Farewell to the Nissan GT-R as the Order Book Officially Closes
The latest GT-R has been in the Nissan lineup for 18 years.
The R35-generation GT-R was discontinued in the United States in 2024.
It's official: Nissan's GT-R is off the order books. The Nissan Japan website has put a note on its GT-R page that basically says it's received all of the orders that it can manage through the end of the GT-R's production run.
Currently, Nissan doesn't appear to have a Godzilla successor heading to a Nissan dealership in the near future.
Of course, the R35 generation made its way to public roadways in 2007 and notably found an audience in the United States.
The R35 GT-R packs a turbocharged 3.8-liter V6 under its hood, which bucked the trend of Nissan's RB-series inline-six engines that powered the previous Skyline GT-R.
Over its long tenure in Nissan's portfolio, the Skyline-less GT-R saw a series of important updates but didn't move too far away from its core VR38DETT and six-speed DCT combination.
The official note from the Nissan Japan website says, translated in full: 'We have received many orders for the Nissan GT-R, and we have now finished accepting orders for the planned production quantity. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our many customers for their patronage over the years since its release in 2007.'
It's also worth noting that Nissan might have a bigger project to tackle than finding the funds to build a next-generation GT-R. The company recently contemplated merging with Honda, but merger discussions fell apart when Honda apparently intended to fold Nissan into the Honda brand as a subsidiary.
Regardless of Nissan's future, this final generation of GT-R will go down in the history books as one of Nissan's most interesting products—and a sound successor to the string of popular Skyline GT-R models.
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