2008 g35 sedan blown engine
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GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
Nope.
GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
Also for making no changes, Nissan has managed to shave 20 seconds off their orginal 2008 Nurburgring with current 2015 model. Funny you complain about a 40k price hike though, because the ZR1 is 36k more than the Z06 and it made a 3 second improvement on Nurburgring lap time. So 36k for 3 second improvement or 40k for 20 second improvement, what is the real rip off?
Didn't the c6 z06 carbon package surpass $100k? The reason that the gtr had increased in price is simply.....supply and demand. I mean, the first model years were presold out, and they've only gotten better every model year. Mr. GTR has made minor tweaks to the car every single year
Since laugh, the GTR has added
-Automatic headlights, braided brake lines, dvd system, better stereo, many aerodynamic improvements (+10% downforce) and lower cod, recaro seats, 65hp/33tq and 1 mpg BETTER fuel economy, larger exhaust, better Bilstein suspension, lighter wheels, rear cooling ducts, improved r-launch control, and 6 stage paint process.
Nope.
GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
Teh GT-R pricing ins't based on cost, it's based on demand. Limited production for XX performance = price on the market. They can keep trying to polish it for a few more years but the body is old, the basic chassis is old and it's heavy as hell.
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My 2008 g35 died today-as I was exiting the freeway, heard hissing noise, thought maybe I had tire problem, then sounded like there was road debris. Service engine light and all the idiot lights lit up. I turned off the car to check my wheels, all looked fine, went to restart car, could not get it to start. My son (my trusted mechanic) who has done my basic services, looked at it, spitting some oil, looks like it threw a rod. Motor is toast. Engine still has oil in it. I have 77,000 miles at 69 months, so it is out of warranty. I never expected a maintained vehicle to throw a rod. Will be towing to the Infiniti dealer this week, but curious if anyone else has seen this problem.
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and you guys have taken the OP to a complete different direction.
Please make your own thread about GTR VS CORVETTE VS GT3 VS NISSAN VS KOREAN VS SMART VS DUMB VS ETC elsewhere
oh and gtfo this thread
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Nope.
GTR pricing is simple greed and stupidity.
Greed from Nissan raising the price $40k for the SAME car.
Stupidity from anyone dumb enough to spend $110k for a $70k car.
Nissan should have just maintained the launch price and increased production.
Instead, they have a sales FAILURE on their hands....and it's still UGLY.
My friend has a 2011 GTR and a 90 something skyline. Between those two I'd take the skyline any day but with the amount of work he's done to the newer one it barely even looks like a stock GTR. I don't think their ugly, but they don't look different. They have similarities to the g35!
I disagree on the fact that the GTR has been improved every model year.
My friend has a 2011 GTR and a 90 something skyline. Between those two I'd take the skyline any day but with the amount of work he's done to the newer one it barely even looks like a stock GTR. I don't think their ugly, but they don't look different. They have similarities to the g35!
My friend has a 2011 GTR and a 90 something skyline. Between those two I'd take the skyline any day but with the amount of work he's done to the newer one it barely even looks like a stock GTR. I don't think their ugly, but they don't look different. They have similarities to the g35!
Last edited by WhosUrBuddiee; May 27, 2014 at 01:37 PM.
Yeah I'd rather have the older one cause of what you can do to it. But I still like my friends newer one which will beat pretty much anything out there..
Which car do you have?
Hahaha Best reply yet. You would much rather have a POS 20 year old car over a modern supercar. You disagree that the GTR has improved every model year but in your example the R32 Vspec ran Nurburgring in 8:22. The new GTR Nismo did it in 7:08. I would call that a pretty big improvement. Also there is no similarity whatsoever with the G35 and GTR.
GT-R has improved but no major chassis, engine or body changes. Just tweaking of the suspension and turbos/ecu tuning. The results are much different but IMHO the tweaks are evolutionary