I sincerely doubt this car will lose it's performance roots ... not since Nissan has built this up so much. If they just flashed the car out at a show and then put it into production in the next model year, I would be worried. But consider they've had the GTR set for re-production since about 2001 (iirc) and they don't plan on releasing it until 2007 as an 08 model. My money is Nissan is going to get it right.