No surprise here folks. Nissan Australia is reporting that it has orders in hand for more than 100 GT-Rs. The order book opened on October 9, and Nissan is claiming a ‘rush’ to secure its “anyone, anywhere, anytime supercar”.
“The early customer reaction is fabulous and we have secured enough production to ensure that no-one who wants an R35 GT-R will be disappointed,” Nissan Australia Managing Director, Dan Thompson, said.
The Nissan GT-R, is proving its mettle around the world, taking the fight to far more expensive and exotic machinery. It has also enjoyed being the darling of the world’s motoring press in 2008. Personally, I can’t recall reading a single review that wasn’t glowing.
Priced from $148,800, Nissan can correctly claim that the GT-R is poised to become an instant classic in Australia.
Australian delivered GT-R’s will be sold and serviced at 11 exclusive Nissan High Performance Centres in each capital city, when it goes on sale locally next April.
Answering the question on a number of lips, Nissan Australia has confirmed that it has enough GT-Rs ‘secured’ to ensure that no-one will miss out. That could be a big call.
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I wouldn’t dream of getting one there gearboxes are as fragile as a piece of china
in their book there’s a full page of gearbox changing slips, which would cost around 20k a peace to get and replace
+ Nissan don’t say there gearboxes are only food for 3 hard lunches and that when LC is on warranty is voided
it’s the Achilles heel of the gtr
Gearboxes? give me a break it’s not like your going to be launching it at every red light. I read reviews on holden and fords about wires displacing itself under heavy acceleration, overheating and yes transmission fluid leaking. The articles were from MOTOR and WHEELS magazine respectively.
20k to get it replace yadi yadi yada. Even if some poor chap thrash his GT-R and needs a new gearbox or synchromesh he can end up purchasing HKS gear and still have money left over compared to a porches $400k and still have more for breakfast.
Yeah, it’s the cars achillies heal, that’s for sure. There’s already manufacturers in the USA who are making performance gearset replacements - and I’m sure PPG in SA have got plans under their sleeves
Maybe it’s a case of not buying the first of any model? Maybe buyers should wait until Nissan have sorted out the bugs (or gears) and buy a 2nd or 3rd generation?
I’ve only “heard” about the gearbox problem but I’d be more than a bit miffed if I purchased this car and the gearbox transformed into a bag of gearbits after 3 “launches”. Surely a buyer of such a performance car is not going to want to idle down to the shops for milk? No,they are going to want to explore the cars performance attributes and boundaries … the very reason for the purchase.
I cannot help but be disappointed in Nissan if this is really as big a problem as people claim. Why not fix the problem and charge new buyers a few thousand more? You’d still be miles ahead of a Porsche purchase.
To build such a potent weapon with such an obvious achilles heel really doesn’t cut it in today’s market IMHO.
Everyone seems to think that GT-R boxes are exploding left right and centre. From what I’ve seen around there’s only been a handful of failures, and the most famous of which (over at NAGTROC, where everyone seems to get their info and become an expert on the topic) was a clear case of abuse, the owner admitted to having launched the car hard over 20 times. To me that’s excessive on any AWD vehicle, the loads are bloody enormous.
Jap tuners, MCR, have been thrashing their GT-R since they got it and they’ve only just started having box issues, which is understandable given the track nature of the car. Having said that, it’s done a lot more than 20 hard launches and is making more power than standard, why don’t people talk about that? Because it’s a counter argument…
Just because you pay good money for a car that can go really fast doesn’t mean you have to flog the shit out of it all day every day. ANY car will experience parts failure under those conditions.
IF there is a widespread problem and the box is weak or has a design flaw then Nissan should absolutely step and sort it out. If the issue is over-enthusiastic owners then they need to get a clue and show some respect for their purchase.
That’s my 2 cents. (which with the failing economy is basically a freebie now).
What a load of bull.
The “broken gearboxes” you’re referring to should actually be broken gearbox and that guy had the VDC turned off repeatedly. The only other known damaged R35 gearbox in the world is from a Japanese aftermarket tuner who is cranking significantly more power than stock in their development car.
Doing full bore hard launches in any AWD car will void your warranty when it inevitably destroys its driveline. If you sidestep the clutch at the limiter in a WRX more than a half a dozen times you’ll blow it, and Subaru will tell you exactly where to go if you try to get it fixed under warranty. Just because the advertised acceleration times require a certain technique that is physically possible doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse if you repeatedly do it.
The only difference is they don’t have a computer to tell you how many times you did it.
Where are people getting “three” launches from? Haltech, Fabcars, etc have all done more than three drag strip runs in their car, plus all the circuit driving, without issue. Nissan’s official release implied far more than just three launches for the American car in question.
The Achilles heel of the GT-R is the weight of expectation the nameplate has because of idiots whose only experience with cars is Gran Turismo, and the tedious bollocks people like you incorrectly crap on about.