new GT-R will go on sale in Japan on December 7th starting at 8,610,000 yen for a standard version, while a GT-R SpecV will run consumers closer to 15,750,000 yen.
The exterior of the refreshed GT-R remains mostly the same, a functional change was made by incorporating the more sophisticated SpecV rear diffuser into the back end of the standard GT-R. On the inside Nissan has opted to use a new hard drive based navigation system called CARWINGS and a new USB port so that owners can plug in their digital music storage devices and enjoy the drive even more. The regular GT-R received a revised suspension complete with a stiffer front shock and spring package and harder bushings for the rear end, while the SpecV comes with its own unique rear dampener designed to take the performance of the hard core factory tuned super car to new heights.
The low and mid range response from the VR38DETT is improved on both the Nissan GT-R and SpecV models thanks to a pair of newly adopted hexagonal meshed catalytic converters that reduce backpressure and allow the turbochargers to spool up much quicker. This results in a GT-R that not only handles better than the previous version, but also feels faster off the line thanks to the revised exhaust plumbing. With a razor sharp SpecV model that costs almost twice as much as the standard version, Nissan is now tailoring to a wide variety of super car aficionados.
Combing through the online video library known as Youtube we came across this video of Nissan’s Colin Price going into extensive detail about every aspect of the Nissan GT-R.
Carbon fiber is an amazing material, in fact it so great that back when the lightweight space age composite was becoming more and more popular with the tuning scene both Boeing and Airbus had to dream up a few carbon fiber airplanes and hog all the beautiful wavy black stuff. Thankfully carbon fiber is no longer in such short supply and the Japanese Domestic Market specialists at Password JDM have just come out with a new pair of wide body front fenders for the Nissan GT-R made out of woven and cured carbon.
The units maintain the same lines as the factory piece except they extend the body almost an inch and a half on either side and are meant to accommodate up to a 20×11 inch wheel wrapped in sticky Toyo R888 tires sized 315/30/20. Now the Toyo is an excellent tire, and they were chosen because this is the widest tire available for the rear wheels of a stock GT-R. With over a foot wide contact patch on either of the car’s front corners the GT-R will be able to pull some tremendous G’s diving deep into the corners. So not only will your GT-R stand out from the crowd, and should you dare to paint the bare carbon skin and source an additional set of 10.5 inch rims from another GT-R onlookers would be hard pressed to point out exactly what it is about the slightly modified GT-R that makes it look a bit more aggressive than ordinary Godzillas. Password JDM is asking a cool $3,899.99 for the carbon fiber wide body front fenders for the Nissan GT-R and will be at SEMA in a few weeks with further details.
Back in February of 1969 the Prince Motor Car Company introduced a high performance racing version of their premium Skyline sedan for the streets, introducing the world to the first ever Nissan GT-R. The squared off Japanese super car immediately gained cult status by enthusiasts as the Hakosuka GT-R; hako coming from the word for box and the abbreviation for sukairain which stands for skyline. The Hakosuka GT-R was powered by a 2.0 Liter S20 inline six cylinder engine that produced a total of 160 HP. The cars were stripped of unnecessary equipment to be as light as possible for racing, which helped with the new sports car rack up over 50 race wins by 1972.
Back in February of 1969 the Prince Motor Car Company introduced a high performance racing version of their premium Skyline sedan for the streets, introducing the world to the first ever Nissan GT-R. The squared off Japanese super car immediately gained cult status by enthusiasts as the Hakosuka GT-R; hako coming from the word for box and the abbreviation for sukairain which stands for skyline. The Hakosuka GT-R was powered by a 2.0 Liter S20 inline six cylinder engine that produced a total of 160 HP. The cars were stripped of unnecessary equipment to be as light as possible for racing, which helped with the new sports car rack up over 50 race wins by 1972.
As great as the Hakosuka GT-R was, Nissan never saw fit to import any of their flagship sports cars to the U.S. but thanks to the team at Right Hand Drive Japan in Torrance, California we now have the chance to own a piece of Japanese sports car history; sort of. According to the restoration specialists “This is a 1972 Nissan Skyline 2000GT GT-R Clone (it was converted from a 2000GT to a GT-R). This model Skyline is affectionately known by enthusiasts as the Hakosuka... Venerated by Skyline/GT-R and classic Japanese car enthusiasts as the birth of a legend, these vehicles are even very rare in Japan.”
Even though this is not the real McCoy, these Hakosuka Skyline 2000 GT-R clones offer an excellent and affordable alternative to the real thing. After all, owning and operating an authentic Hakosuka GT-R would be so nerve racking you would be hard pressed to take it out of the garage and the classic Japanese race car would be doomed to a life of dark damp days hidden away as opposed to being enjoyed outside for the world to see. Now all you need to do is find an even rarer S20 engine to complete the Hakosuka GT-R experience.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Topspeed is running down a list of the most attention-grabbing pink cars spotted anywhere in the world. After showing you the pink Audi R8, we know head to Australia to show the Donut King Nissan GT-R.
Outlandish colors for road cars are pretty rare, but when it comes to race cars, it seems that conservative colorways are thrown out the window in favor of the more eye-catching variety.
Take this Nissan GT-R as an example. Owned by Donut King CEO Tony Alford, this Nissan GT-R was entered during the 2008 Targa Tasmania rally crown where it went exhaust-to-exhaust with a bunch of supercars that were also entered in the competition.
In a field that included a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, a Porsche 911 GT2, and a Corvette Z06, it seemed like Alford had to come up with a way to make his GT-R stand out from the rest of the pack.
So he did what any self-respecting donut chain owner would do to a sports car: he colored it pink. If the GT-R’s colorway isn’t enough, Alford also took advantage of the free publicity by plastering his company’s logo all over the car. So much for subtlety, huh?
Vancover was the scene of yet another Nissan GT-R crash after the owner of the sports car slammed into a VanCity Credit Union Bank. Fortunately, except for the driver who had a few gashes here and there, nobody was hurt or seriously injured from the accident.
According to News 1130, the GT-R barely hit a few civilians, including one who was just in front of the car after it crashed into a row of ATM machines. Another woman was inches away from being run over before jumping out of the way seconds before it would’ve hit her.
The police are currently investigating the situation and are not ruling out the idea that the GT-R may have been going faster than it should have, which probably led to the driver losing control of the car.
The driver was fortunate that nobody was seriously hurt because he would’ve had to face a much stiffer penalty than just paying for the damages. Then again, crashing a GT-R onto a bank is going to be pretty damaging to his bank account anyway.
It’s been an enormously successful car for the better part of its run over the past few years, but as it turns out, Nissan may finally be ready to park the Nissan R35 in the garage and be replaced by the R36.
According to the boys over at Pistonheads, Nissan vice president of global product planning, Andy Palmer flew in to check up on the brand’s GT-R program at the Nurburgring. While he was there, Palmer reemphasized Nissan’s continued commitment in the development of the GT-R program, so much so that he also hinted on a model (the R36) replacing the R35 in the coming years, expected to be 2013.
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