Nissan GT-R UK pricing announced

That's amazingly cheap.
A 911 turbo is £100000 or thereabouts - this thing is the same as an M3, but offers so much more of everything!

— Rupert (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 3:09:43 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 8   

What do they mean by "automatic headlamps" on the GT-R Premium Edition? Is it adaptive headlamps, or just automatic on/off headlamps?

— 07G35J (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 3:12:29 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

One thing Nissan forgot to do with this car is to design the body for it.

The thing looks like a skelton :-O

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 3:26:00 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -7   

Car is stunning. Prices even more. Win win

JUGNU

— JUGNU (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 3:55:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

"Instead of being mad at the GT-R, you should demand that your fav cars (Porsche, BMW, whatever) should be cheaper."


European workers are not willing to work themselves to death for no overtime pay for the company to succeed.

Disclaimer: Below is a link to a respected magazine that gives an example of a Japanese auto manufacturer (Toyota) that is being sued in Japan for working an employee to death (karoshi) for no overtime pay. If this information upsets you, be upset with Toyota and not the messenger.

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10329261

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 6:33:17 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Because buyers are willing to pay extra to buy a BMW or Porsche - not because those companies force their employees to work long hours of overtime for no pay.

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2008 1:27:30 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Dugit said "Did the GT-R get drunk and beat you as a child?"

The GT-R is doing that to the industry. It's man slapping and shaking it up. Scaring the jeebus out of Porsche turbo, GT3 and.... Its unfair but also the M3. I appreciate the numbers of the GT-R but I respect, for whatever underlying motives, what this car is going to do for the supercar status quo in general.

— Corcoran (View Profile)

Posted on 3/4/2008 11:05:54 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Ummm, EL34, I can assure you that Nissan is a making a lot of money per GT-R: this car is the golden child of the PS3 generation around the world. Even if Nissan charged 50% more, they woudls till sell every one they could make, at worst the waitign list would be a bit shorter. There is no sense in any manufacturer losing money on a car in such high demand. The low cost of this car is a pure function of the remakrable production efficiencies of Nissan.

— BozzorTheGreat (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2008 2:43:07 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Um... EL43, your mission is successful. I think just about everyone here is commenting on your comments.

Congrats to the attention seeker for getting his wish, making most everyone here fall for it.

Anyways, GT-R's pricing is a great tribute to Japanese manufacturing efficiency.

— ThierryHenry14 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2008 3:25:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

For you GT-R fanatics, carmagazine latest issue titled nissan crushes the germans is out. It pits the GT-R against the R8 911 Turbo and M3 copy and paste the link to read the 17 page article
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122409
Oh and the latest issue of EVO just came out in Britain pitting the GT-R against the ZO6 and 911GT3 and guess who wins. copy and paste link to see results
http://www.nagtroc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21804

— aston_martin (View Profile)

Posted on 3/5/2008 6:17:19 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1