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VARIOUS 50TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURES HIGHLIGHT THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THIS VEHICLE
Additional 50th anniversary features include unique steering wheel and shift knob trim, special seat embossing, an
Alcantara headliner with unique stitching and Alcantara-wrapped sun visors.
The entire interior and exterior package is most enticing, as Shinichiro Irie, programme design director for the GT-R,
points out: “The Nissan GT-R has been the icon of our company’s driving performance for the past half century. We
were highly motivated to ensure that the GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition stands out. While the exterior and interior
changes may seem subtle at first glance, they’re still impactful, especially with the new paint schemes, keeping the
car’s lines and overall presence modern and edgy.”
But, of course, while the exterior and interior are truly remarkable, the GT-R has never really been created in order
to excel in beauty competitions. Rather, for 50 years, it’s been designed for driving! And this is something that the
original Hakosuka and the current Godzilla most certainly have in common.
Whether on the track or on the road, both cars are nothing short of mind-blowing. It is for this reason that the
original GT-R dominated the Japanese GP series. Commentators at the time remarked how “the way it puts power
down on corner exit is unlike anything else of the period”. “It’s this turn-in agility followed by the ability to put all its
power down on the way out of corners that made the GT-R such a formidable weapon,” wrote British auto journalist
Richard Meaden in an article for EVO.
And the current GT-R offers exactly the same. Actually, I sometimes wonder why drivers sans a GT-R even bother
to pitch up at events like the Jaguar Simola Hill Climb; the Nissan GT-R has won both production and modified
classes outright for the last three years running and has won the King of the Hill title for seven of the ten years that
the competition has been held. It is also the most popular car bar none in the Modified Saloon class, where eight
of the nine competitors who competed in this year’s competition chose to race in GT-Rs. That’s massively impressive.
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