Nissan Sold Just One GT-R a Day Last Quarter
Nissan Sold Just One GT-R a Day Last Quarter
Nissan's supercar tuning icon, the R35 GT-R, is getting really long in the tooth. Its slow sales reflect that.
Thats more than I would have thought
I have a 370, and this thing needs an update.
The 370Z, my favorite decade of car generations
it got one
I want a 400. But damn, Im broke.
Why did these things ever become "supercars" again? The R32-R34 were cool IMO (in video games) because they were like a 30 year old's chimera of a full sized sports car for reasonable money second hand. It would have been cool to own one in the USA, but I thought of them like a 2 door Mitsubishi Galant VR4. Why did they ever become this status monstrosity? It is a 2 door Camry with rear wheel drive. I loved by Z32 as a teen. The Z as a super makes a tiny bit more sense, but not really.
Except the GTR was all wheel drive not rear wheel drive and 1:08 faster around the nurburgring than the C5 corvette which was sold at the same time.
The R35 has apparently completed the Nurburgring in 7:19.1 which puts it just behind the Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV at 7:18.
Thats why its arguably a supercar, because it can turn up to a big dollar track day and the guys in half a million dollar german and Italian mid engined supercars might look down on you for being there in a Nissan but they also dont want to get their doors blown off by one and they know its a possibility.
But they aren't a half million they cost the same now, and dollar for dollar, a much faster car can be built. There is nothing underdog average guy about this any more at the price point. It was only cool when a $35k Skyline was beating a $70k Porsche, and the average guy could buy the Skyline. Not to mention electric cars now.
I loved the R32-R34 in the late 90s. I still do. They were raw sports cars. Since I'm in the States they have never been affordable and 25 years later still don't have the disposable income to get one.
The R35 was different from the beginning. More refined, etc...
Boring in my mind.
Why did these things ever become "supercars" again?
They were supercars. In 2009.
Please don't tell 14 year old me playing GT2 on my PlayStation with a GT-R in 1998. I be crushed in my Motorex dreams.