Nissan GT-R GT500 race car : First Look

[MeraBoy]

Only last week Nissan announced that its all-new GT-R sports car would be entered into the GT500 class of the SUPER GT series in Japan for the 2008 season. Now we have the first image of the new race car, prepped by Nissan’s own motorsport company Nismo.

This latest shot was taken as the car was undergoing shakedown testing at Suzuka. Full details including vehicle specifications and team structure will be announced at the Nissan Motorsports Press Conference in February 2008.



It has been four years since the GT-R last competed in Japan, when it won the Japan GT Championship in 2003. Nissan’s previous GT-R race car was based on the older R34 series, which ran the straight-six RB26 engines. In its later years Nissan started using the newer VQ V6 series of engines.
Eventually, the R34 was replaced with the new Z33 350Z coupe and now the Z will be replaced with the latest version of the fabled GT-R.

Source:
Motor Authority , Nihoncar

 

[Daniel89]

Wow man sweet !! When people going to buy this car and send to Monster Garage ? :D !

 

[skazareth]

sweeeeeeeeet...

when 350Z replaced the R34, kinda sad and refuse to watch JGTC.. its not that 350Z is no good, but R34 is too perfect.

i hope GtR will rule this time..

 

[es2611]

holy nice..sad for the 350z..but the king is back now.
would be awesome if the all new GTR go head to head with the Z.

 

[robthomas]

wow...
the car is so damn nice...

 

[sakuraguy]

Simply awesome .. The Pennzoil rival is here !

 

[GT_AUTO]

watch out sc430,the gtr is back....hehehe.....:p

 

[zero2]

nice car...
good bye 350z...all the best

 

[munky]

lets see how it performs in the Japan GT