Skylines in England

[CanberraR33]

I am staying in London at the moment and I saw a dealer that sells Skylines! He has two R33 GTRs in there for £20,000!

I am waiting till they open to have a look at them!

How anyone here could afford to drive one is beyond me. Petrol cost 80p a litre!

Cheers,

James.

[hippy]

how much dollars is that?? .. people in england earn more than us over here anyways ... because living costs are higher i think ...

[chaos]

thats roughly $40k aussie doller give or take a couple of grand

[Silver-Arrowz]

20,000 pounds = $51,608.82 as of 7.20am 27th April.

[toby19]

roughly the same R33 GTR dollars in Oz...

[rb26dett]

yes but petrol at 80p would mean about aussie $1.90 per litre!! how do they drive those GTRs there??? my fuel consumptions about 1/2 a tank for about 300-350kms...n i'm already complaining with 90c per litre.

[CanberraR33]

That was my point!

However in England there is a big difference between rich and poor, and I am told some fairly affluent people drive Skylines here!

Thing is they are damn quick cars when you are racing 2 litre golfs off the lights!

[ylwgtr2]

yeah...i got the factory R33 and R34 sales brochure in english from england

[Bleach1]

u get 1/2 a tank to last 300k's? whats the secret? i only get 350k's a tank in the city.

[b0neR]

Less Idling?... More Economically minded driving?...

[NismoR34]

Originally posted by Bleach1

u get 1/2 a tank to last 300k's? whats the secret? i only get 350k's a tank in the city.

Off-topic:

I got 300k out of half a tank, but this was mostly highway driving!

On-topic:

Those would have to be fairly clean, low km 33 GTR's for the price IMO. Have seen them for much closer to $40k in Oz.

[GT-Rmgedon]

GTR's R heaps more common in the UK. Their equivalent Skyline Forums R GTR only!

[JimX]

England was the only country outside of Japan where the GTR was regularly exported to by Nissan (this will change with future models I believe). Aside from small volume one-offs like Australia's 500 R32 GTRs.

I don't think England got any GTS-t's, which would explain why GTRs are the predominant model Skyline over there.

[T0nyGTSt]

The UK got limited numbers of 33 GT-R's and a fair few 34 GT-R's.

Both GT-R's were tested by Jeremy Clarkson/Tiff Needell - they were both *incredibly* impressed by them - of course, how can it be any other way with the acceleration, handling and 'driftiness' of both car and drivers.

We only got 100 of the '91 32 GT-R (correct me if I'm wrong).

All of the Aust. and UK models have minor differences with the Jap. spec. cars.

T.

[CanberraR33]

Here's a few pics of them. I spoke to the dealer yesterday. Apparently they were stolen from Japan and got picked up by the Police here in England. The dealer bought them from a Police auction.

They are stock as by the way!

http://www.pbase.com/jredgrove/skylines_uk

[NismoR34]

They are stock as by the way!

Except for the AVS wheels of course...

I was just speaking to the misses the other day about having twins...nice!

We only got 100 of the '91 32 GT-R (correct me if I'm wrong).

Yep, 100 for sale to the public @ A$110,000 each! Though 110 cars were actually shipped over, 10 of them were used for testing and media relations etc...

I actually saw one the other day, well it had the Oz spec rear end etc so it could have been, was in mint condition too

Both GT-R's were tested by Jeremy Clarkson/Tiff Needell

I have seen these roadtest vidz, downloaded from net, some can be found HERE

[ausgtr]

Originally posted by JimX

England was the only country outside of Japan where the GTR was regularly exported to by Nissan .

New Zealand as well.

[NiteskyR]

over here , there was 100 r33 gtr's and 100 r34 gtrs oficially imported the cost of a brand new r34 was £54.000

and as for petrol , i steal it !!

[CanberraR33]

I haven't seen any R34s yet. Actually I havent seen any R33s on the road either! I saw a dude in a Supra cruising through Amersham this morning with the stereo up and the subs pumping!

I wish I had my car here!!!

:burnout:

[NiteskyR]

no wonder , there aint that many over here , of ANY skylines !!