Nissan · Skyline

Nissan Skyline 4th generation GT-R (BCNR33)

Years: 1995–1998
Chassis: R33
Drivetrain: 4WD

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Story

It was used as a base car for Group N racing. A factory prototype cut about 21 seconds off the previous R32's time in a Nürburgring time attack.

Stories

Minus 21 seconds of romance

Following Nissan headquarters' policy, the ninth-generation Skyline became larger than the previous R32. Even so, Watanabe refined the R33 GT-R with the goal of making it faster than the R32 GT-R, and brought its Nürburgring lap time to 7 minutes 59 seconds, 21 seconds quicker than the R32. The R33 GT-R's TV commercial at the time carried the tagline "Minus 21 seconds of romance."

Kozo Watanabe

Chassis

Front

Multi-link

Rear

Multi-link

Curb weight: 1,530kg

Production plants

Murayama Plant
Musashimurayama, Tokyo

US import eligibility

Earliest cars: Eligible since January 202025 years after sales began in January 1995
Last cars: Eligible since 202325 years after sales ended in 1998 (month not recorded)

Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).

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Engineers

Kozo Watanabe

Hometown: Osaka Prefecture

Head of development (chief engineer) of the ninth-generation (R33) and tenth-generation (R34) Skyline. He refined the R33 GT-R with the goal of making it a faster car than the R32 GT-R.