If the Toyota Supra, Mazda RX-7, Mitsubishi EVO , Subaru STI...why never the Skyline?
I have always wondered why Nissan had never brought over the Skyline to the U.S. if Japan has had there supercars here already with the exception of the Skyline..America has the Firebird, Mustang, 'Vette, etc...Porsche ( Germany ) has the 911 Carrera, BMW has the M3, Benz has the AMG, England has the Aston Martin, Italy has the Ferrari Modena, Enzo, etc.....then why has Nissan never had the Skyline ever?!? Do they think its not worthy enough for Americans??? IMHO if Nissan had ever brought the Skyline ever in its history it would have surpassed the 280Z, 300ZX, 350Z in sales and popularity.....JMO....any thoughts??
man, you have no idea how many times this question is asked and how many times it gets answered. hell, i don't even hang around the skyline forum that much, and I've seen this asked twice in like a week.
Then why did they build R31's in Australia and market them as the car for everybody?
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they know that as soon as they do its all over some ricer will get ahold of one and there it goes all down hill from there ......some rich kid who will put to big mufflers with silencers on them
they know that as soon as they do its all over some ricer will get ahold of one and there it goes all down hill from there ......some rich kid who will put to big mufflers with silencers on them
yea, basically!!
see, heres the thing no one understands.......the skyline is a LEGENDARY car! and like dryboy said, i think nissan wants to keep it like that. why would nissan bring over such a great car so that anyone with money can buy one? then it would be just "another" car with no real value....come on now, its common sense!
see, heres the thing no one understands.......the skyline is a LEGENDARY car! and like dryboy said, i think nissan wants to keep it like that. why would nissan bring over such a great car so that anyone with money can buy one? then it would be just "another" car with no real value....come on now, its common sense!
Ha! Sif my mums R31 Skyline stationwagon is a legendary car.......ffs......Here they sold (and built) them as a car for EVERYBODY......
And the cars after the R32? cash ins....nuff said....
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Holden VL Commodore Calais......a domestic Aussie car thats RB Nissan powered (From the factory) and hated by Australian domestic people and Japanese import people alike, due to its mixed heritage.....*sigh* I can't win can I?
Ha! Sif my mums R31 Skyline stationwagon is a legendary car.......ffs......Here they sold (and built) them as a car for EVERYBODY......
And the cars after the R32? cash ins....nuff said....
sure a stationwagon mightve been built for EVERYBODY, but the R32-R34 were not. cash ins? bwahahahahaha, theres a reason why the skyline has such a good name buddy.
<sigh> Ok, economics lesson, boys and girls. Nissan is a major automotive manufactuer. They make cars to SELL, thus generating MONEY. People in Japan have money, and can buy GTR's whenever they feel like it. Nissan likes this. They like selling lots and lots of GTR's, image be damned. They stand to gain nothing by pitching a particular car as "legendary" to a market that they are not selling to. If anything, Nissan wants to downplay the Skyline GTR to the American buyers, simply because it's irritating to us to know that we can not buy "the good stuff" and have to merely settle for Z-car's and such.
The reason the Skyline GTR was never brought to America (and if you spend more than 30 seconds researching the net, you'll find this out!) was because the layout of the RB26DETT engine was such that it made it incredibly difficult, and extremely costly, to convert the car to a left hand drive configuration. There was simply no room for the steering rack on the left hand side of the engine bay. They would essentially have had to manufacture a completely seperate chassis' for the left-hand drive market. Which means a whole new assembly line. So with the price of setting up an assembly line to handle making these cars, and shipping them to country's with economies benificial to such a car (i.e. rich enought to afford such high end sports cars), AND the fact that the last RX-7, 300ZX, and Supra were poor sellers because Americans, during the mid-90's, were obsessed with SUV's, and couldn't fathom paying $30,000 for a Japanese sports car; with all of these factors at hand, the accountants at Nissan killed the idea of a dedicated left hand drive GTR.
Which was smart, really. I like Nissan cars. I don't want their company to take huge losses for something as financially devastating as having thousands of special made GTR's sitting in American showrooms, not selling because they cost well over $70,000. Which is what they estimated they would have had to sell for. Against competitor cars costing less than half, in a market where sports cars were out of fashion. Such losses would only have lead to more poorly made cars down the road.
So the way I see it, it all works out. Nissan is now bringing over the 350Z, which while not a performance juggernaut is still a damn good car for the money. The next GTR will be sold here in 2005, 2006. And if you absolutely will not settle for anything other than the legendary twin turbo inline 6 RB26DETT, then you can go to Motorex and buy one for about what they would have had to sell for here, anyway. Everybody wins.
sure a stationwagon mightve been built for EVERYBODY, but the R32-R34 were not. cash ins? bwahahahahaha, theres a reason why the skyline has such a good name buddy.
Yeah and I saw it in person, when it got a good name pal and I've seen one roll infront of me in a race (hehehe)....... yet where I'm from after the R32, it just didn't seem special anymore.....
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Holden VL Commodore Calais......a domestic Aussie car thats RB Nissan powered (From the factory) and hated by Australian domestic people and Japanese import people alike, due to its mixed heritage.....*sigh* I can't win can I?
yet where I'm from after the R32, it just didn't seem special anymore.....
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