For The GT-R Owner Who Has Everything

Nissan Commemorates GT-R With Watch That Costs More Than a GT-R

If you're in Japan, you can custom order a Grand Seiko chronograph inspired by the Italdesign GT-R50 today. Starting price? $178,000.

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The Daily & The Race Car. You Choose . . . . .

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A Great Picture Of Past & Present

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They See Me Rollin' - R32 GTR Edition

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Uphill: Evo X, Downhill: NSX

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Speed Is Big Part Of Its Claim To Fame

New Nissan GT-R aims to be ‘fastest super sports car in the world’ 

It's years away, but next-gen Godzilla will be ‘world's fastest brick’ 

The automotive press has spent five years hypothesizing about the next-generation Nissan GT-R, and the prognostications won't stop soon. Autocar spoke to Nissan head designer Alfonso Albaisa, who revealed that the design team hasn't yet begun working on the car in earnest because the powertrain isn't decided. There'll be a new platform, and there are exterior sketches, but until the internals get locked in, the shell remains a mystery. The most important consideration, Albaisa said, is that the next GT-R be "the fastest super sports car in the world."

How will the GT-R achieve that? The designer would only say the new coupe would "play the advanced technology game," adding, though, that said game didn't necessarily mean hybridization. It's possible Godzilla could omit an electric motor. However, we'd be shocked if that happened when the primary competition — the Porsche 911 and even the C8 Chevrolet Corvette — have hybrid options planned or rumored over the lifecycles of their next-gen models, and super sports cars like Lamborghini and Ferrari are already confirmed for hybrid conversion.

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R32 or R34? For Me, R32, All Day Every Day

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R32, Every Time

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Just Two GTR's Out In Their Natural Habitat

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They See Me Rollin' - Skyline GTR Edition

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The Glory Days Of Japanese Sports Cars All In 1 Picture

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There Are No Winners In This

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They See Me Rollin' - Skyline GTR Edition

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They See Me Rollin' - GTR Edition

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They See Me Rollin' - R32 GTR Edition

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They See Me Rollin' - Skyline GTS-R Edition

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A Wild Beast, Just Chillen' Out In Public

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They See Me Rollin' - Skyline GTR R34 Edition

Endless BNR34 N1-based racer from Super Taikyu

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I Would For This Particular Model

Would you pay £185k for an R34 GT-R?

[T]his is no ordinary R34. It’s special twice over, being a V-Spec II Nür R-tune. What does that jumble of letters mean? Well the V-Spec II was a more focused version of the GT-R that had upgraded brakes, suspension and four-wheel drive system, and the Nür was a an even rarer limited production model featuring a stronger competition-derived engine and named after, you guessed it, the Nürburgring.

Nissan built 718 track-oriented V Spec II Nürs and a further 285 Nürs to M-specification, which used more supple suspension better suited to road use. They’re now hugely collectable and worth north of £125k.

Now the R-tune bit. Good as the R34 was out of the box, some people wanted more and Nissan’s motorsport arm Nismo was happy to give it to them. There were all sorts of upgrade parts available to buy individually, or you could send your car to Nismo for one of two full conversions.

One was the street-biased S-tune package, and the other was the R-tune. Numbers are vague, but it’s estimated that Nismo carried out around 25-30 R-tune conversions. Nismo would convert any type of R34 GT-R, not just Nürs, so when you consider that this particular car here is both a Nür and an R-tune you can see why it’s so valuable.

The R-tune upgrade included everything from suspension to aero mods. But the heart of the conversion, which added around £27k to the cost of the car, was the R1 engine. Unlike the earlier Nismo R400's 2.8 motor, this engine retained the stock 2.6-litre capacity but was built around the stronger N1 block (also shared with the Nür) and featured upgraded cams and turbos.

Standard R34’s were rated at 280hp but made more like 330hp. The R1 engine put out 450.

Among R34s only the Z-tune cars, which were bought back and upgraded by Nismo after R34 production had ended, are more desirable or expensive.

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They See Me Rollin' - Skyline GTR Edition

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