New Gt-r Designed For Americans, Not Japanese?

[funkymonkey]

A mate that just got back from japan commented that there's been a small stumbling block to the R35's sold in japan. In japan when you go to register your car, one of the things you have to provide is you shako shoumei details. ie. your parking space allocation. Now to those living in rural areas, or with their own garages this can be whatever size they deem fit, but if you live in the city and lease a parking space from the city, then the size allocations are preset. Most of these spaces are under the width of the R35, which means that some potential buyers in the big cities cannot own the car, or must go to great difficulty to own one. To date most japanese cars are designed with the average parking space size in mind, but Nissan's kinda gone "f**k it" with the new GT-R.

From memory the last japanese car that was designed like this was the NSX, and that again was designed with the US market in mind. If you look at porka's, audi's and other mass produced european sports cars (ie not ferrari's n lambo's), their wheelbase is narrower than the new GT-R. I suppose having a small narrow car like the older GTR's sitting next to a Charger, Corvette or Rustang would look kinda small and girly. So besides the advantage of a wider track, was the design of the R35 to comfortably seat the McDonalds fuelled wide asses of yanks?

[trism]

not just yanks imo, but the rest of the world outside of japland....

[Bliksem]

not just yanks imo, but the rest of the world outside of japland....

[Mr. Keets]

"I say boy is that trunk big enough for ma golf clubs, you know those little Japanese toys just aint big enough for us Americans"

[dori34]

fark thats a mad photo with all the gtrs next to each other...

[Al]

not just yanks imo, but the rest of the world outside of japland....

agreed

[Spunky Munky]

the r33 GTR still looks best... tough as!!

[ras1983]

Judging by how tightly i fit into the R33 GTR seats; i'd have to say that the r32-r34 models must have been designed with smaller/narrower people in mind.

[Al]

the r33 GTR still looks best... tough as!!

was that really needed?

[WazR32GTSt]

i'm not surprised..

also, wasn't the 350z designed in california? wouldn't be surprised if the V35 was too..

Edited January 28, 2008 by WazR32GTSt

[Al]

NEWS FLASH: 33 GTR can no longer be considered the "whale" of the family, and since 34 GTT weighs more than the 33 GTST, neither can the 33 GTST

[West]

NEWS FLASH: 33 GTR can no longer be considered the "whale" of the family, and since 34 GTT weighs more than the 33 GTST, neither can the 33 GTST

I guess you must feel better now Al

[funkymonkey]

R33's are still whales. R35's will just have to be called lochness monsters. nessie for short.

[N1GTR]

R33: Whale

R35: Whaling ship/titanic

[Al]

Not the titanic: the damn thing sank on it's first voyage

Pretty lame Shan

[STATUS]

was that really needed?

yeah the 33 is the ugly duckling

[typevu]

HEY if you read the whole story the ugly ducking turns out to be the hottest piece of ass out of em all! Sooooo the R33 is that hot piece of ass

Edited January 28, 2008 by vietorious

[N1GTR]

We're just waiting for it to "develop" lol

[funkymonkey]

how did this even get onto R33's. stay on topic people.

[pablo101]

lol, well we got plenty of space down here so we're all good

Damn I want that R35

I still think the Proto looks better at the front.