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Well for starters, Infiniti is Nissan's luxury brand (if for some reason you didn't know that already) and there are talks that the new GTR will be released under the infiniti nameplate. The current G35 sedan and coupe are actually called the Skyline in Japan as the skyline is actually more of a family/full size sports sedan in lower trim and then a full on street legal racecar in GTR trim. The new GTR Proto (whatever they decide to call it when its released) will be released in the US unlike the previous GTRs. Now, for the older GTR skylines, the previous generations of skylines R32,33,34 didn't meet US emission standards or some crash standards also if im not mistaken and they figured there wasn't a decent enough market for it in the US. For importing one, I saw some recent legislation saying only 96-98 R33s could be imported, in addition to some costly smog equiptment. Fortunately, there is a sneaky somewhat illegal but not terribly so way to import any skyline by seperating the engine and body and shipping them as seperate units. Another interesting way I heard of is someone bought a skyline and a maxima in japan and shipped them to mexico together. Once in mexico, he switched the VIN from the maxima to the skyline and then trashed the maxima and when he came back to the US he registered it as a maxima and said it was a show car with a body kit. As for smog gear, it should only affect people in california and other anal retentive cities with regards to smog. Where I live they dont even test emissions so i could be pouring out toxic waste and it wouldnt fail inspection. Hope this helped, if not, just say what else you wanted to know in your reply.
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