The Cosmo brand recently won big at the Caminos del Inca rally. Tire Group International LLC's (TGI) Cosmo brand has earned its first original equipment fitment. "Cosmo Mud Kicker tires are now available as optional original equipment on JMC pickups…
NISMO has opened its first Performance Centre outside Japan at Ferntree Gully Nissan in Victoria, the first step in a multi-phase plan for Australia. NISMO has picked Melbourne for its first dedicated base outside Japan. The brand has officially opened…
It's definitely cheaper than a classic full-sized version The Nissan Skyline GT-R is a true automotive great, achieving cult-like status in a way few other cars have matched. First launched in 1969 as the 2000 GT-R, it was initially sold exclusively as…
Jalopnik The Skyline GT-R Is Arguably Nissan's Most Famous Performance Car, But What Does Its Name Mean? The brilliantly engineered Skyline GT-R is arguably Nissan's greatest hit in the performance car world, with the R32 and R33 Skyline GT-R generations arguably being…
The legendary boxy ancestor to the Godzilla GT-R gets the building-block treatment. The enthusiast nickname for the KPGC-10 chassis Skyline GT-R is hakosuka: “hako” for “box” and “suka” as an abbreviation of the Japanese pronunciation of Skyline. It’s literally the…
Niterra Vietnam is launching its first direct promotional program for garage owners, mechanics, and consumers nationwide. On October 9th, in Ho Chi Minh City, Niterra Vietnam Co., Ltd. officially launched the nationwide promotional program “Buy NGK Spark Plugs – Win Amazing Prizes,…
The Skyline is older than Nissan's involvement with it. The first one was built in 1957 by the Prince Motor Company, which merged into Nissan in 1966, and the name has since stretched across sedans, coupes and wagons for more than six decades. In Japan it has always been the spirited family car, the one a salaryman could drive to work and then take up a mountain road on Sunday, and it holds a special place in the country's car culture.
Its legend rests on the GT-R versions. The boxy 1969 Hakosuka racked up dozens of touring-car wins, and the R32 GT-R of 1989, with its twin-turbo straight-six and clever all-wheel drive, dominated racing so completely in Australia that the press there dubbed it Godzilla. The R33 and R34 followed, becoming poster cars for a generation raised on video games and street-racing films, and the gray-market import rules in America made them forbidden fruit until each one turned 25.
Outside Japan, later Skylines were sold as the Infiniti G35, G37 and Q50, which is why many Americans have driven one without knowing it. The Japanese-market Skyline carried on as a sport sedan into recent years, topped by a high-output 400R version, while the GT-R name moved to its own standalone car in 2007. This page follows collector prices for R32, R33 and R34 GT-Rs, which have climbed steeply, along with factory-grade restorations from Nismo's performance center in Australia, scale models and toys, import stories, history pieces and any news on the Skyline's future in Japan. For many enthusiasts it is the most storied badge Nissan owns.
Japan's sport sedan since 1957, the Prince-built line that gave birth to the GT-R, with Hakosuka and R34 legends that collectors chase today.
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