With production kicking off way back in 2007, the Nissan GT-R has long been a rival to the Chevy Corvette. While America’s sports car has seen three generations—including the C6, C7, and C8—in the time since the 2009 GT-R showed up on dealership floors, Nissan’s supercar-killer has soldiered on with comparatively minor updates. With that in mind, the GT-R is due to be discontinued soon, and Nissan will be sending it off with two limited-production special editions.
2024 will be the 15th and final model year for the R35 generation of the iconic Nissan GT-R. With its sunsetting, the GT-R will be offered with two North American-exclusive packages, the T-spec Takumi Edition and Skyline Edition, both intended to celebrate the car’s storied legacy.
Of course, the Nissan GT-R and Chevy Corvette have been pitted against one another since the former first arrived on American shores in the late 2000s. However, with its turbocharged V6 engine and AWD drivetrain configuration, the GT-R has always been positioned as more of a motorsports-inspired track car, yet remains more expensive than the track-focused Corvette Z06.
In addition, following the Corvette C8’s transition to a mid-engined configuration, the differences between the two high-performance machines have only become more broad as the years pass.
As a reminder, the Nissan GT-R follows in the footsteps of the Jaguar F-Type and Audi R8 in exiting the U.S. market. This makes the Corvette the only premium sports car in its class to be sold under a non-luxury brand. When looking over the sales figures, this discrepancy is drastic, with America’s sports car claiming more than 60 percent of sales in the premium sports car segment in the United States.
It’s worth noting that crosstown rival Ford doesn’t believe it needs to build a competitor to General Motors’ two-seater darling.
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Sayonara, GT-R!!
Corvette Competition? Rival??? NEVER Competition. "Ditto Sayonara"
I bet Nissan's treatment of the GT-R made GM envious: 1. bring out a cutting edge platform. 2. Starve it for updates (especially the interior). 3. Insane price increases. 4. Refuse to develop a new generation/eventual cancellation in a virtual signal to the EV fashionistas.
Outside the Corvette the performance market is dead. People just are unable to afford these cars as they once could with inflation.
Even the Mustang sales are far from what they used to be. The price of it is creeping ever so higher too.
With the volatility of the emissions and EV regs companies are not sure how or where to turn. They ignore the EV regs they may be left with no product in many markets if they are not given breaks and reassurance of no additional changes.
GM is trying to do both but most can not afford to do both ICE and EV at the same time.
We need to really get control of this from the far left and put the consumer first. The world is not going to end as they predict it will every 25 years.
That's too bad. But in all honesty, the R34 is just hitting the 25 year rule and it is the most desirable of the GT-Rs. An R33 in pristine condition and only 4900 miles on carsandbids has hit $50k with only 17 hours left.
Nisan is becoming a shell of it's former self. Corporations in the 21st century are hell bent on destroying themselves.
Discontinued ... only to come back later!