http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/CW/20070228/FREE/70226015/1001/BREAKING
looks great to me, as long as they keep the price down which i’ve heard they have it will sell very well. My dad current has a G35 sedan and hes been reading every little new thing he can that comes out about this car.
He wanted to see the V8 in it though the engine from the M45,i wonder if they considered it or just stuck to tradition of past skylines. I’ve seen vq35’s with twin turbo set ups going way over 500hp so this setup from nissan should have a lot more hp potential.
The V8 is ass, and the VQ has been receiving praise for more than 10 years as the Best Engine Ever. It has nothing to do with tradition … Skylines were 4 cylinders for many years before the RB came along. And the RB was an inline 6. Now they’ve gone to a V6. The Skyline always offers the best engine Nissan has to offer, FJ, RB, now VQ. The aftermarket in Japan has really caught on to the VQ and we should see some stunning numbers coming out of the new 3.8TT
It’s going to be 3.8L, TT … yum yum.
But as for keeping the price down, yes. But it’s relative. The GTR is being designed to compete with supercars - that’s why you keep seeing it tested against a 997 Turbo.
It will be cheap compared to a Porsche, reasonable when compared to a Z06
Any way you slice it, will probably be over $100,000 cdn.
That article is weak. I met up with one of the product planners on the car at SEMA.
3.7L twin turbo $70k USD. But Road & Track just reported 4.0L?
Anyway lots of pics surfacing, check out these threads:
http://forums.gtrcanada.com/viewtopic.php?t=12699
http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/upload/70352-engine-pics-interior.html
Either way its goin to be hot and thee most soaught after import once it hits our shores… I read that its a 3.7 L 460hp VQ running only 10psi… also theres talk of a lower power variation for the g35
guaranteed there’ll be countless X-tune versions to suit the buyer… and remember this will by it’s nature compete with the low budget evo’s and sti’s… the high budget m5’s and amg’s… as well as pure play sports coupes like corvette and lambo, so it will have to be broadly appealing and widely configurable
it’s possible they will do what they did with the others lately, launch a low-bar performer with slight bumps here and there until say another japanese maker gets close and then release the s/r/v/q/etc tune with more juice until the all-singing boost-spiking widow-maker version a few years from now
Yep totally true. There will be 2 Nismo versions of the car later. Personally I would leave those for collectors who don’t really want to touch them and keep value intact. Like some of the special R32s coming in: N1, Nismo, R32GTR no one wants to mod them. Might be better to opt for tuning shop packages: XS Engineering or the assault of Japanese parts that are being dreamed up right now.
The Nismo stuff is so damn expensive and isn’t necessarily better in some cases. Like some R32 suspension components - no adjustments? WTF? So I went with Cusco.
Doesn’t seem like it needs much: boost controller, exhaust? R-compounds and maybe a reflash and this would be one scary track car.
10psi is for Volvo wagons…