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Gtr r 351/8/2024 ![]() It's a tradition that'll be going 15 years strong by the time Nissan wraps up the R35 GR-R's production run in the near future. Instead, it's the unavoidable truth of the R35 GT-R, and every generation of the Skyline GTR since the R32, being inconsolably tied to computers, sensors, and electronic gadgets, that explains why many muscle car fans can't stand the thing.įrom the moment the R35 hit drag strips across America in 2009, they've been absolutely walking competitors in their Camaros, Corvettes, Hellcats, Mustang GT500s, and just about every domestic sports car out there, while slack-jawed spectators sit seething in the crowd as their hometown heroes get humbled. While we can't deny that might account for a minuscule fringe of modern car culture, it ain't the frickin' 1970s anymore. You might be tempted to think muscle car fans hate the GTR-R for outright xenophobic reasons. ![]() I mean, it was pretty easy to make fun of the R-35 Nissan GTR if you'd been indoctrinated to believe non-Domestic American cars are the equivalent of the automotive antichrist. But you know something? I was dead wrong back then, and because the R-35 is about to end its production any day now, let me tell you why. It's because there was a time when I was a younger lad when I, as a red-blooded American muscle car fanboy, would have rolled my eyes at an R-35 GTR, not the other way around. But why the hell am I telling you all this? What's the gosh darn point? Well, hear me out for a second. Oh, and it definately had a better exhaust put on it too. But I decided not to majorly weird out the guy behind the wheel with the left-hand window cracked halfway.Īnyway, this guy turns to me, rolls his eyes, then gives me a half-hearted wave before launching hard at the green light and is probably already doing 60 mph by the time my face reconfigures into a goofy, cheesy smile. I wish I could have whipped out my phone real quick and shown all of you what it looked like. What pulled up next to me at a stop light that day was a full custom job, decked out with what looked like a vibrant carbon fiber wrap with matching dark grey wheels and a menacing duckbill rear spoiler of some kind. ![]() ![]() This wasn't just an ordinary R35 Nissan GT-R, mind you. ![]()
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