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funkymonkey Grand Master

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well you'rekinda up shit creek if you live in the city and there's no wide parking spaces available... the parking space is only allowed to be within a certain radius of your apartment.

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perhaps the people in japan who can afford to own a gtr can afford 2 car spaces? or may already own a garage? who wants to park a brand new supercar on the street?

and here's a wild suggestion. maybe the width of the car has some sort of relation to handling and other functionality, other than just "fitting fat lards in it."

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perhaps the people in japan who can afford to own a gtr can afford 2 car spaces? or may already own a garage? who wants to park a brand new supercar on the street?

and here's a wild suggestion. maybe the width of the car has some sort of relation to handling and other functionality, other than just "fitting fat lards in it."

lol no doubt about its benefits to handling and centre of gravity. but thus far most japanese cars have kept to a certain size restriction to make owning one in japan easier for the consumer.

just keep in mind a large chunk of affluent people live in the cities in japan. parking space is limited, heavily regulated, and expensive, and the R35 isn't the be all to end all supercar, its just a $80,000 car. people park more expensive mercs on the street. crime's not quite the same there as it is here.

Domenico Apprentice

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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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That pic is fantastic! Something i'd want to hang on my bedroom wall! Should have included the R31 as well i think. Does anybody here think that the R33 rear looks better than the R34 rear?

Domenico Apprentice

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lol no doubt about its benefits to handling and centre of gravity. but thus far most japanese cars have kept to a certain size restriction to make owning one in japan easier for the consumer.

just keep in mind a large chunk of affluent people live in the cities in japan. parking space is limited, heavily regulated, and expensive, and the R35 isn't the be all to end all supercar, its just a $80,000 car. people park more expensive mercs on the street. crime's not quite the same there as it is here.

Thats another reason why i like the R series, they are suprisingly easy to park, perhaps due to handling and their reduced width.

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