I Drove EVERY Nissan GT-R

this is the last Nissan GTR this is the first Nissan GTR and these are all the intermediate Nissan GTRs it wasn't easy but we got all these cars in the same place at the same time we had to do some things we are not proud of we will drive them all and then we will decide which is the best. Welcome to Donut. Let's try some cores. When you hear GTR, you probably think of this or this or even this, but there are actually six different generations in it. Nissan GTR starting with this one, this is the first generation Skyline GTR aka hakosuka let's take a look at it oh boy look at this.

I think my first impression. Beyond being really very attractive, it's so small that it almost looks American, but let's drive this, let's get into this uh, this is the wrong side this is the best day this is the best day they're a little cramped these are very small seats okay , yeah, okay, come on, this thing is stressful as hell Driving is so special that I'm not familiar with it and we're on a track and I'm on the wrong side of the car. During the 1960s, foreign automakers dominated the Japanese sports car racing scene, the Prince Motor Company, which would eventually merge with Nissan, was not enthusiastic about the Germans, the Americans and the Italians were trampling on its territory, so that Prince commissioned senior engineer Sunichiro Sakurai to build a car that could defend the house, resulting in the first model of the Skyline GTR commonly known as the hako Soka.

I'm not pushing it, but for an old car, this handles pretty well and that's because instead of leaf springs in the rear, which were very common at the time and very cheap, it actually has a wishbone suspension. semi-trailer that uses a helical shock absorber. It was super fast and straight terrain because of that race engine, but I mean it could take corners too? You know, for the next four years, the Skyline GTR would dominate Japanese racing taking on BMW Alfa Romeo and Ford. Sanichiro's plan had worked, this car was more than The very fact that Nissan was dipping its toe into the world of performance was a warning shot for Racing Elite and Nissan was just getting started, so this is the monolith we used to rank the races. things.

We're going to list

every

GTR we drive today and take our pick. Our favorites in this case are all amazing and we don't think we're authorities on which one is the best, so we're going to choose which one we'd like the most, that's right, I mean, it's going to be up here, so how about there? I think we all have our own preconceived notions about which one we're going to want more, but that's what it's all about, let's drive another one, oh my god, this is the next one. a second generation GTR commonly known as Ken Mary, what do you think guys?

I really like this one, it looks like a Dodge, it looks like a Mopar. I love this era of Japanese sports cars because that's exactly what they are, they're American Muscle. The stripped down cars now first released in 1973, the Ken Mary, introduced a completely new design language, at least for Nissan, this Skyline was eerily similar to the Dodge Challenger, specifically Sam Posey's Trans Am race car, it has a air dam at the front, a duckbill spoiler at the rear and factory Fender Flares I say Nissan definitely knew who they were targeting with this car, it's basically for people who wanted a race car like a Challenger but they lived in Japan and the Challengers are too big, okay let's go for a ride guys oh man.

He's already more comfortable than the last excited guy. I love it, I'm tired, but man, you're driving it, boy, you're a Mopar guy and look, this thing is legally at home behind the wheel. This is the boat part. This is what I've said a million times if the Challenger or the size of a Mustang if they reached the three-quarter size to beat the coolest car on the planet and that's exactly what it is, it's a little Challenger, well, brought in 1973. A new body style for the GTR also brought an international gasoline crisis that would destroy performance car sales.

This would lead to the Ken Mary being the ultimate GTR for years to come. This is a visual clone, so it has an L Series engine that it shares. with the Ducks and Z's, but this one is a little more upbeat because it has six individual bikuni carbs oh yeah, that's why it sounds so good. I'll do one more, I did it very often, but I'll be sad afterwards. We came away from this listen not expecting this, why is it so much funnier? Each generation takes what they did last time and makes it a little better.

Okay, it was fun. OMG, I might have a new favorite. generation, yeah, that's a cool car, man, oh, I just want to remember this, you know, this is awesome, okay, this car is super special, but I'd rather have it, yeah, I think so too. The first one is too important, yes, I wouldn't feel comfortable driving. I would keep it in my garage and look at it. I would drive this thing today. Let's enjoy an ASM car thanks to the sponsor of this video. Nissan Zero Gravity Seeds. Am I in the International? No space station, I'm in the new season, can you roll out a flat table with storage for secret snakes?

Leg room. 12.3 inch touch screens. Two of them. I know it didn't make any noise, but it looked cool. Wood as inlaid ornaments. Haptic buttons. Double panel. Seed windows decorated with Napa leather, hey, could you please stop trying to make the ASM car a thing? Click the link below. Aria, it's okay. Next car, let's keep it up buddy, let's go after staying out of the performance game for almost a decade. Nissan decided to participate again. This is the Skyline RS turbo RSX and it's not technically a GTR, but it's still very important to the history of the GTR.

In 1976, the FIA ​​revamped the rules for its Group 5 category. They wanted manufacturers to build wild racing cars from

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day commuters. I'm talking. engines that made formula level one power in the cars your dentist

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the only rules were that the manufacturers had to use the roof hood and doors everything else was unlimited this resulted in some of the race cars that looked like wildest in the history of the last 10 years they have boxes this is about the same 80s, definitely man, the notchback style, this is like a very eclectic choice, yeah, it's under the radar, let's drive well, we've shot into the future , you know, we got up to 80 and I was like, damn, that's fast and I remembered that's miles dude, this sounds great, great, this 1984 Skyline is not a group 5 race car, but Nissan was investing so much in the silhouette program at the time they thought it was time to bring a performance mentality back to the Nissan Skyline family. 400,000 sixth-generation R30s were sold, but only a few thousand R30s were truly sporty and this is one of them.

This is the top spec RS turbo powered by a turbocharged fj24 Banger. It's no GTR, but it still kicks a lot of bullets. I don't know who wrote that. I think this car shares the same Black Sheep flavor as the under the radar Ken Mary and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that it doesn't have that GTR badge, yeah definitely. okay guys, let's classify this as a very 80s experience that seems very familiar, yeah right, I mean it's pretty obvious, yeah, I think I'm going to leave it here. Okay, okay, okay, okay, let's keep talking.

Sakurai had been Building Fast Horizons for most of his career at this point, but he had become ill in 1984 and was unable to design the nice car. He handed the reins to Naganori's Protege. Ito, the r31 would serve as a test for Naganore to see if he could live. Until his mentor, Nissan, began working on the project codenamed 901, his mission was to turn Nissan into Japan's leading manufacturer of high-performance automobiles. The first step in that mission was this, the horizon of the r31 looks more or less the same, eh, it looks a lot like the previous one. but don't let that fool you when we get behind the wheel, there are a lot of tricks that Nissan put into this to turn it into a high performance car, I think and I thought, like when we decided to make this video, that this was going to be the sleeper of the whole thing. the series, let's find out.

I love these mats, guys, before I go out for a ride. First I have to do something foreign. Oh, this is the first RB, yes, the power delivery in the last car with that turbo four-cylinder. It's like an on-off switch, you know, 80's plastic turbo land, yeah, whereas with this one the RV the turbo just boosts it. I like it, I think it's cool, although the r31 wasn't in control. put together a race Nissan was looking for Jim Richards won the 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship driving an r31, this one still fell asleep and I think they are very very cool and can look really cool in modifications.

I've definitely considered buying one of these, wait I really like this car, it's not as cool as some of the others but maybe that makes it cooler, it's not obvious, yes you get the RB, it has a stealthy look but gives you everything you need. I need it to be a fun car, this is one I was quite looking forward to, I mean it really worked well guys yeah right there the next car the r31 failed to revive Nissan's reputation and Naganore Ido felt it was responsible, he felt that he had done it. He failed his mentor Sakurai Song.

So for their next model, Ito and Nissan looked to the most impressive car of the mid-80s for inspiration, the Porsche 959, the all-wheel drive Porsche, was a marvel of engineering and motorsports and set a high water mark. very high that Nissan needed. to achieve their next project they wanted to survive the next decade in 1989 Nissan introduced the R32 GTR Also known as Godzilla, have you ever heard of it we have entered the Modern Era the r31 was Nissan really putting a lot of technology on the horizon this is that mentality it went up so many notches and ran so well yeah no more beating around the bush this car wasn't a GT or a gtsr or an RS turbo or whatever Nissan went big and officially reintroduced the GTR the R32 GTR won its first race and every race only one participated in for the next four years this was the birth of an icon yes it is still an old car but this is the first one that doesn't feel really old yes you can drive it every day Jimmy it is very much like a shame cop yeah im jealous hell yeah yeah this feels good yeah oh my god the sink drives so good so it has the legendary rb26 d-e-t-t so officially the rb26 makes 276 horsepower , those are heavy air quotes, yes my vegetables because of the gentlemen's agreement in In Japan the manufacturers said they would not make engines above that power limit, of course they all broke that rule, yes the engine on this one car actually made around 310 horsepower, well that's a significant difference, yeah, not very gentlemanly like the 959, the R32 used all-wheel drive. drive out of corners Nissan's advanced all-wheel drive engineering system could send between two and fifty percent of the engine's torque to the front wheels.

This car also employed actively controlled super high capacity steering, also known as super high cast to steer the rear wheels for improved high speed stability and improved low speed maneuverability because it has that rear steering, do you feel like yes, the car turned Like it was sliding a little, but was that rear steering? I love this thing, man, oh my god, it's so planted, I mean. this just rules compared to everything else so far, no wonder this has been so dominant for so long it feels like a real sports car, the thrill of a company so broken creating a car that out of nowhere could Shame the Performance Racing titans can't be discreet, this is the car that put Nissans back on your bedroom walls, dominated the Australian racing scene and was a true monster, hence the name.

Godzilla, cool car. I love it and the rest of us have to drive. just keep building on this same principle, yeah, okay guys, a little bit of deliberation. I think which one we want more. Obviously we all grew up wanting this one, but after driving this one which was a lot of fun, I still want that one. a lot of spirit the more I think this uh but I want more I just think yeah I think it's Mopar in his blood this drives amazing this is the reason why all this is here right now this is how I feel good we I have three more cars to go drive, I won't worry.

Ito's work was done and he passed the torch to engineer Kozo Watanabe. As innovative as the r302 was, it suffered from bad understeer and the aerodynamics were not very good. Nissan sought to solve those problems with their next GTR, the r33, I really like these, this is the first generation, fast and furious, it definitely feels like the R32 was good, what was good about it, let's build on it, the r33 crushed timeof the R32's Nurburgring in 20 seconds, let's drive it, yeah. turn it on in the back seat this is the biggest feeling yet it feels feels big oh is that snow uh that's not fluffy rain yes it is or snow Yes it's snow Yes it's snowing r33 Skyline GTR in the snow on a track racing friend is like a little more, this is like Fuji, yes, friend, in the shadows.

The Mount Fuji cube today, yeah sure Nolan, how does it feel to drive a Skyline GTR on a track in the snow? Maybe the best. I think this is my favorite so far. it feels pretty good with all the technology we've worked on it feels really good it's a solid car unlike the R32 the r33 wasn't built for homologation you could argue that for this reason or because of its mechanical similarities to the R32 it passes largely overlooked in the Skyline GTR cannon, but it's most likely due to a sandwich between two titans, the R32 and this one, the R34 Skyline GTR, it seems like we've been waking up a sleeping giant we've been dealing with Bumped into a bit of winter, that's right, buddy, yeah. this is the car and it is in the color with the wheels launched abroad in 1999, the R34 was washed with praise from the press and the public, any fan of Gran Turismo or Fast and Furious knows the R34 by sight, but most importantly is that the R34 is known even by the performance illiterate.

For people with only a passing interest in motorsports, it became a dream car and not simply because it was unattainable in the US but because it was competitive with supercars at the time at a third of the price. The R34 is the complete redemption of Nissan as a brand. Well, we're on a track with an R34, so why are we still outside? I don't know, my God guys it's happening, man, you're in one of the most legendary cars ever made. I need to breathe deeply and collect. I'm a little emotional myself I'm very emotional friend Are you crying?

Nobody is crying. Oh, okay, how do you feel? I'm just silent because I'm just trying to memorize all of this, yeah, forever. I know it's like I'm sorry, dear future, I'm speechless. I'm driving a midnight purple GTR in the rain. Stress meter 10 out of 10. But I'm having fun, man, this is the perfect JDM car. I think this is Pete when you think about the Golden Age of Japan, this is the best example of this, everything we think about the Japanese auto industry, high tech, cool, fast, man, that answers, thanks, I can't even, ah, buddy, yeah, no one started crying.

Now we're all brothers, put them all down without words, it's just yeah, the best of the best, baby. I still have one more car to drive in the late 90s. Nissan sales were falling. The company's strong leadership installed a new CEO named Carlos Gon, whose plan. Saving Nissan from bankruptcy was twofold, one was to fire a group of people and two was to create a new GTR. His vision was for the GTR to surpass or equal the Porsche 911, as he rightly believed that the 911 would be Nissan's main performance competitor for the next decade. The GTR team worked under the directive of a Supercar for anyone anywhere, anytime and the result was this R35 GTR for anyone anywhere, anytime.

I mean, these things are still very expensive when they came out, they were MSRP 80,000, yeah, and for such a fast car, eighty grand. Dollars, it's not crazy. I think these disappoint us a little because they are the only GTRs that came here, but they've been making them for 15 years and there's a reason for that. This is a really good car. I still get excited. when I see them on the street so let's drive oh wait oh shit I didn't, I didn't really know how to get out. This one came to the United States. Wow, sorry I hit the glass so hard, it's the least friendly of them all. of the GTRs, I mean, it sounds super fun, I mean, in your world faster than anything else we've driven today because this one has 600 horsepower, yeah, you can say that the rain falling off the windshield feels like if we were.

In war mode, okay, I'll slow down a little. The Nissan R35 GTR was launched in 2007 and the reviews were just an exercise in how many different ways someone could say it defies the laws of physics, the all-new engine and all-wheel drive. The system pushed the car from 0 to 60 in 3.2 seconds, the best for almost any car in the mid-2000s, with a lap time of 738 at the Nurburgring, it easily surpassed the lap time of the Porsche 911 fulfilling its I wish this thing was famously fast when it came out. it's just videos of him eating Lamborghinis and Ferraris and things that cost three, four, five times as much.

The GTR is a product of both Nissan's heightened ambitions and the company's shaky financial realities. People scoffed when Nissan unveiled the 15th Anniversary Edition of the GTR a few months ago. ago, but as we've seen, Nissan won't release a new GTR until they know it can be the best car on the road, period, my stomach doesn't feel good, oh really, yeah, that's a fast car, really fast , it is not comfortable in the back. I know where I'd put it I'm thinking up here no way buddy no way buddy I think I'm going to go here thank you so much for watching donut media thank you for supporting the channel and allowing us to do things like this thank you to everyone who lent us your cars, Lucky Corner Garage and the major importers of Kaiser brakes and cars, and we couldn't have done it without them carrying their cars for us and they wouldn't let us have them if they didn't. for you so that no one cries in the R34