...to park next to their VX!
Okay, maybe not. But the new Nissan Skyline GTR will hit the states in 2007!
...to park next to their VX!
Okay, maybe not. But the new Nissan Skyline GTR will hit the states in 2007!
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Its a concept and it will never look anything like that...
Official photos on the site... going to be NICE!
http://www.gtrproto.com/
Last edited by Cyrk : 10/19/2005 at 01:39 PM
It'll still get neutered before import. Wonder what wimpy powerplant they'll foist upon us gullible peasants.
Over 20 years of Isuzu enjoyment...
looks waaaay too much like a 350z for me. same type of headlights, same shape. trying to make it too futuristic. i like the old body better.
I WILL have one in my garage -regardless of the US Spec powerplant. We'll never get an RB series motor, but I'd settle for a twin-turbo'd VQ if I had to.
Oh, and it better be AWD -ATESSA or otherwise.
i heards it doesnt get a turbo vq. its gonna stay na, either a upped vq35 or a vq40(the v8 one). btw its built off the z33/v35(g35,350z) chassis.
scratch wat i said before....got this off of motortrend
Nissan Skyline GT-R
You’re looking at 80 to 90 percent of the 2008 production GT-R, according to Nissan design chief Shiro Nakamura. We can’t tell you whether it will be sold in North America as the Nissan GT-R or the Infiniti GT-R, because Nissan brass claims it hasn’t decided. By now, fights ought to be breaking out between U.S. Nissan and Infiniti dealerships anxious to get this M3/Z06/Cayman/NSX/Lexus supercoupe-fighter in showrooms. We can end rumors that Nissan would slide in a 4.5-liter V-8 for North America and tell you that the United States get the same engine as the rest of the world. The engine we expect for the GT-R worldwide will be a highly tuned twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6, powering the rear wheels. The GT-R Proto features a small break in the roofline aiding what Nakamura says is a very aerodynamic package. Its twin round taillamps help “express the heyday of the GT-R,” a car until now has not officially been sold outside of Japan. The ’08 model launching in late ’07 will be the first GT-R sold in left- as well as right-hand-drive versions. The Proto’s front end is a bit “conceptual,” which means it needs a real-world front bumper and headlamps, but this show car is a solid approximation of the reborn street legend coming to our shores.
Last edited by MZ-N10 : 10/19/2005 at 03:29 PM
I was going off of this quote from Automobile Magazine:
"What we do know is that the GT-R will be Nissan’s modern equivalent of the mid-1980s Porsche 959: a staggeringly fast, all-wheel-drive, technology-laden flagship coupe into which Nissan engineers and designers have poured their souls. Sources report that the 2008 Skyline will be built on a unique all-wheel-drive platform and powered by a twin-turbo version of the 350Z’s 3.5-liter V-6, possibly bored out to 4.0 liters. The grapevine speaks of 450 hp allied to Nissan’s next-generation, variable-torque-split, ATTESA E-TS all-wheel-drive system. We say, how about a 500-hp, twin-turbo version of the 4.5-liter Infiniti V-8, instead?"
For $70k, it had better be in the 450-500 hp range to even raise an eyebrow in America.
Personally, I await the Toyota Alessandro Volta.
Scissor doors, three seats across, can move the wheel & petals to drive from any of them, and its a Hybrid...
See, I'm concerned about the environment too
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The skyline looks like a 350z+new-mustang+new-cadillac. If the report of RWD only is correct, then somebody at Nissan has lost a clue or two.
The volta sounds cool, especially the 4 individual motors, lots of cool things you can do with independent drive like that, and it looks like a slightly modernized lambo diablo. Probably too good to ever make it here looking like that.
Interesting comment coming from a VX ownerOriginally Posted by VCAMILO
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