Nissan Skyline GT-R GT500 onboard: Time For Tea?

A Pennzoil R34 and Fuji? It's all your Gran Turismo fantasies come true at once!

Up there with the Castrol Supra and Takata NSX, the Pennzoil Skyline GT-R is one of the Gran Turismo motorsport icons. For gamers over here the Japanese cars were new and different and exotic, incredibly fast and very distinctive as well.

They were of course incredibly fast real life racing cars too, the JGTC featuring all of them - and more - in some form of another during the 90s and 2000s. And we like fast racing cars, especially when we've driven them in the virtual world. So when NISMO releases an onboard GT-R clip, with the driving by Alex Buncombe...

Truth be told this isn't a new video; we wanted to feature NISMO's recently uploaded clip with the Calsonic R32, but sadly that's not very good. This is, though. Really good. For one lap of Fuji - where else? - Buncombe drives the Pennzoil-liveried Skyline for all it's worth. Well, it looks the way at least.

Worried it might be undramatic? Don't be. Spikes of boost spit it sideways, the gearbox needs throttle blips on the way down and it's still seriously fast, even on a big track and nearly 20 years after it was made. Cool car.

What was your favourite? Have you seen them race out in the real world? Gran Turismo All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship fans and nerds, your time is now!

Watch the video here.

[N.B. The screengrab is from a different video, onboards being tricky to get pics from and Nissan - disappointingly - not appearing to have any archived images.]

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