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New Gt-r Designed For Americans, Not Japanese?

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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?

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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 :ermm:

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