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Hi guys!

I hope you are doing well ;]

Just found an interesting article when I was doing some reading on a Japanese discussion forum (2ch) about Skyline Coupe V35.

Some guy posted a link where a journalist took some pictures of one of the first test car of the R35 GTR in one of Nissan's service centre in Japan.

The car is pretty much a GTR, but with the looks of the CPV35. Some of the parts on the concept car such as the brakes, exhaust and sound system was used in the

finalised version of the GTR.

I wish Nissan produced a slightly tuned up version of the CPV35 and make a "female" (one of the designer of the GTR described it as a muscular male) version of the GTR! haha

Source of the pics (sorry in Japanese):

http://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20130205_585419.html

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"Female" GTR haha

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Air duct on the bonnet to cool down the turbo system.

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Exhaust and diffuser pretty hot!

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Side fender a bit wider.

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Front brakes with 6 piston caliper also used on the final version of the GTR.

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Rear brakes with 4 piston caliper also used on the final version of the GTR.

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Inside the engine bay is pretty similar to the GTR.

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Sound system and sub woofer like in the GTR.

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The steering wheel on the left I don't know... Just used a G35 that they got from Germany to test in the Nurburgring? Not sure..

This is not the concept car but the test car even before then made the concept car. I assume Nissan developed the Premium Midship Platform from these testing with the CPV35 and created the concept car that they launched. Just speculation sorry..

Didn't they use the V35 body during testing of the R35 drive train? Because the R35 body was still being built/tweaked?. So this was probably just one of their 'test' builds. It was never going to be a production build.

According the the article on the link, this test car is using the same/similar AWD system as in the GTR.

And yes, this was just going to be a test car before they finalised making the body of the GTR so they never planned to make a

GTR version of the CPV35. After they were done with the body design of the GTR, Nissan started developing it on the Nurburgring and pretty much never touched this CPV35-GTR test car again.

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