I drove an r33 GTR around Japan for a few days and fell in love with it. It was so comfortable blasting up and down the. Expressways, and made the mountain back roads fun and enjoyable. Plus the turbo noises never got old.
I like all the skylines, but the 31 and 32 are my favorite, 33 is ok, I'm personally not a fan of the front end, and the 34 just isn't my thing, too overhyped
@@daveee1995 they did him dirty. He is the leader of Night Kids for a reason. But they just sacrificed him for some meaningless lost against the guy with the evo 4.
For the record, there's still a few of us out there that fell in love with the forbidden fruit from the first gran turismo game, not the fast and furious movies.
I was a game tester on the first 2. I got my Skyline education there. Ended up in a mk2 CRX. We wanted a car that was in the game. On the one hand I loved Japanese cars, on the other I hated their obsession with the gold medals of the license tests! Because we had to get 100% on every version we tested. When I got my first studio gig, the boss had several Skyline GTR’s he parked outside the front door.
@@stevenhoman2253 Skylines were never made in AUS. There were a few imported and sold as AUS new, but they are rare (and worth a lot).Ford only made the falcon in recent time, holden has closed down production, and toyota haven't made anything here since the avalon...
I have a 92 gtr, this review is so incredibly accurate, youve done a great job at explaining how the car REALLY is, not how everyone expects it to be in their heads. It really is an easy car to live with!
Yeah, when its absolutely perfect as it is. I wouldnt change a thing if I owned it. Ive seen a lot of GTRs, as im in NZ, and the best ones are always the most subtle ones.
If I win I'm not going to touch it at all, just maintenance. Would be my daily (and only car for that matter) so I wouldn't do anything stupid with it. Just keep it clean reliable and fun, as Skylines should be.
I don't get the hype American hype. Almost every 18yo Aussie wearing his hat backwards cruises around town in these, playing rap music at top sound, whilst quickly glancing around to check if anyone notices them.
@@mbakwangy5773 well attention was there from the start. This is just the first one they can get. R33 and R34 hype is massive too. I do get the hype. Great powertrain and beautiful handling.
Do you remember him doing one a few years ago? I remember him having a R32 Skyline review, maybe it was RWD only? I think it was about 4-5 years ago now. Seems to be gone from his channel? Strange.
07:48 Nonononono, it's not to fill the tire faster. It's so that you can control the pressure as you fill the tire with air, so that you can adapt to the situation. For example, you want less pressure in a rainy race, so as to have a bigger footprint and maximise grip. And this is a setting you can do on the go, by fitting a gaige on one hole, and just empty the tire with the other. Just like that, by the side of the road. This is critical in rallying. Also, depending on the temperature of the tarmac, you'd like more or less pressure. It all depends, and that's why you need a second hole. The only people who would tell you that it fills faster are people named D00d McBrosmith.
Jack Curtis so it allows you to fill your tires faster, or decrease the pressure faster. Since it lets you check pressure as you fill. Same exact thing he said.
This was the first Nissan Skyline I fell in love with thanks to Gran Turismo 3. Second car I bought in the game and was hooked on the Skyline ever since. One day I will drive one.
@Covert Cam well two things. I feel more like the Owen was referring to the Skyline r33 sedan that RCR did where he explained on the skyline being a regular line with the GTR trim level being the desired variant. And what I was more or less trying to refer to was that he said GTR and not Skyline GTR, since the GTR was always available to us but the Skyline GTRs were recently available for import in the US, us lads in Canada have to wait 10 years less than america so theres that
@OWEN FLORENCE yep, well the Skyline GTR existed since the skyline 2000 GTR back in the late 60s, but it ended in 2002 with the infamous Skyline R34 GTR. When the car came to North America it no longer held the nameplate Skyline with it So while it does carry the same chassis designation like R35, by technicality it is not a Skyline. Hope that got cleared up
It is what it is, an incredible Technological tour de force, a V8 with none of the drawbacks that handles better than any porsche ever made up until that point, the very definition of, a Skyline.
I remember falling in love with this car after reading about it in a Car & Driver, or Road & Track sometime around 1990 or 1991. I’ve wanted one ever since.
When you show the "actuator" for the rear wheel steering, that is the ABS module. The rear steering HICAS actuator is buried under the intake plenum by the alternator.
@@Commmanderc0dyHD1 This car is the reason why gtrs are called "Godzilla" The r32 in triumphed in the Australian touring car competition against the Cosworth, knocking the fords off the poduim. The announcers call the gtrs "Godzilla" which was the origin of that nickname.
Nissan is really overrated. Especially for how people usually view Nissan. I can make a list of overrated Nissans List: 200sx, 240sx, 270z, 350z, 370z, R32, R33(The most underrated Nissan), R34(The Most Overrated Nissan), R35
Like the only cars that are underrated under Nissan are the R31 and R33. Edit: This is from the perspective of the car community. And you cannot count sedans or hatchbacks or else Honda would be "underrated"
They are actually fans of the Kenmeri C110, C210, R30 and R31 Skylines over here in the middle east (Kuwait, Oman, UAE and such). Mostly people who happened to be in their youths during the 70's and 80's tho (around 30-50 years old nowadays) since Nissan used to sell them here back in the day. Too bad that older skylines doesn't get that much love among JDM fans as the R32 and R34 GTR's. I'm thinking about buying a middle eastern spec Nissan Skyline R31 GTS-X but those are rare to find.
Well, hearing the turbo noises, I can tell you exactly when the boost kicks in - it's as soon as you hit the gas and it doesn't ever stop. That thing spools FAST. On a separate note, the GT-R trim is actually not very good for drifting due to the ATTESA system. Aspiring drifters would be better off with a GTS-T.
Never entered into a contest, until now. When I lived in Okinawa a friend of mine had one of these. He only let me drive it once, but man what a car. I've wanted one ever since.
I really like how genuinely honest this vid was done. That’s a beautiful Skyline. Why couldn’t you have reviewed the Nissan Z32 300ZX more like this? Maybe make a new awesome video where you Regular Car Review a Z32 300ZX Twin Turbo, I’d watch that. 👍
I miss my GTR very much! I used to own R32 GTR around 1990 to 1996 in Japan. When I moved to the U.S.A, I wanted to bring mine but dmv required proof of crash tests for 3 GTRs. So I gave up. I am glad now many people talks about GTR in the world!
What are you trying to say dude, you do realize that this r32 skyline gtr has a different engine from the r33 skyline gts? And in that earlier video, the comparison was actually accurate
The camera crispness on that tire designation was insane. Also everyone who says "just wait for the power" took off those nice well balanced twin turbos designed to give power early and late in the range and slapped on a big ass 105mm and vented it out the hood. Yeah, When you're waiting for a turbo the size of a 20lb bowling ball to spin up it takes a second... Which ironically is about all the time you will have in that turbos power band. God damned hotbois.
I miss the days when you could import a R32 GTR for $15-20000 CAN, hell a guy from town imported a Nismo R32 for $25K CAN and a MK4 Supra was $12-18000 CAN... Sadly now thanks to our US & Quebec neighbors the 25yrs import rules are expired, everyone can buy one and prices have doubled for the most part.
My dad grew up on American muscle and always denounced most Japanese cars (with the exception of the old 240z’s, celicas, etc) but one day we saw a graphite Metallic r32 gtr at Sonoma raceway and it was all over. He now drives a 1992 r32 gtr and we just slapped some gt2860r’s on it from the group A r32 with fuel upgrades and a stand-alone ecu and it made 506whp and 417ft lbs on 17.5psi to all 4 wheels with no modifications to the internals. I think the fact that the gtr is so accessible really made it easy for him to appreciate it for what it is. That and the suit and tie looks and the spaceship interior:)
You really get the sense of why this car trashed the Supra stock, and why most American law enforcement coast to coast feared these cars and destroyed any they can get their hands on. Kinda makes me appreciate that one cop who liked Godzilla so much that he legally imported one himself and put a R34 front bumper on it.
Welp, this company just made a ton of money. They are definitely gonna make a nice profit out of this GTR! Whoever gets this GTR is one lucky lucky sob. The R32 and R34 are in like the top 10 dream cars for every dude who lived through the 90s
Thank you I honestly didn't know he did that but from the inside it looks like he has the premium chassis and that's dope but I want to see what he thinks of the 2700 curb mustang direct inject twin scroll turbo and what not. I honestly love mine and would just love to see another person's opinion whose well rounded and has a butter melting voice
Oviposition! Just in time for Easter!!! And the two valve stem thing is for racing, yes. It's so you can fill the wheel while having an air gauge on the other one so you don't overfill it and/or get a quicker reading.
Just remembered in my dream lately driving a LHD grey stock looking R32 GTR in my local subdivision and had a blast. And in the end of the dream I remembered this vid from RCR.
I can't even imagine winning this GTR and bringing it to Austin Texas. It would be a dream come true. I've been obsessing over this car since I played Gran Turismo.
