Nissan Skyline GT-R for $485k? Let's discuss...
 

Morning, everyone.

As some of you know, I worked for General Motors for nearly 40 years. I'm now working for Nissan as an Accessory Engineer, so I figure I owe it to them to get up to speed on their performance offerings, including the Z car (and it's history) and the GT-R.

As you might guess it's quite an adjustment for me, as an all American "boomer" who grew up with GM muscle cars, to transition to Japanese car culture and collector car mentality. That's why I'm always shocked to see some of these older Japanese cars either going for or asking some big numbers.

It seems the era of the million dollar American muscle car has passed. Is the predicted younger generation/Japanese performance car era now on the rise?

K

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/10/ve...tering-485000/

I think you know the answer already. The answer is "yes." I lived in LA for almost 10 years, and we're seeing an expansion of what had been confined primarily to the west coast. I'm seeing Integra performance variants, early MR2s, RX7s, going for crazy money. These were the cars all my friends drove in high school and college so it's not surprising to me that this is the new nostalgia.

I did the Infiniti Auto shows for 25 years, we did a lot of special events out at their place in Farmington.
We did press events for years, good people.
My 95 is a fun car to drive, 300 hp rear wheel drive, alum V8. Bought it in Scottsdale at a show.

I played around with some Jap tuner cars 15 years ago and I was watching Skylines then so here is my take: good Skylines (GT-R's) have always commanded a 6 figure premium however when adjusted for cost as new they are still way way behind a typical Muscle car in appreciation.

I actually think the mid 90's GTR's are about half what they were in valuation during the Fast and Furious period about 18 years ago.

Much of the cost and availability issues in the JDM imports are driven by implementation of Shaken Law, so most of the cars here have a good number of miles on them when imported.

This year, Friday night before dream cruise, I was leaving Hunter house and heading home north on Woodward, 3 GTR’s we’re racing, you hardly see 1 let alone 3. One had some big turbo dump in the rear, it was popping real loud. My GF never saw a GTR. It was too dark for a pic.

My 20 something sons are all about these as well as BMW’s, Acura etc.. it’s kind of fun as these cars can make serious power.

Once these 25 year import laws opened up these things really took off.

Yep, exactly!

RHD. They were competitive in the Sport Compact Car Ultimate Street Car Challenge right around turn 'o the century. DOT not fans at the time - but maybe thee holy grail car among the import crew. Dude in a Dodge won the day I dropped by, though ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwV5NQIQ6BQ