For some reason, the R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R has always been in the category of JDM cars. I see. It is perhaps the largest car ever sold in the United States, but it deserves to be reconsidered even more, because it is in the same category as the BMW M3, Subaru WRX, Mitsubishi Evo, as a legend of group A.
Every year, the best members of Jalopnik – well, just me this year – brought you the best group C and GT1 races of the 1980s and 1990s. I even once did a rally theme for the group. B. But for some reason, I have never approached the most successful racing formula of all. It’s the weird title Group A-smas, worthy of celebration.
I didn’t even really think of the R32 GT-R as a success story in Group A. It never competed in the same series as other approval specialties more associated with the formula. The legendary Group A rally cars have become legends of their rivalries. Lancia Delta Integrale is the opposite Toyota Celica GT-Four, Subaru Impreza WRX against Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. R32 GT-R has no view.
The story is the same for the legendary Group A passenger cars. The BMW M3 was created only as a means of returning to the Mercedes 190E Cosworth and who knows if we would even have a V8 Audis if the company did not want to win its own championship. And in all the DTM highlight videos on YouTube and in all the press releases from BMW and Benz, there is no R32 to be found.
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Nissan ran the R32 GT-R primarily in its home territory, competing in the Japanese Tourism Championship under the Group A rules. Once the R32 loaded, it took over. In 1990, he won the championship. In 1991, won the championship. In 1992 and 1993, well, yes, the same story. He competed against some cars we know from Europe, the M3 and the Sierra RS500, but while any American can get out and buy an M3 and live part of its story, 25 years we were denied R32Rule ear. It was kept away, in Gran Turismo, in Video Option DVDs, as part of a JDM story, not group A.
(I will also say that the R32 GT-R had a history of the N group. also. He won under the rules approved below sometimes, including Nürburgring.)
Nowhere is the G R32group An influence clearer than probably in the decisive moment of the GT-R story. It is the car that makes its way from Japan and down to Australia and clogged the rest of the Group A field there, to the point of being booed in 1992:
That’s it! This is the whole story! We should include R32 GT-R as part of the history of type-approval specialties, just as we include it in thoughts on the wonders of JDM and the greatness of the Bubble Era. It’s not just a drifting machine, a towing machine or a waiting tuner machine. He turned a relatively simple Skyline into a performance car; IIt’s a passenger car, and one of the greatest who ever did.