BREAKING NEWS!!!! New GTR pics are up!!!

[gabossie]

I want some REAL ****ING PICTURES AND SPECS THOUGH!

[sensibleS13driver]

it says videos coming soon I can't wait!

[One_Love]

i wanna read the interview

[naed240sx]

I want some REAL ****ING PICTURES AND SPECS THOUGH!

wow. Thats car p0rn if ive ever seen it. That thing is gorgeous. I love the use of carbon fiber in the grill, and how the kept the muscular, angled look of the r34, blended with the tasteful g35. I love you Nissan.

[Shift_Tommy]

would have been better if it had specs on the car...

[scs13]

how come it doesnt work when i look at it, it just says this

[Thrwnsprkz]

looks good... i like the rear alot, very fitting

i think the cars slanted back too far and i dought that low roofline will make production

classy, the front is growing on my quicky... im glad the "eyeliner run" is CF and not black plastic or something, cleans it up a lil bit

& yes...... I waited untill 2:45 AM for the countdown to Zero and the pix to come up

[vvaffle]

refresh the page after the countdown.

I like it alot. The roof line is dead sexy. It slopes perfectly into the windshield and the trunk lid. The shoulder line is great and quite muscular. Back end looks simpler and in my opinion better than the r34. The front wheel fenders blend perfectly into the headlights and the shoulder line. And I do like the headlights, they are almost mean looking. I also like the fact that the front bumper is fairly simple without any unnecessary lines. As you may notice, I want to have sex with this car. Now what I would REALLY like, is for similar but not identical styling to be applied to a new, lighter, RWD, S chassis car (I know this won't happen)

my favorite picture. great profile with short overhangs.

I will beg on my knees for them to keep the low roofline. I hate when a sports car tries to be "practical."

[scs13]

ive refreshed the page 13.7 million times and its still the same thing.

[scs13]

nvm, i tried it on IE instead of mozilla and it worked. weird. i was hoping there would be some actual info on the car, but the pictures are dead sexy.

[Jesda]

Front fenders are too busy. They look like some kid in his garage tacked them on. They also interrupt the beltline and shoulders.

The blacked out a-pillar reminds me of the old Mercury Sable and Dodge Intrepid. In the 90s they were cheesy. They still are.

The rear is a big but muscular slab with big round tail lights, just like the C5 and C6 Corvettes.

The roof? It makes the top of the car look like Pac Man. It does slope nicely to the rear, however.

I could write hundreds of pages on the front, but I'll keep it simple: It looks cheap.

I previously reserved my styling critiques because it was just a concept, but now that the concept has become a final product with few changes, I think its hideous. The whole damn car is trying too hard to impress, like a fatty with too much makeup.

Thankfully it won't perform like a fatty. I can't wait to see it in action.

[JimmyMethod]

CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I feel like dancing...Wow...that thing looks amazing...I'm gonna be a serial test driver at any nearby Nissan dealership that gets one (until I can afford it...)

[Jesda]

Someone at Miata.net cleaned it up:

[SeanDean]

refresh the page after the countdown.

I like it alot. The roof line is dead sexy. It slopes perfectly into the windshield and the trunk lid. The shoulder line is great and quite muscular. Back end looks simpler and in my opinion better than the r34. The front wheel fenders blend perfectly into the headlights and the shoulder line. And I do like the headlights, they are almost mean looking. I also like the fact that the front bumper is fairly simple without any unnecessary lines. As you may notice, I want to have sex with this car. Now what I would REALLY like, is for similar but not identical styling to be applied to a new, lighter, RWD, S chassis car (I know this won't happen)

my favorite picture. great profile with short overhangs.

I will beg on my knees for them to keep the low roofline. I hate when a sports car tries to be "practical."

Check out the Nissan Foria, it is almost certain to be the next Silvia and shares quite a bit in proportions and lines with the GT-R Proto. Judging from that long hood I would guess it's packing some QR variant.



And check out http://www.seriouswheels.com/t...t.htmfor lots more pics. The Foria is being displayed alongside the GT-R proto. Mark my words the Foria is the next S-chassis

scs13: Try setting Mozilla to check for a new version of webpages every time you visit them.

-Sean

[gabossie]

Gotta say, the photochop looks better! It also makes it look a little Mazda-e. I think the profile view is SPECTACULAR, I'm just still not sold on the front. I look foreward to other colors.

[naed240sx]

Gotta say, the photochop looks better! It also makes it look a little Mazda-e. I think the profile view is SPECTACULAR, I'm just still not sold on the front. I look foreward to other colors.

The photochop one looks way too much like a celica. This car deserves to have one of a kind styling. Leave it be.

[Nexus9]

[Nexus9]

[Nexus9]

let the photo-chops begin

[w1ngzer0]

You guys whine to much. It looks bad ***, period.


Modified by w1ngzer0 at 8:45 PM 8/23/2006

[Jesda]

Wow, thats freaking hot in black.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Front fenders are too busy. They look like some kid in his garage tacked them on. They also interrupt the beltline and shoulders.

I agree. The "widebody" look is just stupid. If you're going to "vent" from the front fenders, do it minimally and tastefully, a la C5/C6 Corvette or FD.

The blacked out a-pillar reminds me of the old Mercury Sable and Dodge Intrepid. In the 90s they were cheesy. They still are.

Hey, at least this one is glossy and lends to a wraparound greenhouse.I don't mind it, but I'd prefer it was body colored. To me, it throws the visual weight of the car off.

The rear is a big but muscular slab with big round tail lights, just like the C5 and C6 Corvettes.

I HATE that. It screams "Rubbermaid." At least the C6 and GT-R proto have black along the bottom to break it up. Also, fortunately, the GT-R's trunk lid seam cuts into it, breaking up the massive blank slab.

The roof? It makes the top of the car look like Pac Man. It does slope nicely to the rear, however.

As I've said before: Big C-pillars are BAD! Drive a murano or a new Maxima for a day and you'll know what I mean. Backing up and changing lanes is a beast, because you just can't see anything behind the rear windows on either side... And big c-pillars combined with low, sloping backlight are even worse. Yeah, it needs to look sporty, but I hate it when looks get in the way of function. They should do something like the new charger, with a sloping roof/backlight/c-pillars, but lower-profile "machine-gun-nest" windows. It lends a lot to the sleekness of the car, kills the pac-look, and lets you combine a clean roofline with good visibility.

I could write hundreds of pages on the front, but I'll keep it simple: It looks cheap.

Bare CF is just stupid. It is. It's like having bare sheet metal. Yeah...we know it's there. Whupty ****. I really dislike how far back the lenses continue on the upper fender surface. It's one of those "looks this way because it'll get recognized" design things. But--this car doesn't NEED that. It's one of the most anticipated cars of the modern era. It'd get noticed if it looked like a 1995 Ford Taurus.The headlights should be completely on the vertical surface of the fascia, helping to alleviate some of the emptiness that is now being filled in with idiot carbon fiber.Also, the front is a stark contrast to the rest of the car. The whole of the body flows down and back. But the front is over-vertical. It looks like it was taken from a completely different car.

My only other real gripe is that the wheels have one too many spokes. 5 or 6 spoke wheels are the most attractive, IMHO, especially with thick, convex spokes like these. Something like the new Z33 5-spokes would look excellent on this car. 7 spokes are just too busy. They belong on a luxury model like the G35, not on a sports car like the GT-R

[gniknave]

I care less how it looks. Let me drive. Hell I drive a Q45 and there's plenty of critics for the looks of that car

[MinisterofDOOM]

Hell I drive a Q45 and there's plenty of critics for the looks of that car

Which is why we should re-legalize lobotomies.

[lrb_2000]

lol... I think it looks pretty lame.. nothing about it looks good, well, maybe the wheels...it looks like a 350z got rear ended by a corvette and smashed by a new mustang lol... . of course they have to ruin the car before it comes here... but that's just my opinion, because i'll never be able to afford one, and if I could, I would definitely get an R32 GTR or R34 GTR.. I just hope they don't put a v8 or v6 in it.. they need to at least stick with an I-6..



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Modified by lrb_2000 at 6:01 AM 10/19/2005

[Scooby24]

I just called Nissan and pre-ordered one.

I plan on winning the powerball tonight.

[Eikon]

Someone at Miata.net cleaned it up:

Can somebody do another photoshop of the silver front photo that Jesda posted..

Keep the center grill the stock carbon fiber.. but silver the area underneath each headlight like a normal cars bumper. Then drop a carbon fiber hood on it!

I think that is my only complaint with the whole car... I don't like the lines going so vertical on the front bumper.

[HashiriyaS14]

w00t, that's awesome.

So it's finally here. I actually really like the design, although I wish the tail-lights were just normal circles instead of having those little patterns in them.

It's still a proto, after all, so I think some of the more avantgarde touches will likely be cleaned up for the production model. I'd like to see the interior.

Do we have specs yet? Are the going to go with the electrically assisted turbochargers?

[NISTECH]

MOD yes the Z is getting a new VQ in 07, the 3.7L posted after your post seems to be a popular number lately due to a Japanese car mag so I am thinking thats the new VQ they mentioned when I was at one of NNA's facilities.

[AZhitman]

Looks like Nissan hit the ball outta the park.

...did I mention we had the pics up 4 hours before the countdown was over?

Time to liquidate my 401K and the kids ain't going to college - Daddy wants a GTR.