RE: Nissan Skyline R31: PH Ad Break

[Pelo]

Here's one I prepared earlier. RB20DET, manual, not a bad skid machine. But horribly worn out and seriously 80's.



The R31 was huge in Aussie touring car racing before the GT-R came on the scene.

[Reardy Mister]

Pelo said:

The R31 was huge in Aussie touring car racing before the GT-R came on the scene.

Yep, awesome. Always a been a fan of that shape.

The leather gloves are presumably to stop blisters from a gear shift throw that's about 3 minutes long.

[Ian974]

For some reason, all I can think of after that music is tetris.

[foxhounduk]

GUTSY!
GUTSY!
GUTSY!

[Panayiotis]

Hairouts said:

The speedo wasn't reading 80mph, but 80km/h. That makes it around 50mph.

Should probably watch the whole video before commenting

HTH

[MonkeySpanker]

WOW, this made Knight Rider seem like Shakespeare..........
"KITT I want the PLASMA........NOW"
"I really wouldn't do that Michael, you've only just got over your chest piece leaving you."

Or something.............

[visaking]

That deployable chin spoiler is awesome, what's not to love about active aero? :-)

[stew-S160]

Race car. First saw this on Gran Turismo. Thought it was awesome.

[Coatesy351]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKxgQoDkZhY

[y2blade]

Jazzy Jefferson said:

"R31, Pre GTR Days"

Not quite. In fact, not by a long shot.

SOOOOO MUCH WANT

[Fox-]

1986 and it came with projector headlights.

In 2013, throw BMW almost £40,000 for a standard 335i and they'll give you reflectors

[Hairouts]

Panayiotis said:

Should probably watch the whole video before commenting

HTH

FYI I did watch the whole video. The original text was referring to the speedo as it goes past 80. Nowhere in the video does the speedo go anywhere near 128km/h (80mph). JDM models such as this Skyline only have Speedometers in km/h. So the 80-in the video is actually only 50mph.

Before commenting on someone else's post, check the facts.

[selym]

Hairouts said:

FYI I did watch the whole video. The original text was referring to the speedo as it goes past 80. Nowhere in the video does the speedo go anywhere near 128km/h (80mph). JDM models such as this Skyline only have Speedometers in km/h. So the 80-in the video is actually only 50mph.

Before commenting on someone else's post, check the facts.

You'll do well on here!

[GravelBen]

Glenn Seton, a Skyline, a very wet Bathurst... much fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-JtvVvESc

[Paperboy]

Fantastic, I want one now!

[RichardR]

By the power of random Youtube clicking at the end of the link, I stumbled upon this promotional video for another Skyline.

I'm hugely intrigued by the device shown from around 2:05 that appears to be some sort of early precursor to sat-nav (complete with stubby aerial) allowing the driver to plan their journey on a map and then pre-programme the device with some sort of instructions in order to be shown countdown markers and informative directional arrows at the appropriate points in the journey!

Any Japanese speakers on here who can shed more light on this...?

[PZR]

RichardR said:

By the power of random Youtube clicking at the end of the link, I stumbled upon this promotional video for another Skyline.

I'm hugely intrigued by the device shown from around 2:05 that appears to be some sort of early precursor to sat-nav (complete with stubby aerial) allowing the driver to plan their journey on a map and then pre-programme the device with some sort of instructions in order to be shown countdown markers and informative directional arrows at the appropriate points in the journey!

Any Japanese speakers on here who can shed more light on this...?

Yes, that was Nissan's 'Drive Guide' system. It was an ( expensive ) factory option on the R30-series Skyline.

It only gave a compass arrow and distance-to-destination ( in linear form ) on the dash display, but it was pretty good for a mainstream production car option in late 1980.

There were later systems that projected a map onto a screen in a kind of HUD type of affair.

[JaguarsportXJR]

y2blade said:

Jazzy Jefferson said:

"R31, Pre GTR Days"

Not quite. In fact, not by a long shot.

SOOOOO MUCH WANT

+1

[Mark Wibble]

Fox- said:

1986 and it came with projector headlights.

In 2013, throw BMW almost £40,000 for a standard 335i and they'll give you reflectors

Erm... you never drove a Nissan with projector headlights from that era then?! They were shocking. My experience was from my Zed, but assuming it was based on a similar arrangement... they were really, really awful. Perhaps it was the tendency for the globe to fill up with crap and be incredibly difficult to clean, or maybe the glass frosted over time, but the main beam was always fine yet the projector dipped beam was atrocious. Don't knock old tech if it works!

[bobberz]

That video was fantastic! At the beginning when the helicopter sound effect started, I was expecting Airwolf to appear! That deployable chin spoiler must've been jaw-droppingly cool if you were a kid in the 1980's and saw this commercial for the first time!

Then, when the coupe and four-door variants were battling it out (on Nardo?), I was fully expecting Jackie Chan to appear on rollerskates!