RE: First UK R35

[E4UAN]

More to the point, how did Max Power get in for the pictures before anyone else!

[mackie1]

speedmachine said:

Is there only going to be an auto or sequential manual or whatever they call it? I wonder why there isn't a manual version?

AFAIK it'll only be available with the DSG-like transmission.

[_daveR]

beefcake42 said:

Sparky69 said:

beefcake42 said:

_daveR said:

beefcake42 said:

white is the way forward... i saw a light metalic blue one of these about three weeks ago just didn't look right, it was a really light almost pastel shade...looked like a big hard car painted all ghay.

Really? There isn't a blue colour available?

it surprised me so much i made my bro (who was driving) go round the round about again to see it.

it was in watford...near the nissan hq (rickmansworth end). 100% it was the R35, i thought it may have been a press car but the colour was well poo.

Are you sure it wasn't the new skyline as oppossed to the GTR? The skyline name has been moved to the Infinity side of nissan with the new R35 just being called the GTR.

maybe... but the two cars don't really look alike and i spent a long time drooling on the press pics, although my eyes aren't great.. (gettin old etc) .... could have been the drugs.... open to any explanation really these days nothing surprises me.

i know they dont make a blue...yet (v-spec cometh) .. but they also dont make one in lambo orange...yet one exists.

Edited by beefcake42 on Thursday 7th February 13:05

Edited by beefcake42 on Thursday 7th February 13:07

Which was done by a tuning co.

I cant see Nissan painting one up in another colour for the UK. From memory the colours are black, white, red, silver, gunmetal and a "titanium" colour which looks almost gold-ish.

Oh, and all the info points toward it being called Spec-V rather than V-Spec as before.

[thekirbyfake]

beefcake42 said:

_daveR said:

beefcake42 said:

white is the way forward... i saw a light metalic blue one of these about three weeks ago just didn't look right, it was a really light almost pastel shade...looked like a big hard car painted all ghay.

Really? There isn't a blue colour available?

it surprised me so much i made my bro (who was driving) go round the round about again to see it.

it was in watford...near the nissan hq (rickmansworth end). 100% it was the R35, i thought it may have been a press car but the colour was well poo.

I think I may have seen the same car. The colour was very similar to the one used on Top Gear's old Hyundai Lacetti (reasonably priced car).

[SpeedEight]

The article clearly states that the price includes the 'model report', I just thought I'd point that out to the numerous people that queried it. Maybe it was added after people had posted about it?

[Vixpy1]

SpeedEight said:

The article clearly states that the price includes the 'model report', I just thought I'd point that out to the numerous people that queried it. Maybe it was added after people had posted about it?

Garlick said:

The car had the SVA tests done- added to the story to clarify.

[WombatinSwansea]

Was just pondering my choice of £100k supercar for the previous story when I saw this beauty.

Think I would just get 1 of these and some petrol.... NOW !!!

Only thing is, it would have to be a manual and in silver I reckon. White is just a bit too trendy here at the moment and God knows why. In Oz everybody's parents drive a white car. It's naff. Anyway, this car shouldn't have to lower itself to fashion.

[_daveR]

Why a manual when you get the best semi-auto this side of a F430 Scud?

[speedmachine]

SpeedEight said:

The article clearly states that the price includes the 'model report', I just thought I'd point that out to the numerous people that queried it. Maybe it was added after people had posted about it?

Yep - part about the model report was added afterwards. Looking forward to seeing one of these on the road.

What I dont get is that this car is supposed to be aimed at the Porsche 911 Turbo (not sure which exact model) market. Surely the people that love Porsches would want a full manual version. I don't get the trend of a lot of top performance cars going down the road or semi-auto type transmission.
I've never actually driven anything with SMG/DSG type transmission but I imagine it takes some of the fun out of it. Have Nissan said anywhere as to why they are going down this route with the GTR

[Fidgits]

lucky man...

i wonder what the insurance is like? I remember looking at the R34 GTR - the imports were 3 times the price of the (not exactly cheap) UK cars..

[liner33]

jon- said:

A shiny donkey to the first person to post this in 'spotted'.

Someone on the Skyline owners club posted up pics of this car before Ben collected it , AND the black one that arrived a few days BEFORE it

[E36GUY]

Since when was this called the Skyline?

[andyf]

It's not, but a lot of people will still think Skyline and GT-R belong together

[dxb335d]

will his car have a UK reg plate then?

[JB Rugby]

Are nissan dealers already geared up to service that car? I seem to remember previous article / threads stating that only a few dealerships will have trained staff able to service it and I imagine these would not be ready yet.

[N14EER]

i want one!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danrc]

dxb335d said:

will his car have a UK reg plate then?

yes. The model report is to get through the SVA test and then registered in this country.

[thekirbyfake]

speedmachine said:

What I dont get is that this car is supposed to be aimed at the Porsche 911 Turbo (not sure which exact model) market. Surely the people that love Porsches would want a full manual version

Take a look in the classifieds and see how many 911 Turbos are tiptronic.

I read recently that half of the 997 Turbos were specified as tip.

[_daveR]

JB Rugby said:

Are nissan dealers already geared up to service that car? I seem to remember previous article / threads stating that only a few dealerships will have trained staff able to service it and I imagine these would not be ready yet.

They aren't. I don't know the owner personally, only know of him, and with his contacts/background Im sure he wont have any issues getting something done on it.

[TimJMS]

JB Rugby said:

Are nissan dealers already geared up to service that car? I seem to remember previous article / threads stating that only a few dealerships will have trained staff able to service it and I imagine these would not be ready yet.

Very unlikely, but how hard can it be to drop the oil, spin on a new filter and put a stamp in a booklet?

GTR plays with 997tt :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRaO69vfuU