Production ends in August 2025
Nissan’s high-performance GT-R has evolved into the 2025 model year. Ahead of the end of production in August 2025, probably the last R35 with only an internal combustion engine, here are the key points, changes, etc. As with the 2024 model, there will be a lottery, so contact Nissan if you are interested! There may still be time to get in.
The T-Spec offers even better performance
In March 2024, Nissan announced the 2025 model year of the GT-R. Since its introduction in 2007, the GT-R has introduced a model year system and continued to evolve unceasingly, and this 2025 model year will have two key points.
Firstly, the Premium Edition has a new special blue interior color, Blue Heaven, and secondly, the performance of the Premium Edition T-Spec and Track Edition Engineered by Nismo T-Spec has been improved. High-precision weight-balancing components such as piston rings, connecting rods, and crankshafts, previously used only on the Nismo Special Edition, are now also used on these two models.
These high-precision weight-balancing components, which are only used on the 2024 Nismo Special Edition, will improve the precision of engine response. The two models also feature an aluminum nameplate with the name of the master engine builder engraved in red and a gold model number plate in the engine compartment.
Note that there are no basic performance differences between the 2024 and 2025 models, except for the T-Spec 2 model, which features high-precision weight-balancing components.
This will probably be the last model year
The GT-R, a high-performance model that has been on sale for 17 years since 2007 and “pursues the ultimate in driving pleasure”, will end its production in August 2025, according to Nissan. The reason given is that the parts supply outlook is no longer promising: after the end of sales in Europe in 2022, it was said that the model would also end in Japan due to its inability to adapt to new exterior noise regulations, etc, but Nissan has cleared that problem with a new muffler structure.
Along with this, the 2024 model (announced in March 2023) with improved aerodynamic performance, etc., was built, but the GT-R finally came to an end not because of the regulation of exterior noise or the mandatory use of automatic brakes, as had been said, but because of the parts supply problem, which is typical of “long-life models”.
The second generation R32 Skyline GT-R, incidentally, was introduced in 1989, followed by the R33 in 1995 and the R34 in 1999, before production ended in 2002 due to emissions regulations. It has been in production for approximately 13 years. The R35 will probably be the last internal combustion engine-only GT-R anyway, and like the 2024 model, it will be selected by lottery, so if you are interested, contact Nissan.
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