Nissan GB Takes 700 GT-R Orders in First 48 hours

here is an idea... make 2 or 3 factories... the way this car is selling, it would be worth the investment.

Im wondering, why cant Nissan support the demand by adding more workers?!?! It might really be a disaster for those who wanted the car and couldn't because of the productin limit.. I think that Nissan has done a big mistake by taking this decision.

Im agree if there are many it will be wired...to many "supercars" on the street XD i think its not a common street car like mercedes or bmw even if its nissan

Nissan gambled considerable amounts of money by choosing to build these engines by hand. If they cant build enough, prices will skyrocket on lightly used examples, which will quickly kill the market for the car altogether. If the car doesn't sell well (yeah right! lol) moneys invested in a S-O-T-A engine building facility will be waisted. 12,000 cars a year sounds a little small, but it could be just the right number to keep the GT-R "special" and supply demand per year.

ask yourself why ferrari refuses to build more cars? they currently have 2,5 year waiting list for just about every model but 612. Same goes for Nissan. The reasons are obvious, first of all Nissan has struck gold in this niche market and it is good for business to have a waiting list especially in this price bracket. Second of all, don't forget that that world economy is in the slump. Surely, at this point only America experiencing hardship, but don't forget that America accounts for 40% of world consumption of just about everything. Hence, this chain reaction will eventually affect europe at some point. Given this prognosis, it would just be very stupid to build more factories and add more workers and increase the production. remember what happened to Ferrari in early 90's??? ferrari built some 4500 cars in 1991 to meet the crazy demand for yellow horse badged cars and then due to meltdown of global market, the demand fell to a mere 2800 cars 2 years later. And this comparison is very relevant to Nissan, since GT-R is a niche car. So why would nissan repeat this mistake???

The exterior is perfect , but interior is ugly .

I highly doubt that "Nissan has done a big mistake by taking this decision" Anyone who knows anything about retail is that that this is a fantastic situation for nissan to be in. Firstly they won't have cars clogging up showrooms giving the impression they are unwanted/hard to sell, secondly the fact that it's so tough to get one will mean dealers will not discount as customers will be glad they could actually get one. Plus it also adds a little exclusivity to the model which is somewhat of a rarity for a mainstream volume car manufacturer such as nissan, mitsubishi etc...

"Base" version comes perfect, but the only inconvenience is that navsys won't be available before sept.09 (wth??) In any case, nearly fully loaded and yet cheaper than the basic 911...

Told ya this car would break 20,000 units in the first year. This was just tiny ass UK with 700 in 48hrs, wait till it is released in the US especially with US pricing this thing will be the new ipod, lineups at the dealers.

Obviously the 700 ppl that have put a deposit on this POS haven't seen pics of the interior i can't believe how cheap & ugly it is.Cheap plastic pretending to be metal. fake stitching on the dash pretending to be leather. It's clear they spent all the money on the drivetrain then just chucked in a chinese quality interior in.

I have been to a carshow and seen this POS and there is no way the interior is as good a porsche. As for car & driver they not the best source of infomation. And my advice to you is take the "curtains" off your own eyes and see something called free speech which i am entitled to.

nissan doesn't want to flood the market with these cars. in the past japanese supercars have been good, but very expensive. all the makers of the rx-7, supra and the z flooded the market with these cars and they sat on dealer lots. if nissan caps production at 12,000, they ensure a market for this model for a couple years. even though this isn't a ferrari, it is ferrari logic, and it works quite well for ferrari.

how can you say, that the quality of the interior is bad? have you ever touched it? auto bild tested the car together with a 911 turbo. they had to admit that the quality of the interior is identical to the one of the porsche.

I don't think 700 people are buying it for the quality of the interior you wont have time to look at the stitching on the seats while driving this one. Have you sat in a Porsche 911 lately, its retro 70's but they still sell.

..who cares about the interior..for GTR the most important thing is it can and will smoke some rich ass porsche fans

ah relax on him, anyone calling this fantastic machine a p.o.s. is either on drugs or a corvette/porsche salesman

no drugs, no salesmen. Just an average IQ of the pretzel.

march 2009....ooooohhh my gooooodd!!! maybe ill die from brain cancer ..or something. but still, ill take it in the grave with me :)))

wow great for a Datsun!

i want a left hand drive version of this car ..anyone sees this car on the street yet .? i mean USA and canada ..