Nissan GT-R

Among the 318 Nissan entries in the MotorJury library, the Nissan GT-R holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2007. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Nissan GT-R properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Volkswagen Volkswagen Tiguan, the Hyundai Hyundai i30, the Audi AG Audi R8 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Nissan GT-R reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.8 L VR38DETT twin-turbocharged V6; quoted output is 2007–2008: 353 kW / 2009: 485 PS / 2010–2011: 530 PS / 2012–2015: 550 PS / 2016–2025: 570 PS / Nismo, Track Edition: 600 PS / GT-R50: 720 PS; kerb weight is recorded at unbulleted list | 2007–2009: 1740 kg | SpecV: 1680 kg | 2010–2013: 1735 kg | Black Edition: 1730 kg | 2014–2015: 1745 kg | Black Edition: 1740 kg | Track Edition: 1720 kg | Nismo: ; top speed is given as 321 km/h; drive goes through 6-speed BorgWarner co-designed GR6Z30A dual-clutch transmission; the layout is Front mid-engine, all-wheel drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 1000 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Nissan story

Within Nissan's own catalogue the Nissan GT-R sits alongside the Nissan N6, the Nissan N7, the Nissan NX8, the DeltaWing. The record names the Nissan Skyline GT-R as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Engine: Naoki Nakada / Exterior: Hirohisa Ono / Interior: Akira Nishimura / Chief Designer: Hiroshi Hasegawa / Design Director: Shiro Nakamura / Chief Engineer: Kazutoshi Mizuno. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kaminokawa, Tochigi (Nissan Motor Tochigi Plant).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Nissan GT-R was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.