RE: Shed of the Week: Nissan Primera GT

[DUMBO100]

I worked for Nissan and sold quite a lot of Premera GT's but only one chroma flair, the price of the paint was silly and touch up kit was about £50. Cool car though

[anonymous-user]

A vomitous taxi with a silly paint job. 4/10

[Trabi601]

RedAndy said:

if ONLY they'd done these in the estate version!!

I recall the estate being a very different car, as it was built in Japan, rather than being the European Primera.

[PistonBroker]

Thanks for the mention in the last line Shed! :-p

[the_hood]

I read in a car magazine that before the launch of the GT a team from Nissan in Japan came over to drive the car and were shocked at how stiff the suspension was and demanded that it be softened.

[zestyfesty]

Had one of the drives of my life in a private import GTLE in NZ years ago on a deserted mountain road, still recall the shrieking canny engine, pointy front end, low centre of gravity and top driving position. A belter and a complete sleeper down under

[Patrick1964]

I worked for TWR during the Nissan Le Mans campaign in 97 & 98. We had loads of these as company cars and for the drivers to use at Le Mans. They were always variable in performance, the ones that were carefully run in were noticeably slower than the ones that were thrashed from day one. On the way back from Le Mans in 98 a friend and I managed 109 miles in 52 minutes on a very empty, dry autoroute back towards Calais to catch the ferry home. I wouldn't dare try that now. Fantastic cars considering the design is 20 years old.

[StescoG66]

Had 2 in my time. Both P10's. First one a 2.0eZX saloon and a few years later a 2.0eGT hatch. The saloon was the better car for handling and went better as had no cat
. The red SR20DE was a gem. Long, long gone but fondly remembered. Best car I ever had.

[Hub]

Deja vu! http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... That one doesn't seem to be on the road anymore.

148bhp doesn't sound much these days, but they seem to be quite highly regarded. I remember having a lift in a briskly driven SRI and that seemed quite quick at the time.

Paint job is very 90s though. I hate it!

[s m]

the_hood said:

I read in a car magazine that before the launch of the GT a team from Nissan in Japan came over to drive the car and were shocked at how stiff the suspension was and demanded that it be softened.

They softened off the settings on the SRi but the GT was left as Dirk specced it

[DJFish]

I had two Almera GTis, lovely engines & really good fun cars, although particularly prone to rust.
My friend had a Primera GT which by all accounts was a better handling car, although he did park it on its roof so it can't have been that good!

[Glosphil]

I had a P-reg 2.0SLX (130hp?)as a company car. All my colleagues who drove it agreed it was a better car than their Mondeos and Vectras. Unfortunately its metallic red paintwork had a definite pinky tint. Very comfortable driving position due to seat and steering wheel being in line and square to each other (car actually designed for RHD rather than a mod'd LHD design like the Fords and Vauxhalls). Seat also had tilt adjustment to the front of the base.

[Trabi601]

DJFish said:

I had two Almera GTis, lovely engines & really good fun cars, although particularly prone to rust.
My friend had a Primera GT which by all accounts was a better handling car, although he did park it on its roof so it can't have been that good!

I found they were incredibly grippy and would carry much more corner speed than their contemporaries - but I always felt that when it went wrong, it wouldn't be too progressive and you'd get in a big mess very quickly.

[SDB660]

Had a Primera Sport Plus. Great car and first I had with the wonder that was then xenon lights. Had done 200k miles approx and still drove superb. Cost £1200 from memory a decade ago.

[s m]

sef535 said:

Cant rate these cars enough amazing car and handling 148bhp not much by today standards but a brilliant car and very fragile. .

I must have been lucky with mine - it had done 80k miles when I got it

Ran it for 3 years and nothing went wrong with it

Oil filter was a bit of a git to remove though - got a set of socket filter caps to be able to make oil changes easier

[s m]

Trabi601 said:

DJFish said:

I had two Almera GTis, lovely engines & really good fun cars, although particularly prone to rust.
My friend had a Primera GT which by all accounts was a better handling car, although he did park it on its roof so it can't have been that good!

I found they were incredibly grippy and would carry much more corner speed than their contemporaries - but I always felt that when it went wrong, it wouldn't be too progressive and you'd get in a big mess very quickly.

Performance Car did a hot hatch test and the Almera Gti scored well in the lateral g and slalom tests

[M4cruiser]

Well, I had a non-GT one in non-green ordinary blue, and I liked it for about 3 minutes. Once I'd driven it more than 5 yards the problems started to emerge. Had to take a shunt to get round the corner in the car park that my previous car did without even thinking about it. Felt the herringbone brickwork on the car park surface, yet I'd never noticed it before. Had to steer to the right all the way home to avoid running off the left edge of the road. Had the aircon re-gassed after 2 years and it lasted 3 months before it stopped working again. My first car with remote locking and the locks popped open randomly.

My first and last Nissan. But I'm thinking about a Leaf ...

[ToothbrushMan]

did these ever get 4 wheel steering?

[s m]

ToothbrushMan said:

did these ever get 4 wheel steering?

They did a 4wd T4 version

[squirdle]

Pile of s**t.