OK, now we’re cooking with gas. And massive turbo boost. You are feasting your eyes (and GT5 ambitions) on the known-about-forever but only now officially revealed Nissan GT-R SpecV. Feels good just thinking about it, no? Especially after so many months of only hearing about it. So, what makes a Godzilla into a SpecV Godzilla? Well let me [...]
Unlike today’s other Japanese market special, the Nissan Rasheen, this Nissan Skyline has been legally imported. Thanks to serious investments done in the past by die-hard importers, it’s possible (though a royal pain in the ass) to bring R33 Nissan Skylines into the U.S. And that’s what this person did. So, it’s the Skyline GT-R [...]
We like this guy. Not only because he’s got a 950 horse inline six built by HKS under his hood, but also because he’s twisted enough to paint his quarter-mile killer pink. Is there anything more insulting than smoking the competition in car swaddled in Barbie vomit? We think not. The car’s owned by Andy [...]
If you’re an old-school Nissan fan, welcome to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory. SpeedHunters took a trip out to East Car—a company that specializes in the restoration, sale and maintenance of classic JDM goodness. What kind of goodness, you ask? Bits like classic Skylines and Fairlady Z’s are common fare, making this shop more of a [...]
Be warned: don’t click play on this sucker until you’ve got an hour to kill. Why? Because it’s the National Geographic Inside series segment on Nissan’s GT-R, and it follows the car’s construction from drawing board to Nurburgring domination. For those of you out there that have been bowing and praying to Godzilla for years [...]
While the drivers (and the Lambo) were the main attraction at last weekend’s Formula Drift Final Fight, some of the cars the vendors brought along were pretty sweet. Like this gaggle of Skylines. From right to left, you’re looking at a R32, R33, R34 and a R35 (aka GT-R) with a mega-splitter. The gray cars [...]
Nissan Day is without end! Full Disclosure: SpeedSportLife’s Jack Baruth is not only a friend of mine, but was on my LeMons team last May. He’s a pretty good driver, too. Full Disclosure 2.0: Here at Autofiends we love nothing more than reporting on the latest Nurburgring “Lap Record.” Why just this very morning Zach put [...]
Let’s just call it Nissan Day. While we’re talking about Nissan’s Porsche-killer, check out this video of the Motul Nismo GT-R prepping for the Tokachi 24-hour enduro. Watching the race-version Godzilla blitz around the track, there’s little wonder how the production version managed to dot Porsche’s eye on ze Germans’ home turf. We’re still itching [...]
Oh snap! It took the French Japanese company a week or so, but they’ve produced the very tires that ran the miraculous ‘Ring lap time. After Porsche engineers went so far as to buy a GT-R in the US, fly it to Germany and then do their best to replicate the 7:29 lap time that [...]
