In an interview with InsideLine, Kazutoshi Mizuno, the man behind the current GT-R confirmed that Nissan is indeed preparing a SpecM version for the GT-R: "We’ve always planned that after we released the SpecV, we were going to build the SpecM."
It will debut sometime next year and will compete with models from Aston Martin or Ferrari. Prices will start from 18,000,000 yen (around $200,000 at the current rates).
Its six minutes long, but we guarantee that it’s worth the watch.
And no, this is not an ad for the Nissan GT-R. What it is, is a independent short film by Dylan Osborn titled ‘Inheritance’.
The whole plot revolves around four siblings whose wealthy father recently died. As part of his will, he orders his children to race around the estate, on to the backroads, and back home to the finish line. The price? His entire riches, complete with ‘the keys to the kingdom’.
As you can expect, the kids came with some pretty nice rides of their own, except the ‘rebel daughter’ Emily, which, brought with her a Datsun 240Z. Having pretty much thrown in the towel, Emily gets a nice surprise from the family butler, who hands her the key to a Nissan GT-R.
We’re not going to spoil the ending so as not to ruin the whole thing. Better watch it.
United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. This is the place where the bad boys have no chance to run or any place to hide. Why? Because the Nissan GT-R is at watch!
The traffic control police just got the Gt-R as the new addition to their fleet. So, if we were you we will be good around there. But, wait! is Abu Dhabi - the place with no traffic rules!
There is no greater sight than a group of modified Nissan GT-R super cars lined up and shined to perfection, and of course while walking along the crowded halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center for the 2009 SEMA Show that is exactly what we came across. The old Skyline GT-R has already built itself a strong relationship with the aftermarket, and the new GT-R super car has quickly become famous for being able to embarrass Porsche owners for a fraction of the price by granting owners with ungodly amounts of power and handling that defies physics, all straight from the factory. Given the car’s tuning credibility and outstanding performance potential, the GT-R has become the perfect platform for enthusiasts to transform into the purpose built vehicle of their choice.
At the head of the pack sat Brian Lock’s GOTO:Racing R35, now any race spec GT-R is a visual treat, but when you consider that this is the first ever race ready Nissan GT-R to compete in any form of sanctioned motorsport in the U.S. you know that this is truly something special with its multitude of aerodynamic aids, gutted interior and ultra wide semi slicks. While Mr. Lock’s GT-R was modified in search of an all around ability to go, turn and stop in order to achieve the quickest lap time possible, the next Nissan in line focuses on doing one of those tasks extremely well with the same goal in mind of course. That is because the next example of Godzilla lined up in Las Vegas was a gleaming white GT-R that boasted as being the world’s fastest. With straight line acceleration being priority one, this super car owner has managed to run his GT-R down the quarter mile in an elapsed time of just 10.4 seconds with a trap speed of over 130 MPH, very fast.
There were so many modified GT-Rs in the lineup that it would be difficult to go over the nuts and bolts of each one, but if you are a true GT-R fan, and spent hours endlessly staring at that old B.F. Goodrich poster, then you should recognize this last GT-R distinct shade of Bayside Blue. Even though that particular paint code went away with the R34, this Godzilla enthusiast did a great job of bringing back the image of the four round red taillights floating in a sea of that memorable metallic blue paint.
The German suspension manufacturer Eibach is well known for being innovators in the field of automotive spring manufacturing, while at first these aftermarket metal coils were meant simply to lower the car’s ride height, these days springs are tuned to not only drop the vehicle but enhance its handling as well. A perfect example of a high performance machine upgraded with the help of Eibach is the Rally Innovations Nissan GT-R that was residing in the coveted corner spot of the spring maker’s booth. The Japanese super car has been slightly massaged into a machine worthy of the name Godzilla. The GT-R wears a new nose complete with a larger front opening and a few new vents to extract the hot air out from behind the radiators. Riding on a set of Work rims wrapped in sticky Falken tires and of course the obligatory Eibach suspension, this GT-R not only haas the perfect stance to intimidate Porsche 911 Turbo owners, but now it has the legs to run rings around them as well.
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.
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