Nissan Gtr Officially Coming To Australia

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http://editorial.carsales.com.au/car-review/2829513.aspx

Godzilla fans rejoice... With one short statement Nissan Australia boss, Shinya Hannya, has made the day (year!) of lovers of hot all-wheel drive turbo tear-aways.

Nissan's all-new GT-R (no Skyline attached these days) will be unveiled on October 24 at the Tokyo Motor Show. But that's old news... The good news is Hannya confirmed this last night in Sydney that the car will come Down Under as an official Nissan model.

"It's coming," the Nissan boss said. Short and sweet...

Details regarding timing and price are far from finalized and Hannya says the company is sworn to secrecy on all specification and performance details. What the company will say is first deliveries will take place in Japanese market later this year, with the USA getting the first left-hand drive cars in mid-2008.

Australia and markets like Europe are expected to be "the very back-end of 2008 or early 2009," according to Nissan Global Communications VP, Simon Sproule, also on hand for the announcement.

According to Sproule, Nissan Japan opened its sales effort for the all-wheel drive twin-turbo V6 super-coupe via the web on September 24 (more here).

He would quantify the official order total, saying the uptake was already "significant".

Pricing for the car starts from around Yen7.8m in Japan. Don't expect the car to be quite that affordable (under $70,000) when it arrives in Oz however.

Hannya says the local operation is yet to decide on the distribution network strategy for the GT-R. In some markets Nissan has set-up a high performance dealer network ahead of the car's arrival.

Please Nissan Australia, don't give us the lower end model. PLEASE.

[gazza750]

old news 2 west aussies have already signed up and payed deposits on them

[nuffsaid]

This might not be a good thing

We may get de-tuned models

We certainly will be paying a premium for them here through Nissan. If we could import them it might be cheaper?

[N1GTR]

Yeah from what funkymonkey was saying the grey imports would be cheaper

[gts-4 dreamer]

warranty and most importantly factory support!

[GT-R LM]

warranty and most importantly factory support!

read: void if not driven properly and most importantly grubby apprentices doing the work

[GT51R]

i've heard some news on another note, and i will be importing one from japan, thats all i have to say...

[Wink]

old news 2 west aussies have already signed up and payed deposits on them

Well AFAIK this is the first official word from Nissan Australia themselves.

[WazR32GTSt]

this is FANTASTIC news as far as i am concerned

now the australian public will really be able to appreciate a real japanese supercar!

Edited October 11, 2007 by WazR32GTSt

[NISMO]

Late 2008 = Brilliant,

Gives me at least 12 months of whinging to the Finance Minister (wife). And we all know, that endless whinging leads to

"Just by the god damn car and STFU"

On a serious note, it also means there's a year for the compliance shops to get their sh!t together and start bringing them in before Nissan does, and these will almost definately be cheaper than the local models. Otherwise there will be 0 market for the importers.

What's the bet though that the first few get hit with a nice $10k + complaince fee :-)

[Beer Baron]

yep, hopefully we will be getting 2009 models. as there will be guys here with compliance within a matter of months and I would expect the first LVI ones to be landing here early next year, possibly even sooner if people have got in the queue that has no doubt been forming outside nissan dealers in japan for the last year. then we can import 07 and 08 models for ever more

also since when is 7.8mil yen "less than $70,000" I want to go to that currencey exchange!

[WazR32GTSt]

although if kevin dudd gets in then our dollar will drop to 70c no doubt and the prospect of a cheap import won't be as exciting

[djr81]

yep, hopefully we will be getting 2009 models. as there will be guys here with compliance within a matter of months and I would expect the first LVI ones to be landing here early next year, possibly even sooner if people have got in the queue that has no doubt been forming outside nissan dealers in japan for the last year. then we can import 07 and 08 models for ever more

also since when is 7.8mil yen "less than $70,000" I want to go to that currencey exchange!

I can't wait until people start looking down their noses at the 2008 model, much like they do the 89's.

[Beer Baron]

lol, fore sure.

"Hey I've got an R35 GTR."

"awesome, what year model?"

"2007"

"oooh "

[sh@un]

...and most importantly grubby apprentices doing the work

Unlikely- Only fully qualified and competent mechanics get to service NSX's at the authorised Honda dealerships.

Won't be any different for GT-Rs, just like it was in '91

lol, fore sure.

"Hey I've got an R35 GTR."

"awesome, what year model?"

"2007"

"oooh "

From a copy of the Trading Post, 2025:

2008 GT-R, only 40000 kays, genuine reason for sale, ex-show car- hot pink respray, yellow leather interior, underbody neons, lowered 3 inches, rollin' on 26" Tempe chromiez, aftermarket intacoolah, 'super-loud' BOVs. A real head turner, pulls da chikz.

Located in Sefton. Call Habib on 0425.......

[Bliksem]

From a copy of the Trading Post, 2025:

2008 GT-R, only 40000 kays, genuine reason for sale, ex-show car- hot pink respray, yellow leather interior, underbody neons, lowered 3 inches, rollin' on 26" Tempe chromiez, aftermarket intacoolah, 'super-loud' BOVs. A real head turner, pulls da chikz.

Located in Sefton. Call Habib on 0425.......

No doubt there will be plenty of that... Still looking forward to 2025 when I can afford one though

[funkymonkey]

also given the "100 GT-R's" only deal that's rumoured for australia Nissan might decide to grey import them (like they did in the UK), which means regular compliancers can bring in cars from the same vintage.

Its a cat n mouse game. Begins late Oct.

[SS8_Gohan]

aren't you guys putting a lot of faith in the compliance red tape juggernaut that is DOTARS and Engineers? The combo of the two create a delay that likes of which we can't even begin to imagine

[funkymonkey]

aren't you guys putting a lot of faith in the compliance red tape juggernaut that is DOTARS and Engineers? The combo of the two create a delay that likes of which we can't even begin to imagine

doesn't matter when the compliance is gotten as long as the application is done. Compliance for 1999 S15's was applied for before Nissan started selling them in full volume, hence why we can only import S15s made in 1999.

There *are* competent compliancers out there who actually know what they're doin, just as there are complete muppets who drag things on

[SS8_Gohan]

i realise technically we can import the new GTR (i'm not calling it an R35 until official word, cos i can't see how it can be that) but how come all a workshop has to do is apply? Don't they have to bring one out, smash it up, can an engineer to do a package, send it off to DOTARS, get them to look through, then come out for an inspection of a freshly complianced car, pick over it, find problems, create 'discussion points' go back and forth with the workshop to fix em and THEN they can start compliancing that certain model only AFTER all of that?

or is there a different process considering that the car will be sold here officially?