I'm still standing: the Nissan GT-R at 15
Not that either version is exactly a smash hit any more. In its first full year on sale , almost 2000 examples of the GT-R found homes in Europe. In 2019, the last year when sales were unaffected by the pandemic or the chip crisis, it was down to 389. That’s fewer than nine GT-Rs of all varieties per country per year. I expect the Nismo is priced this way because the volumes are immaterial and if you’re going to have a pinnacle product, you might as well price it accordingly..
But that was then and this is now. And now it feels like I should really be testing it for Classic & Sports Car’s ‘future classic’ slot. If it looks old on the outside , take a look in the cabin. The current F1 champion was nine years old in the year the GT-R came out, and boy does it show. The cockpit is a not-so-artfully crafted mess.But here’s a thing, and something only 15 years of perspective can bring: I actually quite like it.
Occasionally, small gobbets of boost arrived to suggest that when fully uncorked, this was still going to be a force to be reckoned with. The steering was unexpectedly good, too: very direct, perfectly weighted and offering a sense of connection that you rarely find elsewhere these days.So when I arrived, I felt fully briefed. So I just set everything to R and let it rip.
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