Nissan Has The Ultimate Gift for New GT-R Owners
We all aspire to find the ultimate gift under the tree on Christmas morning. When we were a kid, it usually was a bike, or the more ambitious of us might have wished for a pony. Adults wishing for horsepower of a completely different type will be happy to know that Nissan just made the […]
Nissan Releases All-New 2017 GT-R NISMO in Japan
The 2017 Nissan GT-R NISMO is officially available for order in the country of Japan, but its starting MSRP of approximately $183,000 probably means that only elite Japanese citizens will be able to purchase one. While the regular version of the 2017 Nissan GT-R made its American debut at the New York International Auto Show, […]
[VIDEOS] R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R Is the Latest Sports Car to Crash at Nürburgring
Nicknamed the “Green Hell” by racing legend Jackie Stewart, the Nürburgring Motorsports Complex in Germany is no stranger to drama. It is the very racetrack where legendary F1 driver Niki Lauda almost burned to death in a fiery crash back in 1976, and just last year an Audi SQ7 prototype tasted the track’s wall. Now a […]
Nissan Still Builds GT-R Engines By Hand
Nissan is extremely proud of its Nissan GT-R, as seen by how much effort the automaker has put into promoting the vehicle in the wake of its recent redesign. While every Nissan vehicle has been engineered with quality and longevity in mind, the Nissan GT-R pays special attention to power and sophistication as well. To keep […]
Nissan Teases New GT-R
Anyone would tell you that Nissan is a great automaker. While all of its cars are fierce contenders in their respective segments, it’s undeniable that the Nissan GT-R is one of the most enviable and impressive vehicles that the brand builds. This week at the New York Auto Show, the brand is expected to reveal the latest […]
Nissan Takes Down Christmas Tree with GT-R
Christmas trees are hot topics of conversation around the holidays. How early can you set it up? How long can the tree stay out after Christmas? Nissan seems to think that December 28th is the appropriate day to take the tree out to the curb, and of course the automaker had to dispose of it in […]
Nissan to Release Package to Give GT-R NISMO Even Stronger Performance.
When the GT-R NISMO went around the Nürburgring back in 2013, the car, with its specially-made parts lapped the course in 7:08.679, the fastest time ever recorded for a volume-production vehicle. However, sadly for car buyers, when the GT-R came to market, these parts were absent. Something Amiss? Know what to do when your tire […]
Nissan Engineering Eyeballs All-Electric GT-R
Since the beginning of the modern drive to build electric vehicles, Tesla has shown us again and again just how good an electric performance car can be. As a result, makers of the world’s current gas-powered performance cars have started coming up with so-called “Tesla-fighters.” And now Nissan, creator of one of the best available […]
Nissan Skyline GT-R Driven by Paul Walker in Fast & Furious is For Sale
Furious 7 has been a huge success at the box office, with flocks of auto enthusiasts and regular movie-goers alike coming to see the final Fast & Furious movie to star the late Paul Walker, who was tragically killed in a car crash on November 30th, 2013. The Nissan Skyline GT-R pictured above was used […]
This Acura Integra Tries & Fails to Look Like a R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R
One of the unfortunate side effects of the US government’s ban on importing cars newer than 25 years old are Frankenstein projects such as this where an owner makes their vehicle look like something they can’t have. In this case, a poor 2001 Acura Integra had its butt replaced with that of a R34 Nissan […]
[VIDEO] This R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R Rally Car is a Dream Come True
Nissan made a lot of great cars in Japan that were never sold in the United States, including the S15 Silvia and pretty much every generation of the Skyline. The R32 Skyline GT-R is a shining example of one of these highly sought after forbidden fruits of American JDM fans, so this homegrown rally car […]
How to Stay Cool in the Nissan NISMO GT-R GT3
Just last month, the GT Academy team placed fifth overall and second in its class at the Dubai 24 Hours endurance race. While you were sitting in your frigid apartment, bundled up under four layers of blankets, burning fragments of an old pizza box in the sink for warmth, these drivers were racing the world’s fastest […]
You Can Now Legally Import an R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R
The current Nissan GT-R that’s sold in the US is an impressive machine, but it’s decended from a long line of older Nissan Skyline GT-Rs that were sold in Japan at various times since the 1960s. One of the most popular generations was the R32 Skyline GT-R, but Nissan didn’t sell them in the US […]
Nissan Launching 45th Anniversary GT-R in Japan Next Month
Nissan has finally unleashed the unbridled power of the 2015 GT-R, and with it, the automaker is offering a special limited edition model to celebrate the nameplate’s 45th anniversary. Sounds great, right? Well, here’s the bad news: the 45th Anniversary GT-R is only being sold in Japan. Further, Nissan is only making 45 examples, meaning they’d […]
Ferrari Kills Purrari, Nissan Gives Deadmau5 GT-R
It’s not been a great couple of weeks for the Ferrari brand, culminating with a skirmish between Fiat SpA CEO Sergio Marchionne and Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo that resulted in the latter tendering his resignation after 23 years with the brand. Because Ferrari also apparently doesn’t understand what it means to build up […]
We’d Sure Like the Nissan 2020 Concept to Be the Next GT-R
Gallery: The Nissan 2020 is Gorgeous, Kinda Terrifying Nissan made good on its promise and brought a full size example of their 2020 Concept to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. And, yes, it’s every bit as beautiful and insane as you thought it was going to be. The 2020 Concept, which is probably maybe hopefully […]
Nissan Announces GT-R in Le Mans 2015
Audi, Porsche, and Toyota have been put on notice, and their status as Le Mans favorites is now in serious jeopardy after Nissan announced that it will run a GT-R in Le Mans 2015. The teaser above is appropriately creepy, replete with cockroaches and millipedes crawling across flashlight-lit woodscapes, horror movie score, and ominous “It’s […]