It is not Nissan but legislation that makes the GT-R disappear from the roads. At least if you ask the brand itself.
The Nissan GT-R is living on borrowed time. Next year, it will be the end of the car, which started rolling out on the roads in December 2007. And Nissan was happy to take 17 more years.
This is confirmed by the brand's global product manager Pierre Loing in an interview with Top Gear .
But the Japanese car brand must not. Ever stricter emission requirements make it impossible, believes Pierre Loing.
– The car is still part of the model program at the present time. It has been on sale for 17 years and we would love to make it another 17 years, but the legislation gives us some problems.
– While we're not big fans of any car that lives nearly unchanged for so long, most people would prefer the GT-R in its current form to seeing it done completely. There will not be a replacement soon, says Loing.
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When there is a prospect of a replacement is difficult to answer. But it is rumored that the car will be ready when Nissan also has the so-called solid state batteries in more common street cars.
Whether the next GT-R will be a one hundred percent electric car, Pierre Loing will not deal with at this time.
But he would like to say that Nissan fans have had to wait a long time for a 'GT-R' replacement. Even if he personally would like to be able to fill the waiting time with another car.
We showed off the GT-R concept in 2001, one year before Skyline GT-R production stopped in 2002. The R35 didn't come until 2007.
– The gap between the 'Kenmeri' Skyline GT-R, which was released in 1975, and the R32, where production first began in 1989, was even greater, says the Nissan boss.
When a possible new GT-R will appear, Loing nevertheless reveals a bit of the slouch to Top Gear. Because it may be that in 2028 the Japanese will be so far ahead with the development that they will be able to sell a small "GT-R" production. Unfortunately only in Japan. At least to begin with.
The GT-R has never been part of the Danish Nissan importer's program. The closest we get is a series of specialist GT-R workshops run by the Swedish importer.
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