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4-door GTR by Infiniti

A adam
Posted onJul 29, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Updated onUpdated on Jul 31, 2008 at 5:05 AM

ag_09gtr_frontFirst it was the CABRIOLET, now there are speculations on the possibilities of the Infiniti Premium Midship (PM), a GTR based sedan!

The previous R34 Skylines came in the 4 door sedan trim, so would it be natural to think that the R35 sedan would follow too? If this car becomes a reality expect interesting things for that 4 door sedan Nurburgring record currently held by the Caddilac CTS-V.

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Japan’s Car Top magazine (September issue) claims they scooped a Nissan super sedan project based on the R35 GTR scheduled for release in 2011.  A rendering on the front cover of the magazine shows a silver 4 door Nissan GTR. The magazine says that the super sedan will come with most of the performance elements  found in the R35 GTR.

This new development would surely send warnings across the globe that the GTR is soon going to be challenging the rest of the super sedans.

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    busy_walk
  • Jul 29, 2008
God that's stunning... Kinda like Lexus though... Little bit...
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    netmatrix
  • Jul 29, 2008
Stupid nissan. (I hope!) First in every god damn mag, when the car was first shown to everyone , it was clarrified it ISN'T a Skyline. Ok fair, the engineers, designers and even the salesman was saying it isn't a Skyline. Now they do this. Flashback all the way back to ER series. 4 door Skylines! Now its gonna be ER35? So it is a freaking Skyline after all!!!

So all those nonsense of racing heritage, 2 door racing sports car mojo is flushed down the toilet with such reports. Congratulations nissan... BIG liar!!

And then next, cab version of GTR, how about a hatch version? Maybe a SUV GTR or something. So Nissan is riding the Toyota way with their baby. 1 engine shared between models. What a rip off. Its not exclusive anymore. That old guy next to you would have the same technical gizmo in his 4 door ride compared to your 2 door one!

So effectively they would kill their own G35 Skyline too. Nonsence greedy Nissan.
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    netmatrix
  • Jul 29, 2008
Hah!!! Got that real reason why they would make a 4 door GTR.

http://blogs.motortrend.com/6238831/editorial/has-the-nissan-gt-r-got-toyota-running-scared/index.html

Losses people. Losses!
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    Izso
  • Jul 30, 2008
Pitch it up against a Audi RS4 man. That should be interesting.
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    ah.. it's gtr
  • Jul 30, 2008
it will be pathetic if they share DNA wit GTR..
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    Ed
  • Jul 30, 2008
netmatrix, what are you on about? Do you have any idea what are you talking at all?

And the article link posted after your initial post didn't make sense too.

Ok, here's the catch, Infinity is the luxury flagship Nissan carrier in the US. Like Lexus to Toyota.

Each to their own, they have their own market. One is carrying the performance flagship, and the other is carrying luxury performance line. So it makes sense after all for Infinity to produce a 4-door luxury version of the highly sucessful Nissan GT-R.

Just like Lexus did with the 3-litre twinturbo Soarer deriving from the highly successful Toyota Supra. Did any one then criticised the Lexus Soarer as much as you did to Infinity?

At the end of the day, US is the largest market for Nissan outside of Japan, and Infinity is performing as well as the Nissan brand itself.
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    Jc
  • Jul 30, 2008
be cool. haha....just try to look back our "proud" cars made by both of the manufacturer. btw, i think infinity and nissan is doing differently.

that's the reason why GTR (32, 33, 34) only come out with a right-hand-drive.
japanese always keep the best for thier own ppl to use. that's why and acura will not be as good as honda, toyota-lexus, nissan-infinity. in terms of performance of course
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    netmatrix
  • Jul 30, 2008
No my point is not the whole article. Its the fact that they loose money for every GTR they make. And that money is actually used to pay patent royalties for the twin clutch gearbox. In fact it is widely known by many motoring mags and journalist, the car is sold at a loss. So my point is, they have to make a 4 door version to make up for the loses.

My grunt with Nissan is, their engineers/designers slap journalist hands when they say "Wow a new Skyline GTR!" You get me?!

Nissan said its a fabled machine. With a 4 door version, its still a GTR? Isn't a 4 door GTR a Skyline? What place does a 4 door GTR have in supercar territory? Its sacrilege. In that case they might as well make a GTR suv because they don't have one. Its easy isn't it? Nissan 350Z then plonk the same engine in a Nissan Murano. Then a GTR plonk the V6 inside a 2 door SUV and call it Nissan GAYLO, or something.
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    russwestwood
  • Jul 31, 2008
lol
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    jmjhtj
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melhora isso fio
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