History Of Nissan GTR Exterior Design

[Drizzle]

Most of us know of the GT-R Concept car and the GT-R Proto but not many of us have seen the other GT-R designs which made it all the way from the drawing board to scale model or even full scale mock-up stage before being rejected. A design competition was held and entries were accepted from Nissan’s global designers. About 80 submissions were received and a 100 strong team of designers was put to work to get it to the final stages. Leading these designers was a team of 6 including Kazutoshi Mizuno and Carlos Ghosn himself.

The design process was both innovative and successful for Nissan and they plan to use all or part of the concepts learnt in designing future cars such as the next Z. Time Magazine wrote a great article on this very subject back in March and it’s worth taking a look at if you’re interested.

Here are a series of photographs detailing some of the 80 designs and how they started in sketch and made their way to models for final selection.

[HKSevo]

some nasty looking designs in there...i guess they made a good choice

[97talon]

I like it.

[Memphis]

Damn it could've been so much uglier look at the blue one in this pic is it just me or does it look like they have a drawing up of a Saturn Ion lol

[01mmmz28]

I am still not feeling the back of the car, but I guess if that is some sort of signature look then oh-well. The front is a combo of an audi and the 350Z. It looks good, I'm sure seeing it in person will make it much better.

[EVILZ33]

pretty interesting

[JoseCR7]

Originally Posted by Driz26

The front end on the first one is sick,then the rear end just ruins it

[HKSevo]

Originally Posted by 01mmmz28

I am still not feeling the back of the car, but I guess if that is some sort of signature look then oh-well. The front is a combo of an audi and the 350Z. It looks good, I'm sure seeing it in person will make it much better.

more of an audi and a g35 to me


i seen a G with a R35 body kit today, red, and i was damn sure it was the new R35 lmao till i seen the back

[Remirez]

looks to me like all the designers were thinking very similarly theres alooooot of cross over between designs. almost all of them have the same window profile lines and several other similarities.
There are some pretty damn ugly ones there. The final decision was probably one of the best, though I could still think of plenty of things to make it look better.

[JoseCR7]

arent the G35's the same as the skyline?

[Drizzle]

Originally Posted by JoseCR7

arent the G35's the same as the skyline?

Yeah the G35/G37 is the Skyline. Known as the Skyline 350GT/370GT in Japan.

[JoseCR7]

Ok thought so

[Drizzle]