2013 Nissan GT-R Hybrid To Use Electric Powertrain from Infiniti Essence

Sometimes I feel like the only one who sees the unbelievable contradictions in offering high performance hybrids.

so GTR gets heavy hybrid system, which makes it even heavier, to improve performance and fuel economy? with all hybrid stuff, it would weight probably 100-150 kg more. supersport car which weights more than 1850 kilo ? dont think it is a good idea...

wow, this is an option, right? If not, it seems this decade will be an embarrassment in the eyes of every previous decade... Shame, the heavy car getting even heavier and bulkier. But, following suite with so many other cars recently, it will probably be driven by a computer, even more so than the outgoing gt-r, and as soon as the "driver" turns "off" the assists, the car won't perform to a competitive level. At the end of the day, it's a sad day for Japanese auto enthusiasts. Something I thought only toyota would have the audacity to do, ruining something that amazing.

PS: All that, for 25mpg...? weak

At least that rendering looks hot.

the rendering is beautiful really i gotta give them prepes for that but why the retarded hybrids system really? on a rare supercar like this cmon nissa throw away science and bring back the tammed monster that we all love!

All this blend of gas and electric motor and transfer and routing power from one or the other...just way too complicated if something goes wrong. I still like the simple RB26DETT. Somebody! Just give me a simple diesel!!!

@ artist rendering. i don't think the artist understand the DNA of the GT-R. the lines are nice and smooth like the Infiniti essence, but the GT-R always have very chiseled and linear lines, not like all the smooth blobs of many 'sports' cars.

s2k_turbo the murcielago weigh 1665 kilo

I don't really like the rendering. a GT-R is meant to look sharp and give that 'in your face' image. This looks too smooth.

Looks like a crappy matchbox car! this is def not an upgrade...

first off I don't like the idea of hybrd's, and any company that lowers themselves to the point where they are taking a masterpiece and appling it to a hybrd is a great dispointment. Either go all electric or not at all. But I'll sayu this the rendering is all that bad sleek and still a bit of GTR to it even if it does resemble a Genisis coupe in some way.

Hmm, I'm not sure about that. Sure, they'd be keeping the VR38DETT, which fits in with GT-R trends of the past (using the same improving engine over & over), and a combined 600PS is enough to shake off any Porsche, but it's already too heavy at 1740kg. Weight was always the GT-R's key/only weakness, no matter how well ATTESA E-TS can mask it. The problem is that much of its bulk is mechanical, such as the trans-axle DCT and advanced AWD system, and stuff that's hard to lighten drastically without the price soaring, although needless to say it needn't rise as high as the 2-seater GT-R V-Spec (R35), with it's carbon fibre body bits and eye-watering £36,000 racing brakes. I don't think the hike in mileage by 5-10mpg will outweigh the weight gain. Also, that rendering looks far more Infiniti than GT-R. Apart from the oddly-high spoiler, it does look good though, but the R36 is likely to just look like a fresher R35. The last 3 generations didn't change a great deal aesthetically. They just progressed from one to the next.

High performance cars and hybrid engines may be a paradox, but growing traffic jams, increasing cars on roads and climate dangers necessitate hybrid engines in hyper supercars. It's having your cake and eating it. Sexy Essence Concept lines will make the GT-R appealing to lady drivers. Fairlady Z with sexier appeal.

Wow GT-R Hybrid... World's fastest milkfloat! :)

Who in the world buys a GT-R and then complains about the gas mileage.. Thanks but no thanks, i would spend my $ on a normal GT-R and get a full Mine's engine, brakes, and suspension upgrade...

God this thing is hideous. Looks like a manatee.

The gtr is such a dissapointment because the orginal attraction to the skyline gtr was its everyman's accessible power, here in australia it sold as a performance bargin not a supercar. Is the new GTR awesome yes but they have turned away from the whole tunning scene which made it a success. Nissan should make a skyline r35 around the 60K mark that isn't the jap skyline and it would sell as long as it was a more clear evolution of R34 styling. Stick with what works affordable, good looking and powerful just like the R34.

And make it even heavier? They'd better concentrate on making the engine more economical and fitting a start/stop system to it. Also this car is too expensive to call it a skyline successor.

600 hp combined. but does the e-engine works at the same time with the petrol engine? this is a hybrid, right? the e-engine is used for speeds up to 50, 60, 80 km/h, and over these speeds the petrol kicks in. so how can they say it will be faster, greener.... i mean, maybe it will be greener. but faster, dont think so. this is a waste of money