do you like the new skylines?

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

just wandering if people actually like the look of the new V35's?

coz i think they dont look tough enuff, they look to rich people driving luxury car now!

[leech_]

after seing the nismo version i dont mind them but i guess nismo can make anything looks swoit

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

yeah the nismo versions r sweet! but they've lost the coolness like i can see heaps of 40 - 50 yr olds buyn them

[R33 impul freak]

i havnt seen the nismo version but i seriously i reckon they suck big time, they dont look nothing like a skyline, just my opinion.

[Cynder]

Yea, I dislike the looks that they've swung too. I love the old shape of the skyline, sigh, but things do change.

[slow13dude]

What's the point! Just another Euro-style luxury/family car now.

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

do u think if the V35 isnt going so well by the time they release the next model they could go back to the original skyline shape?

take for instance holden is going old style shape instead of redesigning a new shape

[zer0for0je]

R34 is the mark of the end of a great car era...

[Ant]

yeah the nismo versions r sweet! but they've lost the coolness like i can see heaps of 40 - 50 yr olds buyn them

... which is the point of the design - 40 - 50 year olds are the ones with the $$'s to buy them new.

Since the new Skyline was designed as a world car (unlike the R32/33/34 which were aimed at the JDM market only), it is targeted at the equivalent competition around the world - 3 series, C class, IS200/300 etc, as those are the cars that the target market are likely to be shopping for, so that is the direction of the design.

Personally I like the design (but then again I like the 350Z....), the only bit I don't like is that they didn't create a new inline 6 to go with it - that would have enabled it to better fight the 3 series and preserve some of the Skyline heritage at the same time. But the fiscal reality is that at that time Nissan probably couldn't afford to develop a new engine, so the VQ is the obvious alternative I guess.

[Nexus9]

I like the coupe.

2005 version pushing out 295 HP stock and the previous versions doing 280 HP stock with low 14 second 1/4's stock I mean whats not to like.

Plus with some decent rims they uber nice.

eg.

All nice examples, sure they don't have the blocky shape of the older JDM Skylines, but things are moving on.

You can bet that the new GTR will look closer to these and the 350Z than it will to the R34, when it finally comes out.

But each to their own I guess, peoples tastes are different.

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

yeah they do look alright, the more u look at them the more u get to like them!

the front of them look a bit to much like a merc like same sort of styling

[slow13dude]

Don't get me wrong, they look *nice*, but they lack the aggression of the R32 or R34.

To me it sort of fades into that current "blob" look that the 350Z and the Audi TT have taken on.

[leech_]

you can hardly compare it to the 32,33,34 etc why dont you compare the car against the likes of the 1960 & 1970's skylines which again look nothing like any of these. We have grown up with that style of body etc i am sure the people our age 20 - 30 years ago would be saying exactly what we are now about the "new" skyline. Also isnt it called the V35 so its not even trying to keep the same name as the other ones eg r31, r32, r33 and r34

[VL-TRBO-RB20]

yeah thats quite true, i spose they'll refine it n then the next gen of skyline lovers will go "fark R32, 33 n 34's look crap.. now the V35 its a real car!!!"

[Nexus9]

yeah it's all relative to your personal experience and your willingness to accept change.

I am 31, so older than most of you guys here, and I definitely grew up with the R32/33/34 car shape.

Times change, car design changes for reasons other than looks. I must admit when they first came out I wasn't too impressed but as time went by, the more I learnt about them the more I began to like them, probably as I age more towards the market they are designed for. I am looking at importing one near the end of this year which will undergo a few modifications when it arrives here

It requires changing your thinking and some people can and others can't, thats why you will see old codgers thinking that unless it's a V8 it can't be powerful, or the old Holden vs Ford B.S and no other car is worthy. They don't have it within themselves to accept change.

[leech_]

wack on a twin turbo setup and you will be netting a fair bit of power easily enough to lay the smack down on most v8's

[slow13dude]

I guess it doesn't help that the V35's are the equivalent of the R32 GTS, R33 GTS and R34 GT - i.e. the bottom rung NA model. Except there's no higher models to inspire me.

[Nexus9]

except they are making double the horse power that the N/A R32/R33/R34 can do.

In fact they make more horsepower stock than a lightly modded GTST/GTT does.

[Kor'axis]

it doesn't really look tough... it looks too much like a 350Z. gone too far from the r32-r34 look. But still i wouldn't mind owning one!

[slow13dude]

except they are making double the horse power that the N/A R32/R33/R34 can do.

 

In fact they make more horsepower stock than a lightly modded GTST/GTT does.

You'd hope so after all these years. And they don't make more power than a GTT. Get your facts straight.

It's not as though the VQ is huge leap forward. I'd like to see how much power a RB35DE made.