One of my favorite things to do when visiting a country is to check out its local car museums. Itâs a good indication of what types of cars are appreciated there, how the local car industry has influenced life around it and how the local culture has influenced the cars as well. Unlike in Italy, where a lot of theâŚ
The Nissan Skyline GT-R is one of those â90s tuner cars that doesnât really exist in stock form anymore. And if they do, theyâre usually really hard to find and expensive. One guy in Australia chanced upon a stock one in pristine condition recently, and it just might be one of the last ones out there like that.
Itâs old. It weighs as much as a house. Itâs not relevant anymore. Itâs expensive, for a Nissan. No manual, no care. Itâs a computer car, a video game car that requires no skill to drive. It looks like a brick. Itâs got no soul. This is how the R35 Nissan GT-R gets written off, now a decade into its existence.
In a scene full of shady Japanese car importers, Florida-based Rivsu Imports was supposed to be one of the good ones. No illegal cars. All legit. And with JDM imports on the rise, they seemed like the perfect shop to invest in. But that was before its owners up and disappeared.
Car forums wept this week when pictures appeared of a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R getting towed away by Florida police at a car show in Daytona Beach. In some ways itâs not surprisingâthat generation of Skyline isnât really legal to be in the U.S., though some are here under dubious circumstances. But what may look likeâŚ
You probably havenât heard of the the Nostalgic2days show before. Itâs not a big international motor show like the Tokyo Motor Show, and itâs not as crazy as the automotive circus that is the Tokyo Auto Salon. Despite flying under the radar for some time, the Nostalgic2days show celebrated its 10th anniversary thisâŚ
Today I accidentally posted about Buick too many times. I apologize and Iâll never do it again. Here is the opposite of a Buick, a Nissan Skyline.
I have looked into your heart and I know who you are. You grew up on Gran Turismo dreams, pitcturing the day when those radical Nissan Skyline GT-R speed machines would be legal (and like, really legal) in the United States so you could drive so fast and so gloriously into your shining future. But! I am here to tellâŚ
In early 1980s, Nissan was on a mission. It was fighting Toyota for supremacy in the Japanese market, trying to prove itself with high-tech road cars and flame-spitting race cars to draw people into the showroom. And it was making a case for itself, but it had a problem.
The sweet smell of fresh strawberries in the garden. A cool breeze first cutting across a hot day. A BNR32 Skyline drifting in the sunset.
In case you didnât know, Japan celebrates Thanksgiving Day, too. Itâs not really the same as Thanksgiving in America, itâs more thanks for labour and production. But nevertheless at the end of every November the Japanese celebrate âThanksgiving Day.â I bring this up because right on the weekend following ThanksgivingâŚ
Back in the 1970s, Nissan was sort of stuck in a rut. The gas crises had ballooned the profits and export sales of the Japanese auto industry as a whole, but Nissan had lost its edge against Toyota and even the young upstart Honda. Particularly bad was Nissanâs prestige model, the Skyline, which had gone from aâŚ
R31 Nissan Skyline: underrated. Fortunately our friends over at Speedhunters have been giving it a lot of love lately, and you should check it out if you havenât.
Good news Skyline fans, someone with a lot of trust for the general public has offered their 1990 R32 Skyline GTR to rent on Turo! For only $212 a day you can relive your right-hand drive dreams and go through fast-food drive-thrus backwards.
The original Hakosuka Skyline GT-R is among the most beautiful, charming automobiles ever made, one of Japanâs first world-class performance cars. Iâve always liked them as objects, but I never really knew if they were good to drive. I didnât need to worry, apparently.
The 1970s âKenmeriâ Nissan Skyline holds a very dear place in my heart, nestled in between the first tree I ever had a crush on and the time [REDACTED] while the music played in the art studio. Here is one with a Mazda 13B rotary swap. Its sound brings me great joy.
The Nissan Skyline GT-R is one of the greatest performance cars ever built. Almost all generations of Nissanâs top-of-the-line icon have been praised by critics, adored by owners and lusted after by fans outside Japan. âAlmostâ is the key word here. The porky, blocky R33 Skyline from the mid-1990s is kind of the uglyâŚ
Thereâs no arguing your way out of this one when your friend was live-streaming the evidence. But dude! Sick three-block-long burnout!
âAll the cool things people say about these cars are true.â
