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EDIT: Sorry, I should have written my original post a little differently

Expect a LOT more of this... baller is the way to go to sell cars these days. The 300C was the first car to sell itself on big diameter wheels tyres, Nissan have just copied a winning idea.
I really would have thought that with the size of the brakes on the R35 Nissan wouldnt have had any other choice than to fit 20s to it...
V8 Supercars run 370mm rotors under a 17" wheel so I don't think you would really need to go an extra three inches for a 380mm rotor.
Nissan has copied jack shit. There's a performance reason why they went for 20's, like there is a performance reason Porsche went with 19's for the 997 Turbo. They're not thinking, geez, this will get me in the good books with 50 cent :D
Whether we like it or not, it is important that 50 cent likes it because what 50 cent likes, America likes. Think about the slogan for the car "NEW NISSAN GT-R: THE 21ST CENTURY SUPERCAR FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME". This includes South Beach, the Sunset Strip AND Laguna Seca. Porsche knows this as well as anyone.

22-inch wheels and Automatic transmissions sell the car to 50-cent. Nurburgring laptimes and split second gearshifts sell the car to performance enthusiasts like us. It is marketing genius and the only reason that this car exists at all.

Edited by Laurence

V8 Supercar = 17x11" rims.

Cant wait to see the first suicide or lambo door conversion :D ......makes me want to suicide just thinking about it.

Hmm 40kg 22x5" rims with spinners and air bags no doubt, im sure they will make the car handle really well....or not

Why not just airbrush the f**ck out of it as well and completely wreak the car

Edited by zebra

The white is definitely a no, the grey one with the dark grey centre looks good...............probably wouldn't look good in black centre but grey/dark silver is awesome iwht polished lip

I stood and stared at that white R35 at Tokyo Autosalon for some time, wondering if the owner got confused and thought it was a 300C.

Slammed with 22 inch chrome wheels and a massive audio system in the boot was not the intended mod path for the R35 GTR.

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