Nissan's New GT-R Nismo Revealed, Launches October 2021
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The GTR has now outlasted the blacked out vertical front grill graphic trend that it arguably* started way back in 2001.
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The GT-R is that senior citizen that just refuses to accept they’re aging and instead spends what’s left of their life savings on botox.
It’s not like they have a choice, unless you expect them to do something drastic like abandon everything modern Nissan stands for and actually develop a new platform that is.
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The NISMO looks great, but the base facelift looks like an attempt was made to reference the R34 and then halfway through someone said "nah".
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Yes. It's exactly why I hate the current trend with older Japanese cars. Imagine trying to convince your spouse it's normal you spent over 200k on a ****ing Honda from 1992, let alone a Nissan made 16 years ago, when you can get a brand new 911 instead that's better in every single way you can think of. Madness.
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2024 GT-R:
What more can I say. Still looks great, despite it's age. Good to see Nissan is sticking to their ICE, front-engined supercar.
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The rear end is too chonky still, but this is easily the best the car has looked since the 2005 prototype. They did a really great job cleaning up the vertical mass that the front has had since the car debuted (where they first screwed the front end up) and the car looks a lot lower from the front even though it's not really. I'm assuming that they had 15 cents to do the changes and very little wiggle room in regards to hardpoints, as well.
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The gap between Nissan launching the R35 till now is the same length of time as them putting the GT-R badge on hiatus and then relaunching it with the R32. Kinda crazy when you consider how quickly performance cars evolved back then versus now where the R35 is more-or-less unchanged, even amongst competition.
Still, goes to show how forward thinking they were when it can still compete against more modern rivals with very little in the way of changes. Its way nicer than the last facelift for what its worth, though I still think the original or the minor refresh with the DRLs is the best looking of them (even then, that might be - dare I say - nostalgia talking). As Tornado said though, the 2005 proto is by objectively the prettiest.
Edit: I did not see that price for the Nismo until now. Yikes.
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Again, to me, it’s the shape. The shape is pretty much timeless. Still looks strong. I love the sedan body. It does look chunky, but that what I like. The wide tyres hide well with its design.
I’m looking beyond the finger moustachething. It’s almost like a detachable piece across the front. I don’t like it, but everything else keeps in step with modernising it.
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I'm not sure if older or just retro. It reminds me of the R34's front end treatment.
They've previously tweaked the grill to match other current Nissans, but this is very different. I assume it's to make it more GT-R and less corporate face of Nissan.
Can't blame them from wanting to seperate it and give it more of its own identity, rather than lumping it in with Leafs, Jukes, Qashquais and X-Trails.
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The standard front end looks awful, the Nismo is better but still blegh.
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I'm not a fan of that front fog light shape but other than that, it looks fine.
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The GT-R lives on for MY 2025 (but could be its last year), gains new "Blue Heaven" interior color and standard features only found on the NISMO package, though little else:
The MY 2024 GT-R also gains a pretty rad special editon, the Skyline Edition. A tribute to the R34 GT-R, it features a Bayside Blue exterior.
The MY 2024 GT-R also gains a pretty rad special editon, the Skyline Edition. A tribute to the R34 GT-R, it features a Bayside Blue exterior.
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I think it's hilarious that when the R35 debuted, we considered it an overweight tech-ladden behemoth.
2007 GTR weight: 3840lbs
2007 BMW 1-series (coupe) weight: 2900lbs
2025 (lol) GTR weight: 3850lbs
2024 BMW 2-series (M2) weight: 3867lbs
I'm not sure how, but the GTR still looks good. I'm not a huge fan of the latest refresh, but the 2017-2021 cars look really great and any time I see one, I stop and appreciate it.
2007 GTR weight: 3840lbs
2007 BMW 1-series (coupe) weight: 2900lbs
2025 (lol) GTR weight: 3850lbs
2024 BMW 2-series (M2) weight: 3867lbs
I'm not sure how, but the GTR still looks good. I'm not a huge fan of the latest refresh, but the 2017-2021 cars look really great and any time I see one, I stop and appreciate it.
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I like how the front grille looks more R34-ish, looks great in blue...
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My favorite was when it debuted it was a soulless pig full of electronics and Nissan pretentiously punching above its weight with things like "nitrogen tires" and it's amazing launch control (before it became clear it destroyed transmissions). The "Playstation car," lovingly designed hand in hand with the game development studio that took 5 years to port GT4 to PSP.
Then when BMW was making the Supra the R35 was suddenly one of the biggest sticks of "classic JDM engineering" for people to beat it with.
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