Nissan GT-R Deathbed....No... FINAL Edition Still 3 Years Away

With the 370Z and GT-R, Nissan has two of the oldest performance cars on sale today. While the former will finally be renewed later this month (well, at least in prototype guise), the latter will not switch to the next generation anytime soon. As a matter of fact, a new report from Japanese magazine Best Car Web says we’re not going to see it before 2023 at the earliest.

The R35 Godzilla will apparently go out with a 710-horsepower bang in 2022 when Nissan is rumored to introduce a Final Edition. It will be nearly 15 years old by then, and this swan song is expected to be a limited-run affair capped at approximately 20 units. If that horsepower count seems familiar, that’s because the special model will allegedly use the same powertrain as the GT-R50 by Italdesign and its mighty 575 pound-feet (780 Newton-meters) of torque.

PUGPROUD - 9/10/2020 10:48:15 AM

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Wake me when the next generation arrives, if ever.

Agent009 - 9/10/2020 12:27:20 PM

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They tend to hang on to things until they are REALLY old.

F1_Driver - 9/10/2020 1:07:14 PM

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Rumor has it the next generation, the R36, won't be arriving until 2026 at the earliest.

MDarringer - 9/10/2020 8:47:01 PM

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It will just be the current car reskinned.

scenicbyway12 - 9/10/2020 3:09:55 PM

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They should change the nickname from Godzilla to Dinosaur.

skytop - 9/11/2020 1:46:14 AM

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So instead of bringing out a new generation GT-R, they just going to go the 'hot rod' route. Throw a larger blower or turbo on it, turn it faster and your done. Short, sweet and dirty. Just the way Nissan likes to do things.

F1_Driver - 9/11/2020 2:54:09 PM

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Nissan is using the larger turbos from their GT3 race car for the final edition.