RE: Nismo GT-R confirmed

[Guvernator]

GTR Owner said:

Fair question. When I told people I was getting a Nissan GTR I had to put up with a fair bit of stick for obvious reasons. What made me buy my second one was I was totally sold on the car. I have used it at several track days in UK and at Nurburgring and I really love it. However - if it was the same price as a say the Porsche (which is quite a bit more) would I have purchased my first one? If I'm honest no. Now I have been exposed to the GTR it would put me off far less. I guess what I am saying is the Nissan marque is still in relative terms the new boy on the super car block and it needs to keep making a name for itself. Perhaps I should modify my comment by saying to continue to attract "new buyers" it needs to keep price down and performance up. . . . but once you're bitten by it

Have to agree, once you've experienced GTR ownership you get to see what all the fuss is about but for a vast majority of people, it's very difficult to get over that Nissan badge and it's just seen as a chavved up ricer car so despite how good it is, the brand won't support a 6 figure price tag.

Rightly or wrongly the Nissan badge just doesn't have the same badge kudos as a Porsche so they need to price it to try to entice buyers who might not consider one otherwise. Trying to appeal to a hardcore set of GTR fans who are already converts is not enough, it needs to win people who aren't traditionally fans, over too.

[wheedler]

Buying the underdog always requires a long conversation into why. In my case some people even said stuff like "with that sort of money you could've bought an m3 or a decent car like a x5" etc. If the GTR would demolish the nearest competitor than I shall think it would be a very short explanation.

Truth is willy waving matters, and it doesn't matter if it's an iPhone or Rollex

Edit: I dont own a GTR, just nearly all my cars have came from Japan.

[y2blade]

drophead said:

The 7 year old playing Gran Turismo religiously every Saturday morning in me just went bonkers at this

Same

[rps13tonio]

The number 20 for production number of the z-tune r34 is correct. And to be able to get one, you had to be a current r34 nur spec owner, and you had to send in that car for the transformation proccess. Mileage had to be under 35k/km from what I understand, the chassis could have NO previous damage, and there could be no type of aftermarket modification done to the vehicle, unless previously done with NISMO parts, at an authorized NISMO installation shop. There was alot of prerequisites to converting to the z-tune, but as far as I know, as far as widely publicised gtr variations made by nissan/nismo themselves, the z-tune is, and more than likely always will be the rarest of them all.