WHY does everyone seem let down by the GTR

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I took the time to read everyones post and some good points have been brought up but some points have been brought up too.

if i was gonna drop that much money on a performance car it better be beating everything else on the street

Street? You mean like street racing?......i'll give Nissan a call and see what they say about R&D for street racing.

You absolutely cannot do maintenance on a GTR in your driveway.

As a person that has quiet a bit of car sales experience, i think i can safely say that people that buy a $70K car, will never do anything on it themselves. Ever.

Remember when subaru/ mitsu was voiding warranties on cars that were registered with the Scca?

This has to do with your relationship with your dealer's service dept. SOG used to be terrible but the writers know i'm an scca member and turn the other cheek.

Dude, seriously. When a car gets to the point where firewall's are moved back and the chassis is totally altered....is it really anything like a stock car?

I see that R34 to be as close to stock as this does to a stock R35

lol find me a street legal R34 that will lap the ring under 7:29...

The only thing that even comes to mind is the Falken R34 that ran the Nurburgring 24 years back. That car is a race car but i guess if you tried to get it as close to a street car as possible you'd still be under 7:29



But, yeah JITB. I can think of no street R34 faster than that time.

One thing to understand, the new GTR isn't even classed the way the old ones were. This is marketed towards the same people who buy high end cars and exotics.

True. As another member posted before, Japanese cars have climb to the top of the mountain and are now capable of asking top dollar for their highest products. In the Group A days when you had to make 2500 street examples of a car to race, the GTR had to exist and be sold to the public. By the time the R33 came out, it had become a true model instead of a "we just have to sell it". By 2008, the GTR has earned a name that can stand alone. Past Skylines used the GTR name as the top model. But just like the Celica Supra split into two different cars, this is the story with the Skyline and the GTR.