Hello my H-T brothers. Big Phat R (Jonathan) here reporting from my hotel in Tokyo. I am writing this to you because I have been up for 4 hours straight editing/postprocessing and uploading photos from my room because I am giddy with excitement and wanted to show you these pics I took right away.....

I have been here for about 3 days so far visiting family with my Dad. It's been a very long time since I've been here last and I wanted to make sure I saw as much as I could in the 10 days I am here... So far I have been Ogikubo, Shinjuku, Ginza, Harajuku, Roppongi, Tokyo, Shibuya and Kamakura (where I saw the great Buddha). I've seen a ton of new things.....but nothing....nothing that can compare to what I saw last night....

Yesterday I was just tooling around with my Dad in Ginza and just happened to stumble across a Nissan showroom displaying this tiny little economy car. I saw a little paper display with a picture of the GTR on it and asked if they were showing that car -- and lo and behold they said I could see it a the Nissan Headquarters which was just down the street!! Hot damn!

About five minutes later I came across this...... I will let the pictures say the rest....



























































The English language lacks strong enough superlatives to adequately describe how beautiful and menacing and expletiveing cool this car is.

I have sat in Carrera GTs, Ferrari F430s , Maseratis, 997 S/TT/GT3/GT3 RS, Ford GTs, McClaren SLRs etc and NOTHING NOTHING is as cool as this car......well maybe my friend Brian's 997 GT3 RS

The seats are firm and fit perfect, driving position is great, vision is great (although you do feel as if you are in a massive car), fit and finish are excellent and on par with Porsche (top of the dash is stitched black leather btw). To all the naysayers that say it's "just a Nissan" --- well gentlemen -- the bar is officially raised.

The sound system was working and it sounded fantastic -- very deep bass and good imaging. I played around with the info center but it was all in Japanese and I couldn't figure it out - while at the same time taking pictures with my camera -- while not trying to take too much time inside the car while other people were waiting....

What else?..... my brain is fried right now because of jet lag, lack of sleep trying to upload all this friggin pics and excitement.

Today I have the day to myself ..... I'm thinking I just might head back down to Ginza again ....

Put BPR down for a 2008 GTR in Pearl White please.... or maybe red..... or black???

I don't know why no one has posted pics like this before -- since anyone can go -- but I thought you guys would like to see this stuff.

Sorry to the owners of H-T -- hopefully my post doesn't crash the servers....

I am officially impressed.

:blort:


Modified by Big Phat R at 8:47 PM 4/2/2008

 

Incredible.

 

Dark Metallic Grey FTW, it looks awesome in the pictures. It must be really cool to see it in person at the factory headquarters.

THis does not help the fact that I want to visit Japan so badly.

 

dayum....

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

you will have to tell me more about that dinner when we goto dinner when im in your city coming up j

 

Nice pixors! Mmm..GTR is chou sekushi!

 

gtr i would give my kids for

 

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Thank you indeed, that made my day.

 

trunk looks big enough to get all my camera/ grip gear back there too!

y shi - who hopes to go to jpn for the 3rd yr in a row later this year...

 

AWEsome pics...hey how are the prices for the hotels there?? What should I expect to spend for a stay similar to yours (bout a week or a bit longer)?

 

That's bad *** Jon, definitely thanks for sharing, and post up the rest of the pictures you take in here as well, I'm sure you'll see some bad *** stuff most of us only dream about.

 

Bad *** pictures man. Gotta love Tokyo.

 

wow...just wow :drool: does it have an intercooler(s)?

my gf is gonna try to get a white one if she can get rid of her Nismo Z. I am crossing my damn fingers lol.

 

Cool pictures.

That display with all the gauges in one is just crazy, even crazier seeing more than one GTR at a time. I think the wheels would look a bit better if they were a tad smaller, but than that might throw the rest of the body off

Any others?

 

Nice pictures.

Are the gauges naturally plain ? or was there an option of switching to amber?

 

Awesome pics.

 

awesome! their dealerships are so cool looking. Making our stealorships look so bland!

i thought all the GTR's were all sold out. are they selling the demo models also?

 

wow nice!

Definitely likin the pearl white.

 

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Definitely likin the pearl white.</TD></TR></TABLE>

x2

 

here is a sweet video on the skyline..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai4kGrLZHuY


Do you think Honda and Toyota are gonna like Nissan get away with this sick car? i can see a new V8 NSX in the future

 

Gooodnight!!!!

 

WOWZERS......thanks for the pics, I've yet to see this many pictures and all of the colors

 

While you at it, catch a train to Aoyama and visit HONDA SHOWROOM.
Next to Odaiba for Toyota Land & historical Garage.
Finally end your day in finding yourself a Piano bar to relax with some Japanese girls in serving you drinks & telling you how great you are!!

 

This is not R related....BAN... !!

Me...who is just jealous.... great pix Jon!