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Nissan GT-R (R35)

Years: 2007–2025
Chassis: R35
Drivetrain: 4WD

Story

A four-wheel-drive 2-door notchback coupe that succeeds the R34, the last of the second-generation GT-Rs, under the R35 name.

Stories

A single leader reporting directly to the president

Nissan intended to build a next-generation GT-R, but the majority view was to build it as an extension of the existing FR-L platform, and Mizuno had declined to be development lead, saying, "That can't be Nissan's flagship." When president Carlos Ghosn gave him full authority, the usual system of three leaders per model gave way to a single-leader system concentrating authority in Mizuno, and it became a project reporting directly to the president. The GT-R adopted the PM platform Mizuno had long envisioned.

Kazutoshi Mizuno

Both speed and a grown-up GT

Tamura believes a GT-R must be both fast on the circuit and a proper gran turismo. Lean toward a race car and it gets in the way of daily life; lean toward a GT and it becomes heavy and slow. The new model year was his attempt to speak to people on both sides. To improve the ride over the previous stiff suspension, the springs, shocks, bushings, stabilizers and tires were all changed, and the GT-R NISMO, committed to speed on the circuit, was added to the lineup alongside it.

Hiroshi Tamura

Chassis

Front

Double wishbone

Rear

Multi-link

Curb weight: 1,660-1,785kg

Production plants

Tochigi Plant
Kaminokawa, Tochigi

US import eligibility

Earliest cars: Eligible from December 203225 years after sales began in December 2007
Last cars: Eligible during 205025 years after sales ended in 2025 (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

Kazutoshi Mizunountil Dec. 2013

Hometown: Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture

Head of development of the Nissan GT-R (R35). Then-president Carlos Ghosn entrusted him, as "Mr. GT-R", with full authority over the car's development and sales, and appointed him chief vehicle engineer (CVE), chief product specialist (CPS) and program director (PD). He was chief vehicle engineer (CVE) of the eleventh-generation Skyline (V35). In the eighties he was involved in Project 901 on the body design side, and on the P10 Primera and the R32 Skyline he was responsible for vehicle packaging design.

Hiroshi Tamurafrom Dec. 2013

Head of development of the Nissan GT-R (R35) for the later model years, as chief product specialist. Kazutoshi Mizuno headed its development for the model years before that.