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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.

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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! :)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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! :P

I wish I had my car here!!! :P

:burnout:

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