The R35 GT-R Is Absolutely, Positively, Truly Dead for Real This Time
After nearly two decades on sale, the story of the R35-generation Nissan GT-R has — finally — come to a close. A Nissan Japan website dedicated to the GT-R has signified the end of the run, noting that the brand will no longer be accepting new orders for the aging supercar. It's officially the end of an automotive era.
The website, linked here, features the following statement from Nissan, which was confirmed to Road & Track by their North American counterparts:
'We have received many orders for the Nissan GT-R and have now finished accepting orders for the planned production quantity. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all our customers for their support since its release in 2007.'
The end of the R35 in Japan comes a stunning 18 years after the car's sales debut, which puts it in rarefied air among long-legged nameplates. That said, there's nothing that old-school about the R35. In many respects, it was the first of the modern supercars.
The R35 GT-R featured a turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 powertrain, complicated yet effective all-wheel drive, and even a dual-clutch transmission. It wasn't a video game on wheels, as it seemed when it launched in the George W. Bush administration, as much as it was a look into our automotive future. And while the R35 certainly hasn't reached the same legendary status as its Skyline GT-R predecessors, they've established a following of their own. Social media is full of these things doing everything from time attack to illicit street racing, and succeeding at all of them. The aftermarket has made the sky the limit for these machine, with motors that can make well over 2000 hp.
It's been a long, slow fade to black for the R35; it left the European market in 2022, before dipping out of the United States at the end of 2024. Nissan has already confirmed that the nameplate will get a successor, though we don't have a specific timeline in mind at this time. We expect such a model to feature at least some form of electrification, given that emissions regulations are what drove the R35 out of Europe and the U.S. to begin with.
Hopefully, we don't have to wait much longer for a happier announcement from Nissan. If you can't wait, though, there are still a handful of zero-mile R35s for sale in the States.
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