No Nissan GT-R until 2009

No Nissan GT-R in Australia until 2009. First is Japan this week. The deliveries to customers starts on Thursday, or Wednesday depending on how you look at days and times.

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NISSAN has a dilemma on its hands. The company has produced such a remarkable car that it has already sold out, without even hitting showrooms

As our readers pointed out previously, one could buy the GT-R in Japan and ship it to Australia quicker than Nissan Australia can sell the car here. But there is an issue with Nissan Australia having already registered its intentions to bring the car to Australia, ending any hope of grey-imports being road-registrable.

Godzilla gets tongues wagging

Australia

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.”

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