Nateb123

The whole Godzilla hype has been drawn out far too much. Someone said it earlier, and the fact of the matter is skylines are all about hype. They have no soul, no personality. The R35 is not even a GT-R in the strictest sense. It's more like Nissan's M5. It's huge, not particularly good looking, but still hauls *** if you want when you're taking your kids to school. Except the M5 has a truly luxury interior, Nissan opted for a cheap interior and instead focused on performance that is mostly harnessed by assists. It's an engineering marvel, but that's all. Even the ugly look is purely for a low drag coefficient. If the FD can have as low a drag coefficient as it does and still look as good as it does, Nissan surely could have done better here.



Edit: Wow just realized this is my first post. Been reading this forum for months but never took the time to post...except to trash skylines. This is a bad omen for the quality of my future posts haha

circuit theory

Nate123: I am not sure if you have ever driven any GTR's before but I definately agree with you about he Godzilla hype. They are not that crazy of a car and are quite slow even when modified if you get on the gas below boosting RPM. I drove this GTR around to test it out before shipping it out and I was not to impressed with them. The R32 would be my pic of the previous skylines if not a Ken and Mary old school GTR.



However I do have to disagree with you on the new GTR, the R35. I have not had a chance to drive this yet but the few people that I know that have driven it as well as many other cars since they write for magazines here in JP have said nothing but good things about. It has the weight of something that should handle like a boat but it is said to handle and respond like a Mazda Miata. The whole rear mission thing is similar to the porsche 944 but more so taken from the JGTC cars since they all run the same mission set up for the most part.



The styling leaves a bit to be desired but that is to be expected. Nobody liked the new Z when it came out but now everyone says they liked it from the start. I think the new GTR's design will grow on people. I am eagerly awaiting a true manual version as well as a chance to drive any version of it.



Oh here is a pic of the car I test drove for a bit. It was 650hp + or -.

Nateb123

Never said it can't turn, just said it's heavy. It's got a curb weight of about 3800 lbs. My problem with the GT-R is simply that it lacks any real personality. Partially this is due to the styling inside and out and partially due to the fact it has very little tunability. The GT-R has such good performance in many areas because of the extensive role of the ECU. Thus it handles surprisingly well for it's size. But it also is more electronic in nature than mechanical, and I'm a gearhead. Wiring a new speaker system or trying to get an ECU working without a damn-near plug and play harness is not what I call fun. Similarly, tuning a GT-R in many regards will be simiarly agonizing. Therefore not my type of vehicle.

mattyp747

yup you have to admit it looks awsome, no doubt about it.

das

saw this in person at the autoshow..i have pics too ..it looks nice, just not skyline nice, it has all sorts of cool technology, just its a little..ugly, i think it looks like a 350Z with a body kit on it