History of Nissan GTR

The Nissan GTR legend began over 40 years ago in the high heat of the FIA GT series – but the supercar’s roots came from a humble beginning – the Nissan Skyline family saloon.

The original Skyline debuted in 1957 and was made by the Prince Motor Company – which merged with Nissan in 1966 – as a mid-size mass-market saloon.

But Nissan wanted to take on the Porsche 904 in the GT class of the Japanese Grand Prix, and in 1969, premiered its first race-spec GT-R to the world – a GT-R which featured a 2-litre engine producing 160bhp.

While the engine had the same power output as a modern-day Vauxhall Corsa, it was enough to secure 50 victories in the first year and a half, and 1,000 race wins by the time it retired in 1972.

The car – nicknamed ‘Godzilla’ – featured the same 2.6-litre twin turbocharged engine producing 280bhp (unofficially 330bhp) and the four-wheel-drive system, together with a famous in-dash display featuring seven types of driving statistics including a G-force meter and lap timer.

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