Price jump for MY20 Nissan GT-R NISMO
Nissan performance flagship spikes by almost $80K in price with 2020 upgradesA month after the arrival of the 2020 Nissan GT-R 50th Anniversary Edition, Australian pricing and specs have been confirmed for the lighter, more agile 2020 Nissan GT-R NISMO – but be prepared to pay a pretty penny.
Priced from a monumental $378,000 (plus on-road costs), the MY20 GT-R NISMO is a sizeable $79,000 more expensive than the outgoing version, which originally launched in 2017 priced from $299,000 (plus on-road costs).
In essence, you’ll be paying more for less (weight), courtesy of lighter wheels, a carbon-fibre roof, bonnet, boot, side panels and spoiler, new carbon-ceramic Brembo brakes, a new GT3 racing 10-vane turbocharger with thinner vanes and new Recaro race seats – all amounting to a circa 50kg weight saving.
Those measures are bolstered by new Dunlop SP Sport Maxx GT600 tyres with a semi-slick pattern bringing a bigger contact patch for sharper cornering and reduced understeer.
Power from 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6 remains unchanged at 441kW and 652Nm, sent to all four wheels via a six-speed dual-clutch transmission with new ‘R mode’.
As standard equipment, the latest ‘Godzilla’ NISMO includes satellite-navigation with 3D mapping and an 8.0-inch integrated colour display with multi-touch screen, reversing, front/rear parking sensors, Bluetooth handsfree phone system and audio streaming – hardly revolutionary.
Instead, the MY20 Nissan GT-R NISMO’s ultimate legacy could be that it is the last in the line of the 12-year-old R35 lineage – which suggests why it is priced similarly to entry-level McLarens, the Porsche 911 GT3 and Honda NSX.
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