GT-R: How Nissan Created The Giantkiller
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 Published On Apr 26, 2023

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The car so powerful it practically ruined Toyota’s LFA experiment by beating it to market. And did it for a fifth the price.

Today, even as Takumi in Japan are still assembling VR38DETTs with meticulous hands, the writing is on the wall. The end of the GT-R badge draws near once again.

As it was in 1973, and 1999, The next generation of GT-R is not guaranteed.. Will there be another machine capable of adorning itself with those three small letters? The performance landscape has shifted since those humble beginnings in 2007. Today’s world of electrified hypercars and top dollar supercars begs us to ask once more…

Does Nissan have another fight left in it?

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Credits:
Writer: Ken Steinberger
Editor: Dhananjay Singh
Guy who messes their good work up: Squidd

Music used in order of appearance:
Just Get it Done by Hampus Naeselius
Potent by _91nova
Orthosie by Ben Elson
Zombies From Outer Space by Wave Saver
Till Östersjön by Silver Maple
What a Wave by _91nova
Wood by Pableno
Callisto 8 by Ben Elson
Orthosie by Ben Elson again for some reason
Thyone by Ben Elson
Tracker by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
I Will Arise by Dream Cave
Our Final Mission by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen

0:00 - The Bloodied Throne
3:53 - For One to Rise
5:21 - Options
6:35 - The French Connection
10:51 - Fingers
13:31 - Hammering a Blade
15:47 - Mr. GT-R
18:31 - Three Little Letters...
21:11 -Three Criteria
22:37 - What Lies Beneath
25:38 - ATTESA E-TS
28:49 - And It Did It In the Rain
31:11 - Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.
36:19 - Never Bet Against the Underdog

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