Description
The Nissan GT-R (Japanese: ???GT-R, Nissan GT-R), is a high-performance sports car and grand tourer produced by Nissan unveiled in 2007. It is the successor to the Skyline GT-R, a high performance variant of the Nissan Skyline. Although this car was the sixth-generation model to bear the GT-R name, the model is no longer part of the Nissan Skyline model lineup since that name is now reserved for Nissan’s luxury-sport vehicles. The GT-R built on the exclusively developed Nissan PM platform, which is an enhanced evolution of the Nissan FM platform used in the separate Nissan Skyline luxury car and the Nissan Z sports car. The GT-R abbreviation stands for Gran Turismo?Racing, obtained from the Skyline GT-R.
CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn determined the GT-R will be an global icon for the Nissan brand. Unlike its predecessors which was notably sold only in Japan, the GT-R will be sold globally all around the world.
The production version of the GT-R introduced at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, along with the PM platform, featured the exclusively developed VR38DETT engine and lot more other newer technologies. Overall body made out of steel, aluminium and premium materials such as carbon-fiber. After 15 years of production, the GT-R has been discontinued in the European market and Australian market due to newer regulation changes.
Between 1969 and 1974, and again between 1989 and 2002, Nissan produced a high performance version of its Nissan Skyline coupe called the Nissan Skyline GT-R. This car proved to be iconic for Nissan and achieved much fame and success on road, track and motorsports.
The GT-R is an entirely new model sharing little with the Skyline GT-R save its signature four round tail lights. Like some later generations of the Skyline GT-R, the GT-R has the ATTESA E-TS all-wheel drive system with a twin-turbocharged 6-cylinder engine. But the four-wheel-steering HICAS system has been removed and the former straight-6 RB26DETT engine has been replaced with a new VR38DETT V6 engine. Because of the GT-R’s heritage, the chassis code for the all-new version has been called CBA-R35 and for later model years as DBA-R35 and 4BA-R35, or R35 for short (where CBA, DBA and 4BA stands for the emissions standard prefix), carrying on the naming trend from previous Skyline GT-R generations.
The GT-R has also retained its Skyline predecessor’s nickname, Godzilla, originally given to it by the Australian motoring publication Wheels in 1989 for its R32 generation model.
