Advance orders on GT-R hit 2700 as of December 5, according to Nissan, light years ahead of Nissan’s curiously modest domestic sales plan of just 200 units a month.
The GT-R comes in three grades in Japan – GT-R, GT-R Black Edition and GT-R Premium Edition – with stickers spanning $69,520, $70,929 and $74,687 at current rates. Mind, you’d also need another $5000 or so to get the car taxed and on the road.
They are trading hands for more than that in Japan now.
So far, orders for the base GT-R are running at around 18 percent. GT-R Black Edition is about 28 percent, with the GT-R Premium Edition commanding about a hefty 53 percent of takers.
53 percent premium. I guess its older , more luxuxy buyers that wanted this car. Maybe Nissan has hit the mark, with a bigger heavier, more upscale GT-R, not a raw sporty GT car. I guess everyone in the world is getting softer.
Colors? White has long been Japan’s favorite automotive hue and old habits, it seems, die hard. White Pearl is tops (about 27 percent) with these early GT-R orders. Ultimate Silver Metallic is next (about 24 percent).
Then it’s Super Black (about 22 percent); Dark Metal Gray (about 20 percent); Titanium Gray (about 4 percent). Surprisingly, Vibrant Red, one of the GT-R’s strongest colors, or so you might think, is way down the order at around 3 percent.
Don’t they know that Red is faster. Although in Asian countries , red is not a popular color. Always whites. White is always a popular color in Japan, Hong Kong ,etc. Many of the 2700 have already left Japan for various ports around the world.
Looks like this might be a Super Taikyu car. Has a cage and a couple other elements. They got rid of the stupid quad exhaust ….yeaaa.
“December 1st, at the Fuji speedway, prototype of the production race/lace car of NISSAN GT-R test drive. As for driver shadow mountain Masami and the Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. vice president Carlos Taba less.”
The Nissan GT-R is back… and there isn’t going to be a cage big enough to hold Godzilla this time.
After six years of teaser concepts and prototypes; and a week of embarrassing media leaks; Japan’s newest supercar took its official bow at the Tokyo Motor Show.
And Nissan has created a supercar capable of 0-100km/h in just 3.7 seconds for an expected price of about $120,000AUD, a performance highly competitive with much more expensive European supercars and even V8 Supercar racing cars.
“The GT-R meets the three key requirements to be a supercar; a power-to-weight ratio of better then 4kg per one horsepower, top speed of more than 300km/h and a sub-eight minute time at the Nurburgring; but it is much more than that,” says chief vehicle engineer for the GT-R project, Kazutoshi Mizuno.”
“What we wanted was a supercar for all seasons … a multi-performance supercar that an owner can live with all year. “
“This car is the technological flagship for Nissan. The new craftmanship of the 21st century is embodied in the GT-R.”
GT-R. In a show field that is decidedly thin on surprises and spectacular reveals, this is the clear winner as the AutoWeek Editors’ Best in Show winner.
I went to an auto show and ended up in a mosh pit.
It was at the introduction of the much anticipated Nissan GT-R, the supercar that the company has been teasing us with for years. It finally debuted here at the Tokyo show and it was worth the wait.
For six hours in advance of its 1:50 p.m. unveil, photographers were staking out their spaces. It was a sense of territorial imperative, here in a land where beds are no bigger than peoples’ bodies, where the term micro-car really means small. Some of these rides make the Smart car look like a limousine.
